Program Overview

M.E. Civil with Specialization in Infrastructure Engineering & Management

M.E. Civil with Specialization in Infrastructure Engineering & Management program deals with the design, planning, and management frameworks of various infrastructures across different sectors in Civil Engineering. The course covers broad areas in structures, construction, transportation, water resources, geotechnical and environmental engineering. The designed course develops the technical knowledge in infrastructure engineering within the environmental and economic context. The curriculum also embeds within the latest advancement of each field. The successful completion of the course helps the candidate to create new infrastructures as well as to manage the existing infrastructure systems.

Eligibility Criteria

• A minimum aggregate of 60% in the qualifying degree as indicated below:
  • B.E. / B.Tech. in Civil Engineering or its equivalent
• Candidates who are eligible will be required to take an admission interview.
• The admission will be based on the performance in the qualifying degree and admission interview.

Learning Approach

The M.E. Civil with Specialization in Infrastructure Engineering & Management is highly structured and modular in approach with classroom lectures, assignments and individual projects, enabling professionals to complete the programme in the pace and duration convenient to them. Candidates will also be required to do a dissertation or Practice School in the final semester.

Program Structure

1. It is two years (4 semesters) program.
2. (a) The student has to complete at least 12 courses (48 credit units) attributed to coursework; and (b) A Practice School (of at least 5ｽ months duration and 20 units) or a Dissertation (of at least 1 semester duration and 16 credit units).
3. The student has to complete 5 mandatory core requirements and 6 elective requirements (as provided in the list below).
4. A 4 unit course on Research Practice is mandatory for all students.

Semester Wise Pattern

• Semester 1:
  • CE G515 | Fundamentals of Systems
  • CE G523 | Transportation Systems Planning and Management
  • CE G525 | Water Resources Planning and Management
  • CE G527 | Construction Management
• Semester 2:
  • BITS G540 | Research Practice
  • CE G520 | Infrastructure Planning and Management
  • Elective
  • Elective
• Semester 3:
  • Elective
  • Elective
  • Elective
  • Elective
• Semester 4:
  • BITS G629T Dissertation
  • OR
  • BITS G639 Practice School

List of Elective Courses

• BITS F469 Financing Infrastructure Projects
• BITS F474 Rural Infrastructure Planning
• CE G538 Project Planning & Management
• BITS F494 Environmental Impact Assessment
• CE G528 Selection of Construction Equipment and Modelling
• CE G529 Construction Project Control Systems
• CE G530 Design of Construction Operation
• CE G512 Topics in Environmental Engineering
• CE G513 Advanced Computational Techniques
• CE G516 Multicriteria Analysis in Engineering
• CE G517 Waste Management Systems
• CE G537 Transportation Economics and Finance
• CE G518 Pavement Design & Analysis
• CE G522 Pavement Design, Maintenance and Management
• CE G524 Urban Mass Transit Planning, Operations and Management
• CE G526 Systems Approach to Water Resources Modelling
• CE G531 Environmental Conservation
• CE F431 Principles of Geographical Information System
• CE F433 Remote Sensing and Image Processing
• CE G533 Advanced Composite Materials for Structures
• CE G545 Airport Planning & Design
• CE G562 Advanced Concrete Technology
• CE G563 Stochastic Methods in Civil Engineering
• CE G564 Structural Health Assessment and Rehabilitation
• CE G610 Computer Aided Analysis and Design in Civil Engineering
• CE G614 Prestressed Concrete
• CE G616 Bridge Engineering
• CE G618 Design of Multi-storey Structures
• CE G619 Finite Element Analysis
• CE G632 Design of Foundation for Dynamic Loads

Practice School

Practice School Program provides students an opportunity to practice what they have learnt, in global organisations under the supervision of a mentor. Students work on cutting edge technologies and could choose to practice in their own discipline of study or cross discipline areas. In addition to providing students an opportunity to play roles requiring multifunctional skills, this flagship program also provides many students a chance to secure a PPO.

Faculty

• Dr. Akshay Venkateshwaran
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering
  • High Performance Concrete Encased Steel Columns, Lightweight Concrete Structural-Scale Slabs, Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC), Slab-Beam Composite Dowel Connections, Steel Fibre-Reinforced Concrete, Temperature and Fire Effects on Reinforced and Fibre-Reinforced Concrete Slabs
• Dr. Brij Kishor Pandey
  • Assistant Professor, Head of Department, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering
  • Climate Change, Flood risk management, GIS and Remote Sensing Data mining, Hydrological Modeling, Impact and Projection studies, Surface Hydrology
• Dr. Deepthi Mary Dilip
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering
  • Flexible Pavement Design, Reliability Analysis, Traffic and Transportation Planning
• Dr. KANCHAN SEN SHARMA
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Architecture
  • Architecture, Land Use, Land and Urban Policies, Qualitative- Quantitative mixed research, Social Sustainability, Urban Planning
• Dr. Meghana S. Charde
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering
  • Passive Solar Architecture, Sustainability in Building Design
• Dr. Neenu Thomas
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Architecture
  • Architecture, Behavioral Studies, SustainableTransport, Urban Planning

Evaluation

The multi-faceted evaluation system at BITS Pilani encourages and rewards continuous and systematic study, and provides students with continuous feedback to encourage holistic learning.

• Registration: All courses are conducted and evaluated in a continuous & internal manner by the faculty who teach the courses.
• Assessment: Assessments are done by teachers by means of continuous evaluation throughout the semester in the form of class work, periodical quizzes, tests (sometimes unannounced), tutorials, laboratory work, home work, project, etc. A comprehensive examination is also conducted at the end of the semester.
• Grading: At BITS Pilani, we reject the conventional emphasis on a single final examination and numerical marks as the only absolute indication of the quality of a student's performance. At the end of the semester teachers of the course award letter grades based on the overall performance of the student relative to the performance of others taking the same course.