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I have been doing a lot of thinking and a little bit of research and I have decided to change my career to something useful to my country. :)

Water Engineering.
With a prediction of a future shortage of water and with the current shortage of technicians and all that, I decided to enroll in this course. BUT I'm not sure if I can do a degree in water engineering, or can I? All I find is to do it the Civil Engineering route and I didn't want that. I guess I need to understand the earth science and all of that to be able to do it.
Any information?
 
If you want a degree you will have to do a full civil engineering degree. You can then specialise in water engineering by working in the field or perhaps doing an M-degree later on.

You might think you want to only do water engineering, but the reality is that it often interacts with the other civil engineering disciplines and at least a basic knowledge of these are neccessary.

For instance when building a dam, all the disciplines (geotechnical, structural, roads etc.) are involved and have a major impact on the water engineering side.

Also a pump station requires heavy structural and geotechnical input.

In river engineering and management, geotechnical issues play an important role, and quite often you need some reinforced concrete structures of which you will need some basic knowledge at least.
 
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If you want a degree you will have to do a full civil engineering degree. You can then specialise in water engineering by working in the field or perhaps doing an M-degree later on.

You might think you want to only do water engineering, but the reality is that it often interacts with the other civil engineering disciplines and at least a basic knowledge of these are neccessary.

For instance when building a dam, all the disciplines (geotechnical, structural, roads etc.) are involved and have a major impact on the water engineering side.

Also a pump station requires heavy structural and geotechnical input.

In river engineering and management, geotechnical issues play an important role, and quite often you need some reinforced concrete structures of which you will need some basic knowledge at least.
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You are right. I thought there was a dedicated Water Engineering degree.

Thank you.
 
Heita_Hola said:
I have been doing a lot of thinking and a little bit of research and I have decided to change my career to something useful to my country. :)

Water Engineering.
With a prediction of a future shortage of water and with the current shortage of technicians and all that, I decided to enroll in this course. BUT I'm not sure if I can do a degree in water engineering, or can I? All I find is to do it the Civil Engineering route and I didn't want that. I guess I need to understand the earth science and all of that to be able to do it.
Any information?
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I know people in the business. I'll see what i can dig up.;)
 
Heita_Hola said:
I have been doing a lot of thinking and a little bit of research and I have decided to change my career to something useful to my country. :)

Water Engineering.
With a prediction of a future shortage of water and with the current shortage of technicians and all that, I decided to enroll in this course. BUT I'm not sure if I can do a degree in water engineering, or can I? All I find is to do it the Civil Engineering route and I didn't want that. I guess I need to understand the earth science and all of that to be able to do it.
Any information?
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i did Industrial Engineering undergrad - currently doing my B Eng (Hons) Water Utilization.

@ Tuks you only need a B Eng degree to gain admission for ^^

it's a very interesting course - glad i'm doing it
 
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