Swayam Civil Engineering Courses & Certifications

The Swayam Building Materials and Composites course will go on for eight weeks. It is designed for students studying architecture. Moreover, this is a core course offered at the undergraduate level and comes under the architecture and planning construction materials technology. Also, this programme is for beginners.

Candidates will get to study the different kinds of materials used in the construction of a building, such as clay, stone, and steel, as well as walling systems, and flooring systems. The Building Materials and Composites programme by Swayam will also cover the use of nanotechnology in this field and its applications.

You can start your architectural journey by obtaining a certificate in Building Materials and Composites online course and become well-acquainted with the foundational subjects of the field. The course will be led by Dr. Sumana Gupta, who is employed as an associate professor in the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Matrix method of Structural Analysis program provided by SWAYAM is a continuation of the structural analysis 1 course. During the time span of the course, candidates shall learn about the concepts and methods of structural analysis and also learn about its application procedure regarding its different components of the structure, with the progress of the course.

Matrix method of Structural Analysis program provided by SWAYAM will act as a supporting tool between the structural analysis 1 i.e. the first part of structural analysis and gradually move on to the topics of finite element method.

Matrix method of Structural Analysis also deals with the concepts of determinate and indeterminate structures, flexibility and stiffness alongside analysis of beams, preliminaries, force and displacement methods.

During the time span of the course, candidates will also be tested regularly to keep a close check on their understanding and knowledge gained from the Matrix method of structural analysis course. These learnings will also include concepts of advanced elements of structural analysis. The sessions will cover the matrix method of analysis too using the finite element method.

The Architectural Conservation and Historic Preservation certification course is all in one program to understand the historical emergence of architectural conservation in an effective and implicative manner. The goal of this course is to discuss historic preservation and restoration as an approach that links the past, the current, and the future. The idea is to familiarize the participants of the course with the difficulties and obstacles of heritage environments, the possibilities of heritage buildings, places, districts, and areas, and the need to combine progress with heritage protection. 

The Architectural Conservation and Historic Preservation training examine the history of the environmental movement, the shifting principles and responsibilities, and strategies of different conservation organizations. Participants are exposed to the international conservation system and world heritage scenario, along with meanings and principles of conservation and heritage, and clarification of different forms of heritage. 

The Architectural Conservation and Historic Preservation certification will lead by the examples to illustrate the importance of assessing the significance of heritage buildings. Via numerous case studies, recommendations for restoration, protection of historic buildings, precincts, and places and the method of impact assessment are clarified. Using examples, the method of evolving architectural guidelines for new buildings in historic settings is elaborated.

The Building cost estimation simplified course by Swayam is an eight-week program, available at the undergraduate level. The course instructor Prof. Shruti Samuel is at the Indira Gandhi National Open University is a bachelor in architecture, Assistant Professor in Design Architecture and Planning at the School of Engineering and Technology, for more than seven years. 

The Building cost estimation simplified programme mainly targets learners who want to take up personal projects and those who wish to become a Project Manager or Project Surveyor. Additionally, the course curriculum is based on a different programme known as “Quantity surveying and Valuation”. This was a part of the B.Tech in Construction Management course, which IGNOU used to offer in the past. 

Furthermore, the online training for Building cost estimation simplified course curriculum covers the essential topics such as an estimation of cost, the construction cost of a building, analysis of rates, and bills of building work. Through these, the programme aims to simplify the building cost estimation basics. Additionally, it also explains the entire process of an architect preparing the initial drawings and the surveyor calculating the construction costs using the quantities and rates.

The Sustainable Construction Materials and Techniques certification course examines the definition of sustainability and focuses on its increasing prominence as well as its implications for engineering practice, especially in the built environment. The infrastructure industry is currently experiencing a huge boom. 

The Sustainable Construction Materials and Techniques certification will emphasize the effect on sustainable construction because of the high use of power generation such as steel, industrial fine and asphalt binder, cement, water, and other materials, the built environment has a major impact on the planet, and if left unchecked, buildings may become sources of waste, excess energy use, and even deforestation. 

Due to the widening gap between demand and supply for building materials, the Sustainable Construction Materials and Techniques training hold significant importance as well as the need for energy-efficient and cost-effective construction methods, it has also provided opportunities for innovative and unconventional resources to emerge. The secret to fostering sustainability is to incorporate it into the daily lives of people, industrialists, and teachers, who are the torchbearers for the cause. The training will be given according to the weekly structure of the program's syllabus. 

The Sustainable Engineering Concepts And Life Cycle Analysis certification course delves into the intersection of industry and the environment, addressing sustainability challenges and solutions. It introduces key concepts, emphasizing a systems-based approach and the application of scientific methods. Participants explore life cycle assessment, including practical case studies.

The Sustainable Engineering Concepts And Life Cycle Analysis certification by Swayam has industry recognition from companies like Larsen and Turbo and the Tata Group of Industries. It requires a basic understanding of environmental sciences and engineering. The course earns participants 2 credit points, suitable for students in civil engineering and environmental studies.

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.

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.

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.