From HOD’s Desk

On behalf of Civil Engineering students and faculty, it is my privilege to welcome all of you to our Department at Dr. D. Y. Patil Pratisthan’s College of Engineering, Kolhapur, Maharashtra. We are a team of highly qualified teachers having teaching and industry experience.  I Dr. Rashmi Jadhav have done my Ph.D. in smart structures from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and post-graduation M.E. Civil structures from Shivaji University Kolhapur. Also I am Fellow of Institute of Engineers. Apart from HOD our department has average eight years experience. We have teachers with specialisation in Construction management, Structural Engineering and Environmental Engineering. Six out of ten teachers are pursuing Ph.D. from renowned Universities like Visveswarayya Technical University (VTU-Karnataka),Shivaji University Kolhapur and Institute of Infra structure Technology Reaserch and Management (IITRAM),. All the teachers of the department are actively involved in Shivaji University Curriculum development and exam conduction like syllabus setting, end semester exam paper setting and assessment.

                Civil Engineering students most preferred area is government departments like Public works department, so students prepare for those exams, to support this department teachers are involved in competitive exam cell  and they arrange activities like counselling and expert lectures for MPSC and Saral Seva Bharati (Direct Recruitment in Maharashtra state departments), . Some of them are placed in Water Resource Department, Zillha Parishad (ZP)  etc.

Our alumni are working in core civil engineering and Information Technology (IT) industry. Apart from this many of our alumni are road contractors involved in road construction of Internal road and construction of roads under (PMGSY). Apart from roads our students are contractors for private and government buildings and maintenance of old buildings. Our students have done higher studies from International and eminent National Institutes like BITs, NICMAR etc.

Civil Engineering Department supports students for placement in industry. Our Department has Memorandum of Understanding with renowned Structural Engineers, Contractors and other companies, students are placed there as per the requirement sent by them.  Vertex design is a company working as project management consultancy for International brands like  Hemlys, Mc Donlads etc. in the placement drive of the same company some students with average three lac package were placed. The required customize training for the placement was provided by college inviting industry people.

As Civil Engineering needs lots of Practical knowledge, lot of field visits are conducted every year. In 2023-24 our students visited Karad Flyover Bridge, Kalammavadi Dam,Water treatment plant, Rukadi Bridge etc.. Also department mentors and supports for field training/internship. Our students do internship in companies with whom department has collaboration and also in other companies. Stydents also do their final year projects in collaboration with Industry and other Institutes. One of the Solar vegetable dryer project don in collaboration of IITRAM has patent grant. .

Department also provide other skill development courses. Already Revit and E tabs and Auto CAD  training is conducted regularly. Along with Civil Engineering softwares training of some other softwares like MatLAB and JAVA is also provided to Civil Engineering students to prepare them for Mass recruitment in IT industry.

Students mentoring of  Civil Engineering department is very efficient and faculty personally take care of students and solve the academic and even other issues. Students participate in various technical and extra curricular activities and department provide support and guidance to students. Many students win prizes in intercollege technical competitions every year. Also six of our students have received Rs. 15000/- scholarship each from American Concrete Institute and two students have received Shantadevi Scholarship. We provide support to Sports activities and many of our students are playing at University and State level. Our students are playing at National, State and University level in many sports.

Civil Engineering Department has won sports championship twice and also best student award.

On the whole, we are committed to encourage, support and guide students for Academic and other activities which will enhance their personality and make them field ready to face all the challenges in Industry and develop glorious career.