Career Opportunities for Civil Engineers

        It is endless that there are many jobs that could be possible for a Civil Engineer. Firstly, lot of Civil Engineers work for the government and public sector organizations. They are involved in planning of projects, analysis of what should be done, looking at time and costs, preparing contracts, executing, managing the construction, overseeing contractors and workers and then finally seeing if it has been done properly and maintain it rehabilitate it through the life of the structure or the facility and at the end of the life of the structure probably demolition of it. 

        In industry, when you have factories, companies which are running with a lot of people, machinery, products coming in and out, design is important. Where to put up a place, how it should function, what facilities it will require, what loads it will handle, how many people will go in and out, all this is required for designing the facility properly. Again, the construction makes sure that the design is implemented correctly. A design is a plan. This has to be realized and this means that the construction has to be done properly and then the whole facility has to be operated like a train station. The train station has to go on working, the job of the civil engineer does not finish as soon as the train station is constructed. Trains have to run day in and day out, people have to go in and out, everything has to be safe and everything has to function according to a schedule, similarly every other facility.

        There are lot of people who are involved in the engineering management. Managing the resources, we have time constraints because a project has to be finished in a certain amount of time. We have certain resources especially money, we want a certain quality and we want the construction to be safe. So, all this has to be managed well.

        There are also others who become consultants. Consultants are those who can work with different organizations and different clients to provide solutions. These consultants are experts in a certain area and when somebody wants something to be built, they would approach them. There are design consultants who have specialized in quality. We need high quality construction and operation. For this, there are people who specialize in quality assurance and quality control. They would, even before the project starts, look at how to ensure that the project will be done with high quality materials, high quality technology and end up in a high-quality structure or facility.

        Computers are needed everywhere and computer science and techniques are very much necessary for Civil Engineering. There is a lot of computer science which can be used in Civil Engineering and there is hardly anything that we do in Civil Engineering that does not require a computer today. It is very important that people who have become Civil Engineers, but have an inherent interest for computers and information technology can also find a very important role in Civil Engineering.

        Civil Engineers can work in combination with many other experts as well. Engineers work together with economists on policy, in type of projects, how projects should run, on the other hand, they could work with geologists to see which structures could come up, where will earthquakes occur, which slopes are stable and that you can construct. So, there are many areas where Civil Engineers work in combination with experts from other fields.

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