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.

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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.  


Events

Five-Day Training Program for PMGSY Engineers and Personnel at PIU and SRRDA Level
Dec
04
Five-Day Training Program for PMGSY Engineers and Personnel at PIU and SRRDA Level
A five-day training program for engineers and personnel from the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) began yesterday at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi. The program aims to train PMGSY officials on planning, design and construction of rural roads and bridges. Organized by the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at IIT Mandi, the program will run from December 4th to 8th, 2023. It will cover topics like planning, design and construction of minor bridges and culverts, as well as preparation of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for rural road... Read More
1 Week Workshop on FEM in Plasticity followed by sessions on UHV
May
25
1 Week Workshop on FEM in Plasticity followed by sessions on UHV
Hello Everyone! IIT Mandi, is organizing a 1-Week Workshop on FEM in Plasticity. A great and exciting opportunity for every professionals and students engaged in research, teaching and consultancy. Organized by the Applied Mechanics and Design Group, SCENE & School of Mechanical & Material Engineering, IIT Mandi This workshop is organized to improve the understanding on the basic concepts of finite element method (FEM) and its applications to elasto-plastic behaviour of engineering materials. The workshop also gives an opportunity to the... Read More
5 day training course for PMGSY Engineers
May
20
5 day training course for PMGSY Engineers
we are organising a  Five-Day Training Program for PMGSY Engineers and Personnel at PIU and SRRDA Level on the topic "Construction of Rural Roads in Hilly Terrain" from May 20-24, 2024. The participants of the course are PMGSY Engineers across the country nominated by the National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency, Ministry of Rural Development.    It is my pleasure to invite you to the inaugural session of this course scheduled between 10:00-11:00 am on May 20th (Monday) at the Conference room... Read More
Short Term Course on Modelling water flow and contaminant transport in subsurface using HYDRUS 2D/3D software packages
Feb
24
Short Term Course on Modelling water flow and contaminant transport in subsurface using HYDRUS 2D/3D software packages
IIT Mandi has successfully organised a 3 day workshop from 24th to 26th February, 2023 on Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Modeling, using HYDRUS. There were several scholars and working professionals from IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bhubaneswar, CSIR-NEERI Pune and ICAR-IARI PUSA. The workshop is recognized and published by PC Progress on the global platform. HYDRUS is a very popular software package among the agriculture and groundwater researchers globally to estimate the soil water balance, contaminant transport modeling in subsurface environment and... Read More