What kind of high school students should consider civil engineering as a major in college?
Civil engineers are builders of large projects. If you are a high school student who likes to build or construct things, who likes hands-on projects, and if you like math and science, you might consider studying civil engineering in college. Remember that civil engineers also spend a good deal of time, perhaps half their time, outside in the field. So if you like the idea of spending half your time in the field, and half in the office, and you enjoy working with people, you might like civil engineering. Q: You mentioned hands-on projects; do your students get to work on hands-on projects in their classes? A: They work on many of them. Each year, for instance, our students compete in steel bridge competition in which they must design and build a 25-foot long bridge. Usually about a dozen students work on the bridge, and NJIT often wins the regional competition and places in the national competition. Our students also competed in a national contest in which they designed the model buildi
