Making transition from Civil to other engineering disicplines

lbj666

I am a Civil Engineer with 6 years of experience with a consultancy in drainage environment etc. Its safe to say opportunities within Ireland are never gonna be like they used to be and for many other reason i am thinking long term of trying branch out into another engineering discipline.

My preference would be into Chemical/Process Pharma or Energy Engineering. With Chemical its seems to me I would have to go back to college for 2 years or more to get a BEng in chemical, there doesnt seem to be any masters route on the back of the B Eng (Civil) that I already have.

With Energy Engineering it appears that there is a masters route there but a lot of courses around I look at seem to just focus on renewables and just dont seem to be very robust. I mean oil gas and nuclear are far from dead yet.

Anyone here made, or tried making the switch?

Diabhal_Glas

Have a look at the Cranfield University Prospectus they do a lot of very highly regarded masters courses. There were quite a lot of masters students studying there that were changing career path from the primary degree they studied.

For most courses you need a good numerical based degree primarily an honours degree but they take work experience into consideration.
It wasn't difficult to get a job when I graduated and was the same for most of the students I knew there. It was a few years back though..

Lantus

6 civil jobs on the jobs section just posted.

if anything infrastructure jobs will start back up quicker than anything else so if anything civil is a good option!

godtabh

Lantus wrote: »

if anything infrastructure jobs will start back up quicker than anything else so if anything civil is a good option!

What makes you so sure? Capital budgets are gone for a long time. Maintenance contracts is all there will be for many years and current staff levels would be enough to keep them going. Very little opportunity still