Civil engineering students will benefit from learning IT, AI, IoT

Civil engineering once used to be amongst the most sought after fields. Some call it the mother of engineering, because it preceded almost all other engineering disciplines and, in some ways, helped create them – you need buildings for almost anything, you need good roads for transportation, you need a launching pad for spacecraft. Civil engineers build those.

But it lost some sheen with the emergence of more white collar jobs in computer science, mechanical and electrical, says IIT Guwahati director TG Sitharam, who was previously with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Civil engineering applies science and mathematics to the design, construction and maintenance of infrastructure. “Civil engineering transforms society. The economic engines of a nation are based on it,” Sithraman says.

But it lost some sheen with the emergence of more white collar jobs in computer science, mechanical and electrical, says IIT Guwahati director TG Sitharam, who was previously with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Civil engineering applies science and mathematics to the design, construction and maintenance of infrastructure. “computer engineering jobs. The economic engines of a nation are based on it,” Sithraman says.