Civil Engineering
Job Description: Civil engineers design and supervise the construction of roads, buildings, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, and water supply and sewage systems. They must consider many factors in the design process from the construction costs and expected lifetime of a project to government regulations and potential environmental hazards such as earthquakes and hurricanes
Starting Salary: $50,560
Average Salary: $83,320
Gender Breakdown: 25% Women, 75% Men
Job Outlook: Civil engineers are expected to have employment growth of 24 percent over the projections decade
Top Three Schools: MIT, Stanford University, University of California—Berkeley
Professional Societies: American Society of Civil Engineers
