Architectural Engineering and Construction Engineering?

Residential drafting is a reputable position. But why are limiting yourself and capping your earning potential? In addition why are looking at the residential market? A developer buys a set of designs and reproduces the house a hundred times, but you get paid only once. Getting into the high end house design can be done, but will take time and you need to be talented. The commercial market is where you make your bread, butter, and steak.

Go for you bachelor of science in Civil engineering. In this course you will learn drafting. If you find out, that the sciences are difficult, then you can slide into architecture classes. Construction engineering is difficult. You have to deal with materials that never fit together, people that are uncooperative, time schedules that are unreasonable, and weather that is inhospitable. Most important, whatever you do will be inadequate, because the drawings are poorly prepared, the work is incomplete, and the owner budgeted to little for the work.

Cheers and good luck!

My husband is a Construction Engineer and is now out of work for the third time in twenty years. Each time it has been over a year and we've had to move to another state to get a different job. He has the total experience of over thirty years just in Construction Engineering. The trouble has been that because he paid so well and is so specialized in the field of Civil Engineering that when Projects are over then no job. So our advice to someone who is starting out in the Civil Engineering field is to get as much different experience in every line of Civil Engineering in the first five or so years then specialize. Any Certifications etc., you can get along the way the better, and take any training offered.

I am not an expert on this macy but I think you should major in construction engineering at Alabama and pursue a masters in architectural engineering at Georgia Tech or Auburn. Or you could do what rutgersgroup said. He knows what he is talking about. Now let me state my situation. I want to major in sports management but GVSU does not offer that as a major or a minor so I will have to major in some other field and get a masters afterwards. Many say I should major in something related to history as I love history but I do not want to as all you can do with history is teach or become a scholar or possibly political science but again I do not want to as politicians can not be trusted and I find myself as a very trustworthy person. Someone suggested I should become a political analyst and that does seem to sound quite interesting. Currently I am undecided and am just taking all of my GenEd classes this year to get them out of the way. Remember macy you can possibly change your major if you do not think the career you want fits you best. Your making a very good decision in going into college undecided.

maybe get a BS in construction engineering and then get a Masters degree in Architecture. I figure having a post grad degree would help with getting your Professional Engineering certification