Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati set up to research and development in civil engineering. It offers courses at undergraduate level, graduate level and PhD doctorate.


Programs:

B.Tech. Program

Course Structure (Till 2009 Batch)

Course Syllabus (Till 2009 Batch)

Course Structure (2010 Batch onwards)

Course Syllabus (2010 Batch onwards)



M.Tech./Ph.D. Program

Environmental Engineering

Geotechnical Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering and Management

Structural Engineering

Transportation Systems Engineering

Water Resources Engineering and Management

Faculties name
Dhirendra Nath Buragohain

Specialization: Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Structural Mechanics

* Finite Element Methods

*Numerical Methods

*Computer aided analysis

*Design and drafting

*Development of software

Email:dnb@iitg.ernet.in, dnburagohain@yahoo.com
Phone: 0361-258 3333 , Mobile: +91- 961 955 3622

Professor


Anjan Dutta

Specialization: Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Finite Element Mesh Generation
*Optimization
*Control, Health Monitoring and Retrofitting of structures

Email:adutta@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2405


Arbind K. Singh

Specialization: Computational Mechanics, IT in Construction Management

Areas of Interest:
*Information Technology in Construction Engineering
*Object-Oriented Programming
*Constitutive modeling

Email:arvind@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2410


Arup K. Sarma

Specialization: Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Modeling & simulation in Free Surface Flow
*Heuristic Method in Reservoir Optimization
*GIS based Watershed Modeling

Email:aks@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2409


Baleshwar Singh

Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Marine Geotechnology
*Modelling of Onshore & Offshore Foundations
*Soil Stabilization & Ground Modification
*Pavement Subgrade & Site Characterization

Email:baleshwar@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2411


Chandan Mahanta

Specialization: Environmental Engg. & Engineering Geology

Areas of Interest:
*Water Quality
*Sediment Dynamics in Fluvial Systems
*Environmental Impact, Risk Assessment and Management
*Environmental Geo-informatics
*Engineering Geology

Email:chandan@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2407


Gautam Barua

Specialization: Flow through porous media

Areas of Interest:
*Flow through porous media

Email:g_barua@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2413


Mohammad Jawed

Specialization: Environmental Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Biological Processes
*Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment
*Heavy Metal Removal and Recovery
*Water Treatment and Supply
*Domestic & Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Email:jawed@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2406


Pranab K. Ghosh

Specialization: Waste water treatment

Areas of Interest:
*Water treatment for domestic and industrial use
*Domestic and Industrial wastewater treatment
*Sludge treatment by physicochemical and biological process

Emailkghosh@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2418


Rajib Kumar Bhattacharjya

Specialization: Hydraulics & Water Resources

Areas of Interest:
*Water Resources System Management
*Genetic Algorithms
*Artificial Neural Networks

Email:rkbc@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2428


Sajal K. Deb

Specialization: Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Passive and semi-active control
*Performance based seismic design
*System identification & structural health monitoring
*Seismic damage assessment

Email:skdeb@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2402


Saswati Chakraborty

Specialization: Environmental Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Water and Wastewater Treatment
*Biodegradation of Industrial Wastewater
*Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater

Email:saswati@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2412


Sharad Gokhale

Specialization: Environmental Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Air Pollution and Environmental Noise

Email:sharadbg@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2419


Subashisa Dutta

Head of Department

Specialization: Irrigation And Hydraulics Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Meso-Scale Distributed hydrological modeling
*Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS for Water resources Management
*Computational river hydraulics and its applications
*Watershed and Irrigation Management

Email:subashisa@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2415


Sudip Talukdar

Specialization: Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Structural Dynamics
*Bridge Engineering
*Wind induced vibration & control
*Non destructive techniques

Email:staluk@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2416

Associate Professor


A. Murali Krishna

Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Soil Investigation
*Reinforced Soil Structures
*Geosynthetics and Ground Improvement
*Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering

Email:amurali@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2429


Ajay Kalamdhad

Specialization: Environmental Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Solid waste management
*Mechanical composting and vermicomposting
*Analysis of solid wastes

Email:kajay@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2431


Akhilesh Kumar Maurya

Specialization: Transportation Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Driver behaviour
*Traffic flow theory and modeling
*Traffic engineering

Email:maurya@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2426


Arunasis Chakraborty

Specialization: Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Dynamic and Random Vibration
*System identification and damage detection
*Wavelet analysis

Email:arunasis@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2430


Bimlesh Kumar

Specialization: Environmental Hydraulics and Sediment Transport

Areas of Interest:
*Small scale studies of mixing tanks
*Experimental Studies of Aeration Systems
*Sediment Transport analysis
*Pipeline analysis
*CFD simulation
*Surge analysis

Email:bimk@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2420


Bulu Pradhan

Specialization: Civil Engineering Materials & Construction Management

Areas of Interest:
*Durability studies in concrete
*Corrosion of steel reinforcement and protection measures
*High performance concrete
*Mass transport in cementitious materials
*Non-destructive testing of concrete structures
*Construction management

Email:bulu@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2425


C. Mallikarjuna

Specialization: Transportation Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Traffic flow theory and Modeling
*Traffic data collection and analysis
*Travel demand modeling

Email:c.mallikarjuna@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2424


Hemant B. Kaushik

Specialization: Structural Engineering, Earthquake Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Earthquake Resistant Design
*Nonlinear Behaviour of Structures
*Retrofitting of Structures
*Finite Element Modeling

Email:hemantbk@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2427


Konjengbam Darunkumar Singh

Specialization: Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Structural Analysis and Design
*Finite Element Method
*Fracture and Fatigue Mechanics

Email:darun@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2423


Laishram Boeing Singh

Specialization: Infrastructure Financing and Management

Areas of Interest:
*Public Private Partnerships
*Risk Management
*Construction Management

Email:boeing@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2433


Rajan Choudhary

Specialization: Transportation Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Pavement Analysis and Design
*Highway Construction and Quality Control
*Pavement Material Characterization
*Pavement Evaluation and Maintenance
*Traffic Engineering

Email:rajandce@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2434


Sreedeep S.

Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Behavioral studies on unsaturated porous media
*Characterization of geo-materials (soils and rocks)
*Thermal characteristics of geo-materials
*Contaminant transport and retention studies
*Waste containment studies
*Landslides

Email:srees@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2414


Sreeja P.

Specialization: Water Resources Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Urban Flood Modeling
*Modeling and Control of Open Channel Flows
*Infiltration and artificial recharge
*Stochastic Hydrology
*River Mechanics

Email:sreeja@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2408


Suresh Kartha

Specialization: Hydraulics & Water Resources Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Flow and transport through porous media
*Heap leaching
*Hydrology
*Numerical modeling

Email:kartha@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2422


Teiborlang L. Ryntathiang

Specialization: Transportation Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Pavement Materials
*Precast Concrete Block Pavement
*Cast In-Situ Concrete Block Pavement

Email:lyngdoh@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2403

Assistant Professor


Abhishek Kumar

Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Seismic hazards of Urban Centers

*Ground Motion Simulations

*Liquefaction

*Seismic hazard for Nuclear Power Plants

*Site response studies for deep basins

*Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) and Ground Penetration Radar (GPR)

*Subsoil Investigations and Geotechnical Engineering

*Soil Dynamics

*Dynamic testing’s on Piles

*Ground Improvement, Reinforced earth structures

*Deep Excavations

Email:abhiak@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 3329, 08812865465 (M)


Ajay Dashora

Specialization: Geomatics (Remote Sensing & Survey Engineering)

Areas of Interest:
* Synthetic Simulation
* Sensor Calibration
* Airborne and Terrestrial LiDAR
* Thermography
* Integration of Remote Sensing Technologies
* Development of Lumped Parameter Models
* Flight Planning

* Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Mapping

Email:abd@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 3337


Amit Shelke

Specialization: Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Ultrasonic wave propagation
*Acoustic-Impact detection
*Non-destructive testing

Email:amitsh@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2441


Anil Kumar Mishra

Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Chemical compatibility studies of soil-bentonite mixtures
*Waste (municipal, industrial and hazardous) management and disposal
*Unsaturated soil mechanics

Email:anilmishra@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2435


Anjan Kumar S

Specialization: Transportation Engineering

Areas of Interest:

*Analysis and Design of Pavement Structures

*Pavement Material Characterization

*Pavement Construction and Recycling

*Pavement Management Systems

*Pavement Evaluation using NDT

*Forensic Investigations of Pavement Failures

Email:sak@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 3332, +91 8134960628 (M)


Ankit Garg

Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering

Areas of Interest:

* Bioengineering for green infrastructure (vegetated slope stability,
green roof, biofiltration units)
* Modeling of Soil-root-water interaction
* Application of artificial intelligence in developing models for
determination of soil properties

Email:g.ankit2@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 3336


Archana M Nair

Specialization: Geology and Remote Sensing

Areas of Interest:

* Remote Sensing for Planetary Exploration
* Petrophysical Modelling for Petroleum Exploration
* Thermal IR Emission and Reflectance Spectroscopy
* Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Mineral Exploration
* Remote Sensing and GIS for Hydrogeological studies



Email: nair.archana@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: +91 361-2583338


Arindam Dey

Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Geosynthetic Reinforced Foundation Beds
*Geotechnical Lumped Parameter and Continuum Mechanics Modeling
*Parameter Estimation of Geotechnical Models
*Optimization, GA, ANN and Soft Computing in Geotechnical Engineering
*Ground Modification and Improvement Practices
*Soil-Structure-Foundation Interaction
*Reinforced Soil Structures
*Landslides and Slope Stability Analysis
*Seismic and Ambient Health Monitoring of Geotechnical Structures
*Reliability and Uncertainty Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering
*Forensic Investigation in Geotechnical Engineering
*Subsurface Profiling and Soil Investigation
*Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Email:arindam.dey@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2421


Budhaditya Hazra

Specialization: Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Deterministic and Stochastic Structural Dynamics
*System Identification
*Blind source separation
*Time-frequency analysis
*Vibration based condition monitoring

Email:budhaditya.hazra@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 3334


Hrishikesh Sharma

Specialization: Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Impact and Blast Resistant Design
*Reliability Analysis and Performance Based Engineering
*Design and Optimization of Protection Measures

Email:shrishi@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 3326


Indu Siva Ranjani G


Specialization: Civil Engineering Materials & Construction Management

Areas of Interest:
*Light weight concrete (Foam concrete)

*Durability related studies on concrete

*Shrinkage behaviour and thermal performance of concrete

*Sustainable materials in construction

*Lean concepts of construction

*Construction management

Email:gindu@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 3330


Kaustubh Dasgupta

Specialization: Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Earthquake Engineering
*Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures
*Retrofitting of Structures

Email:kd@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2432


Manish Kumar Goyal

Specialization: Water Resource Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Stochastic Hydrology and Distributed Hydrological Modeling
*Hydro-climatology and Statistical Downscaling
*Irrigation Management and Crop Modeling Applications
*Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning Models and Data Mining

Email:mkgoyal@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 3328


Ravi K.

Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Geo-environmental engineering

*Geo-energy systems

*Engineering behaviour of unsaturated soils

*Research on hazardous waste management

Email:ravi.civil@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 3339


Rishikesh Bharti

Specialization: Hyperspectral and Thermal Sensing and Geology

Areas of Interest:
* Hyperspectral and Thermal Remote Sensing.
* Advance processing and Analyses of High Resolution Images and

Spectra (Visible, Near Infrared, Far Infrared) for Earth and Planetary

Exploration.
* Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing for Natural Resource

Management.
* Algorithm Development for Advance Image and Spectral Analyses.
* Geographic Information System and Modeling (3D).
* Thermal Characterization of Soil and Rocks.
* Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Urban Planning.
* Airborne Remote Sensing (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) for Mapping and

Exploration.

Email:rbharti@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 3340, mobile: +91-8011363603


Sandip Das

Specialization: Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Earthquake Engineering
*Structural Dynamics
*Random Vibration

Email:sandip.das@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2404


Sri Harsha Kota


Specialization: Environmental Engineering



Areas of Interest:
* Formation, transformation and chemical mechanisms of air pollutants near roadways.
* Development of air quality models
* Estimation of emission factors

* Source apportionment of air pollutants

* Regional air quality

Email:harshakota@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 3331


T. V. Bharat

Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering

Areas of Interest:
*Behavior of unsaturated soils during infiltration & drainage
*Settlement behavior of ultra-soft soils and mine tailings
*Contaminant transport through landfill liners
*Mineralogical aspects of clays
*Inverse analysis of geotechnical & geoenvironmental engineering problems

Email:tvb@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: 0361-258 2417

Address
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Guwahati, Assam-781039.

Phone: +91-361- 258 2450
Fax: +91-361- 258 2440

Email: hodce@iitg.ernet.in, hodcivil@iitg.ernet.in