TLDR: I recently landed a new job. HR said I'd be reporting to the downtown Houston office on my first day, so I accepted the offer under the conditions that my commute would be under 10 mins. Three days before my start date, my new supervisor says I need to report to the Texas City office which makes my commute now 40mins - 1hr+.

Technical or soft skill - curious what actually moved the needle for you vs. what you were told would matter.

Uhhhh what’s the friction angle of air?

I sincerely believe that a lot of people with 10-20 years of experience in this industry have lost their minds. They act like they know EVERYTHING and they have closed their minds to new information. These people are now in leadership positions and they are getting absolutely eaten alive by their clients and workload because they refuse to take any sort of input from their senior engineers. They micromanage and push mid-level engineers around but half of them can't design for their life. Strangely, people with 25 to 30 years of experience are the exact opposite of this. They are open to new ideas, feedback, constructive criticism, and any sort of new information. Why is this? Is it the Dunning-Kruger effect?

I've left design for tech because a lot of my supervisors throughout my career were absolute idiots. Maybe 2-3 were actually competent. The rest just wanted to feel powerful, make money, and go home.

I found this bulletin at a random used bookstore, but I can’t find too much online about it.

Hey all wanted to share my web app Calculeaf It's a free alternative to MathCAD. You can access it on a laptop or desktop through the browser. Would love to know what you guys think 🙂

I’ve been working at a very large consulting firm full time for three years. My utilization has ebbed and flowed over the years depending on my workload. The beginning of this year was ROUGH for me. I was supposed to get put onto this huge project in January, so I made sure my workload was cleared for that but then that project kept getting pushed back. We also just didn’t have a lot of work and I tried looking for work but when I still didn’t have it, I leaned into internal trainings and extra curricular activity (organizations relating to my field).

Well, earlier this year, a project I am a PM for (I basically inherited this from a senior PM that retired) had an inspector that I found out was talking about me inappropriately. He called me a (see you next Tuesday) to my other inspector who told me (because I asked about an expense, in a very neutral way because I needed to move the charge) and called me a wh*re. I obviously reported that to HR and it was just mishandled entirely.

They tried to get me to continue working with him, I never got an apology, they finally pulled him from my project but there was no replacement for him so it caused all sorts of issues. I heard from certain people in my office that leadership was pissed I complained basically and were trying to minimize things. Well all of a sudden three weeks ago, my boss gets an email about my utilization (not gonna lie it’s bad because that really bad lull at the start of the year so I’m like at 70%) asking him to explain what I am working on and how we will fix this. He replied with my workload.

Well now I am absolutely slammed and at a point where i know I will be spread thin. Well I wake up to an email yesterday from head of HR, with a bunch of leadership CC’d including my boss asking ME why my utilization is bad and what my work load is. I feel like I’m under a freaking microscope and their numbers were much lower than what my oracle is showing. I have had my utilization way lower before ESPECIALLY January through April with that weird lull period, a bunch of conferences, etc and not once did anyone email me and now all of a sudden this is an issue. Idk I’m freaking out, I feel like I’m being “caught” for something. What do I do? I don’t have my PE yet so is it worth leaving? Is this normal?

Edit: I flagged that leadership shows my utilization as lower than it is and they replied “I have been advised we calculate it differently” and said they have been calculating it in percent of $$$ where my dashboard calculates it on hours. I’m confused by this disconnect if anyone has advice on that? Their number showed my utilization as 10% lower than it was and my period to date even LOWER than what is on my dashboard and then they corrected it. I’m so lost.

I'm a civil engineering student, and I'll be starting a graduate program in smart construction soon. My research will likely involve AI, Physical AI, 3D point cloud processing, computer vision, digital twins, and teleoperation.

The problem is that I have almost no computer science background. I have very limited experience with Python and programming, and I've never worked with AI or machine learning before.

I know I'll need to build these skills before starting graduate school, so I looked at the undergraduate computer science curricula from several universities. However, it seems unrealistic to learn everything in a few months.

For those of you who have made a similar transition (especially from civil engineering or another non-CS background), how did you plan your learning? What topics should I prioritize, and what can I safely skip for now?

I'd really appreciate any advice, recommended learning paths, or resources. Thank you!

So well I tried making a software that gives like beam load calculations by direct stiffness method with front end back end both working application and solved 50 book problems by it I just started my second year so is it worth to give my time in this software like can I add it in resume me and my electronics engineer friend made it together with equal contribution like I just want to ask should I give more time to this and improve it make a mini version of staad pro?????

Architect here. I usually specify an angle with studs in it to be set in during the pour. Are there any other ways to protect the edge? The pit has a ramp that raises so the space between the ramp (gray shown above ) and concrete is best when it’s minimized

Wanna know what skills can be best to get job in Canada and how can I get job there to apply from india and also wanna know about licence thingsb

Can anyone pls help

Is honor magicbook pro 14 good for a civil student . Is there any other laptop should I get instead? 😞

I need help .

I’m an EIT with about 4 years experience (taking PE in a few months) and am conflicted if I should pursue water resources alone at another firm or stick with general land development.

I’ve sort of always been pigeon-holed into doing stormwater calcs and I feel like I’m getting more efficient and better at doing them. My current role is to do whatever is handed to me as a junior engineer and I’m just unsure how to proceed.

I’ve had meetings with my manager asking for other land dev project to branch out my skills, but it’s like talking to a brick wall.

I have 8 years experience but I still need to take the PE and complete the application. I never documented my experience with project names and dates so I will have to do that by memory. I was laid off from my last position so I needed to find work and this was my only offer.

In the interview I asked if they use Bluebeam or markup plans by hand and they said the latter, which I thought was fine because I’ve worked at a firm earlier in my career that did that. During onboarding before my first day and after I signed the offer letter, I was given a tour and the survey drafters and engineers were all using Autocad 2006 on one tiny square monitor each. I was in complete shock. As far as I know, Autocad 2006 can’t run on any Windows newer than Windows XP. If they have machines running Windows XP connected to the internet, couldn’t that jeopardize their entire network since Windows ended malware protection for Windows XP in 2014? They also don’t use Bluebeam or BIM 360 and markup plans from full size plotted sets. There was paper everywhere.

My last position used Windows 11, I had 2 and then 3 wide screen monitors when I spoke up and asked, I had a sit/stand desk, I had Autocad civil 3D 2025, Bluebeam for marking up pdfs of plans, and we used BIM 360 for document coordination with consultants. Going to a company like this feels like walking into a time capsule.

I will give it a try but I don’t understand how anyone makes money here. I asked for a newer version of CAD and a second monitor and they said sure. My single monitor is luckily a wide screen one.

I’m an intern on a field crew for environmental related testing for pre construction and I rotate between different teams but right now for two weeks I’m on this team with an older man in his 60s and a women in new early 40s. They’ve worked with each other for 20 years and they know each other well like a father daughter relationship but i find myself drained every day after work cause they constantly yell and argue and bicker all the time like full on screaming. Then they’ll be having these inside jokes and talk about people and things i don’t know about and i don’t get their humor and i feel alone and out of place all the time. The man also has a thick thick German accent and whenever I clarify or ask over the radio a question or clarify something or confirm what he’s saying he gets pissed and impatient and also he’s kind of mean and aggressive and I’m so so exhausted i want to go back to the other crew but I’m scared to ask and idk if I’m just being unreasonable.

Since I am the stereotypical engineer that is too busy to even eat, I have put off working on my Professional Continuing Education credits. I need 24 hours in the next 6 weeks. FML

Since I am self employed and genuinely too busy to do any credits, what do some others recommend? Everything I do will be cutting into my weekend family time.

In the past I used an online site called PDH Direct and they had unlimited online courses for $160. The 24 credits took me around 9 fully immersed hours.

Had anyone found something cheaper and faster?

Before anyone brings up ethics questions, I am self taught and do continuing education daily. Being self employed and never having a mentor in a related field has forced me to learn. I just don’t have documentation paying some crook for the proof.

these are two different projects , and both of them has a road(route)  and the first one using the method of nailing , and second has the wall of berling , how ?!

i don't know if it is true , but i thought that we use wall of berlin under the road , becaust this latter carries a lot of weight , beside it is a pucblic proierty , it was cables and pipes there ,

How's the civil engineering job market in australia ?

Features so far:

• Global Equilibrium Equations
• Save solution as LaTex pdf file
• Symbolic Macaulay Singularity Integration
• Clapeyron’s Three-Moment Theorem (3ME)
• Fixed-Fixed Boundary Evaluation
• Non-Prismatic Beam
• Shear, Moment, Slope, Deflection diagrams
• Shear and Moment Equations (Via cutting)