Department of Civil Engineering
The department was established in the academic year 2011-2012 and offers B.Tech. Program in Civil Engineering with an intake of 30 and M.Tech. Program in Structural Engineering with an intake of 18.
Accreditation:
B. Tech Civil Engineering program was accredited by National Board of Accreditation (NBA) under Tier-1 for three years from 2018-19 to 2020-21. This was extended upto 2021-22 during pandemic period. This program was then re-accredited for three more years from 2022-23 to 2024-25 under Tier-1.
M.Tech. Program in Structural Engineering was accredited by National Board of Accreditation (NBA) under Tier-I for three years from 2022-23 to 2024-25.
Minor Degree Program: Students admitted to B.Tech. Civil Engineering (CE) can also pursue Minor Degree programs in any of the following disciplines:
- B.Tech. CE with minor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI&ML)
- B.Tech. CE with minor in Data Science (DS)
- B.Tech. CE with minor in Cyber Security (CS)
- B.Tech. CE with minor in Internet of Things (IOT)
Laboratories: All the laboratories of the department are well established as per the prescribed curriculum and also beyond. The department has state-of-the-art laboratories for Cement and Concrete Testing, Highway Material Testing, Soil Testing, Surveying, Quality Testing of water and Waste water samples. Prominant equipment are Computerised Four-Column Load Frame (1000 kN) with Load and Displacement control modes of Testing consisting 16-channel Data Aquisition System, Computerised compression testing machine (3000 kN), Accelerated Corrosion Test setup, Vacuum Curing Chamber, Accelerated Curing Tank, Air Entrainment Meter, Heat of Hydration Apparatus, Non-Destructive Testing Apparatus, Standard Penetration Test (SPT) Setup, Spectrophotometer, Noise Level Meter and Total Stations. The computer laboratory is equipped with the STAAD Pro., ETABS, AutoCAD and QGIS.
Faculty: The department has qualified and well experienced faculty members from all specializations of Civil Engineering like Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Water Resource Engineering and Construction Engineering and Management. The department offers Material Testing and Consultancy Services. The department has MoUs with Larsen & Toubro Ltd, METEY Engineering & Consultancy Pvt. Ltd, DVN Infra Projects Pvt. Ltd and Dr. S.S.Phani & Associates.
Department has 01 Emeritus Professor, 05 Professors, 03 Associate Professors and 14 Assistant Professors.
The Professors of the Department include:
- Dr. K. Ramamohan Reddy - Professor & Principal, He has 35 years of teaching experience in different capacities as Head, Centre for Water Resources in IST, JNTUH, and also as Head, Centre for Special Information Technology, IST, JNTUH. He has as many as 80 research publications in national as well as international journals and conferences. A research paper titled 'Flood Mitigation and Management' was adjudged as the best research paper by Indian National Council of Hydrology, New Delhi. He has been the Principal Investigator of two Research Projects. He also executed two consultancy projects related to the Geo-physical Investigations. He guided three Ph. D. Candidates and 52 M. Tech students. He was the regional Coordinator for EAMCET, ECET and various State Government Recruitment tests. He was also the Chief Regional coordinator for combined State Forest Department Recruitment Test. He was Director I/c, University Academic Audit Cell and Coordinator, Internal Quality Assurance Cell, JNTUH during 2019-21. He was also officer on Special Duty to Vice-Chancellor, JNTUH from July 2019 to March 2022.
- Dr.B.Naga Malleswara Rao – Professor, Head of the Department and Associate Dean, Accreditations & Approvals, Ph.D. from NIT Warangal. He is specialised in Water Resources Engineering and has 24 years of Teaching experience and 4 years of Industrial experience. He has 45 Publications in National and International Journals and Conferences.
- Dr. M.V. Seshagiri Rao - Professor and Dean, Planning & Coordination, Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad. He was the former Professor and Director of JNTU Hyderabad. He has 39 years experience in Research, Teaching, Consultancy and Construction.
He published 250 research papers and won Nine awards for his publications and works. He was the ‘Outstanding Concrete Technologist’ in 2006, awarded by the Indian Concrete Institute for his contribution to the field of Concrete Technology and received the ‘Best Teacher Award’ from the Government of A.P. in 2009 apart from other awards for his papers.
He guided 29 Ph.D. scholars on Special Concretes and 160 M.Tech. Projects. He has successfully completed R&D projects sanctioned by DST, AICTE and other funding agencies. He is also an expert member of UGC, AICTE, UPSC and APPSC. He has authored three books on ‘Fly Ash Based Bacterial Concrete’, ‘Engineering Mechanics’ and ‘Concrete Technology’.
- Dr. N. Narayana - Professor, Ph.D. from Osmania University specialised in Petrology, Geochemistry. He was the former Joint Director (Principal Scientist) of National Council for Cement and Building Materials, Hyderabad. He has an Industrial experience of 27 years and Teaching experience of 9 years. He has 40 publications, completed 11 R&D Projects and 42 Sponsored Projects. He has also authored three books.
- Dr. T. Muralidhara Rao - Professor, Ph.D. from NIT Warangal with a specialisation in Structural Engineering. He has 29 years of teaching experience. He has guided 18 B.Tech., 06 M.Tech. projects and published 35 National and International Journals and Conferences.