The Department of Civil Engineering was established in the year 2010. The department believes in high quality teaching at both UG and PG levels. The department is actively involved in research & development & consultancy providing high quality technical assistance to cater the need of the society.
Happy to share that, the Dept isrecently accredited by National Board Accreditation, which is quality assurance body,under Govt. of India,which evaluates the teaching learning process, Research and Development, Facilities etc at the department level.
It has excellent and well-equipped advanced laboratories, which includes CAD Lab, Material Testing, Concrete & Highway Technology, Survey, Hydraulics, Geology, Geo-Tech Engineering & Structural Dynamics laboratories. All laboratories are reinforced with modern tools & equipment’s. The department has highly qualified & experienced faculties with a blend of experience in teaching & industry. The department is having committed faculty members and many are Doctorate holders, graduated from NIT Surathkal. Staff members focus on outcome base education, which helps the students to achieve the intended goal and make them cater to take up the challenges as per the Industry needs. The department is having good mentoring system, which helps to connect with their parents and helps for solving their grievances. Also, the department conducts theparents and alumni meet to support the students feternity at regular intervals. The department has good inhouse placements with more than 45% and many aluminies in Centrally Funded institutes for higher studies like NIT, IIT and other foreign Institutes.
The department is involved in varies consultancy projects such as, Jal Jeevan Mission, Govt. of India, which is related to the Design of Water Supply Distribution Network for the Villages (DPR Cost of 50 crore, 100 villages ), Project Building Estimation, Material Testing etc and students are involved in these projects. The department is awarded with 2 Patents and more than 100 peer reviewed journals.The department has got VTU 3rd rank in UG program in 2020-21. Department has Association of Civil Engineers (ACE) through which, various technical & cultural co-curricular activities are conducted. ACE provides a platform for the students to showcase their skills &helps in their overall development. Also, the department is conducting skill enhancement programmes in collaboration with Industry such as CADD Centre,synergy, smart city, ZP, PWD, RDWS, NIH, PMKVY and ACE Belagavi(Association of Consulting Engieers), which help the students to get place in industries and govt organizations. The department is member of IGBC, IWWA, ISTE , IEI Professional bodies and the students are encouraged to utilize the facilities. Department has research collaboration with National Institute of Technology (NITK), Surathkal, IIT Bombay, NEERI,Nagapur, IIT Roorkee and IITMadras.
Master of Technology (M.Tech)
The course in M. Tech (Construction Technology) aims at making a Civil Engineer well equipped with tools of construction management and technology. The students are getting VTU ranks continuously from last 6 years including gold medalwith total of 24 ranks.