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Overview:

The Department of Civil Engineering was initiated in 1407 AH as the college's third department (preceded by the Department of Islamic Architecture and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering).

 This department was established to participate in satisfying the Kingdom's need for civil engineers as part of its ambitious plans to keep up with the ongoing constructional development. Specifically, the department aims at providing Makkah and the neighboring areas with qualified civil engineers who have studied in the same environment so that they know its needs and participate effectively in its development.

The program aims at acquainting the student with his environment and qualifying him to satisfy its engineering needs and develop scientific solutions for Holy Makkah, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims come annually to perform Hajj and Umrah.

 The program also aims at graduating high-caliber engineers who could compete with graduates of the other universities academically and professionally and who could continue their postgraduate studies inside and outside the kingdom without any obstacles. In addition, the program seeks to achieve the following objectives: 

• Developing the student's comprehension of Islamic traditions and his adherence to Islamic morals in practicing the profession.
• Acquiring the basic sciences and engineering sciences that are necessary for developing a strong scientific background for additional specialized studies.
• Developing the student's abilities to apply the acquired academic knowledge practically
• Acquiring leadership competency and skills of engineering business management

 We hope that the aforementioned objectives would provide the graduate with the scientific engineering background and the necessary applied skills to have a successful career, Allah willing.

 Equipments and resources of the Department:

The department has equipments and resources that support the educational process in it and allow the students to conduct laboratory experiments, which represent an integral part of the curricula.  

 Following is a list of these laboratories: 

 These laboratories are equipped with numerous laboratory apparatuses. Each semester, laboratory experiments are conducted in these laboratories according to items of the study plan. In addition, students also use the laboratories to conduct the experiments that they need in their graduation projects.

 The department also acquired several engineering programs to be used in teaching, graduation projects, and scientific researches. These programs include: 

 In addition to a number of service programs such as AutoCAD. The students use these programs in the various areas of civil engineering and faculty members use them also in research.

 Detailed description of some laboratories of the department:

 Computer Laboratory: The computer laboratory is equipped with many computers and printers to train students on using computers in drawing, printing, and graduation projects in addition to learning computer-programming languages such as "Fortran" and conducting the applications that are required for some of the department's courses.

 Soil Mechanics Laboratory: This laboratory is used in conducting experiments of the Soil Mechanics (1) & Soil Mechanics (2) courses. These experiments acquaint the student with the engineering characteristics of soil and ways of improving them through conducting various studies and experiments such as water content measurement, soil mechanical analysis (Sieve Analysis), classification, permeability, soil integrity, plastic limit, liquid limit, direct shear resistance, soil bearing capacity, different soil stabilization methods, etc.

 Concrete Laboratory: This laboratory is equpped with apparatuses that are necessary for conducting some experiments on aggregate, cement, dry concrete, and wet concrete. The laboratory is used by students who study the subject of Concrete Technology, and other students who use it in their graduation projects. The laboratory's equipment includes:

 Electronic apparatus for crushing concrete samples (to measure pressure and bending)

• Concrete permeability measurement apparatus
• Machine for measuring air content of concrete
• Machine for capping concrete cylinders with sulfur
• Treatment room for sample preservation
• Concrete mixer
• Los Angeles Abrasion aggregate-testing machine
• Sieves shaking apparatus
• Dry concrete linear change measurement apparatus

 Asphalt Laboratory: This laboratory has the necessary equipment and apparatuses for conducting the required tests for designing asphalt mixture and testing the basic asphalt characteristics such as penetration, flexibility and liquidity. This laboratory is also used in testing aggregate specifications (such as specific gravity, sieve analysis) and measuring strength of the asphalt mixture (Marshall Stability tests).

 Laboratories of plane surveying and photogrammetry: The survey laboratory is equipped with the traditional survey apparatuses such as robes, cadastral compass, and digital and laser theodolites. It also has modern survey apparatuses such as integrated meteorological stations, electronic distance measurement apparatuses and GPS apparatuses. The laboratory trains students of the departments of civil engineering and Islamic architecture on the applied part of the Survey course. These experiments include training the students on measuring longitudes, vertical and horizontal angles, making linear, horizontal and grid balances to measure height of the different points, and drawing linear sectors and topographic maps.

 Moreover, students are trained on defining the line direction and coordinates of a local or international coordinate system and making survey maps of a certain area.

The department also has a photogrammetry laboratory equipped with a stereoscope. In this laboratory, students are trained on experiments of Survey (2) course, including stereoscoping, measuring height based on pictures, producing mosaics, and measuring coordinates based on pictures and turning them into land coordinates.

 Hydraulics ‎Laboratory: It is one of the laboratories of the Department of Civil Engineering where experiments of the subjects of "fluid mechanics" and "hydraulics" are carried out. Here, students are trained on conducting laboratory experiments on the engineering characteristics of water such as measuring hydrostatic power on plates and gates, measuring the speed of water flow in pipes, and measuring the small difference in the different joints, measuring friction loss. Students also study the different types of pumps and ways of connecting them (in series or parallel). In addition, they also study water networks and flux surface measurement, measurement of drainage in open canals (measurements of the hydraulic jump) and effects of the waterbed ‎inclination and shape on water surface.

 Materials Laboratory: This laboratory is used to carry out experiments of the Materials course, which aims at acquainting students with the characteristics of different materials and their components especially minerals and iron in particular, because it is frequently used in construction.

 This subject acquaints students with the mineral's atomic structure, and then goes on to acquaint them with the atomic dimension measurement inside a single crystal. This takes place through some experiments related to atomic construct and by using explanatory devices depicting the actual structure of the crystals in addition to microscopic methods to identify characteristics of the different materials and minerals after the processes of polishing and softening that are necessary for the microscopic inspection.

 The student also learns how to identify the physical characteristics of minerals and the desired mechanical characteristics such as hardness and elasticity at various degrees and conducting tension tests using the universal tension test apparatus to ensure accordance with specifications. Moreover, detailed study of steel ingot, which is used in most fields of construction, inspecting its factors of antirust anticorrosion to be used in construction with the desired characteristics.