Why Civil Engineers Shouldn't Choose Between Python and Excel—Use Both

From Excel Templates to Python Scripts: A Veteran Engineer's Take on Productivity and the Future of Engineering Workflows

If you had asked me back in engineering school whether I’d be coding in the future, I’d have thought you were nuts! Yet here I am, 30 years later, coding in Python, AutoLisp, and Excel. In fact, until recently, most of my engineering work outside of AutoCAD and variance applications has involved running calculations and simulations in Excel.

This realiza…