ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT AND INSTITUTE
The Department of Civil Engineering, as old as the Bengal Engineering College itself, is a 168 years old Engineering Department. The then Civil Engineering College was upgraded to the status of a full-fledged Government Engineering College with various disciplines, and renamed as the Bengal Engineering College. It was upgraded to Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur and IIEST, Shibpur in 2004 and 2014 respectively. It offers Undergraduate Dual Degree and also Post Graduate program and Ph.D. program in Civil Engineering under five disciplines, viz. Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Environmental Engineering.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Patron:
- Prof. V.M.S.R. Murthy,
- Director, I.I.E.S.T., Shibpur
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Chairperson:
- Prof. Chaitali Ray; Professor and Head
- Department of Civil Engineering, I.I.E.S.T., Shibpur
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Executive Chairman::
- Prof. Debabrata Mazumder; Professor
- Department of Civil Engineering, I.I.E.S.T., Shibpur
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Co-Chairman:
- Dr. Chanchal Majumder, Associate Professor
- Department of Civil Engineering, I.I.E.S.T., Shibpur
- Dr. Asok Adak, Associate Professor
- Department of Civil Engineering, I.I.E.S.T., Shibpur
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Co-ordinators:
- Dr. Dipankana Bhattacherjee, Assistant Professor
- Department of Civil Engineering, I.I.E.S.T., Shibpur
NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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Dr. Sharad Gokhale, Professor
Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati -
Dr. Sachchida Nand Tripathy, Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur -
Dr. Anurag Garg, Professor,
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay -
Dr. Somnath Mukherjee, Professor (Retired),
Department of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata -
Dr. B.J. Alappat; Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi -
Dr. Tamal Banerjee,
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati -
Dr. Brajesh Kumar Dubey, Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur -
Dr. Sunil Kumar Gupta; Professor,
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad -
Dr. Jayanta Kumar Biswas, Professor,
Professor, Department of Ecological Studies and International Centre for Ecological Engineering, University of Kalyani -
Dr. Deepanjan Majumdar,
Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-NEERI Kolkata Zonal Centre, Kolkata
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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Dr. Dibyendu Sarkar,
Professor of Env. Engg, Founding Director, Stevens Centre for Sustainability, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey -
Dr. Rajsekhar Balasubramanian;
Keppel Professor in Sustainability Solutions, The National University of Singapore, Singapore -
Dr. Jacob de Boer, Editor in Chief, Chemosphere (Elsevier) and Emeritus
Professor,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherland -
Dr. Megharaj Mallavarapu, Professor of Environmental Biotechnology,
Global Centre for Environmental Remediation,
College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle, Australia -
Dr. Damia Barcelo,
Co-Editor in Chief of STOTEN, COESH, Method X and CSCEE (Elsevier) and Research Professor (Retired), IDAEA-CSIC, Spain -
Dr. Sudarshan Kurwadkar, Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, California State University, USA -
Dr. Syed A. Hashsham; Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, USA -
Dr. Prashant Kumar, Professor and Chair in Air Quality and Health,
School of Sustainability, Civil and Env. Engg., University of Surrey, UK -
Dr. Agamuthu Pariatamby, Professor,
Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development, Sunway University, Malaysia -
Dr. Lee Blaney, Professor,
Department of Chemical, Biochemical and Env. Engg., University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA