A seminar organised by the Association of Civil Engineers highlighted growth opportunities in this field.
Civil engineering, which is considered a challenging field to work in, is no more a male-driven profession. In fact, it is offering various lucrative opportunities to girls as well.
At a recently held seminar in the city, ‘Careers in civil engineering’, which was organised by the Association of Civil Engineers (ACE), there was an attempt to uncover tremendous opportunities available in civil engineering and especially make parents and girls aware about various new specialisations in the field.
Founder, ACE, RB Chaphalkar, said, “It is a misconception that civil engineering is a male-dominant field and girls would have a difficult time working on outdoor projects. Civil engineering is not limited to only on-site work; it also involves office jobs such as analysis, estimation, designing, arbitration, tendering and many other desk jobs. Among the other engineering careers, civil is one of the broadest fields.”
“This is an era of specialisation and same holds true for civil engineering. Working on computers in air-conditioned offices or getting opportunity to work abroad is now also possible in civil engineering field. Nowadays, I see over 20:80 girls to boys ratio studying civil engineering at various institutes,” said Chaphalkar. He informed that three women civil engineers who work in his office also look after site projects.
Civil engineering graduate, Asma Mulla, who has been working in the field for the past three years, said that she chose this profession because it offers huge growth opportunities due to rapid urbanisation.
“There is no compulsion that one has to work on site. As my job involves working on estimations, I like to go out in the field and work. Due to new softwares, estimation work has become easier. Girls have a huge opportunity waiting in the civil engineering field. All they need is determination to work in the challenging field,” she said.
Speaking about the openings and benefits of working in the public sector, Sanjay Bhonge, executive engineer from Mumbai Road Design and Development said during the seminar that there is scope in the areas like infrastructure development, maintenance and repairs, permission and control (town planning), vigilance and quality control, design and planning and non-conventional technology application. “According to the state and central government infrastructure policies, there will be a huge demand for civil engineers in the next five years. Apart from good pay packages, the sector offers engineers to work on mega projects along with job security,” he said.
“On entry-level, freshers can easily earn around Rs15,000 to 35,000 per month and with experience of 3 years, the package can go above Rs50,000,” Chaphalkar said.
To become a civil engineer after clearing standard X exam, one has to go for a three-year diploma followed by three-year bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
After passing standard XII, one can opt for four-year bachelor’s degree. For specialisation, one can continue with postgraduation in any of the civil engineering fields. There are also new options opened for those who combine information technology, LLB and other specialisations programmes with civil engineering.
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