Coordinator's Message

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The last two years have been a period of consolidation and visible output for the Department of Civil Engineering at Central University of Kashmir. What began as a small teaching unit now teaches, researches and builds — often all three at once, and often on our own campus.

Our faculty have not confined themselves to the classroom. The Central Workshop, the kitchen and dining facility at the Arts Campus, and the subgrade for the upcoming Science Block were each designed and supervised in-house by members of this department. That work saved the University substantial cost, but more importantly it gave our students a live construction site to learn from, a few hundred metres from their lecture hall.

On the research side, the Department holds a HEFA CSR research grant on seismic resilience for the Kashmir Valley, five published patent applications and a granted patent. Our three faculty members between them bring experience from IIT Roorkee, IISc Bangalore, the University of Sheffield and the University of Edinburgh — and that exposure feeds directly into what our M.Tech and PhD scholars work on.