Higher Education

IIT Kanpur Syllabus  Introduction to Transportation Engineering       CE 382: Introduction to Transportation Engineering Course content: Introduction Transportation engineering elements Geometric design Traffic flow fundamentals Uninterrupted traffic flow Interrupted traffic flow Pavement analysis Highway maintenance.     Suggested text and reference material:  Chakroborty, P.  and Das, A., “Principles of Transportation Engineering”, Prentice Hall of … Read more

IIT Kanpur Syllabus for Civil Engineering CE 351: Soil Mechanics Course content:  Stresses within a soil, effective stress principle, stress point and stress path, Soil – water systems- capillarity, flow, Darcy’s law, permeability, and tests for its determination, different heads, piping, quicksand condition, seepage, flow nets, Compressibility and consolidation characteristics, Strength and direct and triaxial shear tests, … Read more

IIT Kanpur Syllabus for Engineering Geosciences Civil Engineering       CE 321: Engineering Geosciences Course content:  Introduction to geosciences in civil engineering, Plate tectonics (Continental drift, sea-floor spreading, types of plates and plate motion); Introduction to rock forming minerals (silicate structure, physical and chemical properties of minerals); Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks (texture; engineering … Read more