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Civil Engineering to Environmental Engineering

  • 05-06-2009 03:10AM
    #1
    pipelaser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭


    Had been working as a Site engineer for 5 years since graduating with a Degree in Civil Engineering.
    The comapny i worked for went into Liquidation 3 months ago and im flat out applying for jobs ever since, havent even had an Interview...

    Was just wondering what people think about getting into Environmental Engineering?
    I could afford to do it for a year in an add on course which would leave me with a Diploma in Environmental Engineering.

    Are there any Environmental engineers out there that can tell me if its even worth doing it, will a diploma be any use to me or has Environmental engineering completely gone out the window aswell?

    Any comments or opinions welcome!


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  • #2
    aquascrotum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 466 ✭✭aquascrotum


    Environmental Engineering is a very broad brush and covers a lot of areas.

    Contaminated land, landfill & disposal, water treatment and wastewater, all sorts of stuff. Renewables is the buzz word of the mo but the courses a few years ago weren't really touching on it (not sure what they're doing now) - but then the engineering involved in renewables is mechanical and electrical, and the infrastructure etc associated with renewables development is just plain civil/structural engineering on the construction side and environmental science on the planning/EIA side.

    Landfill is running out in Ireland so landfill/waste management engineers are in oversupply - in Ireland anyway. Contaminated land and Water/wastewater has been hit about as hard as everywhere else has.

    I'd go and do a diploma or other postgrad course because it'd be better to do that than sit on your hands for a year, but wouldn't expect an environmental postgrad qualification to open any more doors to a different engineering area, or make me significantly more attractive to employers than any other given postgrad qualification out there.


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