B.E. in Civil Engineering at SSN Institutions
The Department of Civil Engineering was started in the academic year 2011-12 with an aim of promoting high quality education in the field of Civil Engineering.
The department has well equipped laboratory facilities and highly qualified faculty members having rich experience in teaching and industrial background.
The department is aiming to transform itself into a center of excellence both in academic and research. The department provides a right kind of environment for the students to groom themselves for innovative and challenging near future.
The department currently offers
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree program in Civil Engineering following the Anna University curriculum.
High lights of B.E. Civil Engineering Department
High lights of B.E. Civil Engineering Department
Provide essential knowledge & skill to the students and enhance their employable potential and entrepreneurial capabilities.
Produce graduates with high professional and ethical standards.
Carry out high quality research which is beneficial to the common society.
Curriculum Overview
The curriculum broadly covers the engineering subjects of related fields such as:
Surveying
Building materials & construction
Soil mechanics & Foundation engineering
Structural analysis & design
Hydraulics & Water resources engineering
Environmental engineering
Transportation
Coastal engineering
Labs
The B.E. Civil Engineering department at SSN boasts state-of-the-art infrastructure, including well-equipped laboratories, modern research facilities, and advanced software tools.
List of Equipment
- Various types of moulds: Cube, Cylinder, Prism and Beam
- Concrete Mixer
- Slump cone and flow table
- Vibrator
- Vee bee consistometer
- Aggregate impact testing
- Blaine’s apparatus
- Initial surface absorption test apparatus
- Brick/ Block making machine (manual)
- Marshall stability apparatus
- Compression testing machine
- Compaction factor apparatus
- Ring & ball apparatus
- Ductility testing machine
- Vicat apparatus
- Density basket
- Tar viscometer
- Penetration apparatus
- Sieve shaker with adapter
- Centrifuge extractor
- Aggregate crushing value apparatus
- Marshall water heater
- Los Angeles abrasion testing machine
- Rapid Chloride penetration test apparatus
- Shrinkage apparatus
- Flow table
- Loading frame of capacity 100 T
- Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Tester
- Drop weight Impact tester for RCC slab
- Constant temperature humidity chamber
- SCC Slump Flow apparatus
- SCC L-Box apparatus
- SCC J-Ring apparatus
- SCC U- Box Apparatus
- SCC Y- Box apparatus
- Jaw Crusher
- Pulveriser
- Hot water curing tank
- Drop Weight Testing Equipment
List of Equipments
The lab is well equipped with necessary glassware and weighing balance
- pH meter
- Turbidity meter
- Conductivity Meter
- Colorimeter
- Chlorine – Test Kit
- Filtration test
- Magnetic stirrer with hot plate
- Rotary vacuum pump
- Jar test apparatus
- Cod apparatus
- Bod incubator
- Kjeldahl apparatus
- Heating mandle with energy regulator
- Digital hot air oven
- Water bath
- Digital muffle furnace
- Dissolved oxygen meter
- Spectro photometer
- Finn pipette
- Ion meter
- Flame photometer
- Cod & multi phara meter bench meter
- Cod test tube heater with 25 vial capacity
- Fume exhaust hood
- Ammonium ion electrode, nitrade ion electrode, bromide ion electrode, sodium ion electrode, chloride ion electrode
- Sterilizatoin chamber lamnar airflow cabinet
- Binocular phase-contrast labomed
- Peristaltic pump
- Vertical autoclave
- Variable volume micro pipet
- Bacteriological incubator
- Orbital shaker
- Refridgerator centrifuge
- Deep freezer
List of Equipment
- Bernoulli’s theorem apparatus
- Metacentric height apparatus
- Pitot tube apparatus
- Notch weir apparatus
- Flow-through orifice tank apparatus
- Flow-through mouthpiece apparatus
- Losses in pipe fittings apparatus
- Reciprocating pump test rig.
- Centrifugal pump test rig.
- Gear oil pump test rig.
- Jet pump test rig.
- submersible pump test rig.
- Pelton wheel turbine test rig.
- Francis turbine test rig.
- Kaplan turbine test rig.
- Rotameter test rig.
- Venturimeter apparatus
- Orifice meter apparatus
- Pipe friction apparatus
- Multistage centrifugal pump
- Hydraulic flume (adjustable channel)
List of Equipment
- Sieve set with shaker
- Hydrometer
- Pycnometer and Density Bottle
- Liquid Limit (Hand and Motorised)
- Plastic Limit
- Shrinkage Limit
- Relative Density Apparatus
- Proctor Compaction
- Core Cutter Apparatus
- Sand Replacement Method
- Direct Shear Test
- Unconfined Compressive Strength Test
- Vane Shear Test
- Trail test set -up
- Permeability (Falling and Constant head)
- CBR apparatus
- Sample ejector
- Three Gang Consolidation
- Rainfall simulator
- Lateral load test set-up
- Humid Chamber
- Conduit testing
- Pulveriser
- Mini Compaction mould
- Split Samplers
- Fall cone penetrometer
List of Equipment
- Universal Testing Machine – 600 kN capacity
- Torsion testing
- Izod impact testing
- Hardness testing-Rockwell and Brinell
- Beam deflection test
- Extensio meter
- Compresso meter
- Vicat’s apparatus
- Binocular microscope
- Muffle furnace
- Tensile testing machine
- Rosette strain gauge – 10 channel digital meter
- Strain gauged bar range 5 kg
- Cylinder mould
- Double shear attachment with 12 mm bushes
- Data acquisition system
List of Equipment
- Theodolite
- Dumpy level
- Plane table
- Pocket stereoscope
- Ranging rod and arrows
- Levelling staff
- Cross staff
- Chain
- Prismatic and surveyors compass
- Gps
- Substance bar
- Tilting level
- Total station
A sophisticated laboratory fully furnished with air-conditioning with Software such as AutoCAD and STAAD Pro.