Technological University of the Philippines-Cavite Campus

CQT Avenue, Brgy. Salawag, Dasmarinas City, Cavite

Current Fields / Careers of Civil Engineering

DELA CRUZ, KYLA J.

BSCE- C- 1A

Engr. Maria May Pacete

BES11 Professor

October 2020

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. TABLE OF CONTENTS 2
II. INTRODUCTION 3
III. CONTENTS 4
A. Different Fields/ Careers of Civil Engineering 4
1. Structural Engineering 4
2. Construction Management 4
3. Geotechnical Engineering 4
4. Water resources Engineering 5
5. Environmental Engineering 5
6. Transportation engineering 5
7. Design Engineering 6
8. Municipal Engineering 6
9. Surveying 6
10. Coastal Engineering 7
11. Material Engineering 7
12. Tunnel Engineering 7
13. Construction Engineering 8
B. Average Salaries of Different Careers in Civil Engineering 8
IV. CONCLUSION 10
V. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 11
VI. REFERENCES 12

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 INTRODUCTION
Civil engineering, the foremost requesting and exceptionally much profitable career
choice. Discover here all the data you need to know about civil engineering to require an
educated choice for selecting for respectful building as a career choice. Civil Engineering is the
plan and development of public works, for example, dams, spans and other huge foundation
ventures. It is perhaps the most established part of designing, going back to when individuals
first began living in quite a while and started molding their surroundings to suit their
requirements.

The assembled climate includes quite a bit of what characterizes current human progress.
Streets, railways, tram frameworks, and air terminals are planned by transportation designs,
another class of structural designing. And afterward there are the less obvious manifestations of
Civil engineers. Each time you open a water fixture, you anticipate that water should come out,
without imagining that structural designers made it conceivable. Also, very few individuals
appear to stress over what befalls the water after it has filled its needs. The old civil engineering
control of clean designing has developed into current natural designing of such criticalness that
most scholarly offices have changed their names to common and ecological designing.

Today's civil engineers require in-depth understanding of material science, mathematics,

geology and hydrology. They must moreover know the properties of a wide extend of
development materials, such as concrete and auxiliary steel, and the sorts and capabilities of
development apparatus. With this information, engineers can plan structures that meet
prerequisites for taken a toll, security, unwavering quality, strength and vitality proficiency. Civil
engineers moreover require a working information of basic and mechanical building.

This term paper will elaborate the different careers under civil engineering, since civil
engineering wasn’t all about construction and structure. There are careers under civil engineering
that people may not know or realize that career is under civil engineering.

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 CONTENTS
Different Fields/ Careers of Civil Engineering

Civil engineering, the foremost requesting and exceptionally much profitable career
choice. Discover here all the data you need to know about civil engineering to require an
educated choice for selecting for respectful building as a career choice.

Civil engineers conceive, plan, construct, administer, work, build and keep up
infrastructure projects and systems within the open and private sector, including streets,
buildings, airplane terminals, burrows, dams, bridges, and systems for water supply and sewage
treatment. Numerous respectful engineers work in arranging, plan, development, investigate, and
instruction.

The following list are the Careers of Fields of Civil Engineering:

Structural Engineering

Structural Engineering may be a forte inside Civil Engineering. Structural Engineers

make drawings and details, perform calculations, survey the work of other engineers, type in
reports and assessments, and observe development sites. Structural engineering could be a
department of civil engineering, and its applications are assorted. A great deal of what structural
engineers do includes planning structures such as buildings, bridges, burrows, etc. The larger
part of structural engineers works basically as consultants to architects or design-build
contractors.

Construction Management

Construction management may be a proficient service that gives a project’s owners with
compelling administration of the project's plan, cost, quality, security, scope, and work.
Construction management is consistent with all extend conveyance strategies. The Construction
Management represents the owner’s interest and gives oversight over the whole project
straightforwardly for the owner. Their fundamental task command is to work with all parties to
provide the project on time, at or beneath budget, and to the owner’s anticipated standard of
quality, scope, and work.

Geotechnical Engineering

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 Geotechnical engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with soil and rock
behavior in a building point of view. It moreover includes evaluating slope stability and the risk
of landslides, rock fall and avalanches. The specialism includes utilizing scientific methods and
standards of engineering to collect and interpret the physical properties of the ground for utilize
in building and construction. Its viable application, for instance foundation building, has come to
require a scientific approach. The term geotechnics is as of now utilized to portray both the
hypothetical and practical application of the discipline.

Water resources Engineering

Water Resource Engineering may be a particular kind of civil engineering that involves
the plan of modern systems and equipment that help oversee human water assets. A few of the
areas Water Resource Engineers touch on are water treatment facilities, underground wells, and
natural springs. Water Resource Engineers must create modern equipment and systems to extend
the effectiveness and effectiveness of water treatment and aquatic resource management. A
typical workday involves the analysis of data from significant regions, at that point planning
modern or progressed facilities to improve the cleansing impacts of the water treatment system.
A Water Resource Engineer must take budgetary imperatives, government regulations, and other
variables into thought when planning these systems. A Water Resource Engineer may at that
point oversee the development and execution of these systems to guarantee that they are
legitimately assembled. After completion, they may oversee the support of these systems.

Environmental Engineering

Environmental engineers utilize the standards of engineering, soil science, biology, and
chemistry to create solutions to environmental issues. Environmental engineers work in a
assortment of settings since of the nature of the errands they do. When they are working with
other engineers and urban and territorial organizers, environmental engineers are likely to be in
workplaces. When they are carrying out arrangements through development ventures, they are
likely to be at development sites.

Transportation engineering

Transportation engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering which deals with the

application of innovation and scientific standards to the planning, utilitarian plan, operation and

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management of facilities for any mode of transportation in arrange to supply the secure, fast,
comfortable, helpful, conservative, and naturally consistent development of individuals and
products. Transportation engineering, as practiced by civil engineers, basically involves
planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of transportation facilities. The
facilities support air, highway, railroad, pipeline, water, and indeed space transportation.

Design Engineering

Design engineers consider, investigate and develop ideas for modern products and the
systems utilized to create them. They moreover modify existing products or forms to extend
effectiveness or progress performance. They work on nearly every consumer item would
possible for large-scale production, from telephones and medical equipment to kitchen
appliances and car engines. Design engineers are not as it were concerned with making products
that see great and are simple and secure to utilize, they are moreover concerned with
guaranteeing that the product can be made cost-effectively and productively.

Municipal Engineering

A municipality is a local organizational body that's managed by a municipal council,

mindful for the administration of the municipal issues of a particular geological locale, regularly
a city, town, or another minor bunch. Municipal engineering includes the environmental issues
that are the duty of the municipalities, including errands that contribute within the quality of life
of the society. A large number of municipal tasks are related with the civil engineering including
the management and transfer of waste, the maintenance of open parks, water supply frameworks,
treatment of water, and various comparable responsibilities.

Surveying

Surveying Engineers play an imperative part in developing societies. Their essential part
is to determine the position of natural and man-made objects on the earth's surface, and record it
for future arranging purposes, to set and reset boundaries both inside the nation and globally.
Surveying Engineers or Surveyors collect, analyze, and oversee the worldwide spatial
foundation. They plan, create, and work systems for collecting and analyzing spatial data almost
the arrive, the seas, common assets, and man-made highlights. They utilize advanced gear such
as Global Positioning Frameworks (GPS), electronic theodolites, levels, airborne photos, lackey

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symbolism for gathering, analyzing, and utilizing data almost the soil. Advanced Surveying
themes incorporate computerized mapping, geodesy, photogrammetry, inaccessible detecting, as
well as more conventional studying including property overviews. Since our societies are getting
to be more complex, data with a spatial position related with it are of crucial significance and are
basic to decision-making, both from an individual and a business viewpoint, and for distinctive
levels of government.

Coastal Engineering

Coastal engineering is a division of civil engineering mindful for the organization,

conception, advancement and conservation of works on the shoreline. The goals of these errands
involve administration of shoreline erosion, advancement of route channels and harbors,
assurance against flooding brought on by storms, tides and indeed seismically activated waves,
advancement of coastal recreation and administration of contamination in nearby marine
situations. Coastal engineering regularly includes the advancement of structures, in expansion to
the transportation and likely stabilization of shoreline sand together with other coastal silt.

Material Engineering

Materials engineers make and ponder materials at the atomic level. They utilize
computers to get it and demonstrate the characteristics of materials and their components. They
illuminate problems in a few distinctive engineering areas, such as mechanical, chemical,
electrical, civil, nuclear, and aerospace. Materials engineers create, prepare, and test materials
utilized to make a range of products, from computer chips and aircraft wings to golf clubs and
biomedical gadgets. They study the properties and structures of metals, ceramics, plastics,
composites, nanomaterials, and other substances in arrange to make modern materials that meet
certain mechanical, electrical, and chemical requirements. They also help select materials for
particular products and create better approaches to utilize existing materials.

Tunnel Engineering

Tunnels are characterized as the underground entry that are utilized for the transportation
purposes. Tunnel engineering is one of the foremost interesting disciplines in civil engineering.
Tunnel Engineers are exceedingly specialized Civil Engineers mindful for the plan and
management of tunnel building projects. They are involved in each portion of the tunnel building

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handle from the introductory planning stage through to the day the primary car or train passes
through.

Construction Engineering

Construction Engineering is the administration and conveyance of development projects.

Construction is considered to be any building projects utilized for private, commercial or
industrial applications. Civil Engineers that are taught within the field of construction
management are classified as Construction Engineers. They are required to arrange construction
exercises, oversee the establishment of structural components and review the building upon
completion. Construction Engineers work with architects and Engineering professionals on
building plan and on-site problem tackling. Construction Engineers moreover compile reports
which detail the cost possibility and estimation of the extend.

Average Salaries of Different Careers in Civil Engineering

The salaries of Careers in Civil Engineering may be varying according to their fields. The
list of Salaries is based on the Payscale.com:

Careers of Civil Engineering Average Salary (Monthly)

Structural Engineering ₱31,743
Construction Engineering ₱26,556
Geotechnical Engineering ₱33,823
Water Resource Engineering ₱12,709
Environmental Engineering ₱40,100
Transportation Engineering ₱50,636
Design Engineering ₱25,391
Municipal Engineering ₱21,585
Surveying Engineering ₱21,101
Coastal Engineering ₱54,000
Material Engineering ₱21,634
Tunnel Engineering ₱24,338
Construction Management ₱48,796
Local (Philippines)

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International (US Dollars)

Careers of Civil Engineering Average Salary (Monthly)

Structural Engineering $7,050 (₱338,400)

Construction Engineering $7,457 (₱357,936)

Geotechnical Engineering $7,324 (₱351,552)

Water Resource Engineering $6,391 (₱306,768)

Environmental Engineering $6,546 (₱314,208)

Transportation Engineering $7,336 (₱352,128)

Design Engineering $7,210 (₱346,080)

Municipal Engineering $7,578 (₱363,744)

Surveying Engineering $4,619 (₱221,712)

Coastal Engineering $8,173 (₱392,304)

Material Engineering $6,258 (₱300,384)

Tunnel Engineering $8,791 (₱421,968)

Construction Management $9,400 (₱451,200)

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 CONCLUSION
Civil engineering, the foremost requesting and exceptionally much profitable career
choice. Civil engineering shaped the development of society, through its contribution. Because
civil engineers project may be seen everywhere. It continuously progressing and it become more
complex as the time expand, because the technology is continuously improving. Also, the
qualification of becoming civil engineer are progressing.

There are different careers under civil engineering, and all of them are have vital role for
the development of the society. Because civil engineering is flexible to the other sectors.
Particularly in the construction sector, on buildings and large structures of all kinds, transport
and communications infrastructure. Civil engineer can also work for production, storage, and
distribution of electricity, gas, and water.

Civil engineering salaries are quite high and it become more interesting. But civil
engineering wasn’t all about having a high salary. They done their responsibilities for the
development of the society. To sum it up, civil engineering is divided into different fields and
each field has responsibility according to their specialization.

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 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
1. What can I become if I study a Bachelors in civil engineering?
- Civil Engineering, as a degree, covers a lot of ground when it comes to understanding
our surroundings and how to work with it, but, in the future, you will have to settle on
a specialization and follow it. Some of the most popular careers that wait for you after
you graduate are:
 Construction Manager
 Geotechnical engineer
 Environmental Engineer
 Public Health Engineer
 Transportation engineer
 Urban planning engineer
 Water resources Engineer
 Surveying
 Tunnel Engineer
 Structural Engineer
 Material Engineer
 Design Engineer
2. Why civil engineering is in demand?
- A construction boom will spur the demand for Civil Engineers and other skilled
construction workers. Government spending on infrastructure will likewise push
the demand for this type of workers.

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