<p>Anyone familiar with the type of work earthquake engineers get? What about the salary? Thanks...</p>
<p>By earthquake engineers you probably mean civil engineering. I'm not sure, but I dont think there are engineers that specific to only earthquakes. I'd say if you want info on salary just look up info for civil or structural.</p>
<p>Structural engineers and geotechnical engineers usually just design buildings for earthquakes by factoring in a lateral load. As far as I know, there aren't any engineers who specialize in only earthquakes, though I may be wrong for more earthquake prone regions.</p>
<p>well here at UCSD Structural Engineering students get to focus on either earthquake engineering, aerospace structures, or civil structures. So there is a specialization, but then again that's within the structural engineering department. The Eengineer guys don't need to take steel and concrete, but intead take seismic design, and that type of stuff.</p>
<p>Okay, I'm coming out of lurk mode <em>briefly</em>.</p>
<p>Take steel and concrete. You're not going to be marketable as a structural designer unless you take those two classes. If you plan on being a designer, basically what seismic engineering out in Cali amounts to is designing lateral force-resisting systems, and if you can conventionally design in steel and concrete, then you'll be able to translate (pun) that to the design of lateral systems. You need steel and concrete design to graduate from <em>most</em> structural engineering graduate programs, and there's plenty of time to take earthquake engineering courses in grad school.</p>
<p>PS- Go to grad school
PPS- Wedding's next January. Don't goad me out of retirement any more until after that. ;)</p>