Conference attended by 8th semester students organised by "BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION OF INDIA" KARNATAKA (BANGALURU) CENTER on 19 to 21st January 2018

Topic: "Public-Private Partnerships-Myths and Facts."

Summary
72 Civil Engineering Students of Vemana IT and also faculty from our department did attend the programme through team’s platform. The webinar mainly focused on explaining Public-Private Partnerships, its process and procedures, its implementation and its documentation.

Topic:"Preparation Strategies for Gate Examination"

Summary
85 Students from Civil/CSE/EC/ME/ISE branches of Vemana IT and also faculty from our department did attend the programme through teams platform. The webinar mainly focused on different types of job opportunities available, higher education and stipends available after successfully clearing the examination. It also explained about the various weightage of marks in every subject in many branches with respect to which the preparation to excel would become easier.

Topic: Innovative Techniques in Civil Engineering

Summary:
76 students from Civil Engineering attended the programme through Teams. In addition, all the Faculty of our department also attended. The webinar mainly focused on Innovations in Civil Engineering, how to plan a work, organize, Present and also how to use materials effectively and so on.

Topic: Remote Sensing & GIS

Summary:
105 students from Civil/CSE/ME branches of Vemana IT have attended the programme through Teams. In addition, all the Faculty of our department also attended. The webinar mainly focused on different types of Satellites, Collection of data, Components of Remote sensing & GIS, application of GIS in various fields and Software's used.

Department of civil engineering has organized a webinar on "Typical construction practices" on 21/7/2020 for all Civil students of Vemana I.T from 11 AM to 12:00 PM. The speaker of the webinar was Dr. Manjunath GR, professor & Head, Department of civil Engineering, Sapthagiri College of Engineering Bengaluru. The speaker an academician and a practicioner dealt with challenges in designing and construction of foundation in Black cotton Soil and loose soil. The speaker took case study of foundation in Black cotton soil in shimoga and a foundation in loose soil in honali. He also classified the quarries from the participants.

Department of civil engineering has organized a webinar on "Overview on Open Roads Concept Station" on 13/7/2020 for all Civil students of Vemana I.T from 11 AM to 12:00 PM. The speaker of the webinar was Mr. Rohith N Gowda, Director & Co-Founder, HOSHO Consulting Private Limited. Open road concept station is a soft were developed by Bentley institute which is helpful in selection of initial alignment for a highway considering the topographical condition of the locality. The speaker demonstrated the software taking a case study from yelahanka to Daddaballapura stretch. He classified the quarries by the participants extensively.

Engineer’s day was celebrated in department of civil engineering on 18/09/2019 at 2:00 pm in the gracious presence of sri C.H.Prakash, CEO Nishicon private limited. The programme started with of invocation song by students of 3rd and 5th sem. A film documentary highlights life and achievements of sir m. Visvesvaraya was screened on the occasion. Sri C.H. Prakash was facilitated on the occasion. Sri C.H.Prakash during his speech highlighted the important and methods of non-destructive testing on concrete structures. He also spoke about carrier opportunities for civil engineering and the expectations from construction industry for developing carrier in construction industry. The programme ended with vote of thanks and distribution of snacks to staff and students.

A Lecture On “Lessons from Failures – Benchmark Case Studies in Civil Engineering” by Dr. K V Vijayendra, Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, BIT, Bengaluru on 08^th march 2018.

6^th semester civil engineering students were accompanied with the faculty on a technical tour to Hyderabad from 13/3/2019 to 17/3/2019 to visit the following sites.

1. Rural Technological Park Hyderabad

2. Confederation of Indian Industries Godrej Green Building

3. Ramky Solid Waste Treatment Plant.

Our department would also like to add about the academic survey project conducted for VI semester civil students at Melkote this year from January 10th to 19th 2018.

Everything gets measured in terms of its value. As we value our students, it is our priority to serve them with knowledge and hands on experience. As part of this we had taken our students to survey camp to Melkote, one of the best suitable place to conduct survey as it consists of several hilly terrains and is amidst the nature’s best.

The students were accompanied by staff members who were in charge for each group of students .They were excited to learn about the various terrains,curves,arcs etc.. and also to use the civil instruments in its real applications. The entire camp period was evenly split for all the tasks and drawings involved and our students made the most benefit out of the camp. They conducted survey on NTP (2 days), Highway planning (2 days), Water supply and village planning (2 days), OTP (2 days) Layout planning (1 day) and so on… The students were provided good accommodation and food during their stay on all the 10 days.

The event on the 14 Days Training Programme For FRESH CIVIL ENGINEERS on Building Construction, Supervision and Management (From 11 July 2018 to 27 July 2018) organized by Department of Civil Engineering Vemana institute of Technology, Bengaluru in association with Visvesvaraya Technological University Belagavi, BUILDERS’ASSOCIATION OF INDIA CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY & RESEARCH TRUST, at Vemana institute of Technology was inaugurated on 11th July at 11.00am by Chief guest Prof. Dr. k balaveera Reddy (former vice chancellor VTU, Belgaum) and guest of honours Prof. Dr. K Ranga, (former principal VIT, Koramangala, Bangalore) presided by Sri H N Vijaya Raghava Reddy (president - BAI CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY & RESEARCH TRUST) and also President – Karnataka Reddy Janasangha, with the distinguished participation of Sri K S Someshwara Reddy, state chairman, Karnataka, bai and Sri. Srinivasa Reddy (chairman, Karnataka (Bengaluru) centre, BAI. The programme began with a presentation on various topics in civil engineering and visits to multiple construction sites to aid the students to learn theory in practice and the valedictory program was presided by the chief guest Dr. M U Ashwath, Principal, Bangalore institute of technology, Bengaluru on the 26th of July 2018 at 4.00 p.m.

Final year civil students visited Reach 5 metro casting yard at chandapura on 02/04/2018 and 03/04/2018.

6th semester civil students visited WATER TREATMENT PLANT (BWSSB) on 27/03/2018

1. Civil Engineering department has made MOU with M/s. Prayojana Construction Management Training Institute, Bengaluru to provide internship for UG students and also for organizing the site visit for ongoing projects.

2. Academia and industry are two important pillars in the economy. A robust collaboration between the two will augur well for our developing economy, enabling innovation, growth in the education system and producing an employment - ready work force. A MoU is signed between Vemana institute of technology and HOSHO Consulting private limited for consultancy services and certified software training program related to civil engineering. Thanks to Dr. Vijayasimha Reddy B G, Principal Vemana Institute of Technology, Bengaluru and Professor .Murali Krishna P, Hod, Vemana institute of technology for this initiative.