LKR47 wrote:alvarez495 wrote:
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What does being a civil engineer have to do with playing a video game? Plus they arent making money off the game... they are making money off hosting and putting in the hours for us to race. All the tracks will be released for free in a month so in the meantime, go build me a shitter so I dont have to use a tree and maybe by the time youre done they will be out.
I FIGURED YOU NEEDED TO BE EDUCATED A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE CIVILS DONT ACTUALLY BUILD "SHITTERS".
Civil engineers design, build, supervise, operate, and maintain construction projects and systems in the public and private sector, including roads, buildings, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, and systems for water supply and sewage treatment.
Duties
Civil engineers typically do the following:
-Analyze long range plans, survey reports, maps, and other data in order to plan projects
-Consider construction costs, government regulations, potential environmental hazards, and other factors in planning the stages of, and risk analysis for, a project
-Compile and submit permit applications to local, state, and federal agencies, verifying that projects comply with various regulations
-Perform or oversee soil testing to determine the adequacy and strength of foundations
-Test building materials, such as concrete, asphalt, or steel, for use in particular projects
-Provide cost estimates for materials, equipment, or labor to determine a project’s economic feasibility
-Use design software to plan and design transportation systems, hydraulic systems, and structures in line with industry and government standards
-Perform or oversee surveying operations in order to establish reference points, grades, and elevations to guide construction
-Present their findings to the public on topics such as bid proposals, environmental impact statements, or descriptions of property
-Manage the repair, maintenance, and replacement of public and private infrastructure
-Civil engineers inspect projects to insure regulatory compliance. In addition, they are tasked with ensuring that safe work practices are followed at construction sites.
-Many civil engineers hold supervisory or administrative positions ranging from supervisor of a construction site to city engineer, public works director, and city manager. Others work in design, construction, research, and teaching. Civil engineers work with others on projects and may be assisted by civil engineering technicians.
-Civil engineers prepare permit documents for work on projects in renewable energy. They verify that the projects will comply with federal, state, and local requirements. With regard to solar energy, these engineers conduct structural analyses for large-scale photovoltaic projects. They also evaluate the ability of solar array support structures and buildings to tolerate stresses from wind, seismic activity, and other sources. For large-scale wind projects, civil engineers often prepare roadbeds to handle large trucks that haul in the turbines. In addition, they prepare the sites on the shore or offshore to make sure that the foundations for the turbines will safely keep them upright in expected environmental conditions.
Civil engineers work on complex projects, so they usually specialize in one of FIVE areas.
-Geotechnical engineers work to make sure that foundations are solid. They focus on how structures built by civil engineers, such as buildings and tunnels, interact with the earth (including soil and rock). In addition, they design and plan for slopes, retaining walls, and tunnels.
-Structural engineers design and assess major projects, such as buildings, bridges, or dams, to ensure their strength and durability.
-Transportation engineers plan, design, operate, and maintain everyday systems, such as streets and highways, but they also plan larger projects, such as airports, ship ports, mass transit systems, and harbors.
-Environmental engineers use the principles of engineering, soil science, biology, and chemistry to develop solutions to environmental problems. They are involved in efforts to improve recycling, waste disposal, public health, and water and air pollution control. They also address global issues, such as unsafe drinking water, climate change, and environmental sustainability.
-Construction engineering involves planning and execution, transportation of materials, site development based on hydraulic, environmental, structural and geotechnical engineering. As construction firms tend to have higher business risk than other types of civil engineering firms do, construction engineers often engage in more business-like transactions, for example, drafting and reviewing contracts, evaluating logistical operations, and monitoring prices of supplies.
-Water resources engineering is concerned with the collection and management of water (as a natural resource). As a discipline it therefore combines elements of hydrology, environmental science, meteorology, conservation, and resource management. This area of civil engineering relates to the prediction and management of both the quality and the quantity of water in both underground (aquifers) and above ground (lakes, rivers, and streams) resources. Water resource engineers analyze and model very small to very large areas of the earth to predict the amount and content of water as it flows into, through, or out of a facility. Although the actual design of the facility may be left to other engineers.