Department of Civil Engineering

To be a knowledge centre in civil engineering education, training, research, entrepreneurship and industry outreach services for creating sustainable infrastructure and enhancing quality of life.

  • To generate quality civil engineers with strong engineering fundamentals.
  • To provide civil engineers with strong technical and managerial skills with ethical values.
  • To provide conducive environment for creative learning, research, and innovations in association with stakeholders.

Dr. R.N Khapre
Head of Department


Dr. Rajendra Khapre is working as Associate Professor in Civil Engineering Department, at Ramdeobaba University, Nagpur (Formarly Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur). He has completed BE in Civil Engineering in 1999 from YCCE, Nagpur. He has completed M. E in Civil Engineering in 2001 Engineering from BITS, Pilani. He has also completed Ph. D in 2006 from BITS, Pilani in the field of Application of Parallel Computing in Finite Element Analysis.

Dr. Rajendra Khapre has 20+ years of work experience in field of teaching to UG and PG courses. He is approved supervisor of RTM Nagpur University for PhD and also supervising PhD Scholars in the field of civil engineering. He has supervised more than 30 M. Tech. Thesis and 15 B. Tech Projects. He is also a member of Institution of Engineers (INDIA), Indian Concrete Institutions (ICI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (ACCE).

Dr. Rajendra Khapre has about 50+ paper in his credit that includes publications in Journals and Conferences of National and International repute. He has received grants from AICTE, MUHS, SERB and DST for research. He has 10+ copyright in his credit. He has also obtained one patent each in the field of Biomedical Engineering as well as Civil Engineering. He also has couple of design patents in his credit. He has travelled many countries for paper presentation and also served as technical session chair for international conferences. He has delivered expert lectures in various STTP/FDP in the area of finite element analysis. He is also actively involved in consultancy works.

Dr. Rajendra Khapre has expertise in finite element analysis. He is well conversant with software’s like ANSYS, STAAD.pro and SAP. He also has expertise in various programming languages including C, FORTRAN, MPI, Python.