COURSE DETAIL

SPECIFICATION

Introduction:

Civil Engineering is one of the prominent and popular disciplines within engineering. Many people in the developed countries, developing countries and under developed countries have given emphasis for the broader application of Civil Engineering. This field has been helping the world for the all-round physical infrastructure development and it has been creating wage and self employment opportunities both in public and private sectors. This curriculum is designed with the purpose of producing middle level technical workforce equipped with knowledge and skills related to the field of Civil Engineering so as to meet the demand of such workforce in the country to contribute in the national economic development of Nepal. The knowledge and skills incorporated in this curriculum will be helpful to deliver the individual needs as well national needs in the field of Civil Engineering.

Curriculum title: Diploma in Civil Engineering (DCE)

Programme objectives:

This curriculum has following objectives to:

1.Prepare technicians who are capable of undertaking works in civil engineering field as Civil Engineering Technicians under Road, Irrigation, Water supply, Urban Development and Building Construction and other civil infrastructures development related departments and sectors;

2.Produce middle level competent technical workforce/human resources that could provide supervisory works of civil engineering;

3. Prepare technical workforce who will demonstrate positive attitude and respect for the profession and socio-cultural values;

4.Help in meeting the demand of required Civil Engineering Technicians for the public and private infrastructure development sector of Nepal;

5. Reduce the dependence on employing such technicians from foreign countries and

6.Create self employment opportunities.

Programme description:

This course is based on the job required to perform by the Civil Engineering Technicians (Civil Overseer) at different levels of public and private sectors physical infrastructures development related civil engineering works in Nepal. Therefore, this curriculum is designed to provide knowledge and skillsfocusing on Civil Engineering related to the occupation. There are six semesters in total within the period of three years. The first year courses are offered focusing on foundational and core subjects of engineering; the second year courses are focused on basic disciplinary subjects of Civil Engineering.