Civil Engineering License Exam Preparation (ACiE)
Prepare for the NEC Civil Engineering (ACiE) license exam: the full 10-chapter syllabus, from Soil Mechanics and Structural Design to Hydropower and Transportation, with thousands of practice MCQs and timed mock tests. Free.
Civil Engineering syllabus (ACiE)
Basic Civil Engineering
- Engineering materials
- Standards (NS & IS) and tests for civil engineering materials
- Building technology
- Geometric properties of sections
- Surveying and levelling
- Estimating, costing, and valuation
Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
- Soil properties and laboratory tests
- Stresses on soil and seepage
- Shear strength of soil and stability of slopes
- Soil exploration, earth pressure and retaining structures
- Fundamentals of foundation
- Bearing capacity and foundation settlements
Basic Water Resources Engineering
- Fluids and their properties
- Hydrostatics
- Hydro-kinematics and hydro-dynamics
- Pipe flow
- Open channel flow
- Hydrology
Structural Mechanics
- Shear forces and bending moments
- Stress and strain analysis
- Theory of flexure and columns
- Determinate structures-1
- Determinate structures-2
- Indeterminate structures
Design of Structures
- Loads and load combinations
- Concrete technology
- RCC structures-1
- RCC structures-2
- Steel structures
- Timber and masonry structures
Water Supply, Sanitation and Environment
- Water sources, water quality and water demand
- Intake and distribution systems
- Water treatment process and technologies
- Design and construction of sewers
- Treatment and disposal of wastewater
- Concept of environmental assessment
Irrigation and Drainage
- Water demand estimation
- Design of canals
- Diversion headworks
- River training works
- Regulating and cross-drainage structures
- Water logging and drainage
Hydropower
- Planning of hydropower projects
- Power and energy potential study
- Headworks of storage plants
- Headworks of run-of-river (ROR) plants
- Water conveyance structures
- Hydro-electric machines and powerhouse
Transportation
- Highway planning and survey
- Geometric design of highway
- Highway materials
- Traffic engineering and safety
- Road pavement
- Road construction & maintenance
Project Planning, Design and Implementation
- Engineering drawings and its concepts
- Engineering Economics
- Project planning and scheduling
- Project management
- Engineering professional practice
- Engineering Regulatory Body
Sample Civil Engineering questions
What are the sediments that are rolling, sliding and bouncing called?
- Bed load
- Suspended load
- Dissolved load
- Contact load
The shear reinforcement in R.C.C. is provided to resist
- Diagonal tension
- Horizontal shear
- Diagonal Compression
- Vertical shear
- 22 m
- 24 m
- 26 m
- 28 m