what is CIVIL engineering?

 First of all ..being a civil engineering student i can say that civil engineering is such type of professional engineering discipline in which design,construction and maintenance of environment of your surroundings.
                         

ya ofcourse iam a student in civil..but the comments which i have recieved from several people is this profession will not let you to earn more.but that is totally wrong! you can't decide anything of your own.talent matters, if you are very passionate about your respective profession.undoubtledly it'll help you to gain more..so keeping this apart!

Generally a civil er. deals with how to design a building, construction, environmental issues. Ofcourse civil engg  It is traditionally broken into several sub-disciplines including architectural engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, control engineering, structural engineering, earthquake engineering, transportation engineering, forensic engineering, municipal or urban engineering, water resources

(please see the nextpost for getting info about those sub disciplines in detail . thank you!!)