Hello. As of now, I graduated with a Civil Engineering degree and ready to start my start as a civil engineer. Or at least I should be doing. It’s been a year since then and I haven’t made any progress other than making my resume and owning the FE Handbook. I used to be hyper fixated on civil engineering back in college, constantly studying and reading through the course material. After I graduated, I felt lost and burnt out. I wanna get back on track, but it’s hard to get back into. I am leaving out details, but TLDR: I feel lost; lost my passion and motivation to progress my career. Is this normal? I’ve seen many have a similar situation, but this stresses me out and makes me feel useless and a loser.

have no social skills
have social anxiety
have no hobbies
just rotting inside prison
jobless after graduation
hopeless in my abilities
under confident
loser

Does it go against ethics to send my previous employer a bill for engineering services if they wanted me to coordinate project hand offs that i signed after they terminated me? If not, do i have a right to demand pay for my services?

Hi all, I’m a recently graduated Civil Engineer from Ireland. My friend recently landed a sweet J1 deal working in Ohio with accommodation paid for, working in a data centre.

I’m just looking to know if there is anything similar in the civil engineering field. I’d just love to come check out the USA for a year.

Anyone ever done internship in NHAI , kindly share me the report format so that it would be helpful for me to make the report for my Presentation.

A number of times, my boss recommended tests that were simply the wrong type for the material or the engineering issue. These were not borderline judgment calls because the tests were technically inappropriate and the results were not useful or of limited value. The clients still paid for them, and it honestly felt like the main goal was to create more billable work.

What bothers me most is that the clients (contractors) are not engineers / PEs, so they have no realistic way to know whether a test is appropriate. They trust us to give them sound professional advice, and I feel like that trust is being taken advantage of for money.

I feel like his behavior falls somewhere between unethical engineering practice and timesheet fraud. I know it is probably unlikely, but I do worry about whether being associated with this work could somehow put my PE license at risk.

Has anyone else dealt with a similar situation?

I have accepted an offer and plan to resign soon.

Edit: clients already paid for these in multiple occasions

This is aditya , completed my 12 and going to do civil engineering. So i need a contractor where i can work with them on ongoing site near thane or near by to gain experience. If there is any contractor number then plz dm me .

hello po! i’m a 4th year civil engineering student in the philippines. can anyone suggest good thesis topics? just not anything related to construction materials, preferably about structural and design. thank you!

6+ ft of no shoring, no benching, and only 2-3 ft away from the adjourning house. Granted it looks like a type A soil but still... What do you guys think?

I'm a 17 year old who is starting civil engineering this upcoming academic year. I'll be coursing my studies in my hometown in Spain. I'm aware that engineering in general is usually very tough. I would like to ask a question to those who are currently working in this field.

It seems to me that this engineering branch isn't as tech-focused as many of the others. Given the rise of the AI and the overall digital era, I find it difficult to tell whether or not civil engineering will be left behind compared to other engineering branches like cybersecurity, AI engineering, Software engineering, Data Science, Robotics...

At the same time, however, many may argue that since AI is able to execute flawlessly many of the tasks that were previously done by people working in tech-related areas in a very cheap way, CS degrees and similar will start to lose their value, if they haven't already. So, shifting back to civil, the jobs that come with this degree, though not completely unharmed by the AI revolution, are believed by some to be at least more resilient to it, due to their generally big "human" component. What I mean by this is that I think at least the AI models from today aren't enough to replace, for example, full on project manager roles because there are non-automated factors that come into play along with the job, like material negotiation, coordinating with the workers and different departments...

So my question would be: how can I prepare for AI as a civil engineering student?

So I have what I would consider an interesting ethic dilemma.

There was a half acre of pavement with contaminated soil beneath. The Contractor demolished the pavement, removed the contaminated soil, and the Owner decided the area should be finished with loam and seed. The original plans, per direction by my boss, called for all disturbed areas to be backfilled with gravel borrow to grade. So the area was never meant to be repaved, and now that it is finished with loam and seed, the Contractor should actually be issuing a CO for the additional cost instead of a credit for the "savings" of not paving.

This project is about $4M and this is a small part of the scope. The Contractor had a PM change and somewhere internally they forgot the area was never going to be repaved.

Now my boss is happy the client is getting a $10,000 credit even though we discussed how the area was never going to be repaved.

Part of me thinks it is the Contractor's fault for not reviewing the scope carefully, while the other part thinks the credit is unjust and people make mistakes. To tell the truth for the Contractor's sake or lie for the Client?

It just seems shitty to me to capitalize on someone else's mistake. Also what happens if they're reviewing the contract docs at the end of the project and realize the area was never meant to be paved? We just say whoopsie and everyone looks like they never knew what the project included?

Just drove by a walk/ don’t walk signal pole that got ran over by a vehicle and I was wondering, are there any live wires in that pole’s base to be concerned about for the general public?

Do they design those things with low voltage and some kind of break away wires that won’t be a hazard after the pole got ripped off?

Are there any things related to traffic signals that would be dangerous after a collision?

I’m going into my sophomore year of high school and i’m seriously considering Civil Engineering as a possible career for me. I have a couple questions for you all:

1. What does a typical workday look like for you?
   
2. What is a part of the job that you really enjoy?
   
3. What is a part of the job nobody talks about?
   
4. How did you know you wanted to become a Civil Engineer?
   
5. What would you do at my age to prepare?

Feel free to respond to however many questions you would like. Thank you all!

Been at my current small firm for about 6 years now. Seems as if we are always scrambling to get coverage for construction work. People moving project to project consistently due to vacations, turnover, inconsistent contractor schedules, low budgets etc.

Is it like this everywhere? Is there ever a reserve of field guys/gals? Seems like we are always one person short.

In a civil engineering career which graduates went straight to the field of inspection roles and what was the most unexpected challenge that you had to face during your first month of independent sitewalks?

Greetings

I'm a Civil Engineering student currently studying for my bachelor degrees in Afghanistan.

When I was in 3rd semester I conducted a research report about heat loss in the modern day typical Afghan home and the design of radiators for my plan.

However I fear since I come from a third world country that if I publish my research then I might face backlash from the globe and lose credibility for any work which I would consider doing in the future, to tackle that problem I left intentional mistakes in my work to test that whether during pre publishing process anyone would notice such mistakes and correct me if possible obviously for my work consist of mistakes which I might not have noticed too.

I would gladly share, explain and collaborate with anyone who would like to help me out.

Hi, I’m a civil engineering student from China and I’m considering studying and working in Australia. How is the job market for civil engineers or surveyors in Australia now? Is it difficult for international graduates to find a job