I’m in the environmental engineering field at a very large firm, and find that the number of engineering positions is dropping faster than the number of people going into retirement. It may be that infrastructure (water treatment, wastewater treatment, pipelines, etc.) is being stretched as local and state funding is declining. And reduced economic activity has led to a dramatic drop in water demand in many cities. So municipalities are delaying or deferring projects.
Fewer civil/environmental engineers are needed in the US compared with 10 years ago.
Four engineers were sitting around one day trying to figure out what kind of Engineer God is.
The first engineer says “I think God is a Mechanical Engineer, because of joints and muscle and sense of balance.” The other three nod there heads and say “Yeah, could be.”
The second engineer says “I think God is an Electrical Engineer, because of the nervous system and neural network.” The other three nod there heads and say “Yeah, could be.”
The third engineer says “I think God is a Chemical Engineer, because of hormonal balances and metabolism.” The other three nod there heads and say “Yeah, could be.”
The fourth engineer snaps his fingers and shouts out “I know, God MUST be a Civil Engineer!”
The other three ask “Why?”
“Well” says the fourth engineer, “who else would put a waste water drainage right through a prime recreational area?”
Engineers are Cool