Civil Engineering: Options and Job aspects

Civil Engineering is one of the primitive engineering fields which involves projecting, scheming and implementing structural bodies. The actual working domain includes a variety of engineering jobs right from designing, supervision and construction activities of public works like roads and  bridges to tunnels, research laboratories, aerodromes, dams, water works, sewage systems, harbours etc.

A good Civil engineer must have a strong engineering knowledge combined with excellent supervisory and administrative skills. The planning part of their work involves site investigation, feasibility studies, creating solutions to complications that may occur and the actual designing of structures.

Working domain:

Most of the times, civil engineers work in teams or in coordination with many other engineers. They can find work as a supervisor of a construction site or a managerial position or in design, research as well as teaching in government services or private concerns. They can also work as independent consultants.

A qualified civil engineer becomes successful in his department and field only through active practical experience. Put differently, a civil engineer typically starts starts his career from right at the bottom with roles as modest as a Site Engineer at the building project site.

The hands-on field exposure outfits a civil engineer so that he can work and undertake assume more important and crucial duties, such as management of more than one project sites and handling complex projects as Senior Engineer.

The scope of responsibilities also expands to include cost approximation and total project superintendence paying details to time at work  division between office and project sites.

Job Profile:  The job of a Civil Engineer is to supervise  all activities on a construction site including interactions with architects, draftsmen  and building contractors working on the project. Typical site management activities include liaising with contractors, managing labour issues, managing stocks and supplies and ensuring work is progressing to plan and schedule. The site engineer is responsible for implementing quality control processes and ensuring safety best practices at the project site.

What is there to study:
Typically, a Civil Engineer has to study the following subjects.

  • Computer Aided Design
  • Structures
  • Foundation
  • Construction
  • Environment
  • Irrigation
  • Hydraulics
  • Surveying
  • Soil analysis
  • Cost and works management
  • Basic Surveying
  • Theory Of Elasticity And Plasticity
  • Advanced Foundation Design
  • Fluvial Hydraulic and Ground Water Modelling
  • Plastic Design Of Steel Structures
  • Transportation System Planning and many more…

Career Scope: Qualified Civil Engineers are always sought after and have a brilliant scope no matter what is the situation of the market. The country is developing fast and it needs infrastructures to sustain this development, which require qualified civil engineers to build them.

Civil engineering is all about designing, constructing and supervising new and old structures, and as far as human society exists, construction of new buildings, transportation and even sewerage work will exist forever.

Placement Prospects: You can find job in construction companies, private consulting firms,Government departments, private and public sector industry, research institutes, railways, military, engineering services, consultancy services

etc…

Pay Scale: Civil engineers start at a lower compensation package at entry level compared to their colleagues from other streams, even 2-3 years of specialized experience in the construction management space automatically increase their value in the market.

Starting salary of a civil engineer is around 15000 to 20,000 per month but After 2-3 years of field experience they get around 40,000/- per month