It was one of the first Departments to open its doors to the first intake of students in 1991. It started as the Department of Water Engineering and then later transformed into the Department of Civil and Water Engineering. It offers a multidisciplinary engineering degree program in the areas of water resources, sanitation engineering, structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering & construction engineering

The main objectives of the Department are:

• to provide a sound academic base for graduate Civil Engineers
• to undertake quality research and consultancy work for the mutual benefit of the University and Industry at large to foster relations with other institutes of high learning locally and internationally.