Civil engineering studding plan for students

If you choose to be a civil engineer for the future, then in general you have a good score in math and physics, and you have to be ready for more of them especially in your first two years in civil engineering studding.

Civil engineering is the oldest and the vastest engineering field, and for me as a public works engineer I find it very exiting major, you will learn a lot of good thing as a civil engineer like designing, team work, organization, planning, leadership, communication……. Beside you can and you have to choose what kind of civil engineer you will be, you need to know many things about all aspects of civil engineering, but believe me you can’t be a professional in everything, it is good if you determine in your last year as a civil engineering student what specialty you will concentrate in, like structural engineering, transportation engineering , geotechnical engineering………

N.Tayeb

Road design plan for civil engineer

The very first thing to do is to read the contract of design project between your company and the owner organization (stakeholders),  you will find the outputs they need from you as road designer, if you find something not clear in the contract then you need to ask them what they need exactly.

The second task is to visit the site with the stakeholders for more details about the project and to choose with them where the possibly corridor is.

The third is to start gathering data like traffic, hydrologic, environmental, geologic, geotechnical and of course the topographical data.

The fourth thing to do is to start the design and separate the work for the team design members

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Road design software plan (AutoCAD Civil 3D, Dynamite VSP and 3 Ds Max)

If you are a transportation engineer, you need to use one of that software of road design, the most of them are integrated with AutoCAD, and for the rest, in general you need to convert the output plan (scheme) to an AutoCAD format to print it.

For me I already use lot of software including Civil 3D, Covadis, Piste and Polaris.  Every software has its prosperities, but for me I find Autodesk Civil 3D the most powerful and easy of use with a clear disadvantage that it need powerful computer to run it properly.

I am using AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 and I think the most powerful option in this software is that you can change your design(Alignments, curves ….) even if you are in the end stages of your road design without need to repeat any of the previous work.

Beside the interface of the software is very helpful and smart (integrated with AutoCAD) and you can find all the commands on front of you.

Download AutoCAD Civil 3D for trial.

If you want to make a professional visualization for your road, Autodesk make it very easy with Autodesk Dynamite VSP or Autodesk Civil Visualization Extension for Autodesk 3 DS Max, this software Extension make thing very easy for a civil engineer to use 3 Ds Max for his project visualization. All you need is to export your Civil 3D work with Autodesk Dynamite VSP Exporter for AutoCAD Civil 3D than import it with Civil Visualization Extension and make your road simulation.

 DownloadAutodesk 3 DS Max design for trial.

Download Civil Visualization Extension if you already subscribe to Autodesk products.

N. Tayeb