Courses

BASICS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

Offered: 

2019

General Introduction to Civil Engineering: Relevance of Civil Engineering in the overall infrastructural development of the country. Surveying: Importance, objectives and principles. Conventional construction materials: types, properties and uses of building materials: bricks, stones, cement, sand and timber, Foundations: Bearing capacity of soil, functions of foundations, types – shallow and deep, Brick masonry, Roofs and floors, Basic infrastructure services: MEP, HVAC, elevators, escalators and ramps, Green buildings.

Engineering geology

Offered: 

2018

Relevance of geology in Civil Engineering, Subdivisions of Geology, Interior of the earth, Weathering, its engineering significance. Hydrogeology-occurrence of groundwater, Types of aquifers and their properties. Types of rocks. Brief account of selected rocks. Rock features that influence the strength of rocks as construction material.

GROUND IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES

Offered: 

2018
Classification of Ground Modification Techniques, Soil distribution in India, Grouting – Aspects, Chemical stabilization – Granular admixtures, Cement, Lime, Calcium Chloride, Ground Anchors, Rock bolts – Applications and types- Rock bolt action around an excavation. Soil Nailing, Shallow surface compaction, Deep Compaction, Methods of dewatering.

ENGINEERING MECHANICS

Semester: 

Summer

Offered: 

2018

Statics - Fundamental concepts and laws of mechanics. Concurrent and nonconcurrent forces in plane. Resultant and Equilibrium of coplanar forces. Free body diagrams. Moment of a force. Force and couple systems. Introduction to Structural Mechanics. Concurrent and nonconcurrent forces in space. Resultant and Equilibrium of forces in space. Properties of planar surfaces. Friction. 

Dynamics - Rectilinear translation. Curvilinear translation. Rotation. Combined motion of rotation and translation.Simple harmonic motion.

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY

Offered: 

2017

Relevance of geology in Civil Engineering, Subdivisions of Geology, Interior of the earth, Weathering, its engineering significance. Hydrogeology-occurrence of groundwater, Types of aquifers and their properties. Types of rocks. Brief account of selected rocks. Rock features that influence the strength of rocks as construction material.

FDPs ATTENDED

FDPs/Conferences/ Workshops Attended


1. Five days Faculty Induction Programme from 24th to 28th July 2017.

2. Five days Short Term Course on Dynamic Analysis of Structures Using Etabs from 6th to 10th January 2018.

3. International Conference on Green Building & Sustainable Engineering (GBSE2018) Indo-German Dialogue and Exposition on Smart and Sustainable Habitat (SASH2018) on 24th and 25th January 2018

4. One day ICI Workshop on Quality Concrete Construction on 24th February 2018.

5. Three days workshop on Geohazards Mitigation and Prevention from 30th July to 1st August, 2018.