• Jarix@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 days ago

    Saudia Arabia is planning this Line City

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line,_Saudi_Arabia

    As a civil engineer, i have a few questions for you.

    Is this interesting as a project?

    What if anything would excite you about it?

    What are obvious challenges, and what do you suspect might be much harder than any lay person would think of planning/building this?

    • PossiblyOptimist@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      It’s someone who designs infrastructure, so roads, buildings, bridges, sewer systems, etc. Basically if you think about anything a construction worker builds, a civil engineer/team of engineers designed it. There are different categories of civil engineers. Structural engineers make sure a building can handle the weight of everything on/in it. Transportation engineers design highways. I’m a geotechnical engineer, so I deal with soils (dirt) and make sure the ground can support whatever is being built.

      • Kresten@feddit.dkEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        I’m soon going to study as a software engineer, but in my country that’s also called a “civil engineer”, is that true in English, as well?

            • lemme_at_it@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              Only for some time. Job boards in their early days were simplistic in their capture of information, you either pasted or attached a cover letter & CV but they would quickly become much more granular in gathering a lot more information about your skills, even if this made the application process a lot longer than before. It had the benefit of your skillset defining your ability rather than the title of your degree obscuring it. Also, OCR & language translation advanced really quickly there after.