| # | Category | Subject | L-T-P | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Professional Core | Design and Drawing of Steel Structures | 3-0-0 | 3 |
| 2 | Professional Core | Highway Engineering | 3-0-0 | 3 |
| 3 | Professional Core | Environmental Engineering | 3-0-0 | 3 |
| 4 | Professional Elective-II | Ground Improvement Techniques | 3-0-0 | 3 |
| 4 | Professional Elective-II | Repair and Rehabilitation of Structures | 3-0-0 | 3 |
| 4 | Professional Elective-II | Valuation and Quantity Survey | 3-0-0 | 3 |
| 5 | Professional Elective-III | Finite Element Method | 3-0-0 | 3 |
| 5 | Professional Elective-III | Bridge Engineering | 3-0-0 | 3 |
| 5 | Professional Elective-III | Water Resources Engineering | 3-0-0 | 3 |
| 6 | Open Elective-II | Disaster Management | 3-0-0 | 3 |
| 6 | Open Elective-II | Sustainability in Engineering Practices | 3-0-0 | 3 |
| 6 | Open Elective-II | Water Supply Systems | 3-0-0 | 3 |
| 7 | Professional Core | Environmental Engineering Lab | 0-0-3 | 1.5 |
| 8 | Professional Core | Highway Engineering Lab | 0-0-3 | 1.5 |
| 9 | Skill Enhancement Course | CAD Lab | 0-1-2 | 2 |
| 10 | Audit Course | Technical Paper Writing and IPR | 2-0-0 | – |
| — | Mandatory | Industry Internship (8 weeks, summer vacation) | — | — |
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.