Are the skills Transferrable?

[jester86403]

I was wondering if someone is a structural engineer working on bridges/non-architectural structures can they easily make the switch to designing buildings without a huge learning curve and vice versa?

I know that you would have to familiarize yourself with different codes, and different software, but are the software similar? Do they have the same idea just different features for the applications of bridge design vs. building design?

 

[MiketheEngineer]

Like anything new - it will take a while to get up to speed - but I cannot imagine it would be that hard.

Structural engineering is structural engineering.....I have switched around a bit -- usually feeling pretty confident in less than 6 months.... then spending the rest of your life really learning about it