Just started three weeks ago in a small firm in Mexico, so far the main difference is that I haven't done site visits. Thanks for your videos!

As a land development engineer, I don't models that look as cool as yours!

Glad I could help Orlando!

I'm still in the middle of the civil engineering college, but my professional goal is to be a structural civil engineer! By the way, what program do you used to analyse the steel beam? I wish you a very good career on engineering!

Thanks Rodrigo, awesome goal! For steel beam analysis I tend to use Enercalc, for steel detailing, sometimes RISA Connection.

Good Luck bro!

Best of luck to you!

Good luck my friend.

Best of luck bro!! it would be awesome!

GOOD LUCK!!!

xD

​@@kishorraika6411 I am soo sorry man, i forget you guys don't have clean water in nepal.

Thanks for reminding

i am diploma civil engineer have any vacancy algeriya

Haha got you brother

I felt the same way, thanks for the comment Haider!

@@MatPicardal No problem! A lot of times I'm looking for a day in the life of a civil, mechanical, electrical engineer but all I see is computer engineering. It was a good video.

exactly True! thank you for the video

@@MErdogan34 you're welcome, glad I could help!

@@haidermoh.9937 hell I'm a computer science major but I love variation every once in a while.

Truth!

Not just guys! 😁

@@oreoandbeesly Definitely. I'm following in my sister's footsteps

Haha dont structural engineers analyse stuff ?

Hi Lauren! Super small world, say hi to Jazzy, Esmeralda, and Adeleine for me!

This comment thread made me smile

lol this is dope

This comment ❤️❤️❤️

This made my day seeing this

Thanks for the comment!

Thank you Professor!

You're still learning :)

Same here

same girl, same

Ditto😄

omg sameee!!

"You idiots!!!" - Bakugo

@@MatPicardal hey, does engineering course needs a lot of money on college?

@@anonymous-zf1qm Not really. Depends on the college. If you go to a Public 4 year it will be less.

@@Melbester9 if sa private school? Mga magkano?

I also am civil engineer. Life hard in my country so i have stop watching animes and focused myself for opportunity 🤣🤣

Hahha thanks xero!

Irrelevant architects pfft

Mat Picardal in my decade a civil construction site manager I’ve yet to meet one decent architects. Most have no concept of build ability, ignorant of change control, cannot coordinate any design in order. All Architects are good for is just producing concept designs. Beyond that they struggle and most work there days can be done by draughtsman. Architects are a joke to the industry. I eat architects for breakfast especially in design n build route.

An architect's dream , is an engineers nightmare . Civil engg undergraduate here

saurabh pathak to the contrary, I’ll challenge your perception, an architects dream is a clients nightmare. Usually what looks like their dream gets turned to a box after concept stage validation and subsequent value engineering. A civil engineers dream is a project that’s built to time, budget and quality.

Thanks Jayant, will do!

Mat Picardal isn’t project related info kind of confidential to some degree? I know most international engineering consultancies and quite strict with those rules

H00FH3ARTED oh i feel you .. actually i kinda decided to go for masters in construction management for a better income on the long run .. do u think i made the right decision?

Construction is the best my man

Glad you could relate!

Thank you for your kind words Nicolas, wish you the best also!

Glad you could relate April!

Helo

Awesome! Also, don't just rely on professors to teach you. Ask for help, attend office hours, study groups, get a study buddy to check each others work, look for online tutorials, find Schaum Outline type books that simplify subjects.

Thanks David!

Glad other fields can relate! Go civil engineering!

Thanks for your support!

I appreciate the support!

I have completed my degree

Glad I could help!

Thanks for the support Chris

Glad I can help Martin!

His life looks boring dude... lol

slimmy666 not as yours lol

Hi! CAN u tell me what’s the difference between civil engineering and architectural engineering? Never understood it

ndeye khady ba architectural engineering focus’ more on architecture. we’re able to communicate with architects and use our engineering mixed with architecture knowledge to fit their needs. Hopefully that helps your understanding! we basically take the same courses, but architectural obviously has architecture classes sprinkled in!

tulip alonso so you’re like helping architects?

ndeye khady ba no, we’re more helping to civil engineers but we are basically architecs. we just more understand how thing works more than normal architecs ‘cause usually we have more knowlegdes from civil engineering :)

That's a good video topic, thanks for the idea David! In the mean time, the closest thing is this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rteAY5qg2Zazl4k.html

You as well Allen, you got this!

Not always like that, been currently working 40 hours lately. It's the eb and flow of the private industry.

@@MatPicardal 40hours for a day is too much.

@@Hypocrite420 😁😆yeah

Yes!

and Enercalc!

Can I survive being a civil engineer not knowing how to use modeling software like etabs?? I've passed the board exam and still don't know how to use them...

@@josephoyek6574 same here

Same here hhh

I'll give more advice and tips on those!

Thanks Mark, glad I could help!

Thanks for the support Balaji!

Hi Felipe, haha yes when I was first starting. Most of the time, I believe it's our fault for not setting expectations from the very beginning with the team, having a good contract to protect us from these types of things, and agreeing to these types of request when asked. This is what I mean by us not being trained in business. If the architect/team knows and it's in the CONTRACT that we will get paid for these changes from the very beginning, then no one can argue when we charge additional services, it's in the contract and all the emails that we should be communicating throughout. What typically ends up happening is scope creep where we end up doing all these extra designs pretty much for free, and we wonder why we're underpaid. If a company doesn't make money, it can't pay it's employees well. If the client is truly unreasonable and ends up being the "client from hell", well no one is forcing us to work with them. Unexperienced SE's may tend to think that because they pay you means that you have to do everything they say...no, we get to choose who we work with. If they are truly unreasonable, the money you lose and the mental stress that you have to go through may not be worth it.

Mahirap ba?

How is it so far, I’m planning on getting into CE

Thanks for the comment, will definitely be making more videos!

Thanks Varun, you too!

Awesome, thanks for the comments and let me know what you would like to learn about!

Very cool! Seems like a great company with a good culture!

Do you mean maximum?

Thanks!

That's great Vipul, glad I could help!

FARSHY AL-TURAB Jesus has already given you the Strength.

That's awesome Mark! Do you still do a lot of the design work yourself (analysis, drafting drawings, etc.) or do you have a small team, or do you do more of the inspecting/certifying?

Is there any scope for detailing engineers in Australia

I'm about to do same 😊

@@MatPicardal Yes manage the client, design, draft , inspect and certify. The projects are smaller in size and the engineering design is simpler then working on larger projects. Work life balance was the aim, not commuting 10 hours a week and feeling like your running in a rat wheel, which is what being a consulting engineer feels like working for a larger company alot of the time.

@@devikavijayan9596 In Australia we have a national and state registration scheme administered by Engineers Australia. It usually takes at least 5 years quality experience plus an assessment process to gain accreditation. Once accreditation is obtained you can certify engineering designs and constructed projects which means your position is valued higher in the wage market and you can at that point consult for yourself.

Glad I could help, depends on what firm you end up in also.

Hey guys I'm also 3rd year student studying Civil engineering. Anybody can help me what to do for my best future.....

so you are 22-24 years old now

@@MatPicardal hello sir is M Tech necessary for every structural engineer???

Same ..I'm a 2nd pursuing civil eng..I had lost hope maahn😂

Thanks for the suggestion, planning on doing that video soon (with more explanation and details), along with an internship survival guide type of video.

@@MatPicardal thank you so much your videos are super helpful, and I hope to see more in the future!

Resume and building your network. What have you done outside of class to improve yourself (engineering competitions, leading engineering student organizations, internships, co-ops, scholarships, etc.)?

We use prokon in south africa but don't know what software that is

Thank you!

Hi Jesus, the 2D software not so much, but the heavy 3D programs like Revit will probably require better hardware. My work computer is a Dell Precision 5530 and it's more than sufficient.

Hi Laura, not rude at all, money's important. In California, the average range is $70k - $95k for around 4 years experience, and I'm in between that range also.

@@MatPicardal ...is that 75k-90k annual income or monthly

@@anand4236 $75k-$90k U.S. annual income. In the U.S., it's a middle class salary.

@@MatPicardal ,Hi Mat. Is PE raise included in the salary or do you get additional raise on top of that. Thank you for answering !

Awesome! That actually means a lot to me, it will lift our industry up as a whole if more of us shared!

That's a cool channel, thanks for mentioning it!

Get ready for it I just graduated and I do 14 hour shifts lol

change the sttream, there is still time

Not all days are that long, it was a site visit day, but yes, love it!

Haha, that's a another topic requiring a different skillset, I talk about some of the business skills here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rteAY5qg2Zazl4k.html

Right. I'm not an engineer but a tradesman and clients are funny when they want nice and shiny stuff but don't want to pay the nice and shiny price they expect you to gift them free labor. Lol.

Not typical, we mostly spot check as the engineer to make sure the intent of our structural drawings are being followed/constructed as intended, we do not go through every nut/bolt/nail, but the site has structural inspectors that do.

I'd love to see that, share it with me when you do, add me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/matpicardal/ Or email: matpicardal@gmail.com

please do make it

That's awesome Mario! Are you a student still?

@@MatPicardal no i graduated this spring from the University of Illinois at Chicago. focusing on the first word of Civil Engineering as far as a career path

There are civil/structural engineering companies that don't make you work crazy hours. So, it may not be the industry, may just be the company you work for.

Softwares I used in this order: Enercalc, RISA Connection, Bluebeam Revu, Trello (to-do list) Revit, and ETABS.

Thanks for your support Choeun!

Hi Kal, I work in a firm that has varied projects that I get to work on (wood, concrete, PT concrete, piles, mat foundations, CMU, cold-formed steel, steel, etc.) so in the 4.5 years I've been in the industry, I haven't been bored yet (at least not severely), there's a lot to learn and I'm always learning something new. Yes, there are repetitive things that we have to do of course, but its varied enough. I could be ETABS modeling one day, answering construction problems another, designing wood shear walls, foundations, etc. Note, there are firms our there where you will be "pidgeon-holed", for example, doing steel beams 24/7, or ETABS modeling 24/7. Something to watch out for when you're looking for your first company to work for.

@@MatPicardal do you ever have to do scripting and coding? and also, how math-intensive would you say your job is?

Yeah i want to know too

There are countless programs that do all the calculations for you. However, you always have to double check them just in case.

I’m wondering the same thing

They work at a company

Brother civil engineering is very low paying. If you can, go IT or software development, much better value for time

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9iFm9ChtqmbhJc.html

Awesome, you got this!

Good luck Lay!

Good Luck!!!

Softwares I used in this order: Enercalc, RISA Connection, Bluebeam Revu, Trello (to-do list) Revit, and ETABS.

Thanks ARG!

$70,000-$95,000 annual salary range, USA California, DCI Engineers

@@MatPicardal thank bro

@@Life_is_Awesome_Civil of course, you're welcome.

@@MatPicardal after tax?

@@MatPicardal in a year?

Glad I could help!

You're welcome!

@@MatPicardal How much time do you spend outdoors overseeing a project versus indoors?