What is it like to be an Engineer Officer and what is your favorite part about being one?

I am a 12B, Combat Engineer, enlisted. As an officer you will know all types of Engineer specialties. From bridging, contruction, to the route clearence and Sapper duties. It is a very diverse field. I myself am working on a green to gold packet. I plan on staying in the engineer corps.

It is obviously the best branch out there. You get all walks of life, combat arms, to service support. It's just the right amount of leadership and technical skills. So long as you are somewhat intelligent Engineers is a great place to be. I spent a few years in a Sapper unit, Deployed as a bridging PL, then spent a year doing construction projects, it's a great branch!

I never was one, (Join to see), but I always thought the Essayons (Let us try) buttons were pretty cool and I liked that tradition!

It's pretty cool. Lots of different opportunities than infantry or scout (I was prior service before I commissioned) and lots of different movement techniques.

What's my favorite part? The incredible engineer Soldiers and the variety of opportunities! I've worked with some fantastic people doing some cool things (as many people have already mentioned): supporting combat operations, building base camps, and building schools and medical clinics as part of humanitarian assistance missions. It's been a great branch for me.
If further education is something you're interested in down the line, our branch has a fair number of graduate school options. Most officers assigned to USACE after successful company command spend 12-18 months as full-time students to earn master's degrees which prepare them for the USACE position. Other officers may get a master's degree in GIS and work in that field for the Army for a while. Still others can go back to school at teach at USMA for 2 or 3 years. Most of these opportunities are intended to "broaden" your experience after company command before you return to an operational unit as an S-3 or XO.

I really enjoyed being an engineer officer due to the variety of things one can do as an engineer. I was with a bridging unit first and loved it. You can do bridging, combat engineering, construction, prime power and get to see a lot and learn a lot about other units depending on who you support. If there are deployments, be prepared to deploy a lot. Engineers are often the first in, last out due to the need to get the ground ready to receive others and reconstruction needs.

Engineering branch is very diverse. You will enjoy the variety of opportunities. As a construction management graduate, you will fit well I the US Corps of Engineers! Best of luck!

The camaraderie, esprit de corps, tradition, discipline, and professionalism are unmatched in any other branch! Engineer soldiers are among the Army's most intelligent, and their strength and courage is respected and admired by the hardest warfighters. They're like scientific, genius, hulk-like, ninja, killing-machine things! :)
As you might guess, I was a career Engineer Officer. However, I was also an ROTC instructor, so allow me to give you the very same caveat that I gave to hundreds of my Cadets going though the branching process. No matter what your degree, or your branch choices top to bottom, the instant you are assigned a branch (no matter which one it is, or where it was on your list), you are then a member of the best branch in the United States Army. As you might imagine, this created a bit of confusion, so to clarify I told them, if you don't believe in your heart of hearts that your branch is the very best branch, I don't want to have anything to do with you.
Lesson: work hard and do what it takes to accomplish your goal to become a member of the United States Army Engineer Corps. BUT, when you are branched "whatever," be a professional soldier and Commissioned Officer, and be the BEST "whatever" in the entire US Army.
Good Luck and Essayons!

I was commissioned an Engineer Officer through federal OCS. Since I came in off the street with a Civil Engineering degree, I was able to get Recruiting Command to guarantee me to branch Corps of Engineers. I would suggest you try that also. In OCS, I knew a great guy who was 11B Ranger who jumped into Grenada. He got out and got a degree in CE, but they branched him Infantry due to his background. He was not a happy camper.
The Engineer Branch is awesome and you get to do a lot. Two things to remember though. 1. An officer is expected to be able to handle any assignment and they don't make a distinction on your education. Despite being one of the few with a Civil Engineering degree, I served nine years in Combat Engineers. 2. Your fifth mission is to fight as infantry so be good at that too!

COL Jason Smallfield, PMP, CFM, CM has been an Engineer Officer for a long time...maybe he can chime in here too