The Department of Civil at IIT is producing since 1961, high quality technical manpower needed by industry, R&D organizations, and academic institutions. The Department offers B.Tech., B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree in Civil Engineering, and M.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering with six specializations, i.e., Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Geoinformatics, and Infrastructure Engineering and . An interdisciplinary M.Tech program in Environmental Engineering and Management, offered by the Department is an unique program across the country. The Department also has a vibrant Ph.D. program in all the above mentioned specializations, including Environmental Engineering. The academic activities of the Department emphasizes deep understanding of fundamental principles, development of creative ability to handle the challenges of Civil Engineering, and the analytical ability to solve problems which are interdisciplinary in nature. The Department also encourages its students to engage in extra-curricular and co-curricular activities, essential for development, nurturing of team spirit, and developing organizational skills. The faculty members of the department are involved in high quality research and consultancy activities, and they continue to enjoy academic leadership role in the country.

The department has 36 faculty members to nurture about 180 students passing this year.

STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS

MT, 58, 32%

BT, 103, 58% BT-MT(Dual), 19, 10%

BT BT-MT(Dual) MT . STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING . GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY LABORATORY • Structural Strong Floor and Reaction Frames: . Advanced Cyclic Triaxial Testing Facility, In- Model 600RD Load Frame situ Testing, SCPT Plate Load Test Facility • Loading Devices and Servo-Controller: MTS 407 Controller, MTS 458.10 Controller, Closed . Spectrum Analyzer for Surface Waves, Loop Servo Hydraulic Actuator Seismic Down-Hole Testing Facility • Electronically controlled sensors: . Geotechnical Digital System (GDS), LVDTs/DCDTs, strain gauges, Velocity Geosynthetics Testing Facility for Geogrids Meters (induction type) and Accelerometers and Geonets (both force balance and capacitive types), . Study of Seismic behavior of soil, Model IMPACT - ECHO Instrument testing on footings • Concrete Handling Facilities and Measurement of Concrete / Masonry . Properties HWRE LABORATORY • Ambient Vibration Survey System (AVSS), . Complete Infrastructure for Physical Forced Vibration Survey System (FVSS) Modelling of Rivers for Studying Scour • Electro Dynamic Shaking Table, Servo- Patterns and River Hydraulic Shake Table, Starterkit "Wireless . Training Works, Facility for Hydraulic Testing Accelerometer & BeanGateway Outdoor & of Pipes, Fluid Friction Apparatus, BeanScape Multi-WSN” Momentum • Fiber Optic Based Temperature and Strain . Measurement Apparatus, Apparatus to Measurement system Calculate Sudden Losses in Expansion and • Pseudo-Dynamic Testing Facility Contraction . Bends, Hydrology System, Hydro- Metrological Observatory. . TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING . Particle Soot Absorption Photometer, Particle Absorption Soot Photometer, Cloud LABORATORY Combination Probe, Condensation Particle . Centrifuge Bitumen Extractor, Marshall Test, Counter, Fog Chamber, Optical Particle Fatigue Test for Bituminous Mixes, Sizer, Micro Pulse Lidar Profilograph . Sun photometer, Gas Analyzers (Ozone, . Rotational Viscometer, British Pendulum Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon Mono Oxide, Tester, Driver Testing Equipment, Traffic Nitrogen Oxides), Scanning Mobility Particle Speed Measurement Radar Sizer, High Performance Computing Clusters . Stone Polishing Machine, Thin Film Oven Test, Asphalt Content Tester by Ignition Method . GEOINFORMATICS LABORATORY . 91GPS Set-up, Vehicle Detection and . Robotic and Motorized Total Stations, Digital Classification System and Auto Levels, Digital Theodolites, Single and Dual Frequency Geodetic Quality . ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Differential GPS Receivers, Navigational GPS LABORATORY Receivers, . Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass . Permanent GPS Reference Station for Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Atomic Emission Engineering and Scientific Applications, Spectrometry (ICP-OES), Microwave Plasma Terrestrial Laser Scanner, Range Camera, Atomic Emission Spectrometry (MP-AES), Integrated GPS and INS system, Digital Ion Chromatograph(IC), High Performance Photogrammetric Workstation, Liquid Chromatograph, AAS, TOC, CHNOS . Software for Geospatial Applications: ERDAS Analyzer, GC-ECD-FID lmagine, ERMapper, Arclnfo and ArcView, . Weather Monitoring Station, UV Visible . AutoDesk and Bentley Microstation Suites, Spectrometer, HDTLC, GC-MS, Optical Terrascan, Terramodeller, Polyworks, Leica Particle Counter, Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer . Photogrammetry Suite. . Aerosol Mass Spectrometer, Micro-Orifice Uniform Deposition Impactors, Aerodynamic Particle Sizer, Cloud Condensation Nuclear Counter • Structural Engineering • Geotechnical Engineering • Earthquake Analysis and • Foundation Dynamics • Durability of Concrete Structures • Foundation Engineering • Engineering Mechanics • Advanced Geotech. Engineering • Stability of Structures • Geotechnical Measurements and • Structural health Monitoring Exploration • Finite Element Methods • Ground Improvement Techniques

• Hydraulics Engineering • Transportation Engineering • Advanced hydraulics • Characterisation of Pavement Materials • Advanced hydrology • Pavement analysis and Design • Introduction to AI • Analysis and Design of transportation • Eco hydrology infrastructure • River • Airport systems planning and design • Computation techniques in hydraulics • Traffic Engineering • Urban Transportation System Planning • Infrastructure Engineering & • Geoinformatics Management • Introduction to remote sensing • Infrastructure Asset Management • Introduction to Geodesy • Special Concretes • Introduction to GIS • Construction Management • Laser scanning technologies & application • Basic Quality & Safety in Construction • Satellite data processing & its application • Infrastructure Financing • Geospatial data processing • Construction Methods • Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) • Principles of Environmental Management • Environmental Engineering & • Inter – Disciplinary Courses* Management • C Programming Language • Data Structures and Algorithms • Physio-Chemical Treatment of Water • Machine Learning • Water supply & wastewater disposal • Microeconomics systems • Environmental quality & pollution *Open Electives monitoring • Air pollution & its control • Solid waste management

Students also have learning edge through courses in various software like SAP, QGis, ArcMap, Matlab.

Along with courses, students had also completed Survey Camp held at Chitrakoot. Many talks and seminars are also organized by Industries, tie-up institutes( like Utokyo, Nihong University, University of Buffolo, etc). Structural Engineering • Durgesh C Rai, Ph.D. (Michigan, Ann Arbor) Area of Interest: Experimental seismic behavior of structures, Seismic evaluation and strengthening, • Vinay K Gupta, Ph.D. (Arizona, Tucson) Energy dissipation devices, Masonry and Steel-RC Area of Interest: Random vibrations, Earthquake composite members engineering. • Samit Rai Chaudhuri, Ph.D. (California, Irvine) • Sudhir Mishra, Ph.D. (UTokyo) Area of Interest: Structural dynamics and earthquake Area of Interest: Durability and deterioration of engineering, Performance evaluation of structural concrete structures, Non-destructive testing, and nonstructural components and systems, Concrete materials. Performance-based design and structural rehabilitation, Seismic soil-structure interaction, • Sudhir K Jain, Ph.D. (CalTech) Structural health monitoring, Structural testing. Area of Interest: Earthquake Engineering, Structural Dynamics • Harish K Venkatnarayanan, Ph.D. (Clemenson) Area of Interest: Microstructure of cement based • Sudib K Mishra, Ph.D. (Arizona, Tucson) material, Material characterization techniques, Area of Interest: Multiscale, Multiphysics in Advanced cementitious materials, Sustainable Mechanics and Materials, Stochastic, Robust construction materials, Repair and rehabilitation of Optimization of Structures, Uncertainty, Reliability of concrete structures. Structures, Structural Damage and Health Assessment. • Chinmoy Kolay, PhD (Lehigh University, USA) Area of Interest: Behaviour of structures under • Suparno Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. (Columbia) extreme load events, Real-time hybrid (pseudo- Area of Interest: Structural Identification and Health dynamic) simulation, Structural dynamics and Monitoring, Structural Dynamics, Earthquake control, Nonlinear structural analysis, Numerical Engineering techniques, Soil-structure interaction, Renewable building material Geotechnical Engineering Hydraulics and Water

• Rajesh Sathiyamoorthy, Ph.D. (IITB) Resource Engineering Area of Interest: Geo-Environmental Engineering • ,Ground Improvement Techniques, Numerical and Saumyen Guha, Ph.D. (Princeton) Physical Modelling Techniques. Area of Interest: Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment, Bioremediation, Microbial Ecology, Fate and • Prishati Raychowdhury, Ph.D. (California, Transport of Heavy Metals in the subsurface, Nutrient San Diego) uptake in plants. Area of Interest: Soil dynamics, Geotechnical • Ashu Jain, Ph.D. (Kentucky) earthquake engineering, Seismic soil-structure Area of Interest: Rainfall-Runoff Modelling, Surface interaction Hydrology,Stochastic Hydrology, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms. • Nihar R Patra, Ph.D. (IITKGP) Area of Interest: Pile foundations, Soil structure • Richa Ojha, Ph.D. (Purdue) interactions and Ground Engineering, Soil Arching, Area of Interest: Flow and transport in porous media, Liquefaction Potential Evaluation. Scaling of hydrological processes, Hydrologic extremes • Priyanka Ghosh, Ph.D. (IISc, Bangalore) Area of Interest: Bearing capacity of foundations and • Rajesh Srivastava, Ph.D(Arizona,Tuscon) Stability of slopes under both static and seismic Area of Interest: Flow and transport through variably cases, Method of characteristics, Upper bound limit saturated porous media. analysis and Finite element analysis, Liquefaction analysis • Shivam Tripathi, Ph.D. (Purdue) Area of Interest: Statistical hydrology, Sediment • Arghya Das, Ph.D. (University of Sydney) transport, Eco-hydrology. Area of Interest: Constitutive modeling of geomaterials, Micromechanics of granular materials, Bifurcation & instability, analysis in geomaterials, Numerical & physical modeling in geotechnical engineering. Transportation Engineering Infrastructure Engineering &

• Partha Chakraborty, Ph.D. (Delaware) Management Area of Interest: Traffic flow theory and Traffic • Engineering, Travel Demand, Transit Systems and Sudhir Mishra Vehicle Routing, Transport System Evaluation and • Harish K Venkatnarayanan Management. • Vinod Vasudevan, Ph.D. (Nevada, Las Vegas) • Animesh Das, Ph.D. (IITKGP) Area of Interest:Pavement materials, Pavement Area of Interest: Traffic safety, Sustainable design, Pavement evaluation and maintenance. transportation, Highway financing, Policy analyses. • Syam Nair, Ph.D(Texas A&M) • Priyanka Ghosh, Ph.D. (IISc, Bangalore) Area of Interest: Bearing capacity of foundations and Area of Interest: Pavement materials, Pavement Stability of slopes under both static and seismic maintenance and rehabilitation, Recycling of cases, Method of characteristics, Upper bound limit infrastructure materials, Chemical stabilization of analysis and Finite element analysis, Liquefaction soils/aggregate, Utilization of industrial by-products analysis • Purnendu Bose, Ph.D. (Massachusetts, • Arghya Das, Ph.D. (University of Sydney) Amherst) Area of Interest: Constitutive modeling of Area of Interest: Physico-chemical processes for geomaterials, Micromechanics of granular materials, water and waste water treatment, Advanced Bifurcation & instability, analysis in geomaterials, oxidation processes for water and wastewater Numerical & physical modeling in geotechnical treatment, Abiotic remediation of groundwater engineering. resources. • Mukesh Sharma, Ph.D. (Waterloo) Area of Interest: Air quality modelling and management, Fate processes of organic pollutants and parameter estimation. • Onkar dixit, Ph.D. (Cambridge) remediation in natural as well as engineered Area of Interest: DIP, GIS, and Remote Sensing environments. applications, Pattern recognition. • Vinod Tare, Ph.D. (IITK) • Nihar R Patra Area of Interest: Water and wastewater treatment, modelling and simulation of environmental systems.

• Sacchida N Tripathi, Ph.D. (Purdue) Area of Interest: Aerosol Optical Properties,Aerosol Environmental Engineering & Microphysical properties, Cloud Microphysical Management Properties and Cloud Electrical Properties, Fog Vision, Electrical Properties of Mars atmosphere.. • Purnendu Bose

• Mukesh Sharma Geoinformatics • Anubha Goel, Ph.D. (Maryland) Area of Interest: Characterization of emissions from • Onkar Dixit vehicular exhaust, Size segregated distribution of particulates and organic pollutants on aerosols, • B. Nagarajan Ph.D (Ohio) Environmental modeling, Fate and transport of pollutants, Solid Waste Management • Bharat Lohani, Ph.D. (Reading) Area of Interest: 3D laser imaging and LCS • Tarun Gupta, Sc.D. (Harvard) measurement, Propagation modelling using high Area of Interest: Development of instruments for resolution LiDAR data (flood, sound, GPS signal), aerosol measurement, engineering control of LiDAR simulator-airborne and spaceborne particles in ambient and indoor settings, physico- chemical characterization of atmospheric pollutants, • Salil Goel, Ph.D. (Melbourne & IIT Kanpur) personal exposure assessment and health effects of Area of Interest: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), inhaled particles. LiDAR, Photogrammetry, GNSS/INS Integration, Filtering and estimation, Sensor fusion • Abhas Singh, Ph.D. (Washington, St.Louis) Area of Interest: Environmental geochemistry of • Balaji Devaraju heavy metals and inorganic contaminants, Predict inorganic contaminant fate and transport through surface complexation and flow-through reactor modeling, Develop tools to target contaminant L&T Autodesk Exxon Mobil Schlumberger 2018-19 Placement Stats ASC Infratech and more Core Industry

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