The Department of Civil Engineering has thirty six faculty members and eleven laboratory personnel. The department has eleven well-equipped laboratories meeting the requirements of under-graduate and post-graduate courses in Civil Engineering, Research and Consultancy.The Department of Civil Engineering offers one undergraduate program B.Tech. in Civil Engineering and three post graduate programmes – M.Tech. in Structural Engineering, M.Tech. in Construction Engineering & Management and M.Tech. in Environmental Engineering.

The curriculum of B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) is developed in such a way that the students are given exposer to the different areas of Civil Engineering like Structural Engineering, Environmental Engg., Geotechnical Engg., Water Resources Engg., Transportation Engg. etc. so that the students can develop and diversify themselves in their respective area of interest.

The M.Tech. Structural Engg. trains the students in the area of Structural analysis and design which makes them capable to take up challenging works as Structural Engineers where as the M.Tech. Construction Engg. and Management grooms the students more into Managerial skills making them suitable to take up careers like Project Managers. The M.Tech. Environmental Engg. students study water and airpollution control, recycling, waste disposal, occupational safety and health issues. It trains them to conduct hazardous waste management studies in which they evaluate the significance of the hazardous, advice on its treatment and develop management plans to prevent mishaps. They are also trained to design water supply and Industrial waste water treatment system.

The various laboratories of the department are geology lab, strength of materials lab, civil engineering lab, irrigation lab, survey lab, structures lab, computer lab, hydraulics lab, soil mechanics lab and environmental engineering, PG Research laboratory. The laboratory equipments are used for testing of various materials such as cement, concrete, aggregates, sand, timber, soil, steel, paper, plastics, wires, bricks, flat tiles, Mangalore tiles, bitumen, water and sewage. The laboratories also have leave equipments to locate bore wells and open wells, equipments for water testing and sewage testing. Other laboratory facilities include equipments for strain measurement, beam testing, model testing and testing of small structures, in-situ testing of concrete strength and soil bearing capacity and pre-tensioning equipment. Facilities for conducting extensive surveys with the aid of electronic total station are also available. In addition to teaching, the department is also engaged in consultancy, helping industry for product development and students for their research projects and carrying out extensive survey of whole villages for water supply and sewage disposal schemes. Our clients include the Konkan railway Corporation, Syndicate bank, Udupi town municipality, KIOCL Kudremukh, Brahmavar Chemicals, Bharathiya Vikas Trust, Abideep Interlock Pavers, to name a few.

From 2005 and onwards, Civil Engineering field started booming. Following reasons can be attributed to this:
A few developed Western countries like USA etc have lost their grips over their economic developments. At the same time, under-developing countries like India and China started shining in the fields of Computer Science, Electronics & Communications, and Information Technology (IT). IT companies were in need of large number of high rise buildings, residential buildings, industrial buildings and infrastructures for their smooth operations in India. Therefore construction industry in India started booming. Construction industry is in need of large number of B.Tech. (Civil Engg) graduates for construction sites, post graduates in MTech (Structural Engineering) for design offices and postgraduates in MTech (Construction Engineering & Management) at the managerial posts at the construction sites. Due to above reasons, multinational companies also started functioning in India to fulfill the needs of IT companies. Therefore at present, Civil Engineers possessing B. Tech. (Civil), M.Tech (Structural), M.Tech (CE &M) and M.Tech. (Environmental) are in heavy demand. This demand for Civil Engineers will continue for few decades to come.

Many domestic and abroad design and construction companies have started functioning in India. They undertake analysis, design and construction of high rise buildings, residential buildings, industrial buildings and infrastructures which include construction of roads, bridges etc. These companies generally absorb Civil Engineers/final year students through the campus interview. Last year i.e., in 2011 the following core Civil companies have visited Manipal Institute of Technology for placements and absorbed all students (except one student) of final year B.E. (Civil) at MIT Manipal:
TCE, L&T(ECC), Atkins, Loing O Rourke, GMR, IOCL , Unitech, L&T(Valdel), L&T, SK Samanth etc.
Besides above Civil core companies, top ranking IT companies like Infosys, TCS, Wipro etc have also chosen some of our B.Tech. (Civil Engg) students.

The increased consciousness about Environmental Protection has increased the employment opportunities for the aspirants of this field. Private and public sector firms, consultancies, R & D organizations, Mines and Chemical manufacturing units, Distilleries, Fertilizer units are some of the fields where Environmental Engineers are employed.


Dr. Narayana Shenoy
HOD