Electrical engineers get the opportunity to collaborate both with civil engineers and public utility officials in order to determine the routing of electrical power connecting into the utility grid. This is illustrated below with the development of the electrical site plan.

Working on this kitchen sketch highlighting a couple appliances (blue) and electrical devices (red). Good start is half the work!

Engineers, are material cut sheets only an estimator’s concern? Usually to prepare a cost estimate, each item unit cost can be looked up. However, chasing cut sheets for each material element like annotated below, also falls to the engineer, in search of physical data.