Civil Engineering is worried with the change in nature of essential needs of human progress and dealing with the actually and humanly fabricated conditions with their arranging, outlining, development, operation and upkeep. The Civil Engineering Department at NIT Rourkela is sincerely attempting to create answers for real maintainability difficulties of the nation and resolved to deliver pioneers affecting the general public on the loose.

The Department is effectively required in fundamental and connected research in the field of Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Water Resources Engineering and Environmental Engineering alongside top notch specialized admonitory support to different associations through R&D undertakings and consultancy.

Academic Programmes

Programme
Duration
Branch/Specialisation

Ph.D.
-
Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Water Resources Engineering and Environmental Engineering

M. Tech. (Research)
-
Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Water Resources Engineering and Environmental Engineering

M. Tech.
2 years
Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Water Resources Engineering

B. Tech.
4 years
Civil Engineering

Dual Degree B. Tech & M Tech.
5 years
Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Water Resources Engineering

Infrastructure:

Structural Engineering Laboratory [PIC : Prof.(Mrs.) Asha Patel]
Loading Frame for Beam Testing (Fabricated, NIT Rourkela), Universal Testing Machine (FIE, India), Horizontal Shake Table (Milenium, Bangalore), Compressing Testing Machine (Avery), Pulse Vibration Analyzer (Bruel & Kjaer, Denmark), Vibrometer (Ometron, UK), Electronic Universal Testing Machine (FIE, India)

Material Testing Laboratory [PIC : Prof. Uttam Kumar Mishra]
Universal Testing Machine

Computational Laboratory [PIC : Prof. Manoranjan Barik]
Autocad, ANSYS, Matlab, Staad.pro, Plaxis

Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory [PIC : Prof. Suresh Prasad Singh]
Automatic Triaxial Test Apparatus (Aimil, India), Large Direct Shear Test Apparatus (Lawrence and Mayo, India), Block Vibration Testing Equipments, Generalized Static Loading set up for Soil Testing (Indigenous, NIT Rourkela), Nuclear Moisture Meter (CPN, USA)

Highway and Concrete Laboratory [PIC : Prof. Mahabir Panda]
Repeated Load Indirect Tensile Test (Fabricated, NIT Rourkela), Dynamic Shear Rheometer (Malvern, UK), Brook Field Viscometer (Brookfield, USA), Modified Marshall Test Apparatus (Aimil, India), Asphalt Rolling Thin Film Oven (James Cox, US), Pressure Aging Vessel (Prentex, USA), Viscometer (Brookfield, USA)

Hydraulic Machine Laboratory [PIC : Prof. Awadhesh Kumar]
Wind Tunnel (Fabricated, NIT Rourkela), Air Flow bench and Hydraulic Bench

Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics Laboratory [PIC : Prof. Kisanjit Kumar Khatua]
Tilting Hydraulics (Fabricated, NIT Rourkela), Acoustic Doppler Velocity Meter (SonTek, USA), Computer controlled constant temperature anemometer (Dantec, Denmark)

GIS & Remote Sensing Laboratory [PIC : Prof. Ramakar Jha]
Designjet 4000 dpi Plotter (HP), Designjet 4500 dpi Scanner (HP), Remote Sensing Software-ERDAS-Imagine, GIS Software-ARC-GIS, MIKE BASIN, MIKE FLOOD

Environmental Engineering Laboratory [PIC : Prof.(Mrs.) Kakoli Karar(Paul)]
UV-Spectrophotometer (Perkin-Elmer, USA), Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (Perkin-Elmer, USA)

Events:

Title: Static and dynamic studies of wind turbine rotor blade system
Speaker: Rajendra Roul, Roll No.- 515 CE 1005
Venue: Seminar Room Civil Engineering Department
Date: 06 Mar 2017
Time: 4.30 PM

Title: Static and Dynamic Analyses of Stiffened Plated Structures
Speaker: Prakash Ranjan Sahoo, Ph.D. Student (514CE1006)
Venue: Seminar Room Civil Engineering Department
Date: 03 Mar 2017
Time: 4.30 PM