Department of Civil Engineering organised a site visit to Water treatment plant for S7 CE students on 19/10/23. The visit was organized for students to get exposure to the Industrial aspects of the theory & practical course on Environmental Engineering.

Civil Engineering Department of MITS, started associating with Kerala Water Authority for their upcoming Project at Pannikkuzhy as Consultant for Soil Investigation.

ICI Student chapter of MITS organized a student initiative activity of two Technical sessions on 27th September 2022.

1. Buildings with CO2 &
2. 8 Concrete Innovations

We are extremely glad to inform you that the Department of Civil Engineering of Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science is organizing a 5-day online Faculty Development Programme on “Advanced Soil Reclamation Techniques” from 4th April 2022 to 8th April 2022.

To know more about the Programme – FDP-Brochure

The Project titled “An overview of steel pedestrian suspension bridge: Failure study, design and lateral load resisting mechanism” was awarded outstanding Thesis (Bachelor) in the ICI Ultratech awards 2021. The team consists of Civil engineering students of batch 2016 – 2020 – Er. Eldho Raju, Er. Gopika R, Er. Jomisha Mary Jolly, Er. Ninya Babu. The team was mentored by Dr. Babu Kurian (Head of the Department – Civil Engineering).

ICI Student chapter of MITS, Civil Engineering department was awarded as the Outstanding student chapter for the year 2020 considering the activities and initiatives contributed by the chapter.

The 3 day online short term training program on “Recent Advancements in Structures and Materials” organized by Civil Engineering Department of MITS, Varikoli has commenced with the inaugural session, presided by Dr. Neelankantan P. C. (Principal, MITS) and Dr. S. S. Injaganeri (Principal, Basaveshwar Engineering College, Karnataka.) as the Cheif guest for the event.

Department of Civil engineering in organizing an expert talk on “Delineation of groundwater potential zone” on 13/11/2020 through the online platform Google meet. The session will be handled by Dr. G. Sindhu, Professor & Research Dean, Dept. of Civil engineering, College of Trivandrum.

An Online seminar on “Steel Making” is being organized by the III cell in association with Eternia by the department of Civil engineering on 12-Nov-2020 at 05:00 p.m. The Speaker for the event is Mr. Akhilraj T. , senior Technical officer, Metrolla steels ltd. (Metcon TMT Bars). Online platform Google meet will made use of for the conduct of event.

ICI Student chapter of MITS in association with ETERNIA is organizing “Speak Fourth” – exclusively a Student Initiative intended for second year and third year students.

The department of Civil Engineering has organized a technical talk on ‘Introduction to Design Thinking’ on 17-10-2020. The session was handled by Mr. Arun Joji, M. Des Scholar, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Online platform google meet was used for ensuring proper interaction between the expert and participants. The informative and innovation packed session was intended for second year students.

Congrats!! Dr Mary Lissy P.N, HoD – First year, for successfully defending her PhD thesis titled “Removal of copper (II) and chromium (VI) ions from aqueous media using magnetic nanoadsorbents” from Cochin University of Science And Technology.

Department of Civil Engineering is organizing a technical talk on “Climate change and its impact on water resources”. The session will be held by Dr. Eldho T.I. (Head of Civil Engineering Department, IIT Bombay). The session is scheduled for 08.10.2020 @ 4.00 p.m. through online platform Google Meet.

The students from the 2020 batch who secured a CGPA greater than 8.0 in their B.Tech course in Civil Engineering.

Eternia –  Civil engineering association in association with ICI & IGBC organized a technical talk on “Integrating Safety In Construction Life Cycle”. The eminent speaker from TATA Consulting Engineers, Mr. Joshy John interacted with students of Civil Engineering department in MITS. A very effective exercise in exposing students to the industry practices and application of knowledge they gain through Civil engineering.

An Industry Institute cell initiative of Department of Civil engineering for bridging the gap between industry and institute is scheduled from 30/07/20. The resource persons are from industry with which MITS, CED has signed memorandum of understanding.

Dr. Babu Kurian, Dean & Head, handled a session on 04/06/20 – “Diaphragm Wall Earth Retention System” as part of E-learning Technical
Webinar series hosted by K.Ramakrishnan College of Technology, Tamilnadu.

ICI student chapter of MITS is organizing “Speak-Forth ” : a lecture series by students. Its an initiative intended to create add-on information in the domain of concrete technology among young civil engineering aspirants.

Sl. No	Topic	Speaker	Link
1	Smart Concrete	Ms. Athira AnilKumar, Ms. Ruhama Anna Sam	https://youtu.be/E1PtjCHhWmo
2	CO2 – Cured concrete	Ms. Ganga S, Ms. Fathima Shirin	https://youtu.be/trUE8TWE4G4
3	3D Concreting printing	Ms. Sara J Mathew, Ms. Haritha Hariharan	https://youtu.be/yeeA8SKi-_0

Department of Civil Engineering, is conducting a 3-day Online Short Term Training Program from 27^th May 2020 to 29^th May 2020 on ‘Safety measures in transportation systems’ in collaboration with experts from Academia, Research centre and Industry.

A technical discussion on Economical and Durable Concrete Using Blended Cements.

On 2^nd September 2019, a Technical Session was held at MITS for enhancing the student knowledge in Durable concrete making use of blended cements. The session was handled by  Er.Sebin Jose, Asst. General Manager, Customer service, Zuari Cement Ltd.

ETERNIA, in association with ICI student chapter of MITS and Builders Association of India, organized a technical talk for students on “Balanced Cantilever construction of Kochi Metro” delivered by Shri G Kesava Chandra , Chief Engineer, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on 17th February, 2020. The session entailed informative ideas on the construction of Kochi Metro.

Talk on “Application of Artificial Intelligence in the field of civil Engineering”

 Eternia, Civil Engineering Association of MITS organized a talk  for  s4,s6 and s8 students on “Application of Artificial Intelligence in the field of civil Engineering” delivered by Mr Mahalingam P R, Computer Science department , MITS  on 27^th January 2020.The talk focused on providing a brief introduction to machine learning which is a subset of of Artificial Intelligence that analyses statistical models to perform a task without explicit instructions,relying on pattern and interference instead

Technical Session on Non destructive Testing

Eternia, Civil Engineering Association, of MITS organized  an introductive session for s4,s6 and s8 students regarding the NDT tests and its job opportunities delivered by trainees from Techshore Engineering Serives, Pvt Ltd on 20^th January 2020 . Techshore Inspection Services is a leading engineering service provider offering a wide range of innovative services, engineering solutions, and professional training in the field of Oil and Gas, Power and other major industries in the disciplines of Mechanical, Civil, Instrumentation and NDT(Concrete NDT/Mechanical). This session focused on the various NDT tests like Rebound Hammer and Ultrasonic testing, and the courses offered by them for letting the engineers to have an hands on experience. Techshore inspired the students to  design and create products, services and systems which can transform the industry and human lives.

Survey Camp as part of “Rebuild Kerala Initiative”

Third year students of Civil engineering department conducted road survey for “Rebuild Kerala Initiative” to reconstruct Panchayath and municipal roads damaged during the flood 2018 & 2019 . The surveying camp was held from 7th January 2019 onwards for 6 days in various Panchayaths. A total stretch of more than 8 kms were surveyed and the reports were submitted to LSGD.

 The lists of roads are

• Thiruvaniyoor Meppadam road
• Malayidamthuruth  Jaram  road
• Muttom Edamala Road
• Ambedkar Thriveni road
• Nadakkavu Etherikavu Road
• North Ezhipram School madavana road

Design Studio

A one week hands-on training program for pre final year students on preparation of spreadsheet templates for design and detailing of various RCC structural components was organized by Department of Civil Engineering in second week of January 2020.

In – House Faculty Development Program on “MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING”

The Department of Civil Engineering has been conducted an in – house Faculty Development program on ‘Multivariate Data Analysis in Civil Engineering’ on 10^th January 2020.

The program mainly aims to give the importance of data analysis and the applications of different tools and software used for data analysis in the field of Civil Engineering. The faculty development program is organized by aiming MITS Civil Engineering faculty to give an idea about the mathematical background of regression analysis, importance of regression analysis and the applications of different tools and software used for data analysis in the field of Civil Engineering.

The program commenced at 09:00am. Dr. Babu Kurian, Dean and Head of the department of Civil Engineering welcomed the gathering. DrP. C. Neelakantan, Principal, MITS inaugurated the program.

Resource Persons & Topics of discussion :

Ms. Tessymol Cyriac, Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Science and Humanities – ‘Introduction to linear regression analysis’

Ms. Mary Lissy P. N., Associate Professor of Civil Engineering department – ‘Surface Modelling using Minitab’

Dr M. S. Sandeep, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering – ‘Practical session of regression analysis using Microsoft Excel’

Ms. A. Nishida, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering – ‘Regression analysis using R’

Mr. Sunith John David, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering – ‘Applications of SPSS in statistical analysis for researchers’

 

On 7^th November 2019, a hands on workshop on Concrete Mix Design was conducted for final year civil students of MITS by the association of Qcrete India (P) Ltd, one of the largest producers of ready mix concrete in state. The session was handled by Er. Shelly S Fernandez, Managing Director, Qcrete Ready Mix India (P) Ltd. The session was included with both mix design calculation with and without admixtures and trials in the laboratory based on the designed mix by students. From industry point of view, the session was very much benefited for the students to realize the exact practice happening in the field of concrete technology.

Third year students from Department of Civil Engineering visited a Civil construction site on 24th September 2019 as part of gaining exposure to industry practices. The site visited by student is at Puthencruz Panchayath. The ongoing project visited was of construction of a Retaining wall and Box culvert undertaken by LSGD Puthencruz Panchayath. The project stage at the time of visit was laying of reinforcement bars and intial preparations for concreting.

The students were addressed by the Assistant Executive Engineer and a detailed explanation on the ongoing project activity and industry practices was delivered by the Assistant Engineer, LSGD Puthencruz Panchayath.