A Ph.D. programme in Water Resources Engineering will be offered in 1994. The Faculty has complete modern facilities to support its activities. This includes a library and eight engineering laboratories. Research Research conducted within the Faculty concerns several engineering fields important to the development of the Northast. The field of water resources development is perhaps the most important.
Erratic rainfall is the major obstacle of agricultural production in the Northeast.
Faculty research in this area seeks to design and implement small scale water resource systems appropriate to the Northeastern farm family. Other projects look at designs for rainwater storage jars and tanks that villagers can inexpensively make to alleviate the shortage of drinking water during drought. Other areas of research are in agricultural machinery and small scale industry. In agricultural machinery, researchers develop simple, cheap and easy to maintain farm machinery. In the past, research has centered on power tillers to replace the traditional buffalo drawn method of land preparation.