The students of department of civil engineering are associated with Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) student chapter. Students are involved in organizing various events in association with ICI. One such event is Concrete fair which is organized annually wherein students from across the country participate. The Department also has an association of civil engineering students(ACES)which is active in conducting various academic activities such as Industrial site visits, Expert lectures etc. Merit incentives are awarded to students for their academic excellence by Brigade group and Sarthaka trust. Our Students also participated in extracurricular activities and won prizes at national and state level. Our students  actively participate in societal relevant activities such as blood donation camps regularly.Students are also involved in Traffic sign board audit for south Bengaluru and low cost toilet design.

Professional activities of students:

Department has an active student chapter of Indian Concrete Institute, since 28th September 2010.

Department has student chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) since 28 th April 2017.

ICI Student Chapter

• Annual event –Concrete Fair (National Level technical event)

ASCE Student Chapter
The Department also has an association of civil engineering students (ACES) which is active in conducting various academic activities such as Industrial site visits, Expert
lectures etc. Our students actively participate in societal relevant activities such as blood donation camps regularly .The Civil Engineering Program students have published „AVENUE‟ technical magazine under ACES / ASCE student chapter.

Awards and Accolades:

• ASCE President, Mr. Satyansh Singh, 2021-22 was awarded with the 2022 student leadership award for outstanding leadership and dedication to the RV College of Engineering, ASCE student chapter.
• Represented India in the “ASCE UESI Surveying Society wide finals competition” in Ruston, Louisiana, USA virtually, 2022
• Won the “ASCE UESI Student Symposium Surveying Competition”, 2022 organized by UPES, Dehradun in India
• Bagged the third place in "Ace the Space" organized by Vellore Institute of Technology, 2021
• Bagged the second place in "Cadathon" organized by Vellore Institute of Technology, 2021
• Bagged the second place in "Unbreakable Quiz" organized by Vellore Institute of Technology , 2021
• Secured the second place in "ASCE Sustainable Solutions Competition” organized by Vellore Institute of Technology (19th-21st March, 2021)
• Secured the first place in "ASCE UESI Surveying Competition" organized by Vellore Institute of Technology (19th-21st March, 2021)
• Secured the first place in "ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition" as a part of the Annual ASCE India Region Conference organized by Vellore Institute of Technology (19th - 21st March, 2021)
• Ranked 5th in the ASCE Can-do competition worldwide organized by University of Wisconsin, Platteville virtually (28-30th June, 2021)
• Won the “Jury Appreciation” for Outstanding ICI Student Chapter at the Concrete Day and “Construction Excellence Awards” 2020 organised by Indian Concrete Institute and Ultratech Cements Ltd.
• Secured second place in “Aurazap”, a competition to build a Microbial fuel cell to treat domestic waste water (March 4, 2020)
• Secured first position in the “Kegcrete Ball Battle Competition”, held at and organised by the Bannari Amman Institute of Technology(March 4, 2020)
• Secured the first position in “Quigle”, Quiz Competition held at and organised by the Bannari Amman Institute of Technology (6th March 2020)
• Stood first the in the “ASCE UESI Surveying Competition”, held at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology (March 4, 2020)
• Members of the executive team received prizes in the “civil engineering students’ symposium Nirmaan”, organized by BMSCE, Bangalore (9th, 10th November, 2019)
• Overall Champions at the Technical Fest "Srujanothsava" organised by Acharya Institute of Technology (19th and 20th of September, 2019)
• Stood 3rd in the “ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition”, organized as a part of the first ever ASCE Student National Conference, India Section, by VIT Vellore, held at Krishnapatnam Port, Nellore (March, 2018)
• Won an “overall championship trophy” in a technical fest at 'Sagartech' organized at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering (29th and 30th April, 2019)
• Secured first prize in the state level quiz competition “Mind Bend” organized by ACCE and Ramco Cement Pvt Ltd at the AMC Engineering College, Bengaluru, 2018
• Secured second place in “Traffinier event”, second place in “mead paper event”, third place in “surveyor challenge event” and third place in “constrologer event” in ASCE conference organized by Vellore Institute of Technology (April, 2018)
• The ASCE Student Chapter, RVCE – ‘Team Atharva” participated and secured 3rd place in the ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition, held at Krishnapatnam Port, Nellore, organized as a part of the first ever ASCE Student National Conference, India Section, by VIT Vellore. March 2018
• Received best ICI(Indian concrete Institute) student chapter award- 2016 and 2017
• Awards to meritorious students of VI and VIII semester students from Brigade Group and Saarthaka Trust
• Mr.Arvind.M received Ekalavya award (swimming)from Government of Karnataka on 10th May 2016
• RVCE Students received best team award at NIRMAAN, BMSCE,2015
• RVCE Students received best team award at SAMEEKSHA, MSRIT
• Mr. Arvind M of Civil Engineering Department secured KOA(Karnataka Olympics Academy) Award in Swimming.
• Mr. Arvind M won Best sportsman award of Visvesvaraya Technological University for the year 2014-15
• Mr. Arvind M represented Karnataka in Swimming and Won two gold, two silver and one bronze medal

 Activities

1. Organized a workshop on insight for GATE preparation by an alumnus of ASCE executive team member with AIR 141, 2020 (7th October, 2022)
2. Workshop by Prof. Dhanush S, Faculty Advisor, ASCE Student Chapter on StaadPro (July 23rd, 2022)
3. Successfully completed 10th edition of concrete fair, 2021
4. Participated in paper presentation organized by VIT, 2021
5. Participated in “Vision Modelerie” organized by BIT, 2021
6. Organized an event called "Swarakshith" in collaboration with NSS (28th September- 2nd October 2021)
7. Celebrated Engineer’s Day virtually through a workshop (15th September, 2021)
8. Organized webinar on “Stress Management for Educators” (6th September, 2021)
9. Organized a webinar series on "Latest trends in Engineering" (23rd July, 2021)
10. Organized a webinar on “Retention of Deep Excavations: Theory & Practice” (16th July, 2021)
11. Organized a webinar on “Applications of Remote Sensing in Civil Engineering” (10th July, 2021)
12. Organized a webinar on “Importance of Plants & Equipment for Quality in Road Construction” (2nd July 2021)
13. Organized a virtual competition on “Sustainable green modelling” (11th June, 2021)
14. Organized online workshop on ETABS (15th May 2021)
15. Organized second edition of the 20 day quiz challenge (11th April – 30th April, 2021)
16. Visit to Cubbon Park on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti (October 2, 2020)
17. Organized a webinar on ”Climate Change, Consequences and Opportunities” on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanthi (2nd October 2020)
18. Released 6th Edition of annual technical magazine "The Avenue" (July 6, 2020)
19. Conducted a webinar titled “Building Resilience among College Students during uncertain times” (June 22nd, 2020)
20. Hosted a webinar on "Special Concrete for Special Structures” (9th May, 2020)
21. Organized essay writing competition on “the impact the COVID 19 pandemic and the consequences of the ensuing global lockdown on daily life and learning” (May 2020)
22. Organized 20 day quiz challenge contest (26th March – 14th April, 2020)
23. Organized a cleanliness drive at Cubbon park on the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in association with NSS-RVCE (2nd October, 2019)
24. Conducted a Free Eye check-up Camp in collaboration with Rotaract Club of RVCE (22nd October, 2019)
25. Organized a two day "Industry Academia Interaction Workshop" for Final year Civil Engineering Students (October 8-9, 2019)
26. Participated in the "ASCE National Concrete Canoe Challenge" organized by SRMIST, Chennai, and made a concrete canoe named “Avyaan” 2019
27. Organized the Swachh Bharat Go Green Drive in collaboration with NSS-RVCE on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanthi, in Cubbon Park, 2019
28. Organized an intradepartmental annual competition “Battle of ACES” (26th August, 2019)
29. Organized a field visit to KPTCL Pavagada Solar Power Plant (14th June, 2019)
30. Conducted a plantation and cleanliness drive on the occasion of World Environment Day at Melukote, Karnataka (5th June, 2019)
31. Arranged an expert guest lecture session on “Overview on Shell Structures” (April, 2019)
32. Organized “Aguamenti event” to make water filter on World Water Day (22nd March, 2019).
33. Conducted a free dental check up camp in joint collaboration with RAAG, RVCE (Jan 2019)
34. Been a part of blood donation camp conducted in association with rotaract club, NSS, NCCM RAAG and Kannada Sangh, 2019
35. Conducted an eye test camp event in association with rotaract club, 2018
36. Organized concrete bowling ball competition, 2018
37. Paper presentation at the international conference on Advances in Construction Materials and Structures at IIT Roorkee (March 2018)
38. Organized “Battle of Aces” (January, 2018)
39. Conducted “Swachh Bharat Awareness Drive at cubbon park (14th October, 2017)
40. Conducted a plantation drive and Engineer’s day celebration (15th September, 2017)
41. Conducted expert lecture on “Transplantation of existing armoury house of Tippu Sultan Era” (12th September, 2017)
42. Organized a guest lecture on “Concrete Mix Proportioning” (29th August, 2017)
43. Organized a guest lecture on “Highway Engineering” (9th August, 2017)
44. Arvind Mani represented India in Swimming and Secured Gold & Silver in 200m Back stroke, 50 M Back stroke at 12th South Asian Games held at Guwathi, Assam on 7th February 2017.
45. Arvind M represented India in Swimming in World University Games held at Gwangju, South Korea from 03rd to 14th July 2016
46. Arvind Mani represented Karnataka State in Senior Nationals & Secured 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 4 Bronze medals held at Rajkot from 28th October to 01st November 2015.
47. Arvind Mani represented VTU & Secured 03 Gold Medals in All India Inter University Aquatic Championship held at Punjabi University, Chandigarh from 20th to 25th Oct 2015.
48. Poojitha represented VTU & participated in All India Inter University Soft Ball Tournament held at University of Delhi, New Delhi Bangalore from 1 4th to 28th Feb 2015.
49. Pavan S M Secured Third Position in Wrestling Event for 100 Kg category held at MVJCE, Bengaluru from 19th & 20th October 2015.
50. Siddharth B S has participated and won first place in Drama at State level dance and short film”Ranga Nenapu-2 held from 22nd -23rd January 2016.
51. Association of Civil Engineering students conducted Solid Waste Management Drive at Rajarajeshwarinagar on 23rd April 2016
52. Vineeth M & Chirag Patel represented University team for Inter University competition on 14th January 2016.
53. Vishwas V Patel won Second place in Table tennis tournament held at Jain College of Engineering, Bengaluru from 16-19th February 2015.
54. Runner Up of Ultratech State Concrete Day Quiz competition organized by Indian Concrete Institute student chapter held at R V College of Engineering,2014
55. Winners of Annual Sport meet of Inter College ( Captain + 5 players from Civil Department represented the College team) organised by R V College of Engineering,2014.
56. Vinayaka B M,Pavan K S,Vishwas V Patel and Santhosh M Naik participated in AAKAAR-2015 and presented a paper on “Noise pollution –Analysis of Bengaluru City”, at IIT Bombay on March 2014.
57. Pavan K S was member of winning team of cricket intercollegiate tournament organized by RV college of Engineering, Bengaluru, from 6th to 17thOctober 2014.
58. Prathap Kumar and Raghuraj were members of winning team of Volleyball intercollegiate tournament organized by BMS college of Engineering, Bengaluru, from 9th to 11th September 2014.
59. Prathap Kumar and Raghuraj were members of winning team of Volleyball intercollegiate tournament organized by Siddganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, from 9th to 11thNovemeber 2014.
60. Ramesh Kumar Hugar won Second place in paper presentation during “TIARA-2014” organized by St Joseph Engineering, Mangalore during 17th to 18th March 2014.
61. Students of seventh semester were Overall Champions of Annual Fest 2013 held at MS Ramaiah College of Engineering, Bengaluru.
62. Mathew Joe, VIII semester student won 2nd prize in technical paper presentation during MAGNOVITE 2013 the annual fest of Civil Department at Christ University, Bengaluru
63. Ramesh Kumar Hugar participated in “Architect event “ and won first place during “Engineer 2013”, the annual technical symposium of NIT,Surathkal ,Karnataka ,held during 24th -28th October 2013
64. AneesNaik, Asheesh Cherian were the state level Winners of Dalmia quiz,2013
65. Bharath B won First Place in the event WALK THE CANTILEVER (Technical Debate) at NIRMAAN International Civil Engineering Students Symposium conducted by BMSCE, Bangalore on 29th September, 2013
66. Vishwanath H K Awarded first place for exceptional academic performance under FESHTOS 2013 by R V C E Campus hostel, Bangalore.
67. Vishwanath HK team member of RV College of Engineering were winners of Bangalore South Zone Intercollegiate Cricket Tournament conducted by RNSIT, Bangalore, held at Bengaluru.
68. Bharath B won II Place in COLLOQUIUM (National Level Paper Presentation on Concrete using Ternary Binders) organized at College of Engineering, TRIVANDRUM in September 2013.
69. Shunyashree B D of PG –Highway Technology Secured first rank underVTU in 2013.
70. Nidhi M of PG –Highway Technology Secured first rank underVTU in 2013.
71. Preethi S of PG –Highway Technology Secured second rank underVTU in 2013.
72. Mr.Santhosh M.R was RVCE autonomous topper in the year 2012