SF Grad Training for Survey Engineering Career

Spring-Ford graduate Ryan White has gone back to school to train for a lucrative survey engineering field. He had four years of experience in land surveying locally, but decided to attend Penn State University Wilkes-Barre for higher education.

White also recently received a $2,500 scholarship from the Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors for his work at Penn State. White was interviewed briefly for an article in the Times Leader:

Third-year student Ryan White saw an opportunity to enter a field able to boast relatively sound job security – even in a poor economy.

However, having worked as a surveyor for almost four years, White lacked the license needed to become a decision-maker in the field.

A surveying engineer earns between $70,000 and $95,000 in most cases, with the salary mostly influenced by experience and, of course, performance.

“I knew I needed a degree to continue,” he said.

White enrolled in Penn State Wilkes-Barre’s four-year baccalaureate program in surveying engineering, citing the job security as a major motivator.

“I originally went to school to be a civil engineer, but didn’t like the odds compared to being a surveying engineer,” he said.

In what has been a see-saw economy, surveyors are in high demand.

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