Swayam Civil Engineering Courses & Certifications

The Digital Land Surveying and Mapping (DLS&M) online program teach the foundational concepts of DLS and mapping of the earth by utilising mapping software, GPS, and total station. Through this eight-week-long program, you will learn about informative concepts such as data reduction, digital surveying process, basics of mapping, etc. 

The Digital Land Surveying and Mapping (DLS&M) certification course offers not only theoretical views but also demonstrates real-life mapping and land surveying procedure of an area. Furthermore, many practical assignments and tutorials will be provided throughout the course duration. This online course is also a Faculty Development Program (FDP) approved by the AICTE.

The Digital Land Surveying and Mapping (DLS&M) program by Swayam is crafted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, under the NPTEL scheme. The program discusses all the essential ideas of organic photochemistry and pericyclic reactions. On fulfilment of certain eligibility criteria, you can receive an e-certificate for this course.

The Earthquake Resistant Design of Foundations online course is offered by Swayam, an initiative by the Ministry of education of the Indian government. The course discusses various foundation types, needed soil studies, soil characteristics, and rules of practice, and factors for seismic-resistant foundation design. The Earthquake Resistant Design of Foundations training will concentrate on strategies for designing foundations that do not fail during earthquakes. This includes shallow and deep foundations. The design of a shallow foundation for lateral loads will be a major focus. The Earthquake Resistant Design of Foundations syllabus includes various types of deep and shallow foundations, the performance of foundations during earthquakes, Safe bearing capacity, Raft foundation, soil-pile analysis, Soil-Structure Interaction, etc.

The Hydration, Porosity & Strength of Cementitious Materials online course is an 8 weeks course offered by Swayam, an initiative by the government of India’s ministry of education. Cement and concrete are the foundations of building infrastructure, therefore engineers must grasp not only hydration, cement, and strength properties but also permeability, porosity, and durability.

The Hydration, Porosity & Strength of Cementitious Materials training is focused on the subject of developments in mineral and chemical mixtures, with the fundamental framework using common Portland cement. Despite the fact that this issue is considered from the point of view of solid science, the reality is that pastes prepared with OPC alone or in conjunction with other cemented composites are practically never used in the field. The Hydration, Porosity & Strength of Cementitious Materials syllabus covers various topics to demonstrate the applicability of scientific concepts with illustrative examples from real-world applications in the course.

The Project Planning & Control program is a National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning(NPTEL) online course that offers free training for students by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. This online course on construction projects is provided on the Swayam online education portal, an initiative by the ministry of education India, and is for those associated with construction and planning.

The online training program on construction management is conducted for eight weeks and is an elective course for the students in their senior-level undergraduate and postgraduate level. This faculty development program is guided by Dr. Koshy Varghese from the department of civil engineering at the IIT Madras and is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education.

The students of the ‘Project Planning & Control’ online course can earn two credit points after completing this course along with receiving the course completion certificate that holds the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras. 

The Expansive Soil Certification course is a 2-month online program. This Expansive Soil certification syllabus is offered by the Swayam platform, but the course syllabus is decided upon and made by the IIT Guwahati,  and this course certificate is issued by the institutions and NPTEL and IIT Guwahati.

The Expansive Soil training is a core program that deals with soil conditions occurring in arid and semi-arid regions and different mechanisms of soil expansiveness and soil mechanics. The behavior and treatment of expansive soil can be explained in this course. Settlement issues and ground heave emerge as a result of volumetric changes in these soils brought on by temperature conditions during drying and wetting. Those soils are considered natural hazards and pose challenges to civil engineers. Professor Anil Kumar Mishra explains this certificate course.

GPS Surveying is a collective term for all the different operations involved in the collection of data using GPS. As GPS is becoming increasingly popular as the primary tool for collecting geospatial data, there is a great demand for knowledgeable GPS surveying personnel.

The objective of the GPS Surveying online course by Swayam is to make participants capable of carrying out GPS surveying, independently and confidently. As it is a field-oriented programme, students and professionals from any field, interested in GPS surveying, can attend this course. However, candidates should preferably have some basic understanding of physics and mathematics and a working knowledge of computers. 

The GPS Surveying programme comprises lectures on theoretical aspects, and video demonstrations of instruments and their working, field surveying, and data processing. Participants will have to solve an assignment at the end of each module. The type of questions may differ from MCQs and fill in the blanks to subjective questions, as relevant to the module.

The Scheduling Techniques in Projects certification course is a four-week-long online programme crafted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. It is designed to provide in-depth knowledge of one of the significant aspects of project management, i.e., scheduling. You will study all the latest scheduling techniques that are available in the implementation or research stage.

The Scheduling Techniques in Projects training will make you adept at scheduling ranging from simplistic network methods to matrix-based techniques. You will learn many types of scheduling like information-driven, resource-driven, and logic-driven scheduling. Furthermore, you will explore complex concepts under these topics, including LoB (Line of Balance), CPM (Critical Path Method), RDM (Relationship Diagramming Methods), PDM (Precedence Diagramming Method), etc.

During the Scheduling Techniques in Projects programme, you will also learn other exciting scheduling techniques such as lean scheduling and 4D BIM. This online course is a Faculty Development Programme (FDP) that is approved by the AICTE. The course uses practical and hypothetical examples from industry along with tutorials to give a hands-on experience of learning.

Global Navigation Satellite Systems And Applications certification is a 4 weeks programme proposed by NPTEL and IIT Roorkee and is launched on the Swayam provider website. This is an elective course falling under the course category of civil engineering. The course is absolutely free to learn but the certification demands extra thousand rupees. 

Global Navigation Satellite Systems And Applications training provides a solid understanding of the DEMs which are the digital elevation models, and their applications in earth sciences, and civil engineering. Later on, in the course curriculum, the candidates can identify their source, derivatives, generation techniques, errors, and limitations of the DEMs. The industry support for this certification course is offered by some Geoinformatics companies, like NIIT, Leica Geoinformatics, ESRI India, MapmyIndia, ISRO, and more.

Reinforced Concrete Road Bridges certification is an elective course that is arranged by the premier institutions like NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur but is presented on Swayam’s platform. This certification course does not offer any kind of hard copy certificates but does give electronic ones, and gives a chance for e-verification. This course usually has a focuses on the building of road bridges for the system of road transportation. 

Reinforced Concrete Road Bridges training for students will provide an opportunity to learn about the concrete bridges made using slabs in the 8-12m range. It will also teach regarding T beam bridges that cover 15-25m range. Generally, the course gets introduced with the design considerations that introduce IRC codes, and how the building of bridges can be curated in a systematic way. The civil engineering students do get a lot from this course as the end certification is supported by the design, and construction businesses. 

Water, Society, and Sustainability certification is a course for one month that is held directly using the Swayam platform. The course curriculum is designed by the 2 institutions NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur to help understand the global water scenario. The world consists of a number of people who do not have access to safe and clean water. Candidates will learn about certain lessons from small-scale community water conservation practices. 

Water, Society, and Sustainability training for the course exhibits all the characteristics across technology, water, society, and science The course is located at the intersections across the water, technology, science, and society towards a sustainable future. The context is important for understanding and addressing the need for water beyond the technical, and physical attributes of the water shapes designed by the society. Also, the students will be understanding the challenges associated with water like availability, severe drought, or floods. The certificate that is showered at the end of the course modules, assignments and an examination will be supported across different commerce industries.