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The Construction activity is the second largest economic activity in India next only to agriculture. The amount of money invested and the jobs provided by the Civil Engineering industry are much larger than any other industry. Overall globalization of the economy has resulted in more and more demand for better infrastructure facilities like roads, bridges, airports and project related to water resources. The Civil Engineer therefore has to play a major role in the development of the country. The Department of Civil Engineering desires its students to excel in the changing trends in global economy.
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| The department of Civil Engineering has developed two fold: |
- It has well-established laboratories in subjects of Structural Engineering, Environmental, Hydraulics, Geotechnical, Transportation, Geology, Surveying and Computer Engineering. The department also maintains a well-equipped audio - visual room with facilities like VCR, TV, and overhead and slide project for projecting videocassettes, CDs, slides and transparencies containing technical demonstrations. There are more than 200 videocassettes and CDs, 35 wall charts demonstrating various Civil Engineering theories and techniques.
- The department has developed linkages with C. W. P. R. S. Pune and INSWAREB Vishakhapattanan for research works in Hydraulics and concrete materials. The department also has access to laboratories of CW & PRS and libraries of IAT, Pune and I. I. T. Powai, Mumbai. The department maintains a separate departmental library consisting of some rare books.
- The teaching staff of the department is actively involved in research works. The research works on protection of scour around bridge piers by riprap, use of mineral admixtures in concrete are some of the research work successfully done. The faculties of the department routinely publish their works in reputed journals and conferences at national and international level. The testing and consultancy cell of the department caters to the various technical services in Hydraulics, Soil Mechanics, Bridge and Dam foundations, Environmental Engineering, Concrete Materials and Surveying.
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| The department also runs a postgraduate course in Hydraulic Engineering. This course is blessed by the guidance of some of the internationally recognized scientists in the field of Hydraulics. The P.G. Students perform their dissertation works in collaboration with CW & PRS laboratories, especially the model studies. The undergraduate and postgraduate students have unlimited access to the Internet facility provided by the department. The Civil Engineering Students Association (CESA) serves as a platform for the overall development of the students. The CESA organizes personality development programs, guest lectures of experts; site visits to Civil Engineering projects and is also actively involved in social programs. The department has also organized national level workshop on artificial neural network, Hydraulic structures and advances in concrete technology in the last few years. |
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| Letter from Head of Department |
| You may be aware that in India, next to agriculture, construction activity is of prime importance. More demand for better infrastructure facilities like roads, bridges & dams is the need of present scenario of globalization. A civil engineer has to play a major role in the development of the country. We the Department of Civil Engineering of Bharati Vidyapeeth University, College of Engineering are equipped with excellent infrastructure, latest software, devoted faculty & close liason with Civil Engineering Industry. The combined efforts of our faculty and students have made wonders and many students of Civil Engineering Department have achieved excellent success in India & abroad. |
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| Faculty Members and Specialization |
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| Professors |
- Prof.V.S. Sohoni (M.E (Structures), Analysis Design of Steel, RCC & Prestressed Concrete)
- Prof. M.R. Gidde (M. E. , Environmental Engineering
- Prof. P.T. Nimbalkar (M. E. (Town & Country Planning), Surveying, Town & Country Planning)
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| Associate Professors |
- Mr. M.A. Patil (B.E. (Civil), Computer Analysis Design of structures)
- Mr. D.S. Bhosale (B.E (Civil), Building Construction)
- Mr. V.N. Kulkarni (B.E (Civil), Building Construction)
- Mr. N.R. Patil (M.E (Construction Management), Built Environment, Building Construction, Estimating & Costing, Construction Management.)
- Mr. R.H. Jadhav (M.Tech. (Structures), Strength of Materials, Concrete Composites, Design Software)
- Mrs. A.A. Patki (M.E. (Structures)), Theory of Structures, Strength of Materials)
- Mr. U.S. Patil (M.Tech (Construction Management) Estimating & Costing, Construction Management)
- Mr. M.G. Joshi (B.E. (Civil), Building Construction)
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| Assistant Professors |
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| Major Groups / Areas |
- Hydraulic Engineering.
- Structural Engineering
- Computer Aided Analysis and Design.
- Concrete Technology.
- Environmental Engineering.
- Foundation Engineering.
- Surveying.
- Project feasibility.
- Engineering Geology.
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| Expertise in Research and Consultancy |
- Pump Testing.
- Precision Survey works.
- Analysis and Design of Structures.
- Testing of Concrete, Building materials and Metals.
- Concrete Composites.
- Air &noise pollution.
- Water quality.
- Geological Investigation for Civil Engineering Structures.
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| Major Equipments |
- Universal Testing Machine (1000KN & 200KN) with computer attachment.
- Compression Testing Machine (2000KN)
- Concrete Mixer.
- Torsion Testing Machine.
- Polariscope.
- Wind Tunnel.
- Tilting Flume.
- Airflow Bench.
- Standard Penetration Tests set up.
- Electronic Distance Meter.
- High Volume Sampler with PMIO.
- Spectrophotometer.
- Nephelo Turbidity meter.
- Flame Photometer.
- Noise Level Meter.
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| Software |
- Auto CAD 2000
- STAAD-PRO
- Geo-Concept GIS
- MATLAB
- Hit-Office
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| Laboratories |
- Testing of Materials
- Engineering Mechanics
- Geotechnical & Transportation Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulic Machinery
- Survey Laboratory
- Geology Laboratory
- Computer Laboratory
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| Conferences and Workshops Organized |
- A National conference on "Hydraulics Structures"
- One day Workshop on "Artificial Neural Network- Applications in Hydraulic Engineering".
- A two-day National Seminar on Advances in Concrete Technology by Dr. P.K. Mehta, Professor Emeritus University of California, Berkley, U.S.A. was organized.
- A one-day National level Workshop on ‘Fuzzy Logic’.
- A two day National Conference on ‘Hydraulic Structures-HYDRO 2006’ in association with Indian Society For Hydraulics (ISH), in December 2006.
- National Workshop on Environment, Dams & Ports Feb. 2011.
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| Some of the prestigious consultancy projects undertaken by the department include: |
- Geotechnical investigations for widening of NH4 from Pune to Satara.
- Study of technical proposal of construction of additional two lanes of westerly diversion outside Pune City on Mumbai- Pune road NH4 on BOT basis.
- Testing performance characteristics of pumps for Kirloskar brothers.
- Curve setting of alignment of Konkan railway.
- Foundation investigations for dams and bridges of Govt. of Maharashtra.
- Testing of Concrete for ESR work of 12.5 Lac liters capacity of Pune Municipal Corporation.
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| Ongoing Research: |
- Testing of concrete and composite materials.
- Recent Advances in Pollution Control.
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