Welcome to School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
SCENE provides the following academic programmes - B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, M.Tech. in Structural Engineering, and MTech (R) and Ph.D. in all areas of Civil Engineering. We currently have 19 regular faculty members and two visiting faculty members to support the academic programs. We currently also have more than 70 Ph.D. students, 17 M.Tech. Students, 13 M.Tech. (R) students and 100 B.Tech. students. The School has state-of-the-art laboratory and computational facilities to support cutting-edge research in the various disciplines of Civil and Environmental Engineering. While being part of the School of Engineering (SE), starting from 2015, the Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty successfully secured research and consultancy projects from several renowned external funding agencies. Currently, there are several ongoing research and consultancy projects with SCENE faculty. We are striving our best to bring excellence in all domains of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Vision
To pioneer excellence in academics, research, and innovations for sustainable and climate-resilient infrastructure development with a focus on the built environment, livelihood, and disaster risk reduction for societal benefit.
Mission
- Multidisciplinary and holistic teaching and learning to achieve global standards in skill and research development towards self-reliant nation.
- Developing innovative and sustainable solutions for resilient infrastructure with specific focus on mountain hazards.
- To develop socio-techno-economic-green solutions to alleviate climatic and anthropogenic catastrophes.
- To imbibe flexible, critical, creative and ethic centered principles in the education and research process.
Dr. Rajneesh Sharma
Chairperson
Message from the School Chair
It is a great pleasure to welcome you to School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (SCENE), IIT Mandi. Although the school is very young, but in the short span, we have built our reputation in developing the best technologies related to Civil Engineering in the country. We are one of the top competitive destinations for B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. students across India. With multidisciplinary faculty, we provide high quality of teaching and research. We believe in having an interdisciplinary approach for societal problems. In the serene atmosphere of the Himalayas, we provide a very calm, peaceful, soothing, pollution free and supportive environment to our faculty and students so that they can excel in their career to the fullest of their potential. The School has a strong focus on in the research areas of disaster management especially with an interdisciplinary approach involving Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Environmental Engineering and GIS & Remote sensing. We have a strong alumni network. We take great pride in success of our alumnus. Both out undergraduate and postgraduate programs have high placements rates in the best organization globally. In short, we aim to produce world class engineers and researchers for the benefit of society and the nation.