Department of Civil Engineering (CE)

Muhammad Abdur Rahman

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering (CE)

 

CONTACT INFORMATION ( On Study Leave)

7th Floor, Tower-1, MIST, Mirpur Cantonment

Mirpur, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh

Academic Qualifications

Degrees

Result

Name of the Institution

Duration of Degree

M.Sc. in Civil Engineering

(Major - Geotechnical Engineering)

CGPA:

4.00/4.00

Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

November 2014-January 2019

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering

CGPA:

3.67/4.00

Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Khulna, Bangladesh

January 2009-

September 2013

 

Courses completed for Master Degree

  Course No.

Course Name

Credit

Grade point

CGPA

CE-6109

Finite Element Method I

3.0

4.00

 

 

4.00

CE-6401

Soil Mechanics I

3.0

4.00

CE-6402

Soil Mechanics II

3.0

4.00

CE-6410

Constitutive Modelling of Soils

3.0

4.00

CE-6117

Advanced Design of Concrete Structures

3.0

4.00

CE-6103

Theory of Plates

3.0

4.00

 

Journal Publications

  • Rahman, M. A., Shahin, H. M., & Nakai, T. (2018). Stress-strain-dilatancy relationships of normally consolidated dhaka clay. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMATE15(51), 188-194.

Conference Publications

  • Dey, R., Rahman, M. A. & Islam, N. (2019). A coupled numerical approach for assessing the bearing capacity of an eccentrically loaded foundation on layered cohesionless soil near a slope. GeoSt.John's 2019, the 72nd Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Newfoundland, Canada, September 29 to October 2, 2019. [Full paper accepted]

International Conference Attended

  • 7th International Conference on Geotechnique, Construction Materials and Environment, GEOMATE 2017 on 21-23 Nov 2017 at Tsu, Mie, Japan.
  • 1st International Conference on Advances in Civil Infrastructure and Construction Materials, CICM-2015 at Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Teaching Experience 

Position

Organization

Duration

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil Engineering, Military Institute of  Science & Technology, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh

14th August 2019 to Present

Lecturer 

Department of Civil Engineering, Military Institute of  Science & Technology, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh

1st July 2014 to  13th August 2019

 

Courses Taught

CE 447: Soil-Water Interaction

CE 442: Geotechnical Engineering Design Sessional

CE 342: Geotechnical Engineering Testing Sessional

CE 203: Engineering Geology and Geomorphology

CE 207: Applied Mathematics for Engineers

CE 206: Engineering Computational Sessional

CE 212: Structural Mechanics and Materials Sessional

CE 101: Analytic Mechanics

CE 103: Surveying and spatial information Engineering

 

Work Experience

1. Serving in the Bangladesh Army as a Major from 29 July 2019 to Present.

2. Served in the Bangladesh Army as a Captain from 19th May 2014 to 28 July 2019.

3. Serving as the trainer of Tri-axial testing of soils for IE Engineering, Bangladesh who is the country distributor of ELE International, UK from 15th July 2016 to Present.

Current Research Projects

  • Evaluation of the parameters of simple elastoplastic constitutive models for Dhaka clay (Structured soil)
  • Physical modelling and numerical simulation of a slope near Osmany Hall at MIST, Dhaka.
  • Constitutive modelling of Rock soils in Rangamati Region, Chattogram.
  • Numerical simulation of slope failure due to heavy rainfall in hilly area in Rangamati Region, Chattogram.
  • Bearing capacity of a shallow foundation in structured Dhaka clay.

Field/Project Experiences 

  • Tri-axial testing of Stabilized soil at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. [2018-2019]
  • Sub Soil Investigation along Pipe Route Alignment of Package – 2 under Dhaka Environment Sustainable Water Supply Project (DESWSP). [2018]
  • Extensive Soil Investigation works for dredger bases as a part of consultancy work for BIWTA and CATS-MIST. [2017]
  • Supervised the Soil Investigation Program at Depot area of Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit (MRT Line-5). [2016]
  • Worked in Soil Investigation Program of Bangladesh Road Research Laboratory in the remote areas of Bangladesh. [2015]
  • Foundation Safety Analysis of Buildings at DOHS of Mohakhali, Banani, Mirpur, Savar, Chattogram under Armed Forces of Bangladesh. [2015-Till]

Trainings & Workshops

  • Completed Short Course on Tunnelling with focus on Soft Ground Tunnelling, Dhaka. [2019]
  • Completed Advance Course on Computational Geotechnics held in IIT, Chennai, India. [2018]
  • Completed Short Course on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Engineering arranged by Department of CEE, IUT, Dhaka. [2017]
  • Completed SHORT COURSE ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT. [2017]
  • Short course on ETABS and SAP 2000 arranged by Department of CE, MIST. [2015]
  • Short course on professional Geographic Information System (GIS) arranged by Department of CE, MIST. [2014]
  • Short course on Advance Laboratory Testing of Soils arranged by Department of CE, MIST under Mr John Turner from JTC Consultant, England. [2014]