Hi all,
I want to remind everyone that the Construction Career Fair (hosted by Construction Management) is coming up next week. Please go!
What: 2024 CM Career EXPO (CEE students are ALWAYS welcome to go and we do…in large numbers)
When: Tuesday, October 29th, 2024 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Where: HUB Ballroom (same place as CEE career fair)
Why go: there are LOTS of jobs and internships available here and they LOVE folks from our department
If you are at all interested in Construction as either a career or even just for an internship you MUST go to this career fair. There will be 103 companies there. That’s right, 103! Every construction company that does business here and some that do not will be at this career fair looking for new hires and/or internships. In years where our students commit to going to this career fair, they see as many, if not more, CEE students than CM students there. Let’s make that happen this year. If you went to the CEE career fair, go to this one too.
PERSPECTIVE
Let me offer some internship/job perspective: The construction sector (contractors, consultants that do construction management/inspection, and owners that hire folks to manage construction efforts) employs our graduates more than any other. By far. The following table shows the fraction of internships and jobs supplied by the construction industry to our students based on our end-of-year surveys. Even if you like structures right now, a construction internship with a heavy civil firm would be super-beneficial to you.
| Year | Summer Internships |
Jobs after
graduation |
| 2024 | 31% | 44% |
| 2023 | 45% | 47% |
| 2022 | 50% | 55% |
| 2021 | 50% | 45% |
| 2020 | 70% | 48% |
| 2019 | 39% | 35% |
DESIGN INCLUDED
Contrary to what some might tell you, many heavy civil construction companies (ones that build infrastructure) do design as well. Some do very traditional design with their own design firm (e.g., Kiewit has a large design office in Denver), and all do LOTS of temporary structures (e.g., Atkinson) and many smaller parts of design (e.g., Pacific Pile and Marine).
HEAVY CIVIL CONSTRCTION COMPANY PICKS BY STEVE
“Heavy civil construction” refers to all types of construction that are NOT buildings. So, things like highways, bridges, water treatment plans, piers, etc. These companies LOVE civil engineers because they tend to do a good amount of their own work (and not subcontract it out) and need engineers for your problem-solving abilities. Here are my picks for heavy civil companies at this fair:
- Aecon
- Atkinson
- Flatiron
- Goodfellow Bros.
- Graham Contracting
- Granite Construction
- Hamilton Construction
- JW Fowler
- Keller North America
- Kiewit
- Kraemer North America
- Manson Construction
- Pacific Pile and Marine
- Skanska
- Stacy and Witbeck
- Sundt
- Walsh Group
Of course, there are many other excellent companies at this career fair. Now, go get a job/internship!