Department of Civil Engineering

About us

The Department of Civil Engineering offers undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D programmes with emphasis on fundamental theory and practice in Civil Engineering keeping in view the current and continuously changing scenarios in this discipline. It is proposed to start post graduate programmes in Transportation and Water Resources in the coming years. The Department has established state-of-art laboratories which can provide opportunities for the students at all levels to get acquainted with the latest developments in various avenues of Civil Engineering. In addition to Teaching and Instruction, the faculty is also engaged in active research with an aim to generate innovative concepts and ideas or apply the existing technologies to new applications. The Department has a number of ongoing/completed/applied research projects from various agencies. It plans to undertake industrial consultancy work and also organizes Conferences / Workshop for professional interaction.

Research

Structures
Water Resources
Geotechnical
Transportation
Image Processing and G.I.S.
Disaster Management
Earthquake Engineering
Finite Element Method
Disaster Loss Estimation
Genetic Algorithm and Neural Network Application

Courses

Currently the Department is offering the following programmes

B.E. (Civil Engineering
M.E.(Civil - Structural Engineering)
Ph.D.(Civil Engineering)

Faculty

Our faculty have extensive experience in industry, research as well as teaching. Our strength is a reflection of their skills, innovation and drive.

Faculty Name	Designation	Email Address
Prof. P.N.K.Rao	Professor	pnrao@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Prof.K.S.Raju	Professor	ksraju@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr.V.R.Vinayaka rao	Assistant Professor	vinayak@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr.A.Vasan	Assistant Professor	vasan@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr. Jagadeesh Anmala	Assistant Professor	jagadeesh@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr. K Gopi Krishna	Assistant Professor	kgopi@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr. K Rajitha	Assistant Professor	rajitha@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr. Murari R. R. Varma	Assistant Professor	murari@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr. Chandu Parimi	Assistant Professor	parimi@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Mr.M.Venu	Lecturer	venu@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr. MVN Siva Kumar	Lecturer	mvn@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

National Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Planning, Management and Impact of Climate Change (SWRM-2013)

Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS, Pilani-Hyderabad campus is organizing a two day National Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Planning, Management and Impact of Climate Change during April 5-6, 2013. For further details regarding the conference please visit http://sites.bits-hyderabad.ac.in/swrm2013

Text Book on Multicriterion Decision Making (year 2010) by Prof. K.S.Raju

K. Srinivasa Raju, D.Nagesh Kumar, Multicriterion Analysis in Engineering and Management, Prentice Hall of India (PHI) Learning Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, ISBN 978-81-203-3976-7, 2010, pp.288.

Citation

Dr K.Srinivasa Raju, Professor, Civil Engineering Department was cited in Scholar Google 150 most cited Civil Engineering authors ordered by Scopus h-index.

Recent Research Grant

“Multicriterion Analysis for Ranking of Various General Circulation Models to Study Water Resources of India”, 16.22 Lakhs INR, funded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi. Investigators are Prof. K.Srinivasa Raju, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus and Prof. D.Nagesh Kumar, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

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