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Survey Engineer: An overlooked role of a Civil Engineer

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A simple question raised in my mind during a discussion with a group of final year students of Civil Engineering and I could not stop myself to ask them. "What are your career plans after graduation? " All were staring me with a confusing look. The question was not properly understood or may be it had lack of elaboration. I asked again. "Ok... let me ask in simple words... what do you want to do after passing out ? Do you have some specific field in mind to choose? like hydraulics, Geotechnical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Hydrology etc etc ?". Consequently, I got following responses: "I like structural engineering... I would like to do my post graduation in structural engineering specially Bridge Design." "I plan to be a Highway Designer. I believe that there will be a lot of career opportunities in Highway/Transportation Engineering because of the CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor)" "I have not decided...