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Civil Engineering

- a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and natural built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings. Civil engineering is the oldest engineering discipline after military engineering and it was defined to distinguish it from military engineering. It is traditionally broken into several sub-disciplines including municipal engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, water resources engineering, materials engineering, coastal engineering, surveying, and construction engineering - Wikipedia.

Interactive Teaching

EE Labs & Tutorials, Civil Eng Inteactive Labs & Demos, Electrical Engineering Downloadable Software

Strength of Materials

  • Strength of Materials - Statics of Simple Structures, Stress, Strain, Hooke's Law, Thermal Stress and Deformation, Beam Analysis including Shear Force and Bending Moments, Riveted, Bolted and Welded Joints
  • Statics and Strength of Materials - Translational and Rotational Equilibrium Conditions, Statics for Simple Structures, Stress, Strain, Hooke's Law, Thermal Stress and Deformation, Mixed Mechanical/Thermal Effects, Beam Analysis, Torsion and Power Transmission, Riveted, Bolted, and Welded Joints

Project Management

theory, methods and quantitative tools used to effectively plan, organize and control construction projects, Efficient management methods revealed through practice and research, hands-on, practical project management knowledge from on-site situations

Civil Engineering Systems

  • Water Sanitation & Health - Water and excreta-related communicable diseases, Settled sewerage, Simplified sewerage, On-site sanitation, Case study, Water Supplies and Sanitation, Community sanitation blocks, Ecological Sanitation, technology selection,links, Hygiene and Hygiene Education, Gender, Energy and Health, History
  • Low Cost Waste Water treatment & Reuse - introduction to LIFE, BOD removal kinetics, Waste stabilization ponds, Effluent quality requirements, WSP in the UK & Europe, Rock filters, storage & treatment reservoirs, crop irrigation, aquaculture

Structural Design for Dynamic Loads

influence of time-varying loads such as wind and earthquakes on structural and architectural design, fundamentals of structural vibrations plus the physical principles underlying wind flow and seismic phenomena and their influence at the scale of the region, city, site, building, and details, use of three dimensional computer-based structural analysis in understanding dynamic phenomena and their interaction with static loads due to gravity

Various Courses

  • Statics and Dynamics - Units, Newton’s Laws, General Principles of Mechanics, Concurrent Force Systems, Moments, Parallel Forces and Their Resultants, Centroids, Equilibrium of Rigid Bodie, Trusses, Frames, and Machines, Internal Forces in Structural Members, Shear and Bending Moment in Beams, Friction, Second Moments, Kinematics of Particles, Particles (Work-Energy, Linear Impulse & Momentum), Impact
  • Structural Concrete Design - Building system primary functions, Types of load, RC structural members: project

Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods

quantitative techniques of Operations Research with emphasis on applications in transportation systems analysis (urban, air, ocean, highway, pick-up and delivery systems) and in the planning and design of logistically oriented urban service systems, unified study of functions of random variables, geometrical probability, multi-server queueing theory, spatial location theory, network analysis and graph theory and relevant methods of simulation.

Civil Engineering Class Notes

  • Continuum Mechanics - engineering use of mechanistic models and analysis techniques, how various areas in civil engineering students use continuum mechanics principles
  • Surveying Camp - FIELD NOTES, HORIZONTAL DISTANCE MEASUREMENT, HORIZONTAL CONTROL, LEVELING, SIMPLE CIRCULAR CURVES, COMPOUND CURVES, STADIA SURVEYING, REVIEW PROBLEMS, Instructions on the use of Total Station
  • Geomatics - SPHERICAL COORDINATES, GEODESY, MAPPING AND PROJECTION, VERTICAL CONTROL, HORIZONTAL CONTROL SURVEYS, TOTAL STATION SURVEYS, SATELLITE SURVEYS, DIGITAL MAPPING AND EARTHWORK, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES,

Units of Study

  • Intro to Structural Concepts and Design - design concepts and the design of steel, concrete and timber structures, limit states design and structural loading, different foundation systems and their choice, design of steel, concrete and timber elements, selection of foundation and structural systems including bracing, and floor systems, computation of permanent, imposed, wind and earthquake loads, simple structural elements for flexure in concrete, steel and timber
  • Soil Mechanics - nature of soils as engineering materials, common soil classification systems and their uses, water in the soil and the engineering effects of water movement, factors controlling soil settlement and the methods of settlement calculation, concept of soil strength and how this can be used to calculate earth pressures
  • Instrumentation & Measurement - philosophy and principles of measurement, its uses in Civil Engineering practice and research, underlying physical principles and basic electrical/electronic and signal processing issues, issues in the planning and construction of experiments
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