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The Department of Civil Engineering offers two post-graduate courses, one in Structural Engineering and the other in Construction Engineering & Management in addition to the under-graduate programme. It also runs a vocational course in Buildings, Roads and Construction Technology. The Department has eleven well equipped laboratories to meet the requirements of under-graduate and post-graduate courses in Civil Engineering and also to facilitate consultancy and material testing.
Equipment is available in the laboratories for testing of various materials such as cement, concrete, aggregate sand, timber, soil, steel and other products such as paper, plastics, wires, brick, flat tiles, Mangalore tiles and bitumen. The laboratories also consist of equipments to locate bore wells and open wells, equipments for water testing and sewage testing. Other laboratory facilities include equipments for strain measurement beam testing, model testing and testing of small structures in-situ testing for concrete strength and soil bearing capacity and pre tensioning equipment. Facilities for conducting extensive surveys with the aid of “electronic total stations” are also available.
In addition to routine testing, the Department is also engaged in structural consultancy, helping industries for product development and students for their research projects and carrying out extensive survey of whole villages for water supply and sewage disposal schemes.
