FT Knowledge Series for the Monsoon semester 2023.
Under this umbrella, we get a chance to invite experts from diverse arenas which will benefit students of FT and CEPT, further broadening to academicians and professionals.
With this, we would like to invite you to join us for the first session of the FT knowledge series, on “Pervious Concrete – Can it Mitigate Some Effects of Climate Change?” by Dr. N Subramanian
Highlights of the session:
The proposed talk strives to present the framework for sustainable environment through pervious concrete.
Date:04 August 2023, Friday
Time: 6:30 pm (IST) onwards
Venue: CEPT Auditorium, CEPT University
For attending this lecture online, click on the registration link:
https://cept-ac-in.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtce-pqT4iHtB9dPWioUexKjsJG6rHDUzU
After registering, you will receive an automated email, confirming your registration along with a zoom link to joining the session.
Speaker: Dr. N. Subramanian - Award winning author, Researcher, PhD. FNAE | Consulting Engineer, Maryland, USA
Profile of the speaker:
Bridging theory and practice, Dr. Subramanian is a structural engineering consultant (currently based at Maryland, USA) with over 30 years of experience in industry including consultancy, research and teaching; former CEO of Computer Design Consultants, India, and Director of Computer Technological Institute.
“Having authored more than 200 technical papers and over twenty books, Dr N. Subramanian, has been a name to reckon with in the field of structural engineering worldwide, with his acumen for identifying intricacies and pitfalls in design and detailing, with an undivided passion for automation in the analysis and design process, over the past few decades. He has received the coveted ACCE-Nagadi Award for best book in Civil Engineering for his book Design of Steel Structures published by Oxford University Press in 2011.
He joined Thiagarajar college of Engineering, Madurai for pursuing his degree in Civil Engineering. He earned his Masters in Structural Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai and then joined IIT-Madras, for his doctoral degree. He did his PhD on the topic “Analysis and behavior of steel frame folded plate roofs”. He continued his Postdoctoral work at the Ocean Engineering Centre at IITM for two years. He published nine international national papers from his Ph.D. research alone which earned him the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, in the then West Germany, when he was only 28 years old!
At Technical University of Berlin, West Germany he worked with Prof. J. Lindner, who drafted the German code on steel structures and has authored several books and papers. He also worked in the Technical University of Bundeswehr, Munich with Prof. Ch. Petersen, who has written two voluminous books on stability and steel structures, which are still revered as great books in Germany.
After his return from Germany, Dr. Subramanian worked for a brief period as Assistant Professor at College of Engineering, Guindy, and then started his own consultancy, Computer Design Consultants, in the year 1982. His company has, up to 2008, offered consultancy to several leading Indian and foreign organizations and has executed more than 650 design projects. These include several multi-storey concrete/steel buildings, Communication and microwave towers (more than 500 towers ranging in height from 20 m to 120 m), pile and tower foundations, space frames, sugar plant and aquaculture plants, industrial structures (using hot rolled and cold rolled steel sections), schools, hotels, hospitals and some special structures. Dr. Subramanian also developed 18 special purpose software packages for the analysis and design of structures using FORTRAN and C, which were used by more than 120 organizations in India.
Dr Subramanian recently authored a chapter on The Principles of Sustainable Building design in the book Green Building with concrete – Sustainable Design and Construction, edited by G.M. Sabnis, CRC Press.
He is a regular contributor to The Indian Concrete Journal and was the Guest Editor of the September 2011 issue on Roads and Bridges of New Building Materials and Construction World. He has been active in many professional bodies and has served as Vice President of ACCE and ICI. Apart from mentoring young engineers through online forums and publishing papers / books, he is in the editorial/review boards of several journals including International Journal of Space Structures, Structural Journal of the American Concrete Institute, The Indian Concrete Journal, Journal of Indian Concrete Institute and Civil Engineering & Construction Review.
This expert session is jointly coordinated by the Faculty of Technology, IAStructE CEPT student chapter and ICACI CEPT student chapter, CEPT University. It is open to all.
For more details, please go through the poster attached here.
Interested students, academicians and professionals may register through the link provided in the poster.
