On the occasion of National Technology Day-2020 Department of Civil Engineering has organized on line International Webinar and declamation competition on “Impact of COVID-19 on construction Industry and its Possible Solution”.
Every year 11th may is observed as National Technology day and is celebrated to memorize the anniversary of operation “Shakti”, the successful Pokhran Nuclear test in 1998 were a series of five nuclear bomb test explosions were conducted by the Indian Army at the Pokhran Test Range which was led by aerospace engineer and President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam and also Hansa 3, India’s first indigenous aircraft and Trishul, a short range missile made in India, was also tested on the same day. This day was a significant milestone in the history of India’s technological innovations, so prime minister late Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee declared this day as “NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DAY” in 1998. Since then this day is also celebrated to honour technological advancements and their successful commercialization which takes the fruits of research to reach people at large in India.
The Guest of honour from industry we have Shri Suresh Kumar project Director at NHAI Gurugram, Er Karan Behal, Assistant executive engineer from Public health engineering department Sonipat division Haryana, Er Shruti Widhani project manager at JLL from London United Kindom, from academic field we have Dr. Mahesh Patel, Professor in civil dept at NIT Jalandhar, Dr. Sunita Bansal, Professor, worthy director sir of PIET Dr. Shakti Kumar and respected Shri Suresh Tayal, Member Secretary, Shri Rakesh Tayal, Vice Chairman and Shri Subham Tayal, Member of BOG of PIET.
The Result of Declamation event on National Technology Day was:
Sr No | Name | Branch/Institute Name | Positions |
1 | Mr. Bikke Kumar Yadav | Civil Engg/PIET | 1st |
2 | Mr. Anchit Girdhar | Mech. Engg./PIET | IInd |
3 | Mr. Parikshit Sharma | Architecture/DCRUST Murthal | IIIrd |
There is an opportunity in every crisis, and this had lead to usage of virtual classes in departments by using platforms like MICROSOFT TEAMS, ZOOM, IMPARTUS.
Enhancing skill via expert lecture (Expert lecture by ISSE attended by faculty and few students).
Certification courses by faculty and student on Udemy, cousera, Linda CAD.
Major Project discussion
Participation in webinars and FDP
S No. | Event name | Date of event | Description |
1 | Guest Lecture | 6th September 2019 | Dr. Rachin Suri, Assistant Professor, MBA department, NIT,Kurukshetra gave a lecture discussing the importance of communication skills in the career enhancement of students. |
2 | Career Guidance session | 16th September 2019 | Mr. Arindam Bhattacharya carried out the session highlighting domains of the civil engineering for the students. |
3 | IIT Bombay spoken tutorial event | 26th November 2019 | Online test conducted for Qcad organised by Mr Ashutosh and invigilated by Ms Khyati. |
4 | Industrial Visit at Ultra Tech Cement Plant, Panipat | 25th February 2020 | Students of second year and third year civil visited the plant and learnt about the differents test carried out there. |
5 | Introductory session by Cadd centre | 3rd March 2020 | Session was conducted for students of final year for the discussing the details of the different softwares and their importance wrt civil engineering. |
6 | Introductory session by an institute to guide students for competitive exams. | 5th March 2020 | Session was conducted by an institute to guide students for competitive exams and the necessary preparation to be done in this regards. |
S.N. | Industrial Visit Name | Date of visit | Class & Year | No of students | Name of faculty accompanied |
1 | CSSRI | 2/4/2017 | 5th Sem. & 3rd year | 80 | Balbir Singh, Ravinder Kumar, Amit Vashisth |
2 | IRI (Roorkee) | 23-03-2018 | 8th Sem. & 4th Year | 59 | Balbir Singh, Ravinder Kumar |
3 | IRI (Roorkee) | 27-02-2017 | 8th Sem. & 4th Year | 60 | Balbir Singh, Ravinder Kumar, Amit Vashisth, Ravi Malik |
4 | Survey Camp | 15-06-2019 to 26-06-2019 | 5th Sem. & 3rd year | 35 | Ravinder Kumar, Lalit Kumar, Surender Kumar |
5 | Survey Camp | 12-06-2018 to 23-06-2018 | 5th Sem. & 3rd year | 89 | Shashank Sharma, Devender Sharma, Surender Kumar, Vipul Benson |
6 | Survey Camp | 7-06-2017 to 28-06-2017 | 5th Sem. & 3rd year | 90 | Balbir Singh, Rahul Khurana, Praveen Kumar, Amit Malik, Surender Kumar, Vipul Benson |