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I'm coming up on my first year out of school, first year working full time in civil-construction type engineering. Have my EIT. A senior engineer pointed out that I should look into getting relatively easy certs while I can, but he didn't really specify any. My first thought was something like...

Hey all - thanks for the thorough responses! To clarify, I'm in Pennsylvania. I'll certainly look this issue up in context of my state laws.

Hey everyone, thank you for your posts so far. Just had a thought occur: suppose I had a business card that went "John Doe - Civil Engineer @ XYZ Company". Is that potentially misrepresenting myself? Like someone could potentially read "civil engineer" as meaning a fully licensed PE?

@ canwesteng, No, and I've never heard of any of my other engineering friends taking FEA in undergraduate either. Calculus, Diff Eq, Linear Algebra, Prob/Stat we took; but no finite elements.

I just passed my FE exam, and am now an EIT. I work at a small consulting company. I wanted to ask advice/clarify a few things: 1. "EIT" title on business card? What are the reasons for/against doing this? What is most common? 2. Same question, but for email signature. 3. I'm not a PE, so...

Hey all, I've been out of school for one year, working for almost one year (construction-civil engineering, geo-structural type work), and have my EIT. I'm considering several grad schools in my area. Of the schools around me, I notice the better ones include courses with finite element...

Hey all, I'm an undergrad starting an internship in the geotechnical unit of my state's DOT this summer. My previous experience has been as a research assistant (I basically made and tested concrete all summer). My job duties are: intern will assist our unit with field inspections and...

I'm an undergraduate taking a structural analysis class. Our lab section teaches STAAD, and I know I want to build a bridge deck like the one below. The bridge deck being modeled is a width-wise plank system for a short span timber bridge. I understand the load case. Could someone give a general...

Hey all, I'm an undergrad using mathcad for the first time to do some basic calcs for a design class. I'm having an issue with units being assigned in the program. (File is attached, work begins on page 3). I've assigned a value for "P" in lbf and a value for "a" in ft. When these two values...

Hi all, I'm a civil undergrad working on a project in STAAD. I've been given dead, live, and roof loads for a multistory structure, and I'm trying to analyze it, but I'm getting an error message: **ERROR - FINISH COMMAND IN LOAD DATA CHECK IF ANALYSIS COMMAND IS OUT OF ORDER OR MISSING...

I was talking with my advisor for Civil Engineering, and we were talking about grades on transcripts affecting grad school entrance. When I took Calc III I got a C (took in sophomore year), which since I've learned well and been doing well with classes requiring it as a prereq - but I was...

I'm looking a laptop that would be good for using autoCAD, Revit, Solidworks, and Mathcad, etc, as well as being a good all around laptop that a college student uses to study with. I've heard things like processing speed, ability to render well (for CAD programs), and CPU size. So, two...