Career options in Civil Engineering

Basically, Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways etc. Anyone can think of career development in the field of civil engineering. Civil Engineering, as a degree, covers a lot of ground when it comes to understanding our surroundings and how to work with it, but, in the future, you will have to settle on a specialization and follow it.

Some of the most popular careers that wait for you after you graduate are:

1.      Construction managers

 Construction managers are the bosses of the working sites. With knowledge on the most basic things, like weather, costs, team and time management, managers have to be the eyes and ears of the person who hired them, and have to see that everything works smoothly.
 

2.     Geotechnical engineer

 Geotechnicians have to be on the lookout for everything nature-related and know how to manage waste disposal, flood control, when and where to build a dam or a bridge, and so on. And, once you get the hang of it, then, you will be the best.
 

3.     Environmental engineer

 Environmental engineers are the closest we have to superheroes, as they take care of the planet and allow us to keep living here (or simply living, which is nice). You will get to go and restore landscapes and nature from what other people ruin, you will get to explain to other people what a healthy indoor and outdoor environment is, and what to do in the future to stop wrecking our planet.

 

4.     Public Health Engineer

Controlling the water supply and sewage system, you take care of people in towns and villages, making sure the water is clean and pollution-free is what a Public Health Engineer looks after.
 

5.     Transportation Engineer

 Do you think public transportation just happens? All those subways, trams, roads, highways, and such don’t just spring from nowhere: top transportation engineers are there, taking care of us to get home on time or not wait in the rain for your bus, like the most tragic figure from literature.

 

6.     Urban planning engineer

 Urban planning might be the closest thing to playing with your childhood legos that you can get: deciding where to put a building, where a road should be, how to circle a park with a fence, how not to put a school next to a prison, and so on.
and many more.

 

About Author

Prof. Abdul Ghaffar Noor Mohammad is working as an Assistant Professor and HoD Civil Engineering Department at JDCOEM, Nagpur. He has more than 15 years of teaching experience. His areas of interest are Structural Concrete, Structural Design, Solid Mechanics, and Mechanics of Rigid Bodies etc. Apart from teaching, he is also interested in social and educational activities for 360 degree development of students.