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CIVIL ENGINEERING - CE

This programme is particularly geared to meet the growing demand in the country for designers, consultants, development engineers, research-scientists and faculty.

Areas of Specialization

A student entering the M.Tech. programme in Civil Engineering can follow one of the following streams :

1. Transportation Systems Engineering CE 1
2. Geotechnical Engineering CE 2
3. Water Resources Engineering CE 3
4. Structural Engineering CE 4
5. Remote Sensing CE 6

Eligibility for Admission

Candidates with FIRST class or 60% marks (55% marks for SC/ST) in Bachelor?s degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent with valid GATE score in any discipline are eligible to apply for any of the five specialisaions.

Areas of Research

Transportation Systems Engineering:
Modelling traffic flow, Urban regional transport network design, Transport planning models, Urban public transport operation and management; Economic evaluation, analysis and impact assessment; Land-use transport planning, Pavement analysis and design, Pavement maintenance management. FS, ANN, AI, GA, ES, GIS applications to transport modelling.

Geotechnical Engineering:
Geotechnical properties of soils, Soil-structure interaction, Foundation for offshore structures, Earth dam problems, Stability and Seepage, Mechanics of Swelling Soils, Rock Mechanics and tunneling, Soil dynamics, Pile foundations, Soil stabilization, Anchored geosynthetics, Reinforced soil structures and geosynthetics, Geotechnical centrifuge study, Optimization techniques and environmental geotechniques; Landslides.

Water Resources Engineering:
Real fluid flow, Dispersion in surface and ground water, Jets, Stratified flow, Fluid transients, Sediment transport in pipes and open channels, Mathematical and analogue models for ground water flows, Hydraulic structures, Hydrology, Optimization techniques in water resources Engineering, Water balance studies; Conveyance network; Urban water management; Urban water supply, Strom water and wastewater treatment and disposal.

Structural Engineering:
Earthquake engineering, Structural dynamics; Finite element techniques; Composite materials and mechanics; Earthquake disaster management; Reinforced and prestressed concrete; Computational mechanics; Wind effects on structures; Concrete technology; Steel structures; Strength, stability and dynamics of thin membranes; Plates and shells; Structural optimization; Structural response to impact and shock loading; Pressure vessels; Reliability analysis; Probabilistic design methods; Curved grid; Cable networks, Plastic analysis techniques; Inverse problems and artificial intelligence applications; Offshore Structures; Shell foundation.

Remote Sensing:
Development of methods and algorithms for digital analysis of remotely sensed data; Digital analysis of thermal and microwave SAR data; Digital terrain modelling; Remote sensing and spatial information analysis systems in hydrological modelling; Land degradation and soil erosion assessment; Spectral studies of crops and soils. Fuzzy, ANN and other approaches in remotely sensed data Analysis; Statistical analysis of geodetic and remote sensing data; Geodesy and geodetic techniques; Global positioning systems and its applications.