Departments of the School

1. Department of Mechanical Engineering
2. Department of Civil Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering

About the Department

The department was established in the year 1980. It has a strong back up of 46 faculty members with 12 professors having Ph.D. degree in the most demanding areas of Mechanical engineering. The average experience of the faculty is around 11 years. The department is hosting 12 fully equipped laboratories with state of the art equipment. All the Core subjects and Laboratory courses are being taught with software tools and advanced technologies to meet the immediate requirements of the Industries. The department is offering two PG programs; M.Tech. in CAD-CAM and Thermal engineering, The department is being advised by a distinguished academic council, consisting of Professors from IITs and also technocrats from Industries, to update the syllabus on a regular basis. The department is executing R&D and Consultancy projects funded by AICTE, UGC and DRDO. The department has MOUs with M/s. Liners India Ltd., M/s. Kusalava International, M/s. Milk Products Factory, M/s. KCP Sugars, M/s. Central Institute of Tool Design (CITD), M/s, Auto Cluster

Faculty

Well qualified and experienced faculty

Advisory Board

• Dr. J.S. Rao, Director, Altair Engineering, Bangalore.
• Dr. V.P. Agarwal, BITS, Goa.
• Dr. N. Ramesh Babu, IIT, Madras.
• Dr. K.S.P. Rao, Anna University, Chennai.
• Mr. B. Suresh Kumar, DRDO, Hyderabad.

Important Laboratories

• Thermal Sciences Lab
• Metrology and Measurements Lab
• Computer Aided Design Lab
• Jet Test Lab
• Design Laboratory with Hyper Mesh
• Central Work Shop
• Machine Tools
• Industrial Engineering
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing Lab
• Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines Laboratory
• Metallurgy
• Thermal Sciences
• Machine Dynamics
• Computer Aided Design

Research Centers

• Center for Robotics
• Center for Alternate Fuels
• Advanced Computational Research Center
• Center for Flexible Manufacturing Systems
• Center for Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Studies

Principal Areas of Research

• Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis, Tribology, Stress analysis, Mechanisms and Machine theory, Machine tool Vibrations, Tomography.
• Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization, Supply Chain Management, Mechatronics.
• Cellular Manufacturing, Casting, welding, Rapid-Prototyping, Nano-materials, Robotics.
• 4. Alternate Fuels, CFD, Non-Conventional Energy Sources.

Major Subjects

• Strength of Materials, Machine Design, Theory of Machines, Mechanical Vibrations, Robotics, Finite Element Methods.
• Casting, Forming, Machine Tools, Welding, CAD/CAM, Metallurgy, Nano-Technology.
• Operational Research, Optimization, Industrial Management, Flexible Manufacturing Systems.
• Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulic Machines, Energy resources, Refrigeration and Air conditioning, Heat Transfer, Automobile Engineering.

Salient features

• Average faculty experience of 11 years.
• Re-accredited by the NBA of AICTE for 5 years.
• Available softwares include AutoCAD, ProE, ANSYS, CATIA, IDEAS, Hyperworks.
• MOUs with renowned international universities and ongoing collaborative research.
• Offers courses in advanced areas like Nano-technology, Mechatronics, Robotics, Alternate Fuels, Cryogenics, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
• Strong Industry tie-ups.
• On-going research, consultancy, and sponsored projects.
• National and International conferences organized regularly.
• 80 plus publications in National and International journals.
• 60 plus presentations in National and International conferences.
• 5 centers of excellence with state-of-the-art research facilities.
• Faculty contributions also recognized by other universities including, Osmania, Acharya Nagarjuna, and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological universities.
• Faculty and students are active members of professional bodies like ISTE, IE, IEEE, SAE, AMM, CMSI.
• Student achievements range from University to the National level.
• Earn While You Learn Scheme for the students and research scholars.
• The course structures covers the streams of Design, Thermal, Production and Industrial Engineering.
• Department has organized International Conference on Recent Advances in Experimental Fluid Mechanics in March 2008 and conducting 2^ndone in December-2009.
• Dr.K.V.Ramana, Dean of the School has been Recognized as Technology Angel by DSIR, New Delhi
• Consultancy Project offered by Naval Science & Technological Laboratories(Vishakapatnam)
• The faculty has published 20 research papers in national and international journals and presented 60 quality research papers in national and international conferences.
• Software like AUTO CAD, Pro-E,ANSYS,CATIA,INVENTOR,IDEAs and Hypermesh
• HYPERWORKS a software consisting of Twenty modules covering core areas of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Aerospace engineering and Electrical Engineering is available in the exclusively established design center with campus License.
• 1 00% placement during the last five years.

Department of Civil Engineering

About the Department

The department of Civil Engineering was established in the year 1980. The department has grown by leaps and bounds along with its parent institution, and turned out 25 batches of competent Civil Engineers. The booming Indian economy has seen hectic activity in the infrastructure sector. As more and more structures rise against the sky in a short span of time, the demand for Civil Engineers too has been on the rise. The department of Civil Engineering in K L University pulls out all stops to create outstanding Engineers with advanced teaching techniques and learning aids for under graduate students. Students are not only made experts in technical aspects but also in interpersonal skills, a vital ingredient for them to excel in the fast paced world. The department has 1 4 faculty members with vast experience in academics, industry / R&D organizations.

Faculty

Well qualified and experienced faculty

Important Laboratories

• Concrete Lab
• Environmental Engineering Lab
• Geology Lab
• Geo-technical Engineering Lab
• Hydraulics and Hydraulic Machinery Lab
• Material Testing Lab
• Surveying Lab
• Transportation Engineering Lab
• Computer Applications in Civil Engineering Lab
• Computational Lab
• 9. Engineering Geology Lab
• Material Testing Lab
• Environmental Engineering Lab

Principal Areas of Research

Cement concrete composites, Hybrid Ferro Fiber Composites. High volume Fly Ash Concrete, Water shed management, Solid waste management, Ground water Hydrology, Highway Engineering, Ground Improvement Techniques, Geo Technical Earthquake Engineering, Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity.

Consultancy:

In addition to the curriculum needs, the Department offers consultancy in the four major areas :

1. Structural Engineering
• Design of concrete mixes
• Analysis and design of structures
• Testing of materials like steel, cement and concrete
• Non destructive testing of Structures
2. Geo Technical Engineering
• Testing of soil in-situ and laboratory for safe bearing capacity, design of foundations for buildings, bridges.
• Design of reinforced structures such as retaining walls, embankments etc.
• Electrical resistivity survey for ground water exploration, bedrock depth.
3. Environmental Engineering
• Physical and Chemical characteristics of water and waste water testing
4. Transportation Engineering
• Design of pavements
• Laboratory CBR test
• Bituminous concrete mix design
• Testing of highway materials

Special Equipment

• Universal Testing Machine - 100 Ton capacity
• Tensile Testing Machine
• Hardness Testing Machine
• Compression Testing Machine
• Non-destructive testing equipment (Rebound Hammer, PUNDIT, half cell Digital Corrosion meter, & Crack Measuring Microscope)

Major Subjects

Building Materials & Construction, Surveying, Strength of Materials, Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Geology, Concrete Technology, Hydraulics & Hydraulic Machines, Structural Analysis, Water Resources Engineering, Designing of Concrete Structures, Design of Steel Structures, Geo-technical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Estimation & Valuation, Construction Management, Prestressed Concrete, Advanced Environmental Engineering, Finite Element Analysis.

Salient features

• Department of Civil Engineering is reaccredited for 5 years by NBA
• Actively Working on various consultancy projects
• The Civil Engineering Department is handling the 3^rd party quality control activities of VGTMUDA
• The Department is also handling a another project from VGTM-UDA pertaining to water supply and sewerage system design for seven villages in Krishna District. Besides this, the Department is also handling other consultancy assignments from a wide range of clients
• Routine consultancy works through laboratory testing and Mix design.
• Involvement of students in advanced areas of research through academic in-house projects
• Participation in one-month industrial training programme every year
• All the students are members of ISTE
• The Department has signed MOU with HANZE University Netherlands and Institution of Civil Engineers (India) and Industries like Dr. Fixit Institute and Varshita Concrete Technologies
• The Department is offering Industry oriented elective namely Dredging for the benefit of students of the Department to be placed globally by offshore industries such as M/s, Vanoord, Netherlands.
• Software like STAAD PRO, STRAP, Auto Civil, Build Master, Steel Master, Rate analysis, Road Master, Auto CAD, Prima Vera, GIS, Hyper works package are being extensively used by the students.
• The streams of electives offered in Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Environmental Engineering.
• 100% placement during the last five years.