Students & Careers

What an engineer does

Transportation engineers plan and design:

  • new solutions to provide safe, efficient and value-for-money transportation systems
  • schemes to facilitate walking, cycling and sustainable transport
  • traffic-calming and environmental improvement schemes
  • traffic signal control systems
  • road safety improvements
  • campaigns for safe routes to school, rural transportation and non-car based travel

They also ensure that new developments provide attractive transportation links and are part of the teams delivering quality sustainable communities such as home zones.

Highway engineers:

  • design local road schemes
  • maintain the road network
  • plan and supervise a wide range of projects
  • prepare contract documents
  • supervise sites
  • manage construction teams
  • put into effect highway designs
  • work in materials laboratories
  • design and maintain bridges and structures

A wide variety of backgrounds lead into highways and transportation and there are many routes to professional qualification.

Chartered Engineers have high education entry standards and take the lead on projects which are often leading edge developments.

Incorporated Engineers design and manage the delivery of more day to day schemes although many rise to executive positions.

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