Civil EngineeringSemester 3-2 syllabus

Design and Drawing of Steel Structures

applies steel design codes to connections, beams, trusses, columns and girders, with drawing plates to match.

• Unit 1: Riveted and welded connection design and permissible stresses
• Unit 2: Design of simple and compound beams, including flange curtailment and deflection checks
• Unit 3: Design of tension and compression members and roof trusses
• Unit 4: Design of built-up columns, lacing/battens and column base plates
• Unit 5: Design of welded plate girders and gantry girders

Highway Engineering

covers how road networks are planned, geometrically designed and paved to carry traffic safely.

• Unit 1: Highway planning history, classification and alignment factors
• Unit 2: Geometric design — sight distance, superelevation, and transition and vertical curves
• Unit 3: Traffic engineering — volume/speed studies, intersection design and signal timing
• Unit 4: Highway material testing — subgrade soil, aggregates and bituminous mixes
• Unit 5: Flexible and rigid pavement design methods

Environmental Engineering

covers the planning, treatment and distribution systems that deliver clean water and safely remove wastewater from a community.

• Unit 1: Water demand estimation, population forecasting and water sources
• Unit 2: Water quality standards and distribution network analysis
• Unit 3: Water treatment unit operations — sedimentation, coagulation, filtration and disinfection
• Unit 4: Sewerage system planning, sewer hydraulics and primary sewage treatment
• Unit 5: Secondary sewage treatment processes and effluent disposal methods

Ground Improvement Techniques

(Professional Elective-II) — covers methods for upgrading weak or problematic soils so they can safely support structures.

• Unit 1: In-situ densification of granular and cohesive soils, preloading and drain systems
• Unit 2: Dewatering methods — well points, sumps and electro-osmosis
• Unit 3: Soil stabilization and grouting techniques, including liquefaction concepts
• Unit 4: Reinforced-earth wall design principles and soil nailing
• Unit 5: Geosynthetics — geotextiles, geogrids, geomembranes and gabions

Repair and Rehabilitation of Structures

(Professional Elective-II) — covers how to diagnose deteriorating concrete structures and select the right repair or strengthening technique.

• Unit 1: Repair materials, admixtures and non-destructive evaluation techniques
• Unit 2: Strengthening and stabilization techniques for beams, columns and connections
• Unit 3: Bonded FRP installation techniques and debonding failure mechanisms
• Unit 4: Fibre-reinforced, lightweight and fly-ash concrete properties
• Unit 5: High-performance and self-consolidating concrete

Valuation and Quantity Survey

(Professional Elective-II) — teaches how to measure, price and value construction work using standard schedules and valuation methods.

• Unit 1: Quantity surveying principles, estimate types and bill-of-quantity preparation
• Unit 2: CPWD schedule-of-rates usage and rate analysis for major construction items
• Unit 3: Detailed estimation using the centre-line method for RCC buildings
• Unit 4: Bar-bending schedules and estimation for roads, sanitary and water supply works
• Unit 5: Depreciation methods and property valuation methods

Finite Element Method

(Professional Elective-III) — introduces the numerical technique behind virtually all modern structural analysis software.

• Unit 1: Stiffness method review and variational/weighted-residual approaches
• Unit 2: Truss element stiffness formulation and 3D transformation matrices
• Unit 3: Beam element stiffness matrices and rigid frame analysis
• Unit 4: Plane stress, plane strain and axisymmetric element formulations (CST/LST)
• Unit 5: Isoparametric elements, Gauss quadrature and mesh stability issues

Bridge Engineering

(Professional Elective-III) — covers bridge types, loading standards and the design of common bridge superstructures.

• Unit 1: Bridge types, nomenclature, site selection and loading standards
• Unit 2: Slab bridge design methods, including Pigeaud’s and Courbon’s theories
• Unit 3: T-beam bridge design of deck slabs and longitudinal girders
• Unit 4: Plate girder bridge element design
• Unit 5: Box culvert design and bridge inspection/maintenance practices

Water Resources Engineering

(Professional Elective-III) — covers irrigation system planning and the design of canals, diversion structures and dams.

• Unit 1: Irrigation requirements, duty, delta and irrigation efficiencies
• Unit 2: Canal design — erodible and non-erodible sections, Kennedy’s and Lacey’s theories
• Unit 3: Canal structures — falls, regulators, cross-drainage works and outlets
• Unit 4: Diversion head works and Khosla’s/Bligh’s seepage theories
• Unit 5: Reservoir planning, and gravity/earth dam and spillway design

Disaster Management

(Open Elective-II) — surveys how natural and man-made disasters are managed across the mitigation-response-recovery cycle.

• Unit 1: Natural hazard case studies — floods, earthquakes, landslides and cyclones
• Unit 2: Man-made disaster management — fire, transport hazards and industrial accidents
• Unit 3: Risk and vulnerability assessment, including building codes and land-use planning
• Unit 4: Technology’s role in disaster management, including RS and GIS applications
• Unit 5: Community preparedness and education in disaster risk reduction

Sustainability in Engineering Practices

(Open Elective-II) — frames sustainable development as an engineering discipline with its own tools, certifications and metrics.

• Unit 1: Sustainable development models and environmental legislation
• Unit 2: Local issues (solid waste) and global issues (climate change, ozone depletion)
• Unit 3: Sustainability tools — EMS, ISO 14000, life cycle assessment and EIA
• Unit 4: Green building certification (GRIHA, LEED) and sustainable cities/transport
• Unit 5: Renewable energy resources and green technology/business practices

Water Supply Systems

(Open Elective-II) — covers the practical side of delivering water to communities and managing dual/non-potable supply.

• Unit 1: Water’s role in domestic, irrigation, sanitation and fire-protection demand
• Unit 2: Surface, ground, atmospheric and recycled water sources
• Unit 3: Dual water supply — potable, grey and black water, and related diseases
• Unit 4: Water distribution based on topography, gravity and pumping systems
• Unit 5: Industrial water quality requirements and effluent standards

Environmental Engineering Lab

lab testing of water and wastewater quality parameters that determine treatability and compliance.

• Physical and chemical tests: pH, hardness, alkalinity, chlorides, solids and iron content
• Biological/oxygen demand tests: dissolved oxygen, BOD and COD determination
• Water treatment process tests: optimum coagulant dose, chlorine demand and coliform testing

Highway Engineering Lab

tests road-building materials and traffic behaviour to translate highway design theory into practice.

• Aggregate tests: crushing value, impact value, specific gravity and abrasion resistance
• Bitumen tests: penetration, ductility, softening point and Marshall stability
• Traffic surveys and design exercises: volume/speed/parking studies and road cross-section drawing

CAD Lab

builds practical skill in structural analysis and design software rather than only hand calculation.

• Analysis and design of determinate and indeterminate structures, plane and space frames using software
• Design and detailing exercises for residential buildings, roof trusses and steel members
• Foundation design programming using spreadsheet tools

Technical Paper Writing and IPR

covers how to write a clear technical report and understand the basics of intellectual property protection.

• Unit 1: Technical report structure, sentence construction and formatting
• Unit 2: Drafting, illustrations and plain-English editing
• Unit 3: Proofreading, summarizing and presenting technical reports
• Unit 4: Word-processing tools for reports — citations, tracked changes and indexing
• Unit 5: Patents, copyrights and the intellectual property registration process

Mandatory Industry Internship

an 8-week mandatory industry internship during the summer vacation is listed in the course structure, but no unit-wise syllabus for it appears anywhere in the document. Flagging this honestly.