KEC for Civil Engineering Education

With more than 16 full-time and more than 25 part-time and visiting faculties, which include Assistant Lecturers, Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, Professors as well as other professionals and experts, the Department of Civil Engineering at KEC is working vigorously to conduct all academic activities as excellently as possible.

The academic buildings and labs are all located within the city’s commercial area, although they’re situated at a safe distance from the Main Street to ensure that noise and air pollution, as well as other forms of disturbance do not affect our students. The department has the authority to arrange for guest lecturers, organize talk programs and seminars with the involvement of noted academicians, professionals and experts on all concerned matters to enhance the learning process among students.

Several academic field visits like survey camps, geology site visits, hydrology field work, irrigation field visits, hydropower field visits, transportation field visits, and the like are arranged by the department to help inculcate practical knowledge, as well as to aid students in the process of synchronizing these skills with their theoretical knowledge they’ve gained. In addition to regular courses, students are also trained to use software related to the civil engineering sector. Departmental academicians are also empowered to take advantage of research activities and technical papers. The most powerful characteristic of the department is that it provides an all- and any-time learning environment to its students as and when required.

Participation

The Department of Civil Engineering at KEC believes in the enhancement of its human resources. Hence, it encourages the participation of both its students as well as its teachers in various seminars and trainings with reputed organizations. Some of our teachers have acted as noted resource-persons in national- and international-level trainings organized by various groups.

Elective Courses

KEC offers its students a choice of the most relevant subjects in the final year of their study as electives: Elective I, II and III are all topics of their choice. The subjects offered are:

• Solid Waste Management
• Structural Dynamics
• Suspension Bridge
• Advance Geotechnical Engineering
• Traffic and Transport Modeling
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Rock Slope Engineering
• Finite Element Methods
• Hill Irrigation
• Traffic Engineering and Planning
• Design of R.C.C. Bridge
• Rock Engineering (for hydropower development)
• Urban Planning
• GIS and Remote Sensing
• Construction Safety Management
• Environmental Management System
• Design of Earthquake resistant structure

Civil Engineering Curriculum