Are you wondering if civil engineering has a good future?
It is a good situation for you leading forward.?
In this video we're talking about three key reasons why I believe it is the case coming
up right now.
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All of you know I myself am a civil engineer and I'm going to weigh in on this topic and
a lot of this video has to do with what just happened in the United States last weekend.
Hurricane Harvey smashed into the Houston metropolitan area creating ridiculous amounts
of damage and affecting literally millions of people.
And that is reason number one why I believe civil engineering has a good future.
Natural disasters will always plague our major cities no matter where we are in the world.
And we will have to repair and maintain our infrastructure for ever.
Even if we see no more population growth and no more advanced technologies into infrastructure
and buildings and bridges and theirs and everything like this we will still need to repair.
We will still need to maintain and we cannot control what happens via hurricanes and mudslides
and tornadoes and forest fires they will always always destroy the stuff we have built because
Mother Nature is a ridiculous force of energy and there is no way to avoid it.
And I do want to talk a lot about Harvey and the engineering ramifications that a storm
that an event like this has on our country on our cities like Houston.
Most of the Houston area received over 40 inches of rain and in some cumulation areas
fifty two inches of rainfall.
We're talking about the greatest storm that Texas has ever seen.
And Harvey has set records for the most precipitation a cyclone has ever dumped on the contiguous
United States ever.
Seventeen thousand rescues were made.
Over 30000 people were displaced from their homes and over 60 people have died so far.
It is a tragic tragic very very sorry event.
I cannot believe what has happened there in Houston.
So my prayers go out to all the families all the people who have been affected by this.
I do know some engineers who are actually living in Houston right there.
My buddy Max Schmidt is safe and well so I'm so so happy.
I've been thinking of him this entire time.
And hats off to all of you.
Engineers down there in Texas.
And Martin and Fernando symbiotes you guys are down there you're not in the Houston area
but you are in Texas and I know you're doing everything you can to raise funds and support
the area.
So thank you guys for that.
But the reason why this is very significant for this video is that it's not just Houston
that is seeing crazy flooding right now or the rest of the summer here in 2017.
Bangladesh and India the death count is now up to 12 hundred people due to flooding this
year.
Nigeria has seen a displacement of about 100000 people.
Nepal has had.
Eighty thousand homes damaged and around 140 deaths.
Sierra Leone has seen mudslides that have killed over 500 people this summer.
So it's not just Texas guys all around the world we are seeing insane natural disasters.
I'm not going to start talking about global warming.
I'm not going to start talking about designs to prevent these.
What I do want to talk about is the fact that civil engineers and engineers in general are
required to repair and maintain this infrastructure.
So I really do believe that me as a civil engineer and job security is strong because
of this we're always going to have to clean up what Mother Nature has done.
We're always going to have to fix the things so this alone natural disasters is a massive
massive reason why we're always going to need people like me around people like civil engineers.
All of you 1 percent civil engineers so I believe that the industry is strong.
So that's the main purpose for this video to talk about Harvey and to talk about yes
in this huge tragedy we do see death and I am very sorry to witness this but engineers
have to go and clean up the rubble and fix things and get society back to normal and
fix these roads and with the support of FEMA save as many people's homes as we possibly
can and continue to save as many people's lives as we possibly can.
But we have to clean up dust ourselves off and rebuild.
And that's where the engineers come in.
We will see a huge amount of projects bikes and infrastructure development in that area.
So we just need to get back to work.
The second reason why civil engineering has a strong future is that we see about 80 million
new people on this planet each year we're growing at about 1.1 percent.
Population growth per year on the planet is peaking and about 1960s we're talking post-World
War II era when things were positive in the world and money was flowing very freely.
But still we're adding 80 million people per year.
So more buildings more roads more cars more jobs more everything has to occur.
So we will continually have to build.
And this means more for civil engineers which is job security guys and resume are three
was civil engineering has a good future is that we're always coming out with new technologies
new procedures new ways of producing steel and concrete blocks in our 3-D printing buildings
and things like this.
So we are constantly in this perpetual cycle of things falling into obsolescence things
becoming older and we need to use new techniques we need to use new technologies we need to
deploy new ways of creating bridges and creating buildings.
So we're constantly in a situation where we need to sweep away old techniques and gradually
build better buildings better bridges better infrastructure in general.
So not only do we have population growth not only do we have crazy natural disasters that
destroy things and we have to rebuild.
We're always looking for opportunities to build things better than before.
So it will be stronger safer last longer and everything like this guys.
So those are the top three reasons why civil engineering has a good future.
If you're a civil engineer or you're an engineer in general comment below and let me know what
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