<p>I want to declare a specific engineering field by the end of this semester but I'm not sure what to pick. I'm down to either civil, environmental, or biosystems engineering.</p>
<p>Can anybody tell me what the differences are between all of these majors, what the job outlook is in the future and what a job in this field involves?</p>
<p>Metaphorically, Civil and Environmental Engineering jobs are like ‘rough’, nowadays…
But these fields are going to be improved in few years (prolly 4 - 5), as Obama has plans to improve, invest and use these two fields…</p>
<p>In civil engineering, as we all know, that work is done mainly on construction sites, not in offices… If you like to hangout in open environment and your turn-ons include words like nature, ocean, archaeology, Yes Archaeology! Then you should select Civil Engineering.</p>
<p>Environmental is a new field and promises a good future for students, so it will repay you good… Other than united states, there is an arising need of environmental engineers in almost every country, specially in 3rd world countries. If you want to become efficient environmental engineer, then you should first take a look at some movie scenes filmed in philippines… It will tell you about the problems that will be solved by environmental engineers…</p>
<p>If you want to check out what biosystems engineering involves, check out asabe.org (Am. society of Ag and Biological engineers). It’s a broad based engineering discipline that includes enviroment systems, ecosystem protections (ie. waste management,water resource), food production/safety, bioenergy (think biofuels), power/machinery systems, and structures (mostly dealing with food processing).</p>
<p>Choose based on what you want to do.</p>
<p>With that said, I think biosystems engineering sounds a bit far fetched and not mainstream. I’d have to have a darn good reason to choose a non-typical engineering major, as you won’t find many employers looking to hire a biosystems engineer.</p>