Can I publish a survey as an academic article? I am about to run a survey on large number of engineers in a specific field and ask them about a few specific methods they use for in their industry/research. 

Like:


Are you a researcher/engineer/student?
Which of the following methods have you heard about? A B C D E
Which of the following methods have you used in your work? A B C D E
etc ...


I would like to know if such a survey has any academic value for being published in an engineering journal/conference such as IEEE or Elsevier?

Also, do you know examples of such papers?
I note a couple of things. Your paper wouldn't be about Engineering per se. But it might be related to Engineering Education. This would be the case if the paper is exploring gaps in education or ways to improve it. 

Note that "education" here doesn't necessarily mean formal education. It could be about how new techniques percolate through the practitioners and how that can be improved (Training, workshops, ...)

I don't believe that IEEE has a SIG (special interest group) dedicated to education, but such SIGs normally have conferences and publish proceedings and maybe journals. 

In particular ACM has an education sig (SIGCSE) that is very active, holds several annual conferences in the US and abroad and publishes conference proceedings, though no formal journal (informative newsletters, etc. only). Some education related things show up in Communications of the ACM. However, the ACM is almost entirely software oriented, whereas IEEE, while concerned with both, focuses more on the hardware side. 

With no specific Education SIG at IEEE, you may not find a comfortable resting place for your paper there.