After a long period of working from home, I'm excited to document a day in my life as a City Traffic Engineer in the office. Traffic engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering. GET IN TOUCH 🐦Twitter - / byrontangte
Clicked on this video because I’m considering changing my major to engineering. Didn’t realize I’d get the first hand experience from someone also in Sacramento lol. Thank you for your insight.
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Great content! It's quite insightful seeing how your job involves a lot of social interaction (emails, calls, etc...) than resolving technical issues. Although I am curious about the parking lot though you mentioned (5:52), could you do a video on that? Maybe some tips and insights on parking lots? Keep up the great work! Cheers!
Thank you, glad you liked it! I can't do a specific video because it's a work-related situation I can't disclose too much about. If I could, I would've spoke more about it in the video. If there is an interesting topic about parking lots in general, I would be happy to do a topic about it. I'll have to do some thinking on this one.
Glad to see you back to the office, thanks for sharing, I expected you have some fieldwork for today, the candy you brought looks yummy next time if it possible shares with us the most important software program you used for traffic analysis and some fieldwork, for me it nice to be in the fieldwork from time to time. thanks again looking forward to more videos.
Hi Yousra! Thank you. I wanted to show fieldwork too but my schedule and the rain made it difficult. I'll have to try and make sure to include some fieldwork for the next day in the life video.
Great content. Can you share your professional experiences and learning for the aspiring traffic/transportation engineers. For instance, books, journals, softwares, skills and the like. In addition to it, job opportunities, competition, salaries, growth prospects etc.,
Hi! I definitely do try to share some of this on my channel and there is a lot more to talk about. I’ll see what ideas I can come up with this for future videos.
I am in my Third year of engineering and will I plan to work in core company. I was searching for some motivation as many of Peers will prepare for government exams and many will switch to IT.
quick question: Do you ever use the subjects you learned in College such as Statics, Structural Analysis, Mechanics of Materials, etc . . . . If you do how often, and what is the highest level course you use?
I don't use many courses except for the Transportation-related design & analysis courses. The work I do is fairly specialized, so there is no need to use statics, structural analysis, etc.
Congrats on your graduation! Right now we don't have any openings, so not at the moment. But if there are in the future, I may post it in the Community section of this channel.
Glad to see your content, Byron! I'm a 3rd year Civil Engineering student from Indonesia, very interested in Transport Engineering and related things. But my university doesn't provide many courses for that, here in ITB mostly we study about structure (but in the final year we can choose the courses we want). I'm asking for your opinion (based on your experience as a Traffic Engineer) is it better if I directly take Master study about Transport Eng or look for a job to have a direct experience? Thanks before 😁
Hi Yohana! Thank you! Most transportation engineers have a civil engineering degree so they only take a couple classes at most when it comes to transportation. I know that was the case for me. I see more people getting their masters now and it could be beneficial, but I still think having direct related experience is the strongest and most important. So my answer is if you had to choose between the two, direct experience is more preferable. A lot of what you learn on the job will be very different than what is taught in classes and you want to have that on your resume.
I don't think I've ever seen that. It must be rare. I want to guess that it is being used to caution drivers to yield when turning because of pedestrians or some other kind of conflict that is occurring. Do you have a location of where it is implemented?
@@ByronTang There are four section flashing right turn arrows at Newton Road and Virginia Beach Boulevard in Norfolk, Va. There are dual four section right turn flashing yellow arrows on S. Concord Pwky and US 601 in Corncord, Nc.
@@computernerd5009 It looks like streetview is only updated for the one in Norfolk so I can only see that one. Although more rare than the flashing left yellow, it looks like the flashing right yellow serves the same purpose to allow drivers to make the turn but warn them to watch and yield to conflicts (from either pedestrians or other vehicles making a left or u-turn). Without knowing any context, this leads me to believe that the intersection has a higher rate of collisions that the city/county is trying to reduce.
I'm not an industrial engineer but I do know that the math requirements is at least the same level of civil for completing your studies. What an industrial engineer works on is very different from a civil and I think a lot of it will come down to personal preference. But if you are looking to avoid math, I wouldn't say it is a better path in that regard.
I want to pursue a career in building and construction civil engineering, but I'm unsure about career paths, opportunities, income, and growth. Can someone offer guidance and insights to help me make an informed decision? Many thanks
It's a complicated answer. For just money, software engineers should be making more, but the type of work is very different. Also, there are a lot of layoffs going on right now in the software/tech industry, so it's not always as stable. Maybe I should do a video about this sometime.
rn i study civil engineering, im still a freshman tho. i have thoughts & doubts about myself & decisions abt this major but at the same time i feel like i can do this bcs im found of this interesting major, after watching this video of yours i would say i want to become a civil engineer one day!
hi Byron, I am from Asia and I studied Transportation and communication mangagement science in my bachelor, which may be so confusing but actually I studied transportation flow, safety, management, engineering, economics. I would like to proceed my studies in Europe, should I choose civil engineering or just a random transport degree? I would like to do the AI part with softwares but also the technical part.
I personally think a civil engineering degree opens more doors but if you want to stick to software and work in AI, a civil engineering degree won’t really help on that part. If you want to know design and construction, a civil engineering degree will be valuable. Without knowing exactly what you want, I would try looking at job postings of jobs you want and see what degrees and experiences are preferred.
I wish I could post everyday. I am still making videos but raising a baby takes most of my time. I am also very busy at work. There will be new videos coming. Thank you for being patient!
Hi! I do not have a masters in traffic engineering. Having a masters was not necessary to enter the workforce when I graduated. It can help, but acquiring relevant experience is the most important.
@@ByronTang Thanks for the videos. It must be really hectic making videos and working as a full time and also look after your family.shall be following your videos, really informative. Thanks for working hard on making it .
@@Up71V4C3i Thank you for following and supporting! You are right, very busy times right now but I am working on a different way of making videos so I can post more regularly in the future. Stay tuned :)
Not at all, only some jobs will be like that? I work in traffic & transportation engineering. It's a branch of civil engineering where you don't really work with architects. I also don't spend that much time out in the field. Really depends on what job and role you have.
Hi sir. Im from india and have completed my diploma in civil engineering. Now, i have 3 years of management and supervision experience. My request is, could you please suggest any job titles that i can apply for?
Hello! If you have 3 years of management and supervision in civil engineering, you should be able to apply for a lower management position in civil engineering or a project manager position. If you are applying internationally, you may need to check if the firm/organization will allow that.
