Civil Engineer & Architectural Engineer Career as Structural Façade Engineer

How many classes did you have on structural glass properties?

How well were you taught the Aluminum Design Manual?

If you have a 3.0 GPA or higher, intellectual curiosity, and a desire to develop not only engineering expertise but also professional skills in customer service, leadership, communication, and conflict resolution.

COME BUILD THE FUTURE OF MODERN COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION.

The future is made of structural glass buildings, advanced curtain walls, architectural façades, mixed-material panels, sunshades, connecting glass walkways, oversized skylights, and innovative building envelopes.

Beautiful aquariums that inspire millions while protecting marine life.

Massive structural glass habitats that safely contain some of the world’s most powerful animals.

Iconic entrances, stairways, railings, canopies, and skylights that define skylines and become landmarks.

The engineering challenges are significant. The experience is uncommon.

 

 

You’ll Learn

Not by watching from the sidelines—but by working alongside experienced Professional Engineers on projects across North America.

You’ll discover how to:

• Design structural glass systems capable of resisting hurricane winds, seismic movement, snow loads, blast loading, impact requirements, and daily building movement.

• Engineer glass that safely contains thousands of gallons of water while understanding hydrostatic pressure, water dynamics, deflection limits, and long-term performance for aquariums.

• Help design animal habitats where engineering must account for the size, strength, speed, impact forces, climbing behavior, and unpredictable interactions of bears, gorillas, big cats, primates, elephants, and other wildlife.

• Understand why a building doesn’t stand still. Learn how thermal expansion, live-load floor deflection, wind drift, creep, shortening, and structural movement can cause leaks, broken glass, disengaged glazing systems, failed sealants, and costly callbacks—and how thoughtful engineering prevents them.

• Analyze complex load paths between aluminum framing, steel supports, anchors, glass, and surrounding construction where every component influences the performance of the entire façade.

• Solve real-world engineering puzzles where no two projects are identical. Every building presents a new combination of geometry, architectural vision, environmental exposure, material compatibility, fabrication limitations, construction sequencing, and budget constraints.

• Learn how engineering decisions made early save contractors, architects, and owners hundreds of thousands of dollars by preventing redesigns, fabrication errors, installation conflicts, and schedule delays.

• Master the Aluminum Design Manual and apply it to real projects—not simply as classroom theory, but as the basis for safe, efficient, constructible designs.

• Work directly with architects, glazing contractors, manufacturers, and fellow engineers to transform ambitious architectural concepts into practical, buildable solutions.

• Develop communication, presentation, and client relationship skills that most engineers never receive in college.

• Experience Engineering & Drafting Under One Roof—seeing firsthand how engineering calculations, BIM models, fabrication drawings, and construction documents work together to create exceptional projects.

The Reward

Few engineers get to point at a skyline, museum, airport, zoo, hospital, stadium, corporate headquarters, or university and say,

“I helped create that.”

At JEI, your engineering becomes visible.

Your work becomes the glass entrance everyone walks through.

The dramatic curtain wall people photograph.

The skylight filling a lobby with daylight.

The glass railing overlooking a city.

The aquarium that inspires a child.

The habitat protecting endangered wildlife.

Long after construction is complete, your family, friends, and future children can stand beside your projects and know that you helped make them possible.

You’re not hidden behind walls designing members that no one will ever see.

You’re helping create the architectural features people remember.