Civil Engineers design roads, buildings, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, or water supply and sewage systems. They usually work in areas with a lot of manufacturing and businesses. Civil engineers may work at the construction site to oversee them or work near cities as a city engineer. Civil engineers have certain specialties are structural, construction, environment, and transportation.
Engineers have a starting salary of $52,058 a year with a bachelor's degree.
The average bachelor's degree salary is $78,560 a year.
The employment numbers of civil engineers in the United States is 278,400 out of the 1.6 million engineers.
It is predicted that civil engineer jobs will increase much faster than the average for all occupations through 2018. More civil engineers will be needed to design and build things as the population grows.
The professional society for civil engineering is the ASCE. The PE licence can be attained by civil engineers after getting tested for it.
Best Engineering Schools Specialty Rankings: Civil
Ranked in 2010 1. University of California--Berkeley Berkeley, CA2. University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL
3.Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
