About the CIVIL ENGINEERING
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.
Civil engineering is the application of physical and scientific principles for solving the problems of society, and its history is intricately linked to advances in the understanding of physics and mathematics throughout history. Because civil engineering is a broad profession, including several specialized sub-disciplines, its history is linked to knowledge of structures, materials science, geography, geology, soils, hydrology, environmental science, mechanics, project management, and other fields.
About the Department
The Department of Civil Engineering was established in 1980 with an intake of 60 students and five faculty members. The department has been successful in producing excellent and well-trained graduates. Today, we have 320 Students from UG & PG and 45 teaching faculty drawn from premium institutes throughout India, out of whom 5 are Professors, 10 are Associate Professors and 30 are Assistant Professors. Eleven staff members have more than ten years’ experience, ten are doctorates and thirteen are pursuing PhD and ten are non-teaching Staff.
The departmental activities embrace Testing, Planning, Design, Construction and Management. The department offers courses for graduates in civil engineering, postgraduates in Structural Engineering, Construction Technology and Management, and Geotechnical Engineering, also we have Ph.D. program in civil engineering discipline for those who wants to pursue research. The department offers flexible syllabus for the students for their post-graduation in specializations like Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Construction Technology and Management.
The department of civil engineering has well equipped laboratories in all areas. Also, many of our alumni hold prestigious positions in leading academic institutions, industry and government in different countries all over the world.
USPs of Civil Engineering Programs
- From the past 16 years, Department of Civil Engineering is maintaining 100% placements to all the eligible and Interested students.
- 30+ faculty with rich industry, academia, and research experience drawn from various prestigious Institutions across the globe with 40% doctoral faculty in varied research domains.
- 15:1 student to faculty ratio to provide personalised learning experience to the students.
- Full semester practice school to ensure all students to work in industry prior to graduation.
- Fully Flexible Choice-Based Credit System with an opportunity for each student to design their own program to get major and minor, specialization and honours degrees of their choice.
- Competency building on language and communication skills (LSRW, Verbal) through BEC (Business English Certificate by Cambridge University).
- Training for competitive exams as per the choice of the students for GATE, GRE, TOEFL, ILETS, IAS etc by Centre for Competitive exams.
- Students are encouraged to be part of the faculty research leading to international journal paper publications and consultancy activities.
- 10+ Start-ups by Civil Engineering students.
- Mentor-Mentee program with industry experts and alumni.
- Exclusive student counselling for career guidance, academic growth, and personal well-being.
- Four Civil Engineering professional societies student chapters along with 24 University level Technical and Hobby clubs to enhance the student life skills and holistic development.
- Department is focusing and providing special training named as Campus Recruitment Training (CRT) to all the placement registered students.
- Fully Flexible Choice-Based Credit System with an opportunity for each student to design their own program to get major and minor, specialization and honours degrees of their choice.
- Competency building on language and communication skills (LSRW, Verbal) through BEC (Business English Certificate by Cambridge University).
- Exclusive Soft Skills department to train students on professional practices and etiquette.
- 8 MoUs with MNCs & industries exclusively for Civil Engineering students
- 8 well equipped Academic laboratories
- Swear Analysis conducted for every student and parent by the career counsellors to guide students on their career road map.
- Mentored self-learning for advanced learners and special care to enhance learning abilities of slow learners.
- Credits for skilling in all relevant courses and curriculum aligned with sector-skills council and MNCs.
- Inclusion of value-added courses as part of academic mandate to make students industry ready.
- Innovative learning pedagogies to make learning easy and enthusiastic.
- Multi-disciplinary specializations to enhance product building abilities in students.
- Foreign language learning as part of curriculum
- Exclusive Soft Skills department to train students on professional practices and etiquette.
- Internationally reputed MOOCs embedded into academics.
- 8 MoUs with MNCs & industries exclusively for Civil Engineering students
- 8 well equipped Academic laboratories
- Swear Analysis conducted for every student and parent by the career counsellors to guide students on their career road map.
- Mentored self-learning for advanced learners and special care to enhance learning abilities of slow learners.
- Credits for skilling in all relevant courses and curriculum aligned with sector-skills council and MNCs.
- Inclusion of value-added courses as part of academic mandate to make students industry ready.
- Innovative learning pedagogies to make learning easy and enthusiastic.
- Multi-disciplinary specializations to enhance product building abilities in students.
- Training for competitive exams as per the choice of the students for GATE, GRE, TOEFL, ILETS, IAS etc by Centre for Competitive exams.
- Global certifications from established skill academies and centres of excellence on campus.
- Regular conduction of Industry expert talks, Industry visits, tech fests, competitions and workshops by industry experts.
- Continuous assessments through online platforms like Examly, Superset, Reference globe, Cocubes e.t.c., to improve the performance consistently.
- Foreign language learning as part of curriculum
- 1200+ peer reviewed research papers published in Scopus/SCI/WOS/IEEE etc
- 3 patents published by faculty and students
- Awards from Asia book of records and India book of records and from other agencies for faculty
- Wi-Fi enabled campus with 10 Gbps band width, ICT and digital technologies enabled classrooms.
- Academic credit sharing with study abroad under twinning programs in collaboration with internationally reputed Universities.
- Separate hostels for boys, girls and international students on-campus that serve north-Indian, south-Indian, and international cuisines.
- Indoor and outdoor sport facilities with 16 coaches with state-of-the-art indoor stadium.
- 24X7 resident doctor with nursing staff; sick rooms attended by nursing staff and MoU with super-speciality hospital 2kms away.
- Exclusive centrally air-conditioned 2000 capacity library building with 2lakhs book volumes, over 3lakhs e-volumes, e-magazines, e-journals.
- 100 buses that pick students from every nook and corner of the Vijayawada, Guntur and Tenali and Amaravati regions.
B. Tech in Civil Engineering
The department offers four-year bachelor’s degree program with the below listed specializations.
- Structural Engineering
- Construction Technology and Management
- Geo-technical Engineering
- Transportation Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
PostGraduate Program
The department offers two years Master’s degree in the following areas of specialization in Civil Engineering.
- MTech -Structural Engineering
- MTech- Construction Technology and Management
- MTech- Geotechnical Engineering
Ph.D. Program
Doctoral Degree in Civil Engineering prepares students to acquire a systematic and critical understanding of a complex field of learning and specialised research skills in core aspects of Civil engineering to advance learning and/or professional practice. Areas of research includes structural engineering, transport engineering, geotechnical engineering, construction management and technology, water resources and environmental engineering.
The department offers Full-time and Part-Time PhD program. The admissions are scheduled annually in various PhD program, and the announcement in the newspaper/website is also published.
Post-Doctoral Program
Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF) position are also provided to enhance the research and innovation ecosystem within civil engineering department by attracting young exceptionally talented scientists and engineers with a diverse background to work on challenging and frontier areas. It provides a platform for the development of future science and technology leaders.