Civil Engg.

Civil Engineering is a profession which caters to the civic needs of humans such as shelter, water, transportation, etc. It essentially deals with design, construction and maintenance of the systems which cater to the human needs stated above. Some of these are buildings, bridges, roads, dams, towers, etc.

Civil Engineering can broadly be defined into the following divisions

1. Structural Engineering: One of the most interesting fields of civil engg. (according to me) deals with the design of structures. Structural engineers may work in tandem with architects in the design process. Nowadays the design is done mostly in softwares but still the role of a structural designer cannot be underestimated.

2. Building Technology and Construction Management: This involves the actual execution process. After software, construction sector is the one which has been having the maximum boom in the last five years. Construction is no more only brick and mortar. It requires high level of managerial skills along with the basic civil engg. Knowledge.

3. Geotechnical Engineering: Geotechnical engineers deal with the soil as the name suggests. They are involved in design and construction of foundation systems. Nowadays there are companies dedicated only for Geotech works as the foundation systems are getting more and more complicated.

4. Transportation Engineering: It can again be divided into two categories one which deals with the design and construction of roads and other which deals with the design of road networks (they decide where to have a flyover, signal timings etc.). If you want to go to US for higher studies this is the field to go into. There is lot of research going on in US in transportation engineering and you can funding pretty easily.

5.Environmental and Water resources Engineering: This division deals with dams, irrigation projects, drinking water supply, waste water treatment, etc. Environmental Engg is one more option for students who want to go abroad for further studies. There is a lot of funding in environmental engg not only in US but also in Europe.

Careers in Civil Engineering!!!

We all know that construction sector is booming like anything and there is lot of careers for civil engineers in this. As civil engineer I want to tell all those people who want to make their careers in construction industry.

Some of the Careers are mentioned below:

·Design Engineer: A person after passing from engineering college can join any construction industry in their design department as a design engineer. The work profile of a person is Design the structural design of any structures like Dams, Buildings, Roads, cooling towers etc depends upon the company a person joins.

·Site Engineer; In this a person send to actual construction project of a company as site engineer where a person have to manage lot of things like labors, materials etc and by seeing the drawing sent by design department make the structure.

·Quality control Engineer: In this person looking towards the quality aspects of site which includes material testing like concrete, sand, cement and aggregates etc and also looking the site activities whether everything is going on as per required quality of customers/clients. Also, person gets responsibility of making a bill, which he has to get pass from clients every month.

·Safety officer: In this person involved in looking after the safety aspects of site like safety of labors, electrical equipments related safety etc.