Research

Research Area

Structural and Construction Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering
Transportation Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Water Resources Engineering

Laboratories

Materials Lab
Geotechnical Engineering Lab
Transportation Engineering Lab
Environmental Engineering Lab
Fluid Mechanics Lab

Ongoing Projects

1. Evaluation of the Seismic Vulnerability of Structures within Newly Incorporated Wards of Sylhet City Corporation
Principal Investigator: Professor Dr. Mushtaq Ahmed
Field: Earthquake
Funding Year: 2025-26
Funding Source: SUST Research Center

 

2. Assessment of Environmental Degradation due to Stone Mining and Crushing at Jaflong and Bholaganj, Sylhet: A GIS Based Approach
Principal Investigator: Professor Dr. Md. Misbah Uddin
Field: Environment
Funding Year: 2025-26
Funding Source: SUST Research Center

 

3. Sustainable SUST Campus Drainage System with Suitable Low Impact Development (LID) Applications
Principal Investigator: Professor Dr. Bijit Kumar Banik
Field: Water Resource
Funding Year: 2025-26
Funding Source: SUST Research Center

 

4. Structural Failures and Vulnerabilities Prediction of Buildings: An Integrated Fuzzy-Bayesian Model
Principal Investigator: Professor Dr. Muhammad Saiful Islam
Field: Construction Management
Funding Year: 2025-26
Funding Source: Bangladesh Ministry of National Science and Technology

 

5. An Approach to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6.2) by Protecting the Natural Channels from Human-origin Fecal Contamination (FC) in Sylhet City Corporation Area: Case Study on Finding FC-hotspots
Principal Investigator: Professor Dr. Md. Imran Kabir
Field: Environmental Engineering
Funding Year: 2025-26
Funding Source: SUST Research Center

 

6. Integrating Ground Access in mode Choice Modeling for the Dhaka Sylhet Route using Stated Preference Framework
Principal Investigator: Professor Dr. Md Bashirul Haque
Field: Transportation Engineering
Funding Year: 2025-26
Funding Source: SUST Research Center

 

7. Stabilization of embankment soil in the haor region of Sunamganj, Bangladesh using waste plastic fiber, fly ash, and lime
Principal Investigator: Professor Dr. Shriful Islam
Field: Geotechnical Engineering
Funding Year: 2025-26
Funding Source: SUST Research Center

 

8. Assessing Groundwater Table Change in Bangladesh Under Non-Stationary Climate
Principal Investigator: Professor Dr. Ahmad Hasan Nury
Field: Hydrology and Water Resources
Funding Year: 2025-26
Funding Source: SUST Research Center

 

9. An archetype of renewable energy generation from vertical ground reaction force of human footsteps
Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Shilpy Rani Basak
Field: Fluid Mechanics
Funding Year: 2025-26
Funding Source: SUST Research Center

 

10. A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for Soil Strength Prediction
Principal Investigator: Lecturer Nazmul Islam Rafi
Field: Geotechnical Engineering
Funding Year: 2025-26
Funding Source: SUST Research Center