Civil Engineering, the oldest traditional engineering discipline, provides excellent opportunity to build, save and change the face of the country. The 150 year old discipline has contributed largely to build new India giving one of the largest global networks of roads and rail route, marvelous bridges, highest railway embankment, underground railways, tunnels, industrial and high rise buildings, multipurpose river valley projects, and developing commendable sanitation, irrigation and water supply projects.

Recognizing the increasing market demand for the discipline for furtherance of development, Hooghly Engineering and Technology College has set up the Civil Engineering Department since its inception.

The Students are taken rigorously through the following courses, theoretical and practical, so that they become courageous, competitive and savvy and are capable of accepting the challenges to do, be and make in the life long process of unlearning and learning: