Civil Engineering Technicians
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Analytical balances
- Digital image printers (Blueprint machines)
- Trowels (Brickmasons' trowels)
- Augers (Bucket augers)
- Compression testers (Compression testing machines)
- Scanners (Computer scanners)
- Heating or drying equipment or accessories (Dessicators)
- Volumeters (Dilatometers)
- Dropping pipettes
- Drying cabinets or ovens (Drying ovens)
- Theodolites (Engineers' transits)
- Laboratory dishes (Evaporating dishes)
- Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers (Field data collectors)
- Filter papers
- Laboratory beakers (Glass beakers)
- Laboratory burets (Glass burets)
- Global positioning system receivers (Global positioning system GPS devices)
- Laboratory graduated cylinders (Graduated glass cylinders)
- Augers (Hand augers)
- Boring or sinking machinery (Hand-operated boring machines)
- Handheld thermometer (Handheld digital thermometers)
- Hydrometers
- Pitch measuring instruments (Inclinometers)
- Vibratory plates (Kneading compactors)
- Laboratory balances
- Sampling syringes (Laboratory bulb syringes)
- Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
- Test sieves (Laboratory test sieves)
- Laboratory vials
- Loadcells (Load cells)
- Machetes
- Magnetic stirrers
- Tape measures (Measuring tapes)
- Orbital shakers (Mechanical sieve shakers)
- Concrete or cement testing instruments (Metal cones)
- Densitometers (Nuclear densometers)
- Concrete or cement testing instruments (Paving sample splitters)
- Personal computers
- pH meters (pH testers)
- Picks
- Plotter printers (Plotters)
- Penetrometers (Pocket penetrometers)
- Precipitation or evaporation recorders (Precipitation gauges)
- Levels (Precision levels)
- Pycnometers
- Hydraulic rock drills (Rotary rock drills)
- Mallets (Rubber mallets)
- Safety glasses
- Protective gloves (Safety gloves)
- Seismic recorders or seismographs (Seismographs)
- Hammers (Sledgehammers)
- Concrete or cement testing instruments (Slump cones)
- Land drilling rigs (Small-gauge surface drilling rigs)
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Soil augers)
- Permeability testing apparatus (Soil density testers)
- Moisture meters (Soil moisture meters)
- Soil testing kits (Soil resistivity test kits)
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Soil sampling tubes)
- Soil testing kits
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Split spoon samplers)
- Concrete or cement testing instruments (Stabilometers)
- Straight edges (Straightedges)
- Strain gauges
- Open stream current meters (Stream flow gauges)
- Measuring rods (Surveying rods)
- Tampers (Tamping rods)
- Theodolites
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Thin-walled Shelby tubes)
- Shear strength testers (Torvanes)
- Theodolites (Total stations)
- Level sensors or transmitters (Transit levels)
- Two way radios
- Vibration testers (Vibration monitors)
- Water samplers
- Laboratory funnels (Wide-mouthed funnels)
Technologies Include:
- Analytical or scientific software
- Coordinate geometry COGO software
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
- Autodesk AutoCAD software
- Autodesk Land Desktop
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Electronic mail software
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Graphics or photo imaging software
- Graphics software
- Internet browser software
- Web browser software
- Map creation software
- Digital terrain modeling software
- Geographic information system GIS software
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Spreadsheet software
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™ 16.0.
