Career in Civil Engineering

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Career in Civil Engineering

• Informal presentation
• By
• Pravin Kolhe
• Friday, July 17, 2020

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What is Civil Engineering?

• Civil Engineering is broad field of engineering,
  which deals with the planning, construction and
  maintenance of structures or public works as they
  are related earth, water or in space.

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Why to become a Civil Engineer?

• For money?
• For comfort?
• For satisfaction
• To achieve something in life

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Pre-requisite?

• Strong common sense
• Positive attitude
• Vision
• Honesty and dedication
• Ethics Chalata hain nahi chalega!
• Management skills and teamwork
• Courage to face challenges.
• Good health Physical capabilities
• Extraordinary Brilliant NOT necessary!

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Specializations in CE

• Structural Engineering
• Transportation Engineering
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Water Resource/Hydraulics/Irrigation Engineering
• Remote Sensing/Geo-informatics/Surveying
• Environmental Engineering
• Earthquake Engineering
• Geology/Geoscience Engineering
• Project Management/Construction Management
• Maintenance Engineering
• And so on!

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Formula for success

• Success
• (Intelligence)
• (Hard work)
• (Attitude)
• (1 Smartness)

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How to top with minimum study ?
How to top with optimum study ?

• Ur major activities-
• Take smart decisions and make sacrifices. It
  will pay U back.
• Remember No Free Lunch Theorem.
• Stair method
• Always set a small goal
• Get it done
• This will give U lot of confidence.
• Then set next higher goal
• Never jump directly!
• Remember Low Aim Is Crime

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Planning-

• People spend their days in study, but achieve
  very little success, Bcoz they are not planning.
• U must consider Ur abilities and limitations
  while planning.
• Revision must be a part of planning.
• Long term Prepare plan for the whole semester
  for complete syllabus.
• Short term Plan for a week and for each topic.

• Remember
• People generally overestimate themselves.
  Initially you may fail, but after some time,
  planning will become Ur habit.
• It is better to be a fool for some time,
  instead of remaining fool foreverso try to be in
  touch with Ur teachers to get Ur doubts cleared.

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Organization of syllabus-

• Concentrate on 1st quadrant ( 50 time)
• 2nd quadrant (20 time)
• 3rd quadrant (20 time)
• Dont waste Ur time on 4th quadrant. (10 time)

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When and What to study?

• When U feel fresh energetic (morning) Start
  with theory and new topics
• When Ur tired, (evening) Problems and revision.
• Remember!
• It is not necessary and possible also to command
  whole syllabus. Keep watch on previous years
  question papers, and choose the topics of Ur
  interest.

• Have a look on syllabus at the start of semester.
• What is purpose of PL
• Fresh study
• Revision
• Remember!
• No. of hours of self study 2 Class hours.
• Dont have a mentality that firstly I will
  complete theory and then problems. Both should be
  done simultaneously.

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Notes

• Use Ur own notes.
• Make a habit to take notes in class.
• 1st Revision notes 10 pages/chapter
• 2nd revision notes 3 pages/chapter
• 3rd revision notes ½ page/chapter
• Zip and unzip procedure.
• Keep Ur notes and books with Uforever.

• Before going to exam, close all the books and
  have a look on final notes

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Reference Books-

• Selection of books should be done with proper
  care , since Ur success heavily depends on it.
• Market is flooded with books. So follow only
  those books in which you are comfortable in
  understanding the fundamentals
• Use Ur own books.
• Never take a book without pen/pencil in other
  hand.

• Write what U understand/not understand on that
  book.
• It will help U in next revision.
• Dont write on Library books. Instead, first make
  a Xerox copy.
• It is better to solve/read a book twice rather
  than two books once.
• Clarify Ur doubts from Ur teachers/friends. Help
  others.
• Remember, Having no concept is better than
  mis-concept.

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Revision-

• Close Ur eyes and try to recollect whatever U had
  studied.
• Do this very systematically, step-by-step and
  gradually.
• When you stuck, open Ur notes and look.
• NEVER try to remember a particular numerical
  problem.

• How many revisions?
• First Revision Immediately after class. (5 min.)
• Second revision Just before start of the class
  (5 min)
• Third revision After a week.
• Last revision Before exam

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Tips-

• Exam ke kuch din pehale frustration ho jata hain
  Kya kare?
• Dont worryIts natural! Remember A piece of
  coal perform well under temperature and pressure,
  known as Diamond.
• U should be strong to handle these tension. CE is
  very challenging branch.

• At the bottom of success ladder, there is only
  crowd at upper part there is a competition.
• Always remain in upper part.

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During Exam

• Before going to exam, dont talk with negative
  minded persons.
• You must be mentally tough. Be bold confident.
  U must concentrate on Ur task irrespective of
  what is going around.
• Start with easy question, that will give U
  confidence.
• At the end of each question, write summary.

• Dont loose Ur confidence even if U have NOT
  performed well in one exam. Remember, if paper is
  tough, it is tough for everybody.
• If possible, use two coloured pen- Blue and
  Black. But dont waste Ur time. Make balance
  between speed and accuracy.
• Between two exams, dont discuss exam paper of
  previous exam.

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Definitions of degree-

• BE/BTech
• I know everything
• ME/MTech
• I know something
• PhD
• I know NOTHING.
• PDF
• I want to learn.

• Attitude I know NOTHING but I want to LEARN.

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Career Options for Civil Engineer
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Career Options Field Jobs
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Career Options Government Jobs
Non-Engineering
Engineering
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Career Options Research

• Why IITs and IISc
• Total seats in IITs and IISc
• Admission procedure GATE ScoreWritten
  TestInterview
• Min GATE Score 95 percentile
• Avg. package 5 lacks pa
• Max. package 45 lacks pa
• Stipend Rs 5,000 pm Facilities
• World class environment
• Research jobs ISRO, BARC, DRDO etc.
• to be revised as Rs. 8,000 pm

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Career Option Management
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Line of sight
Ur ultimate aim

• Broad vision
• Be inspired from others
• Interact with others
• Remember Excellence is a journey not
  destination.
• When U achieve success, U will face challenge and
  again U have to achieve success.

Line of sight
Ur initial aim
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Confused..? Which field I should join?

• Just ask one question to Ur mind-
• What U want to be after 10 years from now?
• Consider Ur capabilities and limitations!
• Dont underestimate or Overestimate Ur self.
• Ur answer will be Ur career

• Remember GOD has created very honorable place
  for everybody. Your job is just to search it.
  Unfortunately most people dont approach in right
  path.

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How to overcome failure

• 'A life spent making mistakes is not only more
  honorable but more useful than a life spent in
  doing nothing
• -George Bernard Shaw
• We learn wisdom from failure much more than from
  success. We often discover what will do, by
  finding out what will not do and probably he who
  never made a mistake never made a discovery.
• Remember Failure is first step of success.

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My story

• It is possible only because of positive attitude
  and self confidence.
• Excellence is a journey not destination.
• There are thousands way to achieve Ur goal but U
  have to choose optimum way.
• Remember Everything is possible in life. U
  should have courage to do things.
• Believe Urself and one day U will be at TOP.

Year (Re)mark
FE (1999-2000) Ex!
FE (2000-2001) All Clear
SE (2001-2002) Class Topper
TE (2002-2003) College Topper
BE (2003-2004) University Topper
GATE (2005) Top 5 in India
MTech _at_ IITK (2005-2007) Second Topper
MPSC Engineering Services (2005-2007) Topper in Maharashtra GEN
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A motivating video for Civil Engineers

• Do U want to see potential of CE?
• Millau Viaduct World tallest bridge

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Wish you all the best.
T H A N K U
Contact me at pravinkolhe.iitk_at_gmail.com
This PPT is available at my webpage