The Civil Engineering Department was established in 1982 with an initial intake of 40 students. And the present strength of 120 is since 2012. And also started M.Tech in Water Resources Management, M.Tech in Geotechnical Engineering since 2011 with an Intake of 18. Since then, the department has contributed in imparting knowledge based education to the students and strives to train the rural youth technically to meet the demands in the field.

The staff members are highly qualified and experienced with total dedication. Many staff members have attended national seminars/ workshops on various topics of Civil Engineering and have presented nearly 80 papers . All labs in the department are spacious, well equipped and have provisions for future development.

  • Well furnished Computer Aided Design (CAD) Lab.
  • Latest software like SCADDS and Auto CAD Lab.
  • LAN is available for 20 nodes.
  • High speed Broad Band Internet facility is available.
  • Material Testing Lab is having 60 tone capacity PC based Universal Testing Machine.
  • Surveying Lab is well equipped with instruments like Total Station Pentax 315.
  • Geotechnical Engineering has Plate Load Test along with regular equipments.
  • Full fledged Engineering Geology lab with Electrical resisitivity meter CRM 500, which is used to locate bore well points.
  • Environmental Engineering Lab possesses latest instruments for water testing.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Irrigation Engineering are equipped with instruments such as adjustable channel, Pan evaporimeter, Sunshine Recorder with IS specifications.
  • MODROB sponsored Water Resources Management Lab was setup in May 1998 with a capital of Rs. 5 lakh at that time.

  • Separate departmental library with more than 520 textbooks and several magazines.
  • Fully equipped Seminar Hall exclusively for civil engineering department with facilities like LCD projector with Screen, Audio visual aids etc.
  • CESSA Civil Engineering Students and Staff Association organizes various functions including social get together among staff and students and also conducts Parents Meet every year.
  • Consultancy works for soil, building materials, water testing and locating bore well points are taken up.
  • The department has record 100 percent placement since last three years.
  • Alumni of the department are in high places in India and abroad.
  • Experience of the staff is utilized by Construction and Maintenance Cell.
  • Conducting training programmes under KIRWS and ES projects (World Bank Assisted) regularly.
  • Conducted Masons training programme sponsored by Grasim Industries Pvt. Ltd. Gulbarga.
  • Conducting seminars/workshops regularly.
  • 3rd Party Inspection were assigned by Government Deptts. are undertaken.