Mechanical vs. Civil Engineering

[stephaniemoore]

If the world were to end then you couldn’t choose either, cause the world ENDED.

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Ok, have fun with your wagons, but outside my castle walls.

[aurahunter]

Smh civil engineers also study dynamics... and fluid dynamics... take it from someone in civil who just did those courses lol. I have a lot of friends in mechanical and it seems that the base courses we take are almost all the same, just some differences later in the course sequence.

[goaheadskinit]

Civil here.... also deal with Water, Sewer, Stormwater to name a few many things that move and have to use models to make sure capacities are there and efficient and feasible. Both ME & CE are solid.

[hesliterallymebro]

The mechanical engineers would still need infrastructure.

[o.h.guzman]

I respect any engineer. But civil engineering is the key for all other branches. If you don't have the basic infrastructure you can't move forward. When you think of the greatest civilizations in history you think of civil engineers. The ones that built the roads, the aqueducts, the city walls, the sewers. And allowed others to specialize into masons, smith's, soldiers, etc.

[karthiksathyanarayanan]

So basically civil engineers make structures for their mechanical engineers to do target practice.

[techwithed]

If the world were to end, given that they both have quite a good base, I think individual brilliance would be the deciding factor for me.

[mkeptrangli]

Structural engineers focus on things that don’t move. If you’re in land development, you would need to learn drainage design so that storm runoff can be conveyed throughout out a site and into a detention basin for temporary storage during a rain event if it’s considered a major project. Transportation engineers design roads, highways, railways, tunnels, and airports to allow for the efficient movement of vehicles.

[redmagus]

Buddy, we're both engineers. Yes, the overall major is different but we take a lot of the same classes and can do a lot of the same things.

[blabla]

Soil mechanics is kind of complicated and those topics are never covered in mechanical.

[LeoJr_]

Bro I wanted to like this video twice so simple yet so informative 👊🤝

[SisabeloBanesipho]

Mechanical Engineering is the first engineering branch and the most broad...almost all other engineering branches come from mechanical engineering

[sonofatlas]

Wait wait civil engineers do understand how dynamics work.

[skin]

It's just that Civil Engineering need to focus to make the structure don't move. Mfs have it one of heaviest interms of liabilities and responsibilities

[kennedymwangi]

We work together we civil engineers and we have to understand each other well to build objects that are safe and will last. As such we really learn a lot of stuff outside of our speciality. Like i have taken a lot of electrical and electronics, some programming and CS units as a Mech Eng. I assume its the same for civil engineers and other disciplines as well.

[DarkCastleBoy]

Bro Civil engineers are the one who make world Bruh who else will build ur structures and building so without civil engineers there ain't no world man 😂😂😂

[redminote-tlyo]

Guys in a building which a civil engineer built, they need mechanical engineer and electrical engineer so that building can operate. This is not an argument for which is a better field it just that mechanical engineering is the broadest engineering field coz they can work at construction, automotive industry, hvac industry, power plant, manufacturing, and many more depending on which field of industry you choose.

[ahmadzahra]

I’m a civil engineering student and i see that no engineering major would be able to replace another major

civil engineering is the best at static structures and the design of infrastructure

Mechanical have some knowledge in statics and dynamics, energy and heat, but they don’t possess enough knowledge in any of these courses to fully indulge in them they must choose one or two aspects to fully focus on

[farzanehghadyani]

Did you ever hear about earthquakes, machine foundation, offshore wind farm, soil dynamics, fluids, river engineering, ... or any kind of structure or building that man made?! Science is one. To achieve, exploit, teach and develop, it has been divided into parts.