Department of Civil Engineering (CE)

Afia Farzana

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering (CE)

CONTACT INFORMATION

Room: 722, 7th Floor,

Department of Civil Engineering,

General Mustafiz Tower,

Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)

Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • MSc. in Civil & Geotechnical Engineering (ongoing), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
  • B.Sc. in Civil Engineering.Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

 

 

AWARDS/ HONOURS

  • 2012-2015- University Merit Scholarship (for remaining within the top 5 of the class in each level of undergraduate studies.
  • 2013-2014 -Commandant’s Award (one times) in (2nd year) of under graduation for securing a CGPA of 3.90 and above.
  • 2012-2013 and 2014-2016 -Dean’s Award (Three times) in first year and last two years (1st and 3rd and final year) of under graduation for securing a CGPA of 3.70 and above.

 

 


ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

  • Seismic Performance Analysis (Mirpur DOHS ), 2014
  • Proto-type  RC Bridge  (Box Girder Bridge), 2015
  • BIWTA building design, 2018
  • Foundation capacity assessment of building
  • BAUST

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Member of Institute of Engineers (IEB), Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Research Domain:

  • Effect of Partial Replacement of Cement with Limonite and Volcanic Ash on Mortar.
  • Performance Based Analysis of Stainless Steel Reinforced Bridge Pier.
  • Water salinity in coastal region.
  • Field Investigation on heavy metal effects of industrial effluent in environment.
  • Foundation analysis in PLAXIS 2D and 3D software.
  • Seismic vulnerability assessment of base isolated building.

 

 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  • S.Tasnim,K.A.Farzana,K.S.Ahmed and Azizi Ahmed(2015), “Seismic Performance Investigation of Base Isolation System for Typical Residential Building in Bangladesh”,MIST Journal of Science and Technology,Dec-2016

 

CONFERENCE / CONGRESS

  • K.A.Haque,K.S.Ahmed (2020), “Performance Based Seismic Analysis of Stainless Steel Reinforced Concrete Bridge Pier using Damping-Ductility Relationship”(IABSE-2020),August 26-27,Dhaka,Bangladesh
     
  • K.M.Rahman, A.F.Haque, K. B. Jalal, M. M. Rahman and N. C. Roy (2020), “Investigation of Physicochemical Parameters of Effluent from Textile Industries of Bangladesh (ICCESD-2020),February.7-9,Khulna,Bangladesh.

 

  • K.M.Rahman, F.Tabassum and A.F.Haque (2019), “Development of Climate Resilient Low Cost Water Treatment System”,International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-2019), March.1-3,Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

 

  • S.Tasnim, K.A.Farzana, K.S.Ahmed and Azizi Ahmed(2015), “Seismic Performance Investigation of Base Isolation System for Typical Residential Building in Bangladesh”, Conference on Advances in Civil Infrastructure and Construction Materials (CICM- 2015), Dec. 14-15, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

 

 

Workshop/Training:

  • Completed a 4-week Training course on ‘Professional Building and Bridge Design Using ETABS and SAP2000 held from 12-12-2014 to 09-01-2015 conducted by the Department of Civil Engineering, Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka.

 

  • Completed a Workshop on ‘Seismic Performance Assessment and Design of Structures’ organized by the Department of Civil Engineering, MIST, Dhaka on 19-04-2014. 

 

  • Completed a “1-Week long Industrial Attachment Training Programme” commencing from 17-12-2014 conducted by the Public Works Department (PWD), Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.

 

  • Completed a 1-week long Industrial Training Programme at GE Army,  Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka beginning from 08-12-2014.

 

  • Successfully completed a 1-day Training Course at M.I. Cement Factory Limited, (Crown Cement), Mukhtarpur, Munshiganj in the year 2013 (Level-2).

 

  • Workshop on Seismic Performance Assessment and Design of Structures, 19 April, 2014

 

  • Civil Engineering, Issues, Challenges (Mayor), 2016

 

  • ABETE (Yazdani), 2017

 

  • Seminar in CE FEST, 2017

 

  • Short Course Transport (Fuad, Uk), 2017

 

  • Short Course on Construction Management, 10th to 12th December 2017

 

  • Short Course on  Design of Steel Structures, 26th to 28th December 2017

 

 

 

 

SUBJECTS TAUGHT

 

Theory

Sessional

Engineering Mechanics

 

Environmental Engineering-I

 

Environmental Engineering Sessional

 

Highway Materials and Transportation Engineering Design Sessional

 

Quantity Surveying

 

Professional Practices & Communication Sessional

 

Steel Structures Design Sessional

 

Concrete Structures Design Sessional-I

 

Civil Engineering Drawing

 

GIS and Remote Sensing

 

Structural Mechanics and Materials Sessional

 

Geotechnical Engineering Design Sessional

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE    

 

  • Lecturer, Department of CE, Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Duration: January 2016 –To date