Laboratories

Surveying Laboratory
This laboratory helps the students to gain basic knowledge on the various surveying and leveling instruments and their working. The available instruments include Transit Theodolite, Dumpy level, Automatic level, leveling staff, Plane table and its accessories, Prismatic compass, Subtense bar, cross staff, chains, ranging rods, offset rods etc.

Strength of Materials Laboratory
This lab deals with the testing of properties of various materials like brass, mild steel, Torsteel, aluminium etc. The machineries include 400kN capacity Universal Testing Machine (UTM), Torsion Testing Machine, Izod and Charpy Impact Testing Machines, Brinell and Rockwell Hardness Testing Machines, Spring Testing Machine for both open and close coiled springs, Torsion Pendulum etc.

Concrete Laboratory
This lab is of utmost importance for a Civil Engineering student as it deals with the testing of various construction materials such as cement, aggregates, and concrete (both fresh and hardened) tiles and bricks. The various apparatus set up in the Concrete lab are Air Permeability apparatus, Vicat apparatus, Le Chatliers apparatus, Slump cone, Compaction factor apparatus, Riffle sample divider, Length gauge, Thickness gauge, IS sieves for sieve analysis of cement and aggregates etc. The machinery includes a 2000kN capacity Compression testing machine, 100 kN Flexure Testing Machine, Vibrating table for compacting specimen etc. Other accessories include compressometer, concrete penetrometer, moulds, cuboids, cylindrical & beam, weighing pans, platform type weigh balance, cylindrical measures, tamping rods etc.

Software Lab
The Civil Engineering department has an excellent software Laboratory intended to provide state-of-the-art training for students in drafting ,modeling and analysis packages. The lab is provided with licensed versions of AutoCAD 2008, Auto CAD inventor 2008, and ANSYS 11.0 Softwares The lab also gives training on programming languages like C and C++.

Geotechnical Lab
The geotechnical lab of Civil Engineering department is well equipped with latest testing facilities for determination of strength and compressibility characteristics of service. The laboratory is having the following testing facilities: specific gravity and moisture content test, Field density and void ratio test, sieve analysis, hydrometer analysis, atterberg limits, permeability test, compaction test, consolidation test, unconfined Compression test, direct shear test, vane shear test, california bearing ratio (CBR) test.

Transportation Engineering Laboratory
The testing of highway materials viz bitumen and aggregates is essential for ascertaining its suitability in road construction. The Transportation Engineering laboratory has facilities for testing the various properties of both aggregate and bitumen. The tests carried out for aggregates include crushing strength, impact test, specific gravity of aggregate, Angularity Number etc. The tests on bitumen includes Ductility test, Softening Point Test, Penetration Test, Specific Gravity Test, etc. The Lab also has facilities for performing the California bearing ratio (CBR) test.

Environmental Engineering Laboratory
The Laboratory has sophisticated equipments to analyze pollution parameters in water and waste water. The facilities include pH meter, desiccators, Water bath, Hot air oven, Muffle furnace, Spectrophotometer, BOD incubator, Conductivity meter, Naphelometer, Analytical balance, Electronic balance, Jar test apparatus, Hot plate, Muffle furnace, Magnetic stirrer, etc. It is being planned to have state of the art instruments so as to cater to the needs of the post graduate students and faculty members for carrying out advanced research and consultancy work in the area of Environmental Engineering.

Department Library
The library of the Civil Engineering Department plays a key role in maintaining a vast collection of books related to various streams of Civil Engineering. The department library forms the backbone for the advancement of consultation and research work in the department. The library preserves a good collection of text books, reference books, project reports, IS codes, etc. The department library works hand in hand with the main library of the college. The facilities available in the department library are utilized effectively by the faculty members and students.