Is pursuing a PhD in structural engineering worth it?

But the outside world of construction, fabrication, inspection, erection, submitting bids after estimating costs and resources and time, scrutiny of bids and award of contracts, project monitoring, management and all these activities do not require a PhD in structural engineering. read more

Debiprasad Ghosh, BE in Civil Engineering, Masters in Structural Engineering, PhD in SHM from IISc Answered May 23, 2016 · Author has 210 answers and 661.2k answer views The way present civil engineer works, will change considerable in next 10 years due to arrivals of Information, Intelligence, software, hardware, construction material, environment tax, politics, finance, war and even terr**ism. read more

Alternatively, I would like to be part of a team that does structural engineering research. As I see it, I have two options: doing a curriculum based masters part time and focusing on getting as much real world engineering experience as possible. My other option is pursuing a PhD in structural engineering focusing on seismic design of buildings. read more