Department of Civil Engineering
Established in 1980, Dr.C. Nanjundaswamy heads the department.
Students visits are arranged to industries like cement industry, waste management units, bridges and flyover construction sites. Staff are involved in consultancy work like design of structures, soil investigation, and material testing, and have been retained as consultants by agencies like Karnataka Land Army Corporation.
The Technological club of the Department conducts technical programmes. The department encourages sports activities. A fest called mAITri in which AIT stands for Ambedkar Institute of Technology is conducted by this department students every year for freshers.
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