"The Department of Civil Engineering has operated four major state-the-art engineering laboratories to support teaching and learning practices, and the labs include: Engineering Measurement (Surveying) Lab, Geotechnical Engineering Lab, Hydraulic Engineering Lab, and Materials Engineering Lab. The department has also Open Access Computer Lab for student to learn to do computer based modeling and simulation for civil engineering problems. The following is the detail information about the equipment used in the labs and the associated civil engineering courses with experimentation utilizing these labs."
| College of Engineering- Civil Engineering Labs |
| Laboratories |
Software |
Equipment |
Courses Taught |
| Engineering Measurement (Surveying) Lab |
GIS Software |
- Electronic total station
- Theodolite
- Level instrument
- GPS
- Ranging poles
- Levelling staff
- prism,
- Prism pole
- Tripod
|
CVEN 3341 |
| Hydraulic Engineering Lab |
|
- Centrifugal pump characteristics
- Computer controlled deep bed filter unit
- Computer controlled fluid friction in pipes with hydraulic bench
- Computer controlled pipe network unit, with hydraulic bench
- Energy losses in bends
- Energy losses in pipes
- Flow visualization in channels
- Laminar flow demonstration
- Computer controlled drainage and seepage tank
- Computer controlled flow channel
|
CVEN 4432 |
| Geotechnical Engineering Lab |
|
- CBR test machine
- Consolidation frame
- Direct shear test apparatus
- Liquid limit device
- Permeability test apparatus
- Proctor mould and rammer
- Sieve shaker
- Triaxial compression tester
- Unconfined compression tester
- Universal Hydraulic Extruder
|
CVEN 4423 |
| Materials Engineering Lab |
|
- Concrete mixing machine
- Compression testing machine
- Tensile testing machine
- Hydraulic universal testing machine
- Torsion testing machine
- Slump cone
|
CVEN 3222 |
| Computer Lab |
1.Ms- Project
2.Microsoft Office Suite
3.SAP 2000 (Educational Version) |
18 PCs |
|