I received a job offer this past week from a CE firm with approx. 50 employees. I have been a PE for nearly 2 years and have about 8 years experience. The vacation time offered is no vacation for a year, 5 days after one year, 10 days after two years, and 15 after seven years. I currently get 11...
So here is the situation. I have been working for an AE consulting company for a year now. The owner of the company hired my boss about 14 months ago to start up a Civil/Surveying department. My boss hired me 2 months later, and then a couple months later he hired a surveyor. It hasn’t been the...
The company I work for started a Civil/Survey department in August 2008. I began working here in September as a Civil EIT. I now have worked 2 and half years as an EIT. It was just me and my boss in the department until he hired an "intern" in January. The intern is going to school for his...
Our company just recently added a civil department. We have a client that wants to put in a building in a relatively flat site with no detention. I am an EIT with about a year of experience in site development at another company, but this will be my first full blown site development project with...
We have a modular trailer that was originally designed for a live load of 50 psf. There was no indication of the design load for dead load, but i am assuming 20 psf. This trailer is 1900 ft^2 but is in two halves, so each half is 950 ft^2. The floor is made of 2x8 joists (#2 H.F. can someone...
I am interviewing with a small engineering firm soon. I was wondering what people normally wear to a first interview. Should you always wear a suit and tie? Or is it ok to wear a nice pair of slacks and long-sleeved dress shirt? What about a short-sleeved dress up shirt? And how about for the...
So my boss just comes to me and tells me that he would like to talk to me before the end of the week about my being with the company for 6 months. This is my first job out of college, and to put it simple, i do not like it. I am the ONLY Civil Engineer here. There are Mechanical and Electrical's...
We currently have an actuator that is attched to each door of two very large swinging steel doors. They are attached right above the top hinge on each door. These doors are approximately 6 ft wide. There is normally a differential pressure in the rooms that the doors seperate, but sometimes for...
I am designing a concrete slab on grade. It is going to be 4 inches thick. This slab is 23'x 60' and i decided to put a longitudinal control joint in the center (at 11.5 feet) and control joints every 12 feet transversely. I am thinking about adding #3 reinforcement but i'm not sure I even need...
Here is the situation: a coworker has asked me to figure out the maximum loading that a piece of 1/4" aluminum plate will hold. This plate is to go between two large beams on a haul trailer. They just want to stand on the plate and don't want to fall through. I have looked up the properties of...
I am a new engineer working on a runoff calculation. I am to use the 25 year, 24 hour rainfall event and calculate if a retention pond can hold the water. I have calculated the volume of the pond. I think one of the assumptions is that there is 100% runoff, because the water is running off of a...
I graduated in August with a B.S. in general civil engineering. I was desperate for a job due to my financial situation so I moved back to my hometown and got a job with the company I am working for now at the beginning of September, only 2 weeks removed from the classroom. I think I have...
