Civil Engineering is as old as human civilization, and is rightly considered to be the mother of all Engineering. As the world is faced with an explosion of population, efficient and innovative technologies are needed for infrastructure development in the various sectors such as manufacturing, housing, transportation, water resource management, and environmental engineering.
The areas in which students are given proficient training include soil mechanics, surveying, engineering drawing, building materials, structural design including RCC, water management, costing and valuation, and transportation engineering.
Engineering has been an aspect of life since the beginnings of human existence. The earliest practice of civil engineering may have commenced between 4000 and 2000 BC in ancient Egypt, the Indus Valley Civilization, and Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) when humans started to abandon a nomadic existence, creating a need for the construction of shelter.
Civil engineering is the application of physical and scientific principles for solving the problems of society, and its history is intricately linked to advances in the understanding of physics and mathematics.
Structural engineering is concerned with the structural design and structural analysis of buildings, bridges, towers, flyovers (overpasses), tunnels, off shore structures like oil and gas fields in the sea, aerostructure and other structures.
Civil engineering systems is a discipline that promotes the use of systems thinking to manage complexity and change in civil engineering within its wider public context.
It posits that the proper development of civil engineering infrastructure requires a holistic, coherent understanding of the relationships between all of the important factors that contribute to successful projects while at the same time emphasising the importance of attention to technical detail.
