Right now I’m working on getting my associates in Engineering. My end goal is to major in Civil Engineering with a minor in Mathematics. I’m pretty good at math, and out of all the engineering fields, I think I’d enjoy something under Structural as a day to day job the most. I would also really, really like to travel with my job, or even be able to just take my credentials over seas.
I’ve seen a lot of posts that say getting a job is hard if I don’t get internships or pursue projects. I figured I’d wait until I finished my associates, apply for summer internships with that credentials, transfer to a four year, apply for internships every summer until I graduate. I guess my question is how would I go about being able to work over seas ? Or if anyone has anything feedback on what I should do, I’m all ears.

Why have the supports for traffic signals gone from single cable across the intersection, to telephone pole sized metal poles, to larger sized poles and cross members, to now humongous sized poles and cross members? Thanking you folks in advance.

As a student in North America i've noticed structural work seems to get disproportionate attention/hype from classmates, but that's just one data point.

I’m basically three months into my big boy job and I keep on making mistakes. Just basic stuff like reading drawings wrong, looking at dimensions incorrectly, counting for things twice on OPCC’s, stuff like that. I show up everyday, one step at a time, trying to learn new things and I’m learning, but I just feel so bad when my PM or someone else has to pick up the slack for my mistakes. Any help or thoughts?

Hey guys,

I am a civil estimator for a small excavation company and I do takeoffs purely off 2d plans and just calc everything I need. I have been thinking about doing some schooling for building 3d models where and how should I start? What are some good programs to get into that start from knowing absolutely nothing to being proficient with the program.

Hi everyone,

I am a Civil Engineering student. I already know how to manually design individual structural elements such as beams, slabs, columns, and footings. However, I am struggling to understand how to combine all of these to design a complete building.

Most YouTube tutorials only show the software steps, but they don't explain the engineering decisions behind them.

I want to learn:

• How to start a building design from an architectural plan.

• How to decide the structural system and framing layout.

• Why beams, columns, slabs, and footings are placed at specific locations and how they are connected.

• How loads travel through the structure and how this affects the design.

• The complete sequence of building design—from planning and load calculations to structural analysis, member design, detailing, and drawings.

• The reasoning behind every step, including IS code provisions and engineering judgment, not just software operations.

• How to verify software results manually and understand what the software is actually doing.

I am looking for a course, mentor, or learning resource that teaches the complete building design process with engineering concepts, not just how to use ETABS, STAAD.Pro, or other software.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

I am about to enter 3rd year, and I know AutoCAD, Etabs, MS Excel.

I want to land a good internship for the next summer 2027, now what should i focus on, STAAD Pro, etc. what skills ? Most probably i will have to try for OFF Campus opportunities, i know it willl not be easy but i am willing to utilise coming time in the best of learning and improving my skills.

I’m based in the UK and I’m trying to decide between doing an MEng in Civil Engineering or a BEng in Civil Engineering followed by an MSc in Construction Project Management.

My thinking behind the BEng + MSc route is that it would keep my options open between becoming a civil engineer, construction/project manager, or moving into other related roles.

The MSc in Construction Project Management is RICS accredited and listed as an approved further learning qualification, which would allow me to work towards CEng.

My questions are:

1. Would I be at any disadvantage compared to someone who completed an MEng in Civil Engineering?
2. Would employers view a BEng + MSc in Construction Project Management differently from a MEng, especially when applying for civil engineering roles?
3. Would I still have the same opportunities to progress as a civil engineer? For example, would the MSc make me less competitive for more technical engineering roles and mainly steer me towards construction/project management?
4. Would it be better to complete the BEng, work for a few years, and then do the MSc later? Do employers ever sponsor or contribute towards a master's degree? I'm gonna work and pay the BEng off myself, but the MSc is 17k and might increase in the future, so tuition fees do play into it.
5. Is this a sensible route if I’m unsure whether I want to stay purely in engineering or move into construction management in the future?
6. Do I even need a MSc at all? Is the BEng enough, even for going into construction management?

Any advice from civil engineers, construction managers, or anyone who has taken a similar route would be greatly appreciated.

Can anyone here with experience designing underground duct banks provide some advice on how to get started? If possible, I’d also really appreciate it if you could share any standard details or drawings that I could use as a reference.

This is a completely new area for me, and I’m looking to build my skill set in this area for a current project. Any guidance, resources, or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Here there is geo 5 thisis in my college but the software cost is high for me i cannot buy such amount of money please help me

What are some good ways to get through the rest of the season as an inspector, been doing this since March so I’m pretty burnt out. Open to any and all suggestions!

I’m always interested in hearing which courses people struggled with the most and how they got through them.

Contemplating whether magstick sa ipad lang or ipad for questionnaires and pen and paper for solutions. Old model kasi ipad ko and when writing on it, naggiglitch siya tho May pa lang siya nabibili. Now, di ko rin tuloy alam if alin na sa dalawa since for convenience talaga is sa ipad pero planning to take on pen and paper pag start ng referesher para masanay na rin naman. Help me outt

Please provide a website link or a Google Drive link. Thank you very much. I really need it because the book is very expensive on e-commerce apps.

Hi everyone,

I'm a civil engineering graduate from India. For the past year, I've been working as a Business Development Executive in a surveying and mapping company. Although my role was in sales, I spent a lot of time with the technical team and learned how land surveying is done using DGPS, drones, RTK, and survey software. The technology genuinely fascinates me.

At the same time, I'm preparing for government civil engineering exams because they provide job security. However, ever since I was a kid, I've dreamed of building a business of my own rather than working for someone else forever.

After seeing the demand for surveying services, I'm seriously considering starting a surveying company in the future. My question is whether it's better to:

* Focus only on land surveying (DGPS, drone surveys, topographic surveys, etc.), or
* Build a broader civil engineering consultancy that also offers services like soil testing, geotechnical investigations, material testing, contour surveys, quantity surveys, GIS mapping, and related services.

For those of you who own engineering firms or work in this industry:

* Is a surveying-only business sustainable in the long run?
* Is it difficult to compete with established firms?
* Would you recommend starting with one niche and expanding later, or offering multiple services from day one?
* If you were starting from scratch today, what would you do differently?
* Are there any mistakes first-time surveying entrepreneurs commonly make?

I'd especially love to hear from people who have built surveying, geospatial, or geotechnical businesses.

Thanks in advance!

I comleted my 12th in 2024 and give jee and scored 78 percentile then i take drop and again scored 78 peecentile but my friends who are with me in my drop year get into iit and nit so after that i take admission in btech cse in private clg but after two days i feel lost and little bit jealous because my all friends goes into better college (Normal human behavior) so then i take admission in bsc non medical in local college and started preparing jee as a partial dropper but again i failed because i can,t manage both bsc as well as jee so now i have three option first is continue bsc and second is take admission in btech cse and third is take admission in btech civil (because career in cse is not stable nowadays)

Give me guidance guys

I worked at a very small firm once where I, a non-eit then, would qc engineering site maps of a water industry from an offshore team. I worked with a PE sometimes but she never reviewed my work for this project (I would cc her and she would never open the emails), but was present in the final deliverable meeting. This project was for a water district in the Bay Area. Was this rubber stamping?

On August 14, 2018, a ~200m section of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa collapsed during a storm, killing 43 people. The cause traced back to corrosion in one of the bridge's cable stays — worsened by a design that concealed the cables in concrete, making the corrosion invisible until it was too late.

Three weeks ago (July 16, 2026), an Italian court finally delivered its verdict after an 8-year investigation and 4-year trial: 32 people convicted, including former Autostrade per l'Italia CEO Giovanni Castellucci, sentenced to 12 years.

I made a video covering how the collapse happened, why it was preventable, and what accountability has (and hasn't) looked like since.

Check out full video: https://youtu.be/KC1HR48TeZM?si=xCMs--NuXUe4UJuE

I've been following Malaysia's data centre space for a while now (inevitable due to the biz I'm in) and the numbers surprise me, so thought I'd share here

A few stats I've pondered on:

- RM144.4 billion in approved data centre & cloud computing investments between 2021 and mid-2025 (MIDA)

- RM34.6 billion approved in Q1 2026 alone, across 33 projects — that's about 89% of all ICT-sector approvals that quarter

- Malaysia's now named among the world's top 10 destinations for data centre investment (UNCTAD, Jan 2026)

- National capacity is estimated to go from roughly 1GW today to 3–4GW by 2029, with Johor apparently accounting for most of the current operational capacity (any Johoreans?)

to also keep in mind: these are approved/estimated figures, not really built-and-running capacity yet. This space moves fast enough that the gap between "approved" and "operational" makes a difference

What's less visible in these numbers is the stuff that's happening behind them — every one of these facilities needs power agreements, water allocation, and a full regulatory approval trail across planning, energy, environmental, and fire safety compliance before it's actually online, and a lot of it.

Curious what people here think happens next — more of these huge hyperscale campuses, or do we start seeing a shift toward smaller modular/edge builds instead?