Civil Engineering
Civil engineers design, maintain and improve the infrastructure components and resources of our cities, towns and rural areas. They design, build and manage the components of this infrastructure, whilst taking into consideration any social, environmental and financial constraints.
The modern civil engineer understands and tries to minimise the possible impact of development on the natural environment and consults regularly with community representatives on community concerns. Civil engineers work in multi disciplinary team environments and, therefore, need to develop the ability to effectively communicate, manage people and resources.
Professional Recognition
The Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Engineering) degree provides the necessary academic requirements to enable graduates to be fully accredited by Engineers Australia and graduate membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK.
The program enables graduates to be fully accredited with other Australian and overseas professional bodies. The accreditation also permits graduates to apply for registration as a 'Chartered Professional Engineer" after three years of approved experience in industry.
Employment Opportunities
Graduates from this program are prepared for careers as professional civil engineers in the construction industry, design consultancies, government agencies or related areas and recognises by employers as being industry ready. Graduates have consistently achieved excellent employment outcomes and high commencing salaries particularly in the areas of construction and project management and design consultancies.
Some examples of infrastructure they can be involved in are:
- bridges
- buildings
- roads
- transport systems
- water supply
- water storage systems
- wastewater systems
Typical job titles for a civil engineer are:
- civil engineer
- construction engineer
- environmental engineer
- geotechnical engineer
- hydrologist
- local government engineer
- project engineer
- research assistant
- research officer
- site engineer (construction)
- structural engineer
- traffic engineer
- water engineer
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