Bachelor of Technology in

Civil Engineering

Programme Level Under Graduate

Year of Commencement 2015
Minimum Duration 4 Years (8 Semesters)
Maximum Duration 6 Years (12 Semesters)
Motivation
The development of a country primarily depends on the availability of physical infrastructure and
facilities for civil society. These Infrastructures play a vital role in the improvement of the
country’s economic growth and standard of living. The adequate infrastructure in the form of road
and railway transport system, ports, power plants, airports and their efficient working is also
essential for integration of the country’s economy with other economies of the world. A civil
engineer plays an important role in developing and maintaining these infrastructures. Our country,
which is investing significantly to improve its infrastructure facilities like metro rails, smart cities,
express ways, highways, ports, airports, dedicated freight corridors, etc. to cope up with its ever-
increasing needs, requires high quality civil engineers who can handle these specific projects. As
one of the premium institutes in India, IIT Mandi offers both UG and PG programmes in civil
engineering to train students who can take up the real-world challenges.
The undergraduate Civil Engineering programme at IIT Mandi is designed to recognize the modern
pace of development in infrastructure across the world. This programme provides basic knowledge
in engineering geology, construction materials, solid, fluid and soil mechanics, environmental
science and engineering that helps in planning, design and construction of bridges, buildings,
hydraulic structures, environmental systems, and transportation systems including highways,
railways, airports etc. Along with this broad training, students are also encouraged to pursue
elective courses in any specialized areas of Civil Engineering like structural engineering,
geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, and environmental engineering. A two–
semester project during the fourth year of the B.Tech programme is intended to synthesize their
knowledge in selected specialized area of Civil Engineering. Students are also encouraged to take
up courses from other disciplines as open electives to carry out interdisciplinary projects during
their due course of the programme. The students, who are equally inclined towards other
disciplines, can take the necessary courses under relevant program and get a minor.
Objectives of the program
• To impart knowledge on application of principles of physics and mathematics, blended with
modern data science, to provide solutions for common to most extraordinary problems of
society.
• To train how to plan, analyse, design, execute and manage the civil engineering projects.
• To develop industry-ready manpower, who are capable to take up challenging and state-of-the-
art infrastructure projects.
• To motivate the students for higher education and research to become experts in specialized
fields in order to come up with innovative and economical solutions for real world problems.
 List of Core Courses for Civil Engineering Program
(Total Credits for Discipline Core = 33)
Course Total Semester
Course Title Lecture Tutorial Practical
No. Credit
CE201 Surveying Traditional and Digital 2 0 2 3 3
CE251 Hydraulics Engineering 3 0 0 3 3
CE304P Hydraulics Engineering Lab 0 0 2 1 3
CE301 Strength of Materials and Structures 3 0 2 4 4
CE302 Geotechnical Engineering 3 0 2 4 4
CE303 Water Resources Engineering 3 0 0 3 5
CE305P Environment and Earth Science Lab 0 0 2 1 5
CE351 Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures 2 1 0 3 5
CE352 Transportation Engineering 3 0 0 3 5
CE353P Civil Engineering Drawing 0 0 2 1 5
CE354P Building and Pavement Materials Lab 0 0 2 1 6
CE401 Design of Steel Structures 2 1 0 3 6
CE403 Wastewater Engineering 3 0 0 3 6

Science I

Material Science for Engineers (3)

Science II

Environmental Science (3)

Eng. Sciences

Continuum Mechanics (3)

 Semester wise distribution of all courses
(Minimum credit requirements for B.Tech. degree 160 credits)
Abbreviations
IC Institute Core Subject (compulsory to all branches of B.Tech.)
DC Discipline Core Subject (branch specific compulsory courses)
DE Discipline Elective Subject (branch specific elective courses)
FE Free Elective (elective open to all branches of B.Tech.)
MTP (total 8 credits) Major Technical Project (optional, students may opt for courses instead)

1st Sem.
S. Core/
Course Name Lecture Tutorial Practical Credit
No. Elective
1 IC110 Engineering Mathematics 2.5 0.5 0 3
2 IC152 Computing and Data science 3 0 2 4
3 IC160 Electrical Systems Around Us 2.5 0.5 0 3
4 IC160P Electrical Systems Around Us Lab 0 0 3 2
5 IC140 Graphics for design 2 0 3 4
6 IC101P Reverse Engineering 0 0 3 2
7 HS10X Creative Understanding 1
8 HSXXX HS Basket Course 3 0 0 3
Total Credit 22

2nd Sem.
S. Core/
Course Name Lecture Tutorial Practical Credit
No. Elective
1 IC111 Linear Algebra 2.5 0.5 0 3
2 IC141 Product Realization Technology 2 0 0 2
3 IC141P Product Realization Technology Lab 0 0 3 2
4 IC161 Applied Electronics 3 0 0 3
5 IC161P Applied Electronics Lab 0 0 3 2
6 IC142 Engineering Thermodynamics 3 0 0 3
7 IC252 Data Science II 3 0 2 4
8 HSXXX HS Basket Course 3 0 0 3
Total Credit 22
 3rd Sem.
S. Core/
Course Name Lecture Tutorial Practical Credit
No. Elective
1 IC240 Mechanics of Rigid Bodies 3 0 0 3
2 IC272 Data Science III 2 0 2 3
3 CE201 Surveying: Traditional and Digital 2 0 2 3
4 CE251 Hydraulics Engineering 3 0 0 3
5 CE304P Hydraulics Engineering Lab 0 0 2 1
6 HSXXX HSS basket Course 3 0 0 3
7 HSXXX HSS basket Course 3 0 0 3
8 ICXXX Science I Basket 3 0 0 3
Total Credit 22

4th Sem.
S. Core/
Course Name Lecture Tutorial Practical Credit
No. Elective
1 IC221 Foundations of Electrodynamics 3 0 0 3
2 IC222P Physics Practicum/Practical 0 0 3 2
3 IC XXX Science II Basket 3 0 0 3
4 IC201P Design Practicum 0 0 6 4
5 CE301 Strength of Materials and Structures 3 0 2 4
6 CE302 Geotechnical Engineering 3 0 2 4
7 ICXXX Eng. Sciences Basket 3 0 0 3
Total Credit 23
 5th Sem.
S. Core/
Course Name Lecture Tutorial Practical Credit
No. Elective
1 CE303 Water Resources Engineering 3 0 0 3
2 CE351 Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures 2 1 0 3
3 CE352 Transportation Engineering 3 0 0 3
4 CE353P Civil Engineering Drawing 0 0 2 1
5 CE305P Environment and Earth Science Lab 0 0 2 1
6 FE – 1 Free Elective 3/4
7 CEXXX Discipline Elective 3 0 0 3
8 FE – 2 Free Elective 3/4
Total Credit 20 - 21

6th Sem.
S. Core/
Course Name Lecture Tutorial Practical Credit
No. Elective
1 CE401 Design of Steel Structures 2 1 0 3
2 CE403 Wastewater Engineering 3 0 0 3
3 CE354P Building and Pavement Materials Lab 0 0 2 1
4 CEXXX Discipline Elective 3/4
5 FE – 3 Free Elective 3/4
6 HSXXX HSS Elective 3/4
7 FE – 4 Free Elective 3/4
Total Credit 19 - 23
 7th Sem.
S. Core/
Course Name Lecture Tutorial Practical Credit
No. Elective
1 CEXXX Discipline Elective 3/4
2 CEXXX Discipline Elective 3/4
3 FE – 5 Free Elective 3/4
4 HSXXX HSS Elective 2/3
5 DP401P MTP-I 3
6 ITXX1 Internship 0 0 2 2
Total Credit 15-23

8th Sem.
S. Core/
Course Name Lecture Tutorial Practical Credit
No. Elective
1 FE – 6 Free Elective 3/4
2 FE – 7 Free Elective 3/4
3 DP402P MTP-II 5
Total Credit 11-13
 Tentative List of Discipline Elective Courses
S.
Course Course Name Lecture Tutorial Practical Credit
No.
Geology and Remote Sensing
1 CE252 Geology and Geomorphology 2 0 2 3
2 CE508 Photogeology and Photogrammetry 2 0 2 3
3 CE501 Remote Sensing 2 0 2 3
4 CE601 Geo-Informatics 2 0 1 3
Geotechnical Engineering
5 CE402 Geotechnical Engineering-II 2 1 0 3
6 CE504 Slope Stability and Retaining Structures 3 0 0 3
7 CE505 Engineering of Ground Modification 3 0 0 3
8 CE514 Rock Mechanics 3 0 0 3
9 CE551 Geosynthetics and their applications 3 0 0 3
10 CE560 Soil Dynamics 3 0 0 3
11 CE512 Advanced Soil Mechanics 3 0 0 3
12 CE513 Advanced Foundation Engineering 3 0 0 3
Constitutive Modeling of Frictional
13 CE606 3 0 0 3
Material
Structural Engineering
14 CE506 Analysis of Indeterminate Structures 3 0 0 3
15 CE507 Advanced Concrete Science 3 0 0 3
16 CE509 Bridge Engineering 3 0 0 3
Structural Dynamics with Application to
17 CE511 3 0 0 3
Earthquake Engineering
18 CE552 Concrete Technology 3 0 0 3
19 CE 554 Prestressed Concrete Structure 3 0 0 3
20 CE555 Advanced Design of Structures 3 0 0 3
21 CE556P Structural Engineering Laboratory 0 0 4 2
22 CE557 Solid Mechanics in Structural Engineering 3 0 0 3
23 CE602 Blast Engineering 3 0 0 3
Engineering Seismology and Seismic
24 CE605 3 0 0 3
Hazard Assessment
Analysis and Design for Earthquake
25 CE610 3 0 0 3
Resistant Structures
26 CE611 Structural Health Monitoring 3 0 0 3
27 CE612 Theory of Plates and Shells 3 0 0 3
28 ME513 Finite Element Methods in Engineering 3 0 2 4
Water Resource and Environmental Engineering
29 CE355 Hydrology 3 0 0 3
 Groundwater Flow and Contaminant
30 CE502 3 0 0 3
Transport Modeling
Modelling and Simulation in Water
31 CE510 2 0 2 3
Resources Engineering
32 CE558 Air Pollution and its Mitigation 3 0 0 3
33 CE559 Biological Wastewater Treatment 3 0 0 3