My Civil Engineering Degree in 20 Minutes

Ever wondered what it looks like to be a civil engineering undergraduate student? In this video, I'll go over everything, my college background, courses, GPA, and percentage of knowledge I use on my job as a construction engineer now.

I got my civil engineering degree from the University of Washington from 2012-2015. I was lucky that I knew what I wanted to do going into college. I attribute a lot of my "success" to getting experience through internships in the summers between my years, and getting a head start with AP classes from high school. Civil engineering is not a crazy thing to major in for college, but it is a very fun and fulfilling degree. You don't need to be perfect in college and have perfect grades, to me, it's the experience you get outside of the classroom that will separate you from your engineering peers.

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0:00 Intro
1:14 My College Background
2:56 Year 1 Of My Civil Engineering Degree
9:27 Year 2 Of My Civil Engineering Degree
15:28 Year 3 Of My Civil Engineering Degree
18:43 Final GPA and How Much Of My Degree I Use

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[TheContemporaryClassroom]

I LOVE this video. I like that you proved you don't need a perfect GPA to be a successful engineer, and that most of it you don't even use! I was hoping that after your internship, the classes would become more relevant and useful, but alas... that's college. I definitely think you should do another one on your Master's to supplement your previous video.

[_dro_]

I love you’re content man. It’s full of dry humor and some low ball trolling 🤣🤣

[marim]

Loved hearing what’s actually applicable vs not applicable! Also the transparency

[titomunguia]

Great video
Answered a lot of questions for me since ill soon graduate and it takes away a bit of the fear i had since i dont always have the best grades
Im from hondudas by the way

[leheta]

"Yup i gotta deal with stuff that doesnt move" I couldnt agree more LOL

[uevsxhr]

I love love to hear about your master degree

[kerrrri]

Powwow was definitely a good GPA booster and Cultivate was a great place to use that dining plan!! Go Dawgs!

[BobbyPH]

As a civil engineer, this was an Awesome video! Thank you so much Kienen for helping us bridge the gap between the academic side of civil engineering vs your real life job experiences.😀

[johnt.]

A Civil engineer YouTuber? AUTO SUB! It’s my last year in high school and I honestly can’t wait for college.

[chuckmanacsa]

perfect vid to watch after writing a sustainable construction midterm :)

[henokwossen]

Yeah a video on your masters would be great, need to know how useful it is for your job

[TheWalkingSteakhouse]

Very interesting that such a large portion of your courses weren't that interesting to you. I studied civil engineering for 1 year before switching to mechanical engineering, and it was without a doubt the hardest decision I've had to make in my life so far. Mainly because I started out with civil instead of mechanical engineering because I don't really care much about electronics and control, and civil basically has none of that. And also because at my university there is a research group within structural engineering that looks at offshore structures with a big focus on hydrodynamic modelling of wind turbines and wave energy converters, which sounds super interesting and I could absolutely see myself doing that.

But the focus on fluid mechanics and wind turbines only starts when you get to the masters, and having to get through 2 years of courses and projects that for the most part didn't sound that interesting sounded like it wasn't worht it. But having seen your experience of college it has made me reconsider whether or not I should be patient and go for the structural engineering masters instead of mechanical engineering.

[MuhammadArshad-cxfy]

Can you please make a video about the grad school experience and courses? Thanks a lot for helping us out 😊

[uniform]

when the video started I was wondering how you felt about matlab... I'm glad im not alone

[justinbanks]

PSU sophomore CE student here! This video was very insightful ty

[leheta]

Not me being addicted to your vids now

[laneca]

Can you do a video on how you got your first internship? I attended 2 career fairs these past couple weeks, talked with 7 companies and so far haven't heard back from any one of them 😣

[zacdugan]

Great video! Yes please make a masters video

[luiszecena]

Thanks for the video! My question would be, how do I make sure I successfully read through a submittal and spot check it enough for it to be right though. I came out w/a Mechanical Engineering degree and definitely feel I’m missing stuff.

[cleonholness]

It would be a good thing if you make a video base on the subjects needed in higth to get in to the any construction collage🤔