Original post by lucabrasi98Is this bait? Civil engineering is the closest possible thing to "proper engineering" there is. Well joint with mechanical. Look at definitions:
"the branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures."
" the work of designing and creating large structures (such as roads and bridges) or new products or systems by using scientific methods"
"Engineering is the application of mathematics, empirical evidence and scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, innovate, design, build, maintain, research, and improve structures, machines, tools, systems, components, materials, processes and organizations."
And it probably has the most diverse job fields too. You can go into finance, work on land fills, skyscrapers, underground tunnels, regular railways, airports (one of the Manchester civil engineering lecturers helped design one of the heathrow terminals), dams, resevoirs, any smaller scale structure (e.g a house or apartment), roads, bridges, sports stadiums ect.
Most popular engineering shows on TV is full of civil engineers. I thought you were going to say something like chemical or audio engineering. But what you're saying is so inaccurate that I can only assume you've confused "civil engineer" with being a surveyor, regular site manager or builder.
Edit: And it's worth adding that it has the highest employment rate of all engineering disciplines according to prospect.com.