ArunSapkota

Civil Engineer

Structures, Transport and Geotechnical. Master of Engineering (Civil) at CQUniversity, Melbourne.

Melbourne, Australia · Pulchowk Campus graduate

About

Civil engineer with a Bachelor's from Pulchowk Campus, now completing a Master of Engineering (Civil) in CQUniversity, Melbourne.

I have done road survey, design and cost estimation, and taught senior-secondary mathematics. I am looking for a civil engineering role where I can apply design and teamwork skills.

Education

2025 – Present

Master of Engineering (Civil)

CQUniversity, Melbourne Campus, Australia

Structural design
Pavement design
Traffic analysis
Geotechnical

Oct 2017 – Apr 2023

Bachelor of Civil Engineering

Pulchowk Campus, Lalitpur, Nepal

Experience

Dec 2024 – Jun 2025

Civil Engineer

Notion Engineering Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., Nepal

Survey, detailed design and cost estimation for road projects.
TU Curriculum Center to Umadevi Temple road section, 2.6 km.
Coordinated with teams to meet specifications and deadlines.

Road design
Survey
Cost estimation
Civil 3D

Aug 2023 – Dec 2024

Lecturer, Mathematics (Plus Two)

Trinity International Secondary School/College, Nepal

Taught mathematics to senior secondary students.
Wrote lesson plans that helped students improve.

Projects

CQUniversity, 2026

Steel portal-frame shed, Perth

Team design of a 15 m span, 30 m long industrial shed. Modelled in SPACE GASS with wind and gravity loads, then checked the rafter, columns and a bolted knee connection to AS 4100.

AS 4100 · AS/NZS 1170 series · SPACE GASS

3D model of the steel portal frame shed with seven frames — SPACE GASS model: 7 frames at 5 m spacing, 10° roof

Bending moment diagram drawn over the portal frames — Bending moment diagram under the governing load case

Drawing of the bolted rafter to column connection, plate detail and side view — Bolted knee connection: plate detail and side view

CQUniversity, 2026

Masonry Wall Assessment for Vertical Extension, Victoria

The unreinforced 1996 brick wall failed in vertical bending, so designed a replacement reinforced concrete masonry wall that met every check. Built the design in an Excel workbook and produced an AutoCAD wall drawing and a SketchUp model..

AS 3700 · AS/NZS 1170 series · Excel · AutoCAD · SketchUp

AutoCAD model of Existing Clay Brick Wall — AutoCAD model: Existing Clay Brick Wall

AutoCAD model of Proposed CMU Wall — AutoCAD model: Proposed CMU Wall

CQUniversity, 2026

Reinforced and prestressed concrete

Design to AS 3600: a two-span prestressed beam (2 × 20 m, three 12-strand tendons) and a three-storey shopping building in Darwin, with flat slab, slab on beams, roof slab, beam and column.

AS 3600 · Hand calculation · Excel

Handwritten calculation of the moment diagram for the prestressed continuous beam — Prestressed beam: moment diagram and critical section

Tendon arrangement and parabolic profile

Handwritten design calculation for the grid A beam — Hand design of the grid A beam

CQUniversity, 2026

Pavement design

Four flexible pavements and two rigid options for a 34-year design life and about 9.3 million DESA on a CBR 3% subgrade. Damage factors checked in CIRCLY against spreadsheet calculations.

Austroads · CIRCLY · Excel

Cross-section of a plain concrete rigid pavement — Rigid option 1: 220 mm plain concrete slab on 150 mm subbase

Cross-section of a continuously reinforced concrete pavement — Rigid option 2: 190 mm continuously reinforced slab

Layer diagram of a granular pavement with a thin bituminous surface — Unbound granular pavement with thin bituminous surfacing

CQUniversity, 2026

Traffic analysis

An existing two-lane highway segment operates at level of service D, while a multilane upgrade or a freeway gives A. Intersections were worked by hand and checked in SIDRA, where a single-lane roundabout gave the lowest delay.

HCM · SIDRA Intersection · Austroads

Screenshot of a single-lane roundabout model in SIDRA Intersection — SIDRA Intersection: single-lane roundabout, all approaches level of service A

CQUniversity, 2025

Geotechnical modelling

A finite-element model of consolidation under a 100 kPa load with vertical drains, compared with a Terzaghi hand calculation.

SigmaW (GeoStudio) · Excel

Finite-element model of a load on a clay layer with vertical drains — SigmaW model: 20 m load on 10 m of clay, drains at 2 m

Chart of ground surface settlement over time — Settlement profile at the surface over 10 years

Chart of excess pore water pressure falling over time — Excess pore water pressure against time

Pulchowk Campus, Apr 2022

Final-year project: road survey, design and cost estimate

Team leader of six. Survey, geometric, pavement and drainage design and a cost estimate for about 2.5 km of district road from the TU Curriculum Development Centre to Umadevi Temple, Kirtipur.

NRRS 2071 · IRC · Road Note 31 · Total station

Satellite view with the surveyed road alignment drawn over the hillside — Surveyed alignment on the hillside

Satellite view with catchment areas marked for the road drainage design — Catchment areas delineated for drainage design

Chart of load against penetration for one CBR sample — CBR test: load against penetration, one sample

Chart of annual maximum daily rainfall at Kathmandu Airport — Annual maximum daily rainfall, Kathmandu Airport

Research Projects

CQUniversity, 2026

Cement-Replacement Mortar Study

Research plan to replace 5 to 20% of cement in M4 mortar with calcined oyster shell and waste glass powder. Tests: flow, density, absorption, compressive strength, SEM and XRD. Material preparation is done and heating is under way.

Compressive strength · SEM · XRD

Photos of oyster shell and waste glass powder being prepared — Raw material preparation: shells cleaned, dried and sieved to 200 µm

Flow chart of the research methodology from raw material to testing — Methodology map

Photos of the binder production steps from weighing to heating — Binder production: 10:3 shell to glass, heated at 1100 °C

Skills

Design software: AutoCAD · Civil 3D · ETABS · SPACE GASS · CIRCLY · SIDRA Intersection
Standards: AS 3600 · AS 4100 · AS/NZS 1170 series · AS 3700 · Austroads · HCM
Office: Word · Excel · PowerPoint
Programming: C · Python
Languages: English (fluent) · Nepali (native) · Hindi (fluent) · Maithili (fluent)

Leadership

Class Representative at Pulchowk Campus for 4 years.
Team leader of the final-year Bachelor's project.
Awarded for anchoring student programs.

Contact

Open to civil engineering roles in Melbourne and across Australia.

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arunsapkota321@gmail.com