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    Engineering What are engineering reports and why are they so extensive?

    My senior design project in college for the design of a 4 story building was approximately 200 pages, with appendices. On the project I am working on now (in the professional world, not in academia), the building specifications is probably around 6000 pages and the contract drawings are...
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    Civil Engineering or Mechanical for Patent Attorney

    Why are you considering a switch to civil engineering?
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    Engineering Can You Become a Professional Engineer with a Non-Engineering Bachelor's?

    It will vary based on the state licensing laws, which will vary. That's the best place to get your answer.
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    Civil Engineering Student: Choose Autocad or Revit?

    Revit is for Building Information Modeling (BIM). It's very specialized and I'm surprised they would offer it to a second year student without any CAD experience.
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    Engineering Need to interview a Civil Engineer

    It's on the higher end of the civil engineering range. Construction management firms typically hire civil engineering, mechanical engineering and architecture majors (every now and then an electrical engineering major).
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    Engineering Need to interview a Civil Engineer

    I currently have an entry-level position with a construction management firm. Put very simply, I manage the construction process on site working with directly with the contractors. There's no design involved; the engineers do that work. Most people don't have an MBA; those who do are typically...
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    Engineering Chemical engineering not as popular as other 3 big engineering branches?

    I think it's because chemical engineering just isn't "sexy." When someone grows up, they might be fascinated by construction (civil engineering), cars, airplanes, engines, etc. (mechanical engineering), or computers and electronics (electrical engineering). What exactly drives kids to go into...
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    Engineering Need to interview a Civil Engineer

    I got my degrees in civil engineering but now work for a construction management firm (not as an engineer) if you're interested.
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    Engineering Chemical engineering not as popular as other 3 big engineering branches?

    In the U.S., there are 278,000 civil engineers and 238,700 mechanical engineers but only 31,700 chemical engineers.
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