My plan has always been to work at my current office until I passed my PE, and then make a change and see what opportunities are out there.

My current job is a Project Engineer with State Government and my duties include both design and construction administration on smaller projects ($100K - $3million) relating to recreational facilities, ie. roads, campgrounds, trails, boardwalks, boat launches, floating dock systems, etc. I recently passed my PE in October so now I have started looking at other work in the private sector. Generally, I feel annoyed working for the government (where I am at, I'm not saying all government is like this and do not want to get into arguments about politics) as I feel its an environment that promotes complacency and doesn't encourage doing anything above the bare minimum. However, the local economy is not doing great and there isn't a lot of work out in the private sector, so as far as job security goes the government is pretty good.

Due to the size of my office (about 5-8 engineers), most of the projects that I have worked on have been smaller in scope with minor complexity. This has had a benefit as I have been able to work on these projects through their entirety, but I feel that the longer I stay where I am at the less competitive I become in the private sector. Additionally, my job requires me to spend the majority of my summer out in the field, and after 5 years (plus an additional 3 years as an intern) I'm over it and want a more office focused job.

Yesterday I found out that my direct supervisor accepted a new job with a different Department, which will be the second manager to leave in 2 months, and 5th employee to leave in 3 years. The office manager is a good technical resource but not very good managing people and as a result, we are hemorrhaging staff. With my direct supervisor leaving, it opens up his project manager position to me as currently, I'm the only one in the office with the qualifications for it.

My dilemma is that I don't know what is going to be better for my career, moving to a private firm and getting more experience on larger complex design projects or getting project management experience. Now I know I haven't even applied yet and I'm sort of counting my chickens before they hatch. My current plan is to keep applying for design jobs in the private sector and apply for the project manager job when it opens up.

So anyway what are your thoughts?

Happy new month to the great engineers in the world..

I am taking the PE Civil structural exam in April 2019 and was wondering if anyone has any links or PDFs that they wouldn't mind sharing with me for useful material. This will be the third time taking it after coming close on my previous attempt so I am hoping to finally secure this exam under my belt while keeping my expenditure low given that I have already put $700+ into the previous two attempts.

Any resources, suggestions, help will be greatly appreciated and I am also willing to share the content that I already have since I know how tough this road has been so far.

Below is a more detailed list of what specifically I am looking for:

• PE Civil Engineering Reference Manual CERM 16th edition (I have the 15th edition but noticed that some of the code is not as up to date)

• NDS 2015 edition (ASD/LRFD Manual, Supplement, & Special Design provisions for Wind and Seismic as well)

• Structural Depth Reference Manual 5th edition (I have some of the 4th edition but realized that not all of the code is up to date)

• OSHA 1910 2016 edition

• OSHA 1926 2016 edition

• Any practice exams (ideally pertaining to Structural depth and Civil depth) that have been helpful for the exam. I have the NCEES practice exam but need more exposure to problems that are useful for the exam.

I understand that this may look like me trying to mooch off of other people but I am desperate in trying to exhaust all my resources. Thank you in advance to anyone that can help! I hope to be able to return the favor to anyone in need in the future!

Leaving is the process to determining the relative vertical distances of different points on the surface of field or earth.

Good evening everyone,

I am a student majoring in civil engineering at the Grove School of engineering of New York. I am taking a class called Writing for engineers. I also have this assignment where I need to speak to an individual working in my field in order to write a report about our meeting. Would anyone be willing to share some time for me to get some information? Any help will really be appreciated.

Thank you for taking time to read my post.

*You don't have to take up your time going too in-depth if you'd just rather send sources/sites I'm fine looking into them myself, it's just that currently I don't know where/how to look. More guiding questions:

- What issues Civil Engineers deal with during war or post-war/natural disaster situations in their own lands or when sent to other nations

- "History" of Civil Engineering, or more significantly at the international level (i.e. helping other countries post-disasters mentioned):

- WW1/WW2 (wars were much more devastating and more... international? so to speak, so I presume these had a profound effect for Civil Engineering in general and doing Civil Engineering "stuff" in other devastated cities and towns)

- Other noteworthy situations before and after the Great Wars

- What do the UN Civil Engineers do and the issues they deal with and have to face; their history

- Your experience, perhaps?

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Not really as important so if you have spare time: This is about a discourse community ( https://www.tcbok.org/wiki/research/bibliography/bibliography-research-theory/discourse-communities/ ) of civil engineers so it'll also be helpful to know some things in regards to the 6 criteria in the link.

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I come from South FL and really like architectural Engineering (a new degree that adds more design and architecture classes to Civil Engineering). This new degree isn’t offered in any Florida Public Universities and has the perfect middle ground for me between civil and architecture. Civil Engineering is offered in Florida, such as UF, where I would not be going into any debt.

However UT also has more/better resources than UF. UT also exposes me to a new social environment (I was looking for in the college experience), which is something I won’t 100% be able to find at UF.