05 Jun 2021
Report on Webinar “Opportunities for Civil Engineers in Defence Forces as Commissioned Officers”
Venue : MS Teams, REVA University
Date : Saturday, 5th June 2021
Coordinator : Mr. Ajaybhaskar Reddy/ Mr. K. Chandraprakash
Supporting Organizers : Mrs. Minakshi, Mr. K. Chandraprakash, Mrs. Pushpa Lumina
Title of the event: “Opportunities for Civil Engineers in Defence Forces as Commissioned Officers”
Event Details:
The School of Civil Engineering, REVA University-Bangalore has organized a webinar on topic of Opportunities for Civil Engineers in Defence Forces as Commissioned Officers on 5th June 2021 at 5.30pm to 6.30pm. This event had a motive to impart knowledge on the out of curriculum context domains of civil engineering.
Resource Speaker:
Brig. C. K. Ramesh (Retd)
The main take away of this webinar were key fundamentals aspects of Opportunities for Civil Engineers in Defence Forces as Commissioned Officers. There was overwhelming response for the webinar evident through 200 plus participants.
Students and faculty coordinators on behalf of School of Civil Engineering, Thank Honourable Chancellor Dr. P. Shyama Raju sir and Vice Chancellor Dr. M. Dhanamjaya sir.
We also extend our acknowledgement to our Director Dr. Y. Ramalinga Reddy sir, School of Civil Engineering and also our Asst. Director Dr. Rajasekhara S L.
We also thank all the faculties of School of Civil Engineering, REVA University for their continuous support in organizing the events.
Outputs of Webinar:
I. Objectives:
• The primary mission of the Indian Army is to ensure national security and national unity, to defend the nation from external aggression and internal threats, and to maintain peace and security within its borders.
• Civil engineers have several opportunities first being UES for Indian army indeed you need to be either in pre-final/final engineering, followed by Several other opportunities, that includes AFCAT, CDS, TGC, SSC-Tech UES-NAVY. Civil Engineers can join Indian Army through CDS.
II. Military Applications:
• General Civil Engineer aspects for construction works.
• Commissioned officers through UES/CDS
• Flying officers through AFCAT
• Technical Ground works through TGC
