What's your major in civil engineering? What is the future employment direction?

When I first learned civil engineering, I felt that the most difficult subjects were three major mechanics: theoretical mechanics, material mechanics and structural mechanics. I wonder if there will be some mechanical subjects, such as elasticity, added to the current course.

In addition, it also includes: reinforced concrete design, high-rise structure design, steel structure, earthquake resistance and other courses.

There are roughly the following employment directions:

Structural design:

Development direction of design institutes and design companies

Analyze the more reasonable skeleton form under various stress conditions.

As a student majoring in civil engineering, my understanding is to build a skeleton of a building to ensure that it can stand without being crushed, blown down or knocked down. To complete the construction of this skeleton, we must know how to choose the appropriate steel and cement, and plan a reasonable skeleton that can bear all kinds of forces.

Construction design:

Development direction: construction engineering companies, construction units, etc.

The specialty of civil engineering has also developed to the construction unit, that is, how to build the framework of structural design, and complete the project with reasonable personnel in a reasonable time according to what kind of construction sequence, construction technology and construction cooperation.

Real estate/construction unit:

Real estate companies, etc.

I don't know much about this. I just want to build a project myself. I can find a design institute to design and a construction unit to build it.

When I was studying at school, I found it really difficult and tiring to learn the three major mechanics. Later, after learning, structural mechanics is the most fun and material mechanics is the most boring.

If you study civil engineering, the future development direction is mostly structural design, which is the core of a building. If you want to be famous, you might as well learn architecture. Architecture is the appearance of a building. When people say who designed a building, they all mean architects, not structural engineers.

Registered structural engineer is the minimum threshold!

Students majoring in civil engineering can also go to these two fields in the computer field (my own idea):

1, calculation and analysis

For example, the structural calculation and analysis of ansys is developing towards difficulty and height.

2、BIM

For example, software such as revit and bently, in which bently includes modeling, construction progress and other categories, which can be subdivided into multiple subjects, such as 3D modeling of oblique photography.

Geotechnical engineering itself is a relatively huge discipline, and the big development direction is not limited to the above. There are still many, and there will be many choices for employment in the future. As for which direction is the best, it may have a lot to do with the environment at that time, but the connection with computers will inevitably become closer and closer. The development of BIM is to make civil engineering bigger, rougher, miscellaneous, refined and sophisticated, so you may wish to pay more attention to this information when studying at school.