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Julian, I've read over a number of the responses to your inquiry, and agree with them on their approach. It must be in the area of their primary business or activity. Although I'm an academic now, I was a regional Vice President of a large engineering company before I became an academic and dealt ...

One aspect of "your first job" that is often overlooked is "will you be working under a professional civil engineer (or geotechnical engineer in your case) who can be your reference for the PE qualifying experience?" Sometimes in working for a contractor, there may not be a PE civil to oversee your work. ...

Today we are so used to using calculators; when I first started out we used slide rules which force you to approximate the result and force you to find the decimal place, since the slide rule only gives you the significant figures. No does that anymore, but what I do is always estimate what the answer ...

Switching disciplines is common, Undergraduates often gravitate to one discipline or the other based on their "favorite" professor. As an undergrad I took both the sanitary engineering option (shows how old I am) and the structural option. I really wanted to be a structural engineer. I went on to work ...