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Babaria Institute of Technology was established in the year 2004 and Department of Civil Engineering is a part of the Institute. The Branch of Civil Engineering was introduced in the Year 2011 with an intake of 60 seats and at present it is having a total intake of 180 seats. Department of Civil Engineering is one of the primary engineering departments of the Institute. The department has grown tremendously over last four years and now recognized as one of the major engineering department of the institute.

PEO’s & PSO’s



Program Educational Objective



PEO: 1
Graduates will be able to achieve high level of technical expertise to pursue successful professional career or higher education in Civil Engineering with knowledge of basic sciences, analysis, design, drawing and engineering principles.

PEO: 2
Graduates will have skills and knowledge to apply modern innovative engineering tools and processes and materials for planning, design, execution and maintenance of works as well as research with technical viability, economy, ethics and with social acceptability.

PEO: 3
Participate in development of personality, communication skills and team work skill and to be ready to take up challenges of the current scenario, with an increasing understanding of matters important to society at national and international levels.

Program Specific Outcome



PSO:1
Survey, map and plan layouts for all related civil engineering constructions using traditional and modern materials with a broad understanding of management and construction techniques ensuring project completions within stipulated period and funds.

PSO:2
Specify, analyze, design & evaluate as per required codal provision investigation data for rock, soil, foundations and superstructures for infrastructure projects on land and water with respect to geological and local conditions.

PSO:3
Understand the impact of solid, water, air and noise pollution, and to specify, design, analyze and formulate environmental engineering systems for conveying and treatment systems.

PSO:4
Analyze water resources hydrological systems to estimate safe and assured withdrawals, and specify, design, and evaluate water conveying systems, irrigation, hydraulic machines and surge systems.

Faculty Profile


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Name: Dr. Santosh G Shah
Designation: Professor & Director (Innovations)
Contact Details:
dirinnovation@bitseducampus.ac.in
7069084513, 0265- 2303991
Ext: 904t
Name: Dr. Lalit S Thakur
Designation: Associate Professor & Head
Contact Details:
lalitthakur.cv@bitseducampus.ac.in
7069013455 , 0265-2303991
Ext: 909
Name: Bhavini V Desai
Designation: Associate Professor
Contact Details:
bhavinidesai.cv@bitseducampus.ac.in
0265 – 2303991-
Ext- 958

Faculty Achievements




1. Received 40000 Rs. Grant from GUJCOST for Workshop on “Innovations and Advances For Sustainable Civil Engineering”

2. Received 67000 Rs. Grant from SOIC Student open innovation challenge for Project Title: ENCAPSULATED SELF-HEALING CONCRETE under the guidance of Dr. Santosh G Shah.

3. Received 11000 Rs. Grant from SSIP Student start up & innovation policy for Project Title: comparative study of geocell for pavement subbase under the guidance of Dr. Santosh G Shah.

4. Received 11000 Rs. Grant from SSIP Student start up & innovation policy for Project Title: development of mix design for printable concrete under the guidance of Dr. Santosh G Shah.

5. Received 11000 Rs. Grant from SSIP Student start up & innovation policy for Project Title: encapsulated self healing concrete under the guidance of Dr. Santosh G Shah.


1. Received 55000 Rs. Grant from SSIP Student start up & innovation policy for Project Title: 3D printing of concrete under the guidance of Dr. Santosh G Shah.

2. Received 55000 Rs. Grant from SSIP Student start up & innovation policy for Project Title: scour pattern study of various pier configurations under variable rainfall & flood conditions under the guidance of Dr. Santosh G Shah.

3. Head of Civil engineering departement acted as coordinator of Aahvan 2019 GTU Zonal Techfest (Zone 3), Aahavan 2018, Organized at BITS Edu Campus on 16 & 17 February, 2018

4. Julie M Pardiwala, Gold Trophy for ranking first in presentation,Awarded Gold Trophy in 1st convention on Quality Circle and Allied Quality Concept “Quality Concept in Laboratory” to Dr Julie M Pardiwala, organized by Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI), Surat Chapter at AURO University, Total 33 teams from various industries have been participated in competition. Dated 01/Dec/2018.

5. DrJulie M Pardiwala, has successfully participated in laboratory Management System and Awareness Cum Internal Auditors Training as per ISO/IEC 17025:2017. Dated: 28-31 July 2018 (4 days). By QUALITY CATALYST PRIVATE LTD.


1. Professor Finhas Chinwala & Professor Vipul J Kalyani acted as coordinator of National seminar on smart cities current scenario & future challenges on 24th to 25th March-2017 organized by Civil Departments of BIT.

2. Awarded certificate of “Best Paper award at National Conference on New Horizons in Civil Engineering 2017 (NHCE 2017) for the paper titled “Effect of Terrazyme and Sand as Stabilizing Agents on Properties of an Expansive Soil” to Dr. Lalit S. Thakur by New Horizon in Civil Engineering on 25th – 26th March, 2017

3. Awarded certificate of “Best Educationist Award” to Dr. Lalit S. Thakur by International Institute of Education and Management on 15th February, 2017

4. Kushang V shah participated in STTP on ” Urban Stormwater Management- Science, Policy, and Engineering Training” which held by Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee on 27th February- 6th March, 2017.

5. Julie M Pardiwala attended Workshop on Scientific Writing, organized by International Science Community Association (Registered under Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India): collaboration with Mehsana Urban Institute of Sciences, Ganpat University, Mehsana, Gujarat, India, on 8th-9th May 2017.

Laboratories

The laboratory is designed to give exposure in practical works carried out in five different areas of civil engineering viz. Surveying and Leveling, Building Materials and Construction, Building Planning & Design, Transportation Engineering and Water Resources Engineering. Students are given a field practice to execute various survey work for primary residential buildings etc. The laboratory is equipped with following major equipments.

  1. Various types of Measuring chains and tapes
  2. Line ranger and cross staff
  3. Compass
  4. Dumpy Level
  5. Theodolite
  6. Amslar polar Plani-meter
  7. Models of Building, Society layout, dams, canals, Highway cross section, Bricks, foundations etc.
Models of building components and typical civil engineering structures are available in this laboratory for thorough understanding of the subject. More than 35 wooden and steel models and charts are obtained for the laboratory; some of them are listed below.

  1. Models of ledged and braced doors, half paneled and half glazed doors, flush door
  2. Models of different types of roofs,
  3. Models of different type of floorings,
  4. Models of different types of scaffolding
  5. Models of different types of staircases
  6. Models of road culvert with single arch and box types, railway culvert, clover leaf junction, cross section of national highway, subsurface drainage, foundation, pneumatic caisson etc.
The lab is equipped with 20 computers connected in Lane with internet connections. Student version of AutoCAD as well as some free civil engineering softwares available through open source.
The laboratory is equipped to perform experiments for various types of forces and force systems, verifying fundamental laws of Mechanics and testing of engineering materials e.g. mild steel, cast iron, brass, timber etc . The laboratory is equipped with following major equipments.

  1. Universal force table
  2. Various lifting machines
  3. Jib crane
  4. Roof truss
  5. Screw jack
  6. Friction slide apparatus.
  7. Compression Testing Machine
  8. Hardness Testing Machine
  9. Pendulum (Izod)Testing Machine,
  10. Universal Testing Machine
  11. Fatigue Testing Machine
  12. Torsion Testing Machine
  13. Mechanical Extensometer with Dial Gauge.
The lab consists of various models of road cross sections and types of crossing commonly found along with some actual cross sections of roads.
Engineering models of different typical hydraulic structures are provided in this laboratory for thorough understanding of the subject. More than 25 wooden models are displayed in this laboratory.

  1. Canal Regulator (Models)
  2. Canal Drop
  3. Saddle syphon spillway
  4. Aqueduct
  5. Syphon Aqueduct
  6. Level crossing
  7. Supper passage
  8. Supressed weir
  9. Fish ladder
  10. Canal Intake
  11. Hydraulic jump
  12. Spilway gate
  13. Tank weir
  14. Tank sluice with lower head
  15. Different types of dams
  16. Sluice gate
  17. Gibbs model, Slit ejector, River head works
The lab consist of working and non working prepared by final year projects as well as models prepared by students during various technical activities in the campus. The lab consists of various small instruments which are not available in the regular civil labs. These can be used by students for their projects.
Environmental engineering laboratory is equipped with all the latest instruments of reputed brands to perform various experiments and tests on water, wastewater and air samples. The laboratory is ready to accept consultancy assignments and environmental audit challenges. Major instruments existing in the laboratory are as follows.

  1. Turbidity Meter
  2. UV-Vis spectrophotometer
  3. COD Digester
  4. Water bath
  5. High speed mixer
  6. pH meter
  7. Electronic Autoclave
  8. Jar test apparatus
  9. Digital muffle furnace
  10. Hot air oven
  11. BOD incubator
  12. Electronic weighing balance (0.01 mg accuracy)
  13. High Volume Sampler
  14. Multi Parameter Meter for pH
  15. Conductivity and DO
Highway Engineering laboratory is designed to carry out qualitative and quantitative tests for raw materials like Aggregate, Sand, Bitumen etc. The laboratory is designed with a vision of testing requirements of industry and different research areas of highway engineering. Major instruments existing in the laboratory are as under.

  1. Thickness gauge
  2. Length gauge
  3. Ductility test apparatus
  4. Crushing value apparatus
  5. Sieve Sets
  6. Standard tar viscometer
  7. Oven
  8. Ring and ball apparatus
  9. Pycnometer
  10. Los Angeles Abrasion testing machine
  11. Aggregate impact test apparatus
  12. Modified Marshall apparatus
  13. Bitumen flash and fire point test apparatus and Asphalt mixer.
Hydraulics laboratory is well established to perform laboratory experiments of basic and advanced fluid mechanics. Set ups for following experiments are available in the laboratory.

  1. Open Channel Flow Setup
  2. Tilting Flume, Supersonic Wind Tunnel
  3. Pelton Wheel Test Rig
  4. Combine Rig for Free Forced Vortex
  5. Orifice Mouthpiece
  6. Reynold’s Apparatus
  7. Combine Rig for Pipe Friction
  8. Fitting
  9. Venturimeter
  10. Orificemeter
  11. Rotameter Apparatus
  12. Pressure Measurement Devices
  13. Combine Rig for Bernoulli’s Theorem
  14. Metacentric Height Apparatus
  15. Notch Apparatus &Pitot Static Tube Apparatus
  16. Electrical Analogy Setup
Concrete technology laboratory is designed to carry out qualitative and quantitative tests for raw materials, fresh and hardened concrete. The laboratory is designed with a vision of testing requirements of industry and different research areas of concrete design. Major instruments existing in the laboratory are as follows.

  1. Aggregate Crushing Value Apparatus
  2. Compaction Factor Apparatus
  3. Density BaskersVee-Bee Consistometer
  4. High Pressure Autoclave for Soundness test
  5. Cast Iron Moulds for Cube
  6. Cylindrical and beam moulding
  7. Vibrating Machine and Vibrating table
  8. Concrete Mixer
  9. U – Box, L – Box and V – Box Apparatus
  10. Flow Table for SCC.
  11. Electronic balances (capacity 10 kg and 100 kg)
  12. Motorized Sieve Shaker
  13. Heat of Hydration
  14. Flexure Testing Machine
  15. Compression testing Machine
The laboratory is equipped to perform experiments as well as to carry our field testing works in the field of Geotechnical Engineering. The key instruments available with the laboratory are Swell Pressure test apparatus.

  1. Laboratory CBR apparatus
  2. Unconfined compressive strength apparatus
  3. Consolidation apparatus (3 Gang)
  4. Universal Triaxial test set up with Electronic Measuring Outfit
  5. Standard penetration test set
  6. Sand density cone, Relative Density Apparatus
  7. Hydrualic and Manual Sample extruder
  8. Constant temperature bath
  9. Motorized Sieve shaker
  10. Direct Shear apparatus motorized
Structural Engineering laboratory is equipped with a universal test frame which is having experiment set up for the following equipments.

  1. Simple pendulum
  2. Compound pendulum
  3. Biflair&Triflair suspension,
  4. Single rotor transitional vibrations,
  5. Two rotor transitional vibrations,
  6. Damped torsional vibrations,
  7. Natural vibration spring mass system
  8. Forced damped vibrations
The surveying laboratory is planned apart of the fundamental survey laboratory to carry our survey projects and also to take up the field survey consultancy works. It is equipped with following latest equipments.

  1. Electronic Digital Planimeter
  2. Transit Vernier Theodolite 20″ accuracy with stand
  3. Leveling staffs and Ranging rods
  4. Fiber glass tape
  5. Theodolite with compensator and stand
  6. Electronic distance measurement device
  7. Total Station (Ele.) Pentax – 874922
  8. Plane Table With all Accessories.

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