Need of Paradigm Shift in Civil Engineering Education

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their potential abilities in engineering and technology that cannot be easily done within the constraints of the formal curricular framework. These abilities are significant coefficients of academic excellence in the equation between education on the one hand and career launch on the other hand. We have to keep track of national and global trends beyond the confines of the laboratories of civil engineering. We have to reorient our students to the emerging trends in IT itself. The availability of very high resolution remote sensing satellite data and GIS and terrain visualization software packages have given scope for addition of spatial dimension to Information technology. The decision to discontinue selective availability of Global positioning system satellite data is the latest measure in an ongoing effort to make GPS more responsive to civil commercial users worldwide. And the ultimate challenge is to transform the civil engineer to an IT enabled civil engineer. The main problem ...

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namely,

. Water Resources engineering,
. Geotechnical engineering
. Transportation engineering,
. Geomatics engineering
. Structural engineering, and
. Environmental engineering.

Conventionally the courses being taught to the students in the Civil Engineering branch currently have very high bias towards structural engineering. Structural engineering subjects take about 50 percent of total course load while the remaining 5 areas take 50 percent, all together. It is a paradox that most of the final year civil student's projects end up with design of different structures that have no relevance to current or near future needs of industry. This is the major lacuna ...

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