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Thank you for encouraging me Waseem bhai.

Thanks uzair bhai for encouraging me.

My 2cents... Dont go for site if you are interested in design. Once you are on site, you will get stuck there, and even if you try to come back to design you will be considered as fresh in the field as others pointed out. Stick to the design, yes you need to have actual on site understanding of things, which you can learn at any stage (may be after 5 yrs of design experience)? You can learn it. But after 5 years of experience at site, you cannt come back to design. And dont worry about that first 5 years period in design office. You can have visits to the site to coorelate your design with actual site execution.

Assalam-o-alaikum! RASHEED! Your field experience will help you in two respects: 1. BEFORE you are involved in structural designing: To understand how actual construction is carried out at site, and to visualize what problems you might face during construction in case proper structural detailing is not done/provided on construction drawings. 2. AFTER you have done some structural designing: To decide which of the two fields (site supervision and structural engineering), is suitable for you, to adopt as an engineering field in the long run It is true that after one-and-a-half year field experience, you are being considered as a fresh engineer for the structural design field. But, you should not be disappointed by this. Because you are probably forgetting that your understanding of structures (because of your field experience) is much more than a competitor who has just passed out from the university. This field experience will help you learn structural design concepts, requirements and procedures much earlier than others (having no field experience), and developing you in a better structural engineer (provided you decide to carry on as a structural engineer ultimately).

Thank you brother Rana waseem and Rasheed.

Taimur, some 2600 years ago Pindar said, become who you are, by knowing who you are! Structural engineering is a very challenging field and remember something Ashraf HabibUllah and ofcourse other famous people said "Go for your passion, money will come to you ultimately" I would also recommend you to watch a lecture in Princeton University by Leslie Robertson, the one who worked on WTC in 60s/70s To cut it short, you need to first determine, whats your passion? Money? or Structural Engineering? Design or Site? I dont believe evaluating career growth. If you have desire to grow, you will, in any field you are interested in. Even in USA with a PE license the avg salary of a structural engineer is 120$k/yr. Thats not much but a modest amount when the middle class earning as much as 400-500$k/yr. So you wont be truely RICH if you go in structural engineering. If you really want to be then go for the money (thats not bad though). For middle east you can have an idea by this equation (pretty simple, factual and accurate) you salary = no. of years x 2 in dirhams or riyals (including everything housing, perks, transportation, all). if you want this 2 to be 3, you have to be exceptionally well not just in structural engineering but also with your personality. Get a PE license and might be SE too. And at the end, summary is if you are really passionate about structural engineering then forget about money now...I understand money is important for subsistence needs and structural engineering will offer you enough for that but not enough to be in upper class..so decide..

The GPA You mentioned is v.good. Mine CGPA was 3.125 which is not so impressive and i don't have enough money to go abroad except scholarship etc. But my teachers (Teachers and Gold medalists of UET) have prepared some wonderful chart and sent to me. i am attaching here the same. Try to spread it umar bhai. And also guide me how to find a job abroad or at least in good Structural engineering firm where i can polish my concepts and learning. For the time being, i m working on a dam feasibility report and use to handle some independent projects where, due to unavailability of any senior, i face a lot of problems, i just want to learn in depth Structural Engineering knowledge. Scholarship Table Final.pdf

Assalam-o-alaikum! Very well said, Sir Umar! I totally agree with that. I personally missed the opportunity of working abroad after completion of masters from USA, being on scholarship and bound to come back to Pakistan after completion of education. Regards.

https://www.daad.de/de/is your gateway to Germany. http://www.pk.emb-japan.go.jp/Education.htmlis your gateway to Japan. And there are a lot more scholarships that can get you a foreign degree(like US Fulbright) but you will have to return home after your degree is completed. AIT offers a similar scholarship too. I would share with you what I thought and did when I was out of university. After working for two years in Islamabad as a Structural Engineer, one thing that I was certain was that the usefulness of a foreign degree could not be maximized unless I have worked abroad as an engineer. I was also confused about to do a research thesis or just a degree program. Well, on one of the projects I did for USAID, I happened to meet Kazami Sahab(SMK Associates) and after discussing with him I went for a degree program and no-scholarship. Today, I am glad that my understanding of working abroad was correct and I am also grateful to Kazmi Sahab for convincing me not to do a thesis program as that saved me 1.5 years of salary. I can tell you the you won't get the max out of your degree unless you have worked in a different and more robust environment than Pakistan. However, having said that if you go for a thesis or PHD, the challenges involved in the degree would open up your mind and help you take on things with a different approach. Set your goals and go achieve them. Good Luck.

I have an idea that if a seniors manage some weekly meetings on skype in which different topics are discussed !!! or there is a teaching site "wiziq"there lectures can be delivered free of cost and also can be recorded!!! i guess such activity can also help the freshers and engg students.so what wud seniors say about that suggestions