Civil Engineering Case Study

1. I investigated a career in Civil Engineering and chose to research a Hendricks County Highway Engineer. According to the O*NET website, the Inventory letters for this career are Realistic, Investigative and Conditional. Based on what I know about this career from the interview, these codes fit the job description well. The Realistic part of the description makes perfect sense because Civil Engineers need to be great when working with hands on problems to create solutions. According to Mr. Ayers, the person I interviewed, one of the most important qualities is to be able to work in practical and hands on situations, even if that does not mean construction models or prototypes. There are some days where Civil Engineers, such as Mr. Ayers will

My top five core values are Security, Making Money, Doing Work I Like, Working Environment, and Helping Other People. What this means is that I want a job that pays well and I know I will not lose unless I terribly mess up a project. I would also like to have a career in which I enjoy what I do, which would be working with math, numbers, and at times with people. I would also like to be able to help others to maintain a clean and productive working environment. A Civil Engineer’s career path would allow me to have a job that pays well with an average starting salary around $55,000. By making roads, bridges, or whatever it is that I am designing I would think of that as helping people by making safer designs for the roads and bridges that they use. Also, I have previously job shadowed at a Civil Engineering company called American StructurePoint and everyone there was very kind and helpful and it seemed like a great working environment. Furthermore, if I were to graduate from Purdue with a degree in this field, I would not have much trouble finding a job thanks to Purdue’s reputation. However, this could also pose a threat because there are so many applicants for these jobs that I could lose my job to someone who appears more qualified than my future self. This would break my number one value in Security which would be difficult to live with. However, I think that I would still be able to find other work even with this degree because so much comes with it. Just like I learned from Mr. Ayers, he graduated with a degree in Civil and he no longer does any design because his degree allowed him to take on a management position