MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,

BHOPAL

Department Of Civil Engineering

CE218 PROFESSIONAL PRACTISES

Dr. Bivina G.R.

Assistant Professor
Transportation Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
MANIT Bhopal
Email Id: [email protected]

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Course Outline

The course introduces the civil engineering profession and the degree programme to second year

students and prospective students. The different disciplines of civil engineering are briefly explained,

along with the pre-requisites, scope and opportunities. Career prospects and novel/emerging areas

are also presented. This should be a compulsory first course in civil engineering to present the

perspective for the undergraduate students.

Course Plan
• Week 1: What is Civil Engineering? Different disciplines of civil engineering.
scope and prospects. Heritage structures, architecture

• Week 2: Environmental Engineering. Prevention of environmental impact.

Pollution, waste and water treatment

• Week 3: Geotechnical Engineering. Soil mechanics and foundations. Hydraulics

and water resources

• Week 4: Construction Materials and Methods. Infrastructure Engineering.

Sustainability.

• Week 5: Structural Engineering. Analysis, design and modelling

• Week 6: Highway Engineering. Traffic Engineering and Planning

• Week 7: Automation and Robotics in Construction.

• Week 8: Novel areas. Career Prospects

The Field of Civil Engineering

• The civil engineering profession involves analysis, planning, design,

construction and maintenance of different types of facilities for

government, commerce, industry and the public .

• These include high-rise office towers, factories schools, airports, tunnels
and subway systems, dams, canals, and water purification and
environmental protection facilities, such as solid waste and wastewater

treatment systems .
 What Civil Engineers Do

• Civil engineers coordinate the needs of society, with technical and

economic feasibility.

• Civil engineers are concerned with the impact of their projects on the
public and the environment.

• Civil Engineering is a broad discipline that unifies a number of

aspects of engineering and sciences.
 What Civil Engineers Do

• Habitat
• Water
• Comfort
• Safety
• Hygiene
• Fauna & Flora • Transportation
• Green cover • Livelihood (jobs)
• Climate
• Water
• air

• Planning
• Architecture
• Design
• Construction
• Maintenance
History of Civil Engineering

• Humans adapted cave shelters to protect themselves of weather and

harsh environment, and used tree trunks to cross rivers, demonstrating
he ancient age of civil engineering.

Bhimbetka Caves, Madhya Pradesh

History of Civil Engineering

Living tree root bridges of Meghalaya

History of Civil Engineering

Sanchi Stupa
History of Civil Engineering

Varaha Caves of Mahablipuram

History of Civil Engineering

Houses & Streets of Mohenjo-Daro

History of Civil Engineering

Some milestones from Historical documents

• Around 2550 BCE, Imhotep, the first documented engineer, built a pyramid for
King Djoser located at Saqqara Necropolis(Egypt).

• Earliest examples of a scientific approach to physical and mathematical

problems applicable to civil engineering.

• Archimedes in the 3rd century BCE, including Archimedes Principle and

Archimedes' screw; Brahma Gupta, an Indian mathematician, used arithmetic in
the 7th century CE, for excavation (volume) computations.
History of Civil Engineering

• The Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology

Roorkee is the oldest in India; established in 1847,as Roorkee College.
A Civil Engineering Professional

A civil engineer should be one who:

• Enjoys problem solving and giving action to one's ideas.

• Has curiosity about how things work and how to improve them.

• Is interested in improving the environment and reducing negative impact.

• Is socially aware and wants to help people live better·

• Is creative, yet practical

Career Paths for Civil Engineers

The possibilities for Civil Engineers are endless:

• Government and public sector organizations Industry: design, construction and

operation.

• Engineering management, Policy and Planning Consultancy for design, quality

assurance, testing, .·

• Education, Research and development.

• Marketing and Business management Computers Law.

• Medicine In combination with other experts, e.g., economists, geologists

Inspirational Projects

Bandra Worli Sea Link (2009)

• Built over Mahim Bay in Mumbai.8 lane wide; 5.6 km long

• 3.8 km lies over the sea.

• Reduces travel time from more than an hour to just 7 minutes

as29 traffic lights are avoided.

• Supports roughly 1,25,000vehicles a day. Saves about Rs 100

crore/year in vehicle operating costs.

• Cost of Rs 350 crore escalated to Rs 1634 crore on completion.

Inspirational Projects

Bandra Worli Sea Link

Inspirational Projects

Burj Khalifa (2010)

• Over 828 m and more than 160stories tall. Has broken many world
records.

• Consumed 330,000 m3 of concrete,39,000 tonnes of steel

rebars,83,600 m2 of glass and 22 million man-hours.

• Total project cost US $ 20 billion(tower cost $ 4.2 billion)· 100 year

design life.

• Total built-up area of about 6 million sq.ft .; nearly2 million sq. ft.
of residential space and over 300,000 sq. ft. of office space.
Burj Khalifa
Inspirational Projects

The Channel Tunnel (1994)

• 50.5 km undersea tunnel linking England with northern France. Atits lowest
point, it is 75 metres (250 ft) deep.

• Two rail tunnels and a service tunnel. The Channel Tunnel was completed at a
cost of $21 billion.

• In the first five years of operation, trains carried 28 million passengers and 12
million tons of freight through the tunnel.
The Channel Tunnel
Inspirational Engineers

M. Visvesvaraya (1860-1962)
• He implemented an extremely intricate system of irrigation in the Deccan area.

• He also designed and patented a system for raising the storage in a reservoir
without causing any damage to the dam.

• He designed a flood protection system for the city of Hyderabad and a system to
protect Visakhapatnam port from sea erosion.

• He supervised the construction of the Krishna Raja Sagar Dam across the
Cauvery River.

• This created the biggest reservoir in Asia, when it was built in 1924.
 Inspirational Engineers

Fazlur Khan (1929-1982)

• Considered to be the Einstein of Structural Engineering for his innovative use of
structural systems that remain fundamental to modern skyscraper construction.

• His most famous buildings are the John Hancock Center and the Willis Tower
(formerly Sears Tower), which was the world's tallest building for several
decades.
Inspirational Engineers
Stephen Bechtel (1900 -1989)
• His imagination was fired by grandiose projects - the more seemingly impossible
the better.

• Primary manager in the building of Hoover Dam in the early 1930s. In the course of
five years workers excavated 3.7 million cu. yds. of rock and poured 4.4 million cu.
yds. of concrete.

• His company built pipelines and power plants in the Canadian Rockies, across the
Arabian desert and through South American jungles.

• His portfolio even includes an entire city(Jubail, Saudi Arabia). Bechtel built in
140countries and on six continents.

• His design innovations significantly improved the construction of high-rise

buildings, enabling them to withstand enormous forces generated on these super
structures.
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