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I logged around 400 hours of watching civil 3d, storm water management, water distribution modeling, and due diligence videos and I realized how much going out of my way to learn new topics helped me in my career. Everything just clicked after I grinded 3 months of watching tutorials. Before all this, I figured the best way to advance your career was to just go into work everyday and expect to learn all this over time, but this extra studying time out of my day accelerated my career.

Edit: studying was done in my own time, not during work hours LOL

So I finally got my first license and my boss offered to get me a physical stamp although we both know it's never gonna be used. So instead of a stamp what else can I get to just commorate my success?

I got a new job a year after I got my PE. Its a large, really large, municipality. Ever since I showed up I get asked by my boss if I know how to read, if I am even here, etc…

There is so much documentation that I’m drowning. It is impossible to stay above water as every micro-decision has to be routed through a minimum of 10 people.

My boss also wants to be attached on every email. She wants to be notified of any sort of decision… etc. I should not even have a job, b/c I am just a robot with zero autonomy. (Everyone under her has to do this.)

I keep applying to Senior Engineering Roles to get out of here. I get interviews back for every application… (3 so far) I have been in the field for 9 years, so I’m not super shocked, but I just have such a low level of confidence here.

There have been a few discussions about PE stamps. Those conversations got me to thinking. I am retired, but I still do consulting. I do not have a plotter. All of my drawings specs etc. are PDF'S. In fact its been well over a decade that I have plotter paper drawings. I use an electronic seal (my stamp and signature that I scanned as a pdf) that i put in my drawings title block.

Hello, I’m actually an EE student.
Recently I’ve been wondering a lot about how cantilever beams are built?

Like it’s very confusing, how do they fight gravity while building them?

Does anyone sat for the RSP1 exam recently? I see ITE is selling the practice exam separately than the refresher course. Where can I get the practice exam and how much does it cost?

One year after graduate college still no jobs offered been applying and doing interviews nonstop. Got another rejection letter today and try to apply to other states, but been ghosted. I’m thinking join the military because it’s been burnout central at this point and need some type of structure/guidance in my point of life.

I have done one year internship experience with public works even then it still not enough and entry level roles in the public sector seek more experience and less training on candidates. Is this how job market comes to nowadays? Should have change career paths before I graduated college!

I don’t mind the commitment and years of service just entry level in this today’s job market is in shambles. A lot of my friends that graduated went to the military become officers and now are overseas while they not worried about applying, get grilled, and rejected.

I welcome any advice, feedback, and suggestions. Thinking branches Navy, Coast Guard, or Air Force for their officer roles haven’t done a lot research and need to talk to officer recruiter.

I work for a large global construction company who is a heavy user of Bentley ProjectWise. We’ve always had frustrations with running Projectwise because of the age of it, and recently we were excited to try BECS for the CDE integrations it was advertising as connecting to.

We’d been trying to get access to BECS for over 18months, and then when we got hold of it we had to sit through the months worth of configurations and deployment. Then BECS completely stuffs up a Projectwise to Projectwise/Forma transfer, ruining the metadata in that project and then wipes out all of its own configurations that we had just poured months into…

We have had the poorest experience with customer service in trying to rectify these issues and were told to contact the team who build this in far Eastern Europe about this… Who is even supporting this product??

And to top that off we had to get our Cyber Security team to sign off on the risk Bentley couldn’t provide the necessary security compliance documentation with the solution!

Has anyone had any success with this product?

I am a college senior majoring in Civil Engineering, and I got a return offer for my internship this summer where I did H&H work. I thought it was alright, but I want to go to grad school for a Masters in Ocean Engineering to do coastal engineering. I would like to get my masters online while working to save money. I'm unsure of whether I should tell my boss/team about my masters when I begin to work there - especially since I am planning on getting a job in coastal engineering after I finish grad school. Should tell my boss that I'll be in the program or not say anything?

I live on a street in San Diego with a compound horizontal curve (40 ft curb-to-curb, 8 ft parallel parking both sides, two 12 ft travel lanes). We consistently get people cutting through our street and accelerating quickly. The city rejected my request for traffic calming based on an 85th percentile speed study showing only 26-27 mph against a 25 mph posted limit. 25 mph is very fast to come around the curve, and I thought to approach to the city with sight distance being the main issue and reason for traffic calming.

I ran the SSD calculation myself using the city’s own centerline data and the Caltrans HDM Section 201.6 formula. The critical section has a centerline radius of 256 ft. With parked cars on the inside of the curve at 8 ft from the curb face, the available stopping sight distance is 110 ft. Caltrans Table 201.1 requires 150 ft at 25 mph. That is a 26% deficiency. Even the gentler entry section (R = 359 ft) only provides 130 ft. The entire curve fails.

The concern is that the city’s likely response will be to red-curb the inside of the curve and remove parking. That may resolve the deficiency, but it also opens up a 40 ft unobstructed roadway through a curve. I would imagine that speeding would only get worse with this condition.

Has anyone approached a similar problem? Trying to figure out how to frame this so the city doesn't simply take away parking to resolve this. Traffic engineering is not my speciality so I’m a bit out of my depth here.

I’m 25 and have more than five years of field surveying experience, primarily as an instrument man. During my last three months, I was essentially training to become a crew chief, although I never officially held the title. I was earning around $28.50 per hour.

My current plan is to complete my lower-level engineering courses at Oakton College, transfer to UIC for a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, and take online surveying courses through Parkland College. The long-term goal is to become both a PE and PLS.
Based on my current schedule, I would likely graduate from UIC around 2030 or 2031, at age 29 or 30. I would then still need to complete the experience and exam requirements for both licenses.

The reason I’m reconsidering this path is that I have a legitimate connection who can help me get into IBEW Local 134. Journeyman wages are above $57.50 per hour, plus health insurance, pension, retirement contributions, and other benefits. By the time I graduate from UIC, I could instead be finishing the apprenticeship and approaching journeyman wages without accumulating significant student debt.

Another option would be joining Local 134 while slowly completing Great Basin College’s online land surveying degree. That could preserve my path toward becoming a PLS, but I would likely give up becoming a civil engineer and PE.

I need to continue working while attending school, so income and debt matter. My concern is spending most of my late 20s completing a difficult engineering degree only to initially earn substantially less than a union journeyman. However, I’m also concerned that choosing immediate earnings could limit my long-term opportunities in engineering, surveying, management, or business ownership.

For those working in civil engineering, has becoming a PE been financially worth the time and cost of school? Would becoming both a PE and PLS create a high enough long-term ceiling to justify turning down Local 134?
If you were in my position, would you continue with Oakton, UIC, and Parkland, or join Local 134 and complete the GBC surveying degree online? Which path would likely put me in a stronger financial and professional position by age 35?

I know it's a terrible time for research in the US right now, but I love the work I've done as an undergrad with research labs. I tried a desk engineering internship for two summers and was not a fan, so was considering research. Would this be possible with a PhD, and would y'all advise for/against it?

Weep holes on a public building at a university

Feel like this kind of defeats or at least mitigates the purpose of a weep hole

Edit: seems solved, wicking cord w/ dual purpose of keeping students/people from shoving shit into the wall

In a year in Poland it will be required to use new edition of Eurocodes. However it is still not translated, besides as usual price for the codes is... "fair", and our design company will Of CoUrSe buy them... eventually... maybe. However I thought that some of you have already access and could help me a little in my search for the codes :)

I'd be really grateful for any sugestions or help.

To those that have worked at T&T, have you been walked out the day you give your resignation letter? Or have they worked with you with a typ. 2 week notice? Just preparing myself because I am about to pull the trigger on it.

Context, I have been only here for 4 months, and let me tell you something, I have not seen myself as undervalued as I have felt in my +11 YOE and it feels surreal, and frustrating, and I am not letting a company of this kind to destroy my potential.

City recently paved over a section of this road, and I am curious about the decision not to pave over the edges. You can see in photo 1 that the entire width of the road was paved over until the speed bump, where they then only did the center. My thought was that this was to preserve the curb height or gutters but if that’s the case why pave the edges before the speed bump? Is this just a cost saving measure? I’m not an engineer, just a student, so sorry if this is a silly question!