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29 May 2020-30 May 2020|Mumbai

Webinar series on “Advanced Techniques in Civil Engineering”

Webinar series on “Advanced Techniques in Civil Engineering”.

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Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 29th and 30th May 2020

General Introduction

Webinar series on “Advanced Techniques in Civil Engineering” was organized by Department of Civil Engineering on 29th and 30th May 2020 via ‘Google meet’ video-communication service developed by Google. This event was timely and significant in that it came at a time when the entire India is in lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. The online platform facilitated both internal and external students, faculties and people participation with ease.

Following eminent speakers from the academia and industry were invited to speak on latest advancements in civil engineering field. The talk was organised each day in the morning and afternoon sessions.

 

Date: 29th May 2020

Time:

11 am – 12 pm

Speaker:

Dr. Santosh M. Pingale

Scientist-C

National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee

Topic:

“Role of Geospatial Techniques for Sustainable Water Resources and Natural Disaster management in View of COVID 19"

Total number of participants: 39

 

Time:

4 pm – 5 pm

Speaker:

Mr. Rajesh A Vaidya

Sr. Vice President, Marine projects

Reliance Industries Limited,

Navi Mumbai.

Topic:

“Marine Projects Aspects- Planning, Construction & Operation"

Total number of participants: 42

 Date: 30th May 2020

Time:

11 am – 12 pm

Speaker:

Dr. V. B.  Deshmukh

Associate Professor

Structural Engineering, V.J.T.I, Mumbai.

Topic:

“PVD with Conventional or Vacuum Preloading "

Total number of participants: 52

 

Time:

1 pm – 2 pm

Speaker:

Dr. Sreedhar Ganapuram

Research Analyst, Infosys.

Topic:

“Internet GIS for Digital Agriculture and Hydro informatics”

Total number of participants: 37

Objective of the Event

1.To keep learning continued through online platform and to reach out to students, researchers, faculties and industrial people.

2.To gain directional knowledge on various advanced tools and techniques used in different domains of civil engineering; theoretically and practically.

 

Envisaged vs Achieved Outcomes

 

Sn

Envisaged Outcome

Is the outcome tangible or intangible?*

Achieved Outcome

Remarks, if any

 

01

Participation of students, faculties and researchers from different institutions and places, and Presentation of speakers.

 

Tangible

All the speakers were present for the event in advance before the session time and delivered the talk very well. The participants were enriched by knowledge in the latest and advanced topics in the following Civil Engineering domain. They all appreciated the information shared to them by the speakers.

 

A

“Role of Geospatial Techniques for Sustainable Water Resources and Natural Disaster management in View of COVID 19"

Tangible

Dr. Santosh M. Pingale

covered the topic on recent natural disasters that India faced and challenges to face such as COVID 19, cyclone- Amphan, heat waves, locust attacks, droughts and floods. He explained the role and effective use of Geospatial techniques in hotspot zoning, water demand and supply strategies, adaption, and mitigation strategies in natural disasters.

 

B

“Marine Projects Aspects- Planning, Construction & Operation"

Tangible

Mr. Rajesh A Vaidya described the importance of marine projects, various marine structures, mode of marine product handling and practical aspects of mega project planning. He explained the latest equipments and construction of ship berthing structures showing the Jamnagar jetty project. He also explained the utilization of software CORSERA on such type of mega projects.

 

C

“PVD with Conventional or Vacuum Preloading "

Tangible

Dr. V. B.  Deshmukh gave the lecture on different types of ground improvement techniques and their effectiveness, and use of Prefabricated vertical drains (PVD) in soft soil improvement. He explained the concept behind three-dimensional consolidation by PVD with conventional and vacuum preloading which is the latest technique being used in Indian field projects. A case study was presented. He also explained the field instruments used to monitor the data and their interpretations.

 

D

“Internet GIS for Digital Agriculture and Hydro informatics”

Tangible

Dr. Sreedhar Ganapuram

gave a very informative and detailed talk on use of internet GIS (Geographic information system), web mapping, problems faced in distributed GIS and its applications. He explained how the hydroinformatics integrates data, models and people. He also covered the various data sources and information providing and training institutions, and software available in India.

 


Actionable Progressive Outcomes

Outcomes requiring prolonged monitoring are as under:

Sn

Envisaged Outcome

(a)

Outcome activity yet to be achieved

(b)

Is the outcome tangible or intangible?*

Action plan to achieve the Outcome activity described in column “(b)”

(c)

Target Date

(d)

Responsibility

(e)

Remarks, if any

(f)

1

To give the students confidence in handling software related to Civil Engineering.

Organizing Software learning program.

Intangible

To negotiate with the software training people.

Following semester.

Department faculties

 

 

(*) – Tangible outcomes should have a specific target date. Intangible outcomes need not have a specific target date.

Some of the Photos of the event are as below.

Speaker: Dr. Santosh M. Pingale

Speaker: Mr. Rajesh A Vaidya

Speaker: Dr. V. B. Deshmukh

Speaker: Dr. Sreedhar Ganapuram