Civil Engineering

Civil Engineering Department

Research & Projects

LIST OF RESEARCH PROJECTS COMPLETED

Sr.No. Title of Project Name of the Coordinator(s)/Invetigators Funding Agency Amount (RS)
1. Slope Stability Studies on Ropar Mandi Highway  Dr.N. K.Gupta Dr.V. K. Arora Dr.R. C.Bhattachariya D.S.T. New Delhi 60,000/-
2. Modernization of Transportation Lab 1999 – 2002  Dr.S. N. Sachdeva MHRD 6,00,000/-

LIST OF ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Sr.No. Title of Project Name of the Coordinator(s)/Invetigators Funding Agency Amount (RS)
1. Artificial Ground Water Recharge Through Rain Water Harvesting 2003 – 2006  Dr.B.Setia Dr.N.K.Gupta MHRD 12,18,000/- 
2. Evaluation of Casual Factors of Road Accidents 2001 – 2004  Dr.S.N.Sachdeva MHRD 8,00,000/-
3. State Technical Agency of MORD (NRRDA) for PMGSY  Dr.R.C.Bhattachariya  
 Dr.S.N.Sachdeva
GOI  

CONFERENCE, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED BY THE DEPT. IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS

Advances in Ground Improvement Techniques (AGIT 2000)

 Chairman  Prof. R. K. Bansal
 Organizing Secretary  Prof. Ashwani Jain
    Dr. Surjit Angra

National Conference on Hydraulics and Water Resources: HYDRO 2000

Chairman  Dr. D.V.S.Verma
Organizing Secretary  Dr. Baldev Setia

AICTE Induction Training Program for Teachers of Engineering Colleges  2001

Co-ordinator  Dr. N.T.Rao

Curriculum Development Workshop   2002

Training Programme on PMGSY for field Engineers, 2003

Civil Engg. Department is state Technical Agency deputed by NRRDA,Ministry of  Rural Development, Govt. of India, for scrutiny and providing technical input to PMGSY.

Industrial tours and visits by the students

Students are being taken to field visits like construction works like bridges,buildings, roads.   They are being taken to tours like Bhakra Dam, Beas Satluj Link Project(Interlinking of rivers), Environmental tours to Chandigarh and Pinjor, Treatment Plant, Hydraulics Structures etc.

RECENT LIST OF RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS :

Sr.No. Authors Title of Publication Particulars of the Journal
1  S.K.Patidhar Effect of Micronutrients in anaerobic
 degradation of Sulphate laden organisms
Canadian Journal of Civil
Engineers, Vol. 31,June 2004
2  S.Deswal & D.V.S.Verma Oxygen transfer from Multiple Plunging
 Water Jets
I.A.E.M., India Vol. 31, No. 2
 Page 141-146
3  S.Deswal & A.Deswal Indoor Air Pollution and its Control ARPAN, India Vol. 3, Page
 15-19
4  A.Mittal V.K.Arora Prediction of Stability of Underground
Openings using EMM
Journal of Rock Mechanics &
Tunnelling Technology. July
2004 
5  Arun Goel New Stalling Basin Design for Deep
Rectangular Outlets 
International Journal of Engg.
,Vol. 17, No.1, Feb. Page
1-10, Iran
6  K.K.Singh  D.V.S.Verma Determination of Principal Permeabilities
in Two-Dimensional Fissured Rocks
Using Permeability Circle
International Journal of
 Engineering, Iran, 2004
7  K.K.Singh C.S.P.Ojha Improvement in Irrigation Efficiency Using
On-Farm Reservoir & its Efficient Operation
Water & Energy International
 Journal, 2005
8 Baldev Setia, D.V.S. Verma Upain Bhatia Scour under Pressurized Flow Condition  International Journal of
Engineering, Iran.
Oct. 2004
9  Dr.S.N.Sachdeva Traffic Characteristics of Rural roads in
Haryana
Indian Building Congress, New
 Delhi

 

Sponsored Research Projects:

Sr. No.

Year

Faculty Name

(P I & Co-PI)

Title of project

Funding Agency

1.       

2017-20

Dr.  Mahesh Pal-PI – Dept. of Civil Engg. Dr.  Mantosh, Biswas, Co-PI
Dept. of Computer Engg.

Classification and feature selection of AVIRIS-NG airborne hyperspectral data for crop cover mapping/urban mapping

SAC (ISRO)

2.       

2017-20

Dr.  Mahesh Pal-PI – Dept. of Civil Engg. Dr.  Mantosh, Biswas, Co-PI
Dept. of Computer Engg.

Fusion of Optical and Multi – frequency Multi – Polarimetric SAR data for Enhanced Crop/Vegetation and Urban Mapping

SAC (ISRO)

3.       

2018-19

Dr. S.N. Sachdeva

Research Project for Soil Strength Mapping & Stabilization

Engineer-in-Chief, Haryana PWD B&R, Chandigarh

4.       

2019-22

Dr. Shailu Dalal Guin-PI

Prof. Surinder Deswal (Mentor/Guide)

 

Removal of organic and inorganic toxins from electronic waste using isolated bacterial species and competent phytoremediators

DST under Women Scientific Scheme  (WOS-A)

5.       

2019-22

Praveen Aggarwal

Performance Assessment of Roads Constructed Using Waste Plastics

NRIDA