There is no other engineering stream as vast as Civil engineering discipline. There are numerous sub-disciplines in civil engineering. Undergraduate degree courses in civil engineering are planned in such a way that the scholars achieve a progressive knowledge in the topics, starting from the very basics of civil engineering to highly advance topics in civil engineering. Here you can find the list of civil engineering topics or index of civil engineering topics for successful completion of civil engineering program. This list of topics can be used as a checklist if you are preparing for competitive examinations and other exams.
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Undergraduate Level Topics
- Building Design and Drawing
- Building Technology
- Construction Management and Quantity Surveying
- Economics and Management
- Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Studies in Civil Engineering
- Functional Design of Buildings
- Geomatics
- Geosciences
- Geotechnology
- Mechanics of Fluids
- Mechanics of Solids
- Open Channel Hydraulics and Hydrology
- Structural Analysis
- Structural Design
- Surveying
- Transportation Engineering
- Water Resources Engineering
Post-graduate Level Topics
Structural Engineering
- Advance Solid Mechanics
- Advanced Foundation Design
- Advanced Structural Analysis
- Bridge Engineering
- Computational Methods
- Concrete Technology
- Design of Advanced Concrete Structures
- Design of Composite Structures
- Earthquake Engineering
- Finite Element Method
- Ground Improvement Techniques
- Plate & Shells
- Prestressed Structures
- Soil Structure Interaction
- Structural Dynamics
- Structural Optimization
- Structural Optimization
- Tall Buildings
- Tunnel Engineering
Disaster Assessment & Mitigation
- Aseismic Designing and Construction of Structures
- Climate change variability and adaptation
- Disaster preparedness and response
- Drinking water and sanitation under emergencies
- Environmental and Resources Economics
- Environmental Modelling
- Geo-informatics for natural resources/disaster management
- Governance and Management of Natural Resources
- Hazard, vulnerability and risk analysis
- Introduction to Sustainable Development
- Rehabilitation, reconstruction and recovery
- Spatial data collection and analysis
- Understanding natural and manmade disaster
- Water Conservation
Water Resource Engineering
- Remote sensing and GIS Applications
- Free Surface Flow
- Advance Hydraulics
- Simulation & Modeling
- Ground Water Hydrology
- Watershed and Wetland Hydrology
- Modeling and GIS Lab
Transportation Engineering
- Highway Materials
- Pavement Maintenance Management System
- Traffic engineering & field Studies
- Transportation Planning
Environmental Engineering
- Air and Noise Pollution
- Industrial Waste Management
- Simulation & Modeling
- Solid and Hazardous Waste Mgt.