Students Corner

Guest lectures

Invited lecture by Dr. Pijush Samui from NIT Patna, India on ‘Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering’ on 29th March 2022.
Skyline Association of BPDC's Civil Department organized a lecture session by Mr. John Price, Immediate Past Chair and Council Member, iStructE UAE Regional Group on 'Benefits of Student Membership of iStructE' on 16th Oct 2021.
Skyline Association of BPDC's Civil Department organized a lecture session by Mr. Sukesh M V, Senior Design Engineer at Bureau Veritas Buildings & Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd., Singapore on 'Structural Engineering: An Industry Point of View' on 24th April 2021.
Mr. Raj Tilak, Principal Geotechnical Engineer, Worley Parsons, Dubai delivered a lecture on “Geotechniques - Key foundation for Civil Engineers” as a part of Industry Expert Lecture series on December 12, 2020.
Mr. Nirajuthan Selvarajah (Techno/Commercial Project Manager) and Mr. Vesa Miettinen (R&D and Technical manager) at PEIKKO Gulf, UAE delivered a lecture on “Introduction to Peikko Designer” as a part of Industry Expert Lecture series on November 21, 2020.
Skyline Association of BPDC's Civil Department organized a lecture session by Mr. Nasser Zuhair Al-Yazji, Al Badawi Road Contracting Ltd, UAE on 'Effect of a Pandemic Crisis in the Construction Industry' on 19th June 2020.
Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee, Curtin University, Australia delivered an interactive lecture on the topic 'Sustainable Infrastructure through Improved Maintenance and Low Carbon Materials’ on 15th April 2019.
Civil Engineering Students Association (SKYLINE) organized a technical interaction with Mr. Hemant Gor, Petrofac International Ltd., Member of UAE IStrucTE Regional Group on 'Long Span Concrete Structures” on 7th April 2019.
Civil Engineering Department arranged for a lecture by Mr. Abin Thomas, Senior Technical Engineer at DNV GL Digital Solutions, UAE on 'Offshore engineering: Brief Overview of Practices' on 25th November 2018.
Skyline Association of BPDC's Civil Department organized a lecture session by Mr. Nasser Zuhair Al-Yazji, Al Badawi Road Contracting Ltd, UAE on 'Project Planning & Execution for infrastructure works' on 27th March 2018.
Prof. S. K. Deb, IIT Guwahati, India delivered a technical lecture on 'Seismic Retrofitting' on 3rd February, 2018
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department at BPDC arranged an interactive session on 'Building Services' by Mr. Khaled Abou Alfa, ARUP, UAE on 30th October 2018.
Civil Engineering Department arranged a non-technical lecture session on ‘White Cement and its applications’ by Mr. Tamim Youssef, JK Cements, UAE on 12th October 2017.
Civil Engineering Students Association (SKYLINE) arranged for an interactive session with Mr. Hemant Gor, Petrofac International Ltd, UAE on ‘Engineering Tall Buildings’ on 14th September 2017.

Site Visits

Department conducted a construction site visit on 12th March 2022 at Arcadia School, Al Furjan by Naresco Contracting LLC to understand basic construction methods and prestressing technology
Department conducted a site visit to Wastewater Treatment Plant, Ajman on 31 March 2022 to study the functioning of treatment facility and the sludge-to-energy plant.
SKYLINE Association of BPDC's Civil Department arranged an industrial visit to Crompton International Contracting LLC, Al Khawaneej, UAE on 27th Sept, 2017.
Site visit to ‘Bellevue Tower’, Shapoorji & Pallonji Construction Site (Residential Building by Dubai Properties- Business Bay, UAE) on 30th April, 2019 for familiarization of multistoried constructions.
Site visit to EMFIL Emirates Filigran LLC, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE to give students insights into the working and processes at a precast concrete factory and to Minotti Dry mix factory, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE to know about the manufacturing and application of dry mix cement products on 2nd November, 2019.

Lecture series

Skyline Association, organized a one day event titled 'GIS Day’ on 20th November, 2019 to gain insights about the latest developments from eminent industry and academic experts. Mr. Abhijit Doshi Technical Manager, ESRI delivered a lecture on ‘Making a Story Map using ArcGIS’ and Ms. Priyadarshini Datta, ESRI, delivered a lecture on ‘Developing an App using ArcGIS’, Mr. Subhi Haddad, GISTEC spoke on ‘GIS for Everyday Life’, Dr. Brij Kishor Pandey, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus delivered a lecture on ‘Application of GIS and Remote Sensing in Water Resources’.

Techno fest

The Civil Engineering Department event at the Technofest-2019 'CONSTRUCTO' posed to be a platform for students of other departments to apply Civil Engineering concepts in real life in the form of games. The events such as Lessgo LEGO, Clay Play and Jenga Jitters were conducted