C IVIL E NGINEERING T ECHNOLOGY (CVET) D EGREE Dr. Michael R. Williamson
O VERVIEW Civil Engineering Courses and Curriculum Minors Career Opportunities Typical Places our Graduates get Hired Typical Starting Salaries Areas of Emphasis Student Organizations IDOT Careers
C IVIL E NGINEERING Environmental Structural Transportation
E NVIRONMENTAL Drinking water Wastewater Rainwater runoff Pollution
S TRUCTURAL Buildings Bridges Pipelines
T RANSPORTATION Roads Bridges Signals Sidewalks Bike paths Railroad Maritime
T RANSPORTATION M ODES
D EGREE M AP
C OURSES
M INORS Computer-Aided Design and Drafting (18 cr) 4 additional courses Construction Management (23 cr) 3 additional courses Transportation Engineering (coming soon)
P ROPOSED M INOR
A REAS OF P ROGRAM E MPHASIS Transportation Engineering Signal Optimization Transportation Safety
ABET A CCREDITATION Effective goal 2018 Retroactive by two years i.e. 2016
C AREER OPPORTUNITIES State DOTs INDOT IDOT USDOT/FHWA Counties Cities Railroads CN Airports Engineering Firms CH2MHILL AECOM
J OB L INKS 1. idot/employment-opportunities/employment/ idot/employment-opportunities/employment/
N ATURE OF THE D AILY W ORK Supervise construction process Supervise material testing AUTOCAD Design work Signal optimization
T YPICAL P LACES OUR G RADUATES GET H IRED New program Engineering firms ASCE and ITE Interest from: INDOT IDOT
T YPICAL STARTING SALARIES DOTS Full Time Positions with Benefits Salary Range: $29,400 to $52,740 Firm Full Time Positions with Limited Benefits $37,440 to $65,520 (overtime)
V IDEOS
S TUDENT O RGANIZATIONS American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
ASCE Networking Job opportunities Student competitions Scholarships
C ONCRETE C ANOE C OMPETITION
G REATLAKES April 2016 Illinois Institute of Technology ASCE meets Thursdays at 4:00pm in construction lab
I NSTITUTE OF T RANSPORTATION E NGINEERS Focused on transportation Networking Job opportunities Student competition Scholarships
E NGINEERING C AREERS
I LLINOIS D EPARTMENT OF T RANSPORTATION Fast Facts Illinois population: million Licensed drivers: 8.77 million Total license plate registration: million Passenger car plate registration: 7.76 million Annual vehicle miles of travel: billion Annual gallons of fuel consumed: 6.2 million
H IGHWAYS Miles of Highways and Streets: 140,834 total miles Highway bridges: 26,327 Longest Route: US miles Rest Areas: 30/53 Blds. 40 million visitors Snow and Ice: 3600 staff 1,800 trucks FY :$85 million
H IGHWAYS Scenic Byways: 7 Safety Inspections: 491,000 Tollway-Illinois State Toll Highway Authority 12 Counties 286 miles 1.4 million motorist per day $650 million collected annually
P UBLIC T RANSPORTATION CTA, Metra, Pace serves approx 8 million people CTA-2 nd largest public transportation system in US Metra-1,100 mile system 86 million passengers Pace-suburban bus service 35 million passengers Downstate Public/Rural Systems 13 urban areas 26 rural areas
A IRPORTS Public use: 110 Private use 480 With passenger service: 10 IL registered aircraft: 4,464 IL registered pilots: 12,628
R AILROADS 7,300 route miles 2 nd largest number of crossings in US 7,981 highway rail crossings Amtrak: 1.8 million riders annually
W ATER R ESOURCES 4 Inland Waterways 1,095 miles of waterway 29 locks 350 active terminals 15 port districts
IDOT W ORKFORCE
E NGINEER T ECHNICIANS Full Time Positions with Benefits Salary Range: $29,400 to $52,740
E NGINEER T ECHNICIANS Overview Investigation planning Design and construction They perform duties such as: Drafting bridges and highway design plan Staking on a survey crew Creating traffic surveys Taking physical investigations of highway facilities
E NGINEER T ECHNICIANS Requirements Knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to two years of college in pre- engineering or civil engineering technology OR Associate Degree from an accredited two-year civil engineering technology program
A PPLICATION P ROCESS IDOT usually posts Civil Engineer and Engineer Tech positions as they come available on our website:
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