Sakshi Education: Civil Engineering in Practice

Civil Engineering in Practice

Educational Institutes followed and developed curriculum that existed for the purpose of instructing persons, who may choose to apply themselves, in the application of science to the common purposes of life. Applying science to everyday life requires both theory and hands-on practicum. While some institutes lend itself to classroom learning, others emphasized learning with practice in the physical laboratory. Designing a laboratory experience without clear instructional objectives is like designing a product without a clear set of design specifications.

Strength of Materials Lab:
To demonstrate the basic principles in the area of strength and mechanics of materials such as steel and concrete and determining stresses and strains in structural members, such as beams, columns etc., and illustrate the theory in structural analysis. Tests such as the tension tests of steel, torsion tests and bending of a steel bar are in the lab.

Concrete Technology Lab:
It deals with the Investigating of the basic properties and performance of Concrete and its component materials (cement, aggregate, admixtures, etc.) in plastic and hardened state through various experiments. It provides an environment for students to have hands on experience in proportion of concrete mix design for different exposure conditions, mixing, transporting, placing, compacting, finishing and curing of concrete.

Geotechnical Engg Lab:
Importance of soil investigations and soil testing in designing geotechnical engineering structures. Students will learn standard laboratory tests and field tests to determine soil properties and appropriate design parameters.

Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics Lab:
To learn concepts of essential fluid mechanics principles, laws, observations, and models of fluids at rest and in motion and provide basis for understanding fluid behavior for engineering design and control of fluid systems.

Survey Lab:
To gain basic knowledge on various surveying and leveling instruments and their working. The available instruments include Electronic Total Station,Theodolite, Dumpy level, Automatic level, leveling staff, Plane table and its accessories, Prismatic compass, cross staff, chains, ranging rods, offset rods etc.

Environmental Engg Lab:
To teach students on how to analyze the major water and waste water quality parameters of physical, chemical and biological nature and also teaches about methods used for planning and sampling of ground and surface waters, etc and to learn how to design and do performance analysis of pipelines, hydraulic structures, drainage and sewer systems, water and waste water treatment systems.

Geology Lab:
To analyze the physical properties of minerals and rocks using some simple physical and chemical tests and identify hand samples of igneous, sedimentary rocks by their mineralogy and texture, and relate these rocks to magma composition, cooling rates, and their environment of deposition. This lab also explains volcano's throughout the world and their relationship to plate tectonics and helps to locate and identify various features on topographic maps.

Transportation and Highway Engg Lab:
To provide an opportunity for the students to understand about Urban Transportation Planning, Pavement Engineering, Airport Planning and Design, Traffic Engineering and Management and Geometric Design of Highways. The laboratory also enables students to learn about the measurement of spot speed, traffic counts, and other traffic & transport studies.

Computer Lab:
The objective of this laboratory is to teach students the skills to create 2D and 3D AutoCAD civil engineering drawings and to provide state-of-the-art training in drafting, designing, modeling and analysis packages like STAAD Pro, ETABS, ANSYS etc. and. The lab also gives training on programming languages like C, C++ and Java.

Geo-Environmental Lab:
To impart students practical knowledge about geo environmental aspects such as landfills, impoundments, waste recycling and reuse, groundwater flow and contaminant transport, and contaminated site assessment and remediation.

Structural Engg Lab:
To demonstrate and investigate experimentally the behavior of structural elements, to illustrate the structural behavior and conducting tests of structural members to destruction.

Modeling Lab:
The main objective of the GIS and RS model laboratory is that students will develop spatial reasoning skills necessary in flowcharting and implementing GIS solutions. Understanding grid-based analytical operations and fundamental approaches used in descriptive, predictive and prescriptive mapping extends existing courses in data encoding, management and software usage.

Soil Dynamic and Rock Mechanics Laboratory:
Soil Dynamics lab objective is to provide students with the basic principles of electrodynamics. Wave propagation in piles and wave propagation in layers due to earthquakes in the underlying layers are demonstrated here explaining the dynamic behavior of soil. Rock mechanics laboratory objective is to illustrate mechanical behavior of rock and rock masses and about Rock coring and grinding machines.