The Department of Civil Engineering at the REC, Bhopal was established in the year 2006. The department has produced several eminent engineers who have made significant contributions in the planning, development and execution of Civil Engineering projects in India as well as abroad

The Department offers a four-year course leading to the Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering and two-year course leading to Master’s degree in Construction Technology and Management (CTM). The Department is known for its reputed faculty having expertise in diverse fields. It has built up a wide research potential. The faculty of the department continues to tower by exploring new frontiers of knowledge, imparting the latest technical knowledge to the students and conducting high quality of research. The faculty also renders technical advice on live engineering problems to industrial sectors. It has been striving to develop and maintain a glorious national tradition of producing quality Civil Engineers for the country.

The Civil Engineering department, at present, provides facilities for academic excellence in the following broad areas:

• Structural Engineering

• Water Resources Engineering

• Environmental Engineering

• Transportation Engineering

The department lends support to the collaborative projects, seminars, workshops to meet the challenges of both private and public sector issues
Graduates from the REC have the ability to obtain professional licensure, and able to recognize the need for engaging in life-long learning. They further have the necessary qualifications for employment in civil engineering and related professions, for entry into advanced studies and for assuming eventual leadership roles in their profession.

The institute is well equipped with all the laboratories related to undergraduate and post graduate level viz. surveying, strength of materials, fluid mechanics, engineering geology, material testing, soil mechanics, highway material testing, environmental engineering etc. The various equipments includes dumpy level, theodolite, universal testing machine, Brinell hardness test apparatus, Brinell cum Vickers hardness tester, Izod impact tester, torsion apparatus, Los Angles machine, Vicat apparatus, Vibrating machine, Vee-Bee consistometer, ultrasonic pulse velocity meter, piezometer, orifice meter, venturimeter, Pitot tube, centrifugal pump, turbines, California bearing ratio machine, penetrometer, ring and ball apparatus, flash and fire point measuring apparatus (Pensky- martens, marshall stability, UV VIS spectrophotometer), microprocessor controlled portable pH Meter, portable conductivity meter, portable turbiditimeter, portable DO Meter, bacteriological incubator, digital turbidimeter, digital photo colorimeter, thermostatically controlled oven, consolidometer, pycnometer, density hydrometer, mechanical liquid limit device (casagrande type), direct sheet test apparatus, un-confined compression apparatus, triaxial shear test apparatus, Vane shear apparatus, motorised sieve shaker etc.