Career questions tagged construction-engineering
Hey! I am going into a construction engineering and management program (double major with commercial real estate). My goal is to break into development. Can anyone share some specifics on how those two fields interact and how I might be able to learn more about both throughout my time in college?
I am going to Virginia Tech, if anyone is a Hokie :)
How can I be a construction engineer?
What are the colleges/schools you recommend for a construction-engineer? How do I start my journey?
How can I get into an operations research career in the construction industry?
I am a college sophomore now majoring in civil engineering, and by the end of this summer I would have completed 4 summer internships: 2 in construction project engineering/general contracting, and 2 in civil engineering research (specifically in environmental engineering/water resources and structural engineering). While making plans and ideas for my academic and professional goals for next year and in the future, I reflected on my interests and passion for this field and how they changed over time. I find myself deeply committed to the construction industry in general, and definitely want to pursue my career in it after graduating college. At the same time, I have a variety of interests that overlap each other, and I am wondering how I should go about integrating them in my long-term professional life. So that got me to thinking about operations research as an option; I would like to immerse myself in both STEM and management of construction, in a data-driven environment that benefits and merges academia and industry, as previous research studies have done before. However, I don't know how I should proceed about this seemingly abstract goal, and my online research so far points to no summer opportunities, whether in academic research or industrial research, for a civil engineering undergraduate to apply their education and/or expand on it, within an operations research context. What should be my next step then? I am also aware, that currently operations research is much more oftenly associated with applied mathematics, computer science, physics, and business/economics than construction, per say. Overall, with my hopes in operations research, I don't think I've strayed away from my passion in civil engineering and construction, but rather that I use them in an innovative position that reflects society's needs, similar to the concept of supply and demand in terms of employment opportunities. #civil-engineering #STEM #datascience #management #operations-research #construction #construction-management #construction-engineering #research #engineering #internships
Does studying architectural engineering include getting involved with other engineering courses?
Many engineering studies have some involvement with each other. #engineering #architecture
What does a civil engineer do?
I'm a senior in high school interested in what civil engineers do daily at their jobs. #engineering #jobs #civil-engineering