Civil engineering is arguably the oldest engineering discipline. It deals with the built environment and can be dated to the first time someone placed a roof over his or her head or laid a tree trunk across a river to make it easier to get across.

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings. Civil engineering is the second-oldest engineering discipline after military engineering, and it is defined to distinguish non-military engineering from military engineering. It is traditionally broken into several sub-disciplines including architectural engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, control engineering, structural engineering, earthquake engineering, transportation engineering, forensic engineering, municipal or urban engineering, water resources engineering, materials engineering, wastewater engineering, offshore engineering, facade engineering, quantity surveying, coastal engineering, construction surveying, and construction engineering. Civil engineering takes place in the public sector from municipal through to national governments, and in the private sector from individual homeowners through to international companies

The built environment encompasses much of what defines modern civilization. Buildings and bridges are often the first constructions that come to mind, as they are the most conspicuous creations of structural engineering, one of civil engineering's major sub-disciplines. Roads, railroads, subway systems, and airports are designed by transportation engineers, another category of civil engineering. And then there are the less visible creations of civil engineers. Every time you open a water faucet, you expect water to come out, without thinking that civil engineers made it possible.
These few examples illustrate that civil engineers do a lot more than design buildings and bridges. They can be found in the aerospace industry, designing jetliners and space stations; in the automotive industry, perfecting the load-carrying capacity of a chassis and improving the crashworthiness of bumpers and doors; and they can be found in the ship building industry, the power industry, and many other industries wherever constructed facilities are involved. And they plan and oversee the construction of these facilities as construction managers.
Civil engineering is an exciting profession because at the end of the day you can see the results of your work, whether this is a completed bridge, a high-rise building, a subway station, or a hydroelectric dam.

Overview - Civil Engineering

The Department of Civil Engineering at Adarsh College of Engineering is considered to be the most versatile branch among all the engineering branches. It is the branch with a lot of diversity from geotechnical sciences to structural engineering, environmental to hydraulics, transportation to hydrology; Civil Engineering can be considered as a single largest branch among all the engineering branches.
The Department of Civil Engineering since its formation is committed to research and development in civil engineering. The vision of the department is to give an exposure to budding civil technocrats to various challenges in the profession.
The department offers courses at undergraduate level, graduate level and PhD doctorate. The main areas of research include Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Hydraulics Engineering, Hydrology, GIS and GPS Systems, Design of Structures, Environmental Engineering, Solid Mechanics and Transportation Engineering. The department also handles consultancy works and projects.

THE PROGRAM HAS THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS:
• The curriculum based on JNTUK. Some of the innovative practices are included as part of the curriculum like practice school, mini projects associated with lab and theory courses, continuous evaluation, relative grading, etc.
• The department has excellent link with leading industries and has a well-connected alumni network. Infrastructure facilities include well equipped lab.
• Department organizes regular seminars and workshops.
• Construction, design and architectural firms.
• All the lecture halls are provided with state of the art facilities such as LCD Projectors, audio visual aids.
• The department also arranges guest lectures from academic and industrial experts of repute regularly for the benefit of faculty as well as students.
• The students are encouraged to present and publish their project work in reputed national / international conferences/ journals.

Some of the major companies where the students get placed are ABB, Deloitte, Ericsson Global, GE Health Care, GMR Energy, Grasim, HCL, JSW Steel, L&T, L&T-ECC, Moog, M&M, Nomura, Philips Electronics, Schneider Electricals, TCE, Tesco, Wipro VLSI, WS Atkins, Tata Motors, Reliance, Toshiba, Accenture, HCL, IBM, iGATE PATNI, Mphasis, TCS, Wipro and Infosys.

OUTLINE - B.TECH CIVIL ENGINEERING

ELIGIBILITY :
• Duration : 4 years
• Citizenship : Indian nationals.
• Qualification : Pass in 10+2 / HSC / intermediate/ 12th grade equivalent with Physics , Chemistry and Mathematics subjects with a minimum of 45% marks in the prescribed group subjects for General Candidates and 5% relaxation for SC/ST Candidates.
• The candidates should have completed 16 years of age as on 31st December by the commencement of admissions

Admission will be on the basis of secure marks in Engineering Agricultural and Medical Entrance Test (EAMECT).

ENTRANCE TEST PATTERN :

Entrance Test Type: Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (AP EAMCET).

Test Syllabus: Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics include questions based on the 10+2 syllabus followed by major 10+2 Boards /Universities.

Test Pattern: (Applicable to BTech/BPharm/PharmD courses) Duration-3 hours, Questions-100 (MCQ). The approximate distribution of questions is as follows: Physics -25, Chemistry-25, Mathematics-50.