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Is a Career in Civil Engineering Conducive to Research Opportunities?
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[QUOTE="analogdesign, post: 6031272, member: 485940"] For the most part, yeah, research is *mostly* limited to PhD engineers. This is for the practical reason is that you spend years getting trained to perform research during your PhD studies so the company can just take advantage of this without paying to train someone. I do research for a bit more that 50% of my time and I can tell you in my organization most of the other researchers have PhDs (not all, but most). There are plenty of BS and MS engineers here but they mostly support the research staff. For example, they would design boards and test stands, supervise students to carry out testing and so on. Still very interesting work but to move the state of the art in research you need to have a deep command of a narrow field, and you learn how to acquire that while you earn you PhD. You'll be far happier doing something you find interesting, so studying Civil sounds like a great plan. There are some interesting design jobs out there, but beware of working for a county or city government (or utility) because you often become a project manager for the consultants hired to do the actual work. The trade off there is you have a secure job and the consultants are always scrambling for their next project. [/QUOTE]
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