KPSC Assistant Engineer Syllabus 2025 PDF (Download) Karnataka PSC AE Exam Pattern

Name of the Subjects	Number of Marks	Time Duration
Paper I: General Paper	200	1 and Half Hours
Paper II: Specific Paper	200	2 Hours
Total	400 Marks	3 and Half Hours

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Paper I: General Paper

• General Science
• Karnataka History and Geography
• History of India
• Geography of India
• Social Science
• General Knowledge subjects related to General Physical Ability, Everyday Comprehension subjects and practical knowledge expected of a person who had passed the prescribed qualifying examination.

Paper II: Specific Paper

Water Supply and Sanitation Engineering

• Need for protected water supply
• Sampling
• Collection and Conveyance of water
• Ground Water
• Ground Water Exploration
• Need for sanitation
• Wastewater characteristics
• Rural sanitation

Environmental Studies

• Definition, scope and importance of Environmental Studies
• Conservation of Natural Resources: Land, Water, Air
• Environmental Engineering and Management
• Environmental Management Standards

Civil Engineering Materials and Construction

• Traditional materials: stone, brick, tiles -roofing and flooring, steel, timber, lime, cement,
  manutacture, properties and codal requirements, Mortar, cement concrete, properties, specincau and tests for quality control. Concrete Making Materials- Manufacture of Cements, types of cemciana aggregates, properties and testing, Water, admixture. Fresh concrete, workability, compactio curing. Strength of concrete, elasticity, shrinkage and creep. Durability of concrete. Reinforced concrete, paints, enamels, varnishes, tar, bitumen, asplant, properties ana use.
• Modern materials: plastic, rubber, polymer, fibre reinforece plastics, manufacture, properties and use. Introduction to composites and smart materials.
• Building Construction: Foundations: Stone Masonry; Brick Masonry-Rules for bonding,
  stretcher and header bonds and English Bond; Doors and Windows; Stairs proportioning and designing of different types of staircases for residential and commercial buildings; Diferent types of roofs. RC Constructions – Lintels and sunshades, beams, one-way and two-way Slabs.
• Plastering and pointing: types, preparation, properties, uses and defects. Formwork for construction Damp proofing

Solid Mechanics

• Fundamentals of force system. Concept of Rigid body and deformable bodies. Free body diagrams.
• Centroid and moment of inertia of plane areas. Simple stress and stain. Hooke’s law. Mechanical properties of materials. Elastic constants. Simple flexure theory, bending stress and shearing stress distribution across sections Mohr’s circle of stresses. Torsion, transmission of power through hollow and solid shafts. Beams of uniform strength. Combined bending and torsion.
• Elastic stability of columns. Bending moment and shear force diagrams for simply supported beams, cantilever beams and overhanging beams. Analysis of simple trusses.

Reinforced Concrete and Steel Structures

• RC STRUCTURES: Strength properties and behavior of concrete and reinforcing steel. Basic principles of working stress design. Limit state design concepts. Designing of members subject to flexure, shear, torsion, axial forces and combinations, uniaxial and biaxial bending of columns. Design of simply supported and continuous beams and slabs; tow way slabs. Isolated and combined footings. Computation of deflection and crack width. Design of retaining walls – cantilever and counterfort type, Design of water tank-rectangular and circular tanks, underground and resting on ground.
• Steel Structures: General principles of elastic method of design of steel structures. Bolted and welded connections. Tension and compression members. Laterally supported and unsupported beams. Unsymmetrical bending. Built up beams. Plate girders. Members subjected to axial force and uniaxial and biaxial moments. Introduction to the limit state design philosophy of steel structures.

Fluid Mechanics, Hydrology & Water Resource Engineering

• HYDROLOGY & WATER RESOURCE ENGINEERING: Hydrologic cycle, Water budget,
  Catchment. Precipitation: types, measurement, intensity, duration temporal and spatial analysis, Infiltration, soil moisture, evaporation, transpiration, Groundwater, Runoff components, factors, hydrographs, unit hydrograph, flood estimation. Immigration; objectives, methods, irrigation water requirements. Components of irrigation system and design principles.
• Water Power Engineering: Basic principles, types of schemes.

Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering

• SOIL MECHANICS: Soil formation, Three phase system, Index properties of soils, Soil
  classification, Hydraulics of soils, Stress distribution in soils, Soil compaction, dimensional consolidation, Effective stress and pore water pressure, and Shear Strength of soils. Soil exploration, Earth pressure, and its determination. Bearing capacity Theoretical methods and Insitu tests, Stability of slopes by various approaches, Load carrying capacity of single and group of piles, Ground improvement techniques.
• FOUNDATION ENGINEERING: Loads for foundation design, Depth of foundation, proportioning of footings, Geotechnical and structural design of isolated, combined, and raft foundations. Analysis of pile groups. Design of piles and pile cap. Design of cantilever, counterfort, and soil-reinforced retaining walls.

Surveying

• Introduction and Terminology
• Basic principles of surveying

Estimation, Costing, Specifications, and Project Management

• Man and Machine
• Machinery for Civil Engineering
• Departmental Procedure

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