Applied Mechanics Department

A. Faculty Development Program

1. Theme: FDP on Advances in Civil and Structural Engineering

2. Duration: 15.6.2020 to 19.06.2020

3. Coordinator: Dr Rajan Wankhede, Dr Amarsing Landge

4. Target audience: Civil Engineering Faulty, students and industry persons

5. Beneficiaries:1300 plus registrations pan India

A very good collaboration between two Govt Institutes; very old, matured Govt College of

Engineering Karad and the newest, zealous Govt College of Engineering Nagpur has resulted

in an execellent activity. A TEQIP III sponsored One week online Faculty Development

Programme has been organised by Applied Mechanics Dept of Govt College of Engineering

Nagpur in collaboration with Civil Department of Govt College of Engineering Karad. The

FDP has been coordinated by Dr Rajan Wankhede and Dr Amarsing Landge from respective

institutes. All the experts of this FDP were exclusively from various IITs with spectrum of

different advanced topics in Civil and Structural Engineering. The brochure of FPD is as

below.

B) Hands-on training program on FEAST-Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

(VSSC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), SVR Infotech

A three day training program on Finite Element based software realized by Vikram Sarabhai Space

Centre (VSSC)/ Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been organised on 22nd

to 24th Jan 2020.

The selected thirty students from 3rd

and 4th year BE Civil and Mechanical were only allowed to

participate in this programme. Er S Chaudhari from SVR InfoTech, Pune and Dr Kshitija Kadam, HoD

Applied Mechanics were the resource persons.

C. Delivery of Lecture as Expert Faculty in other FDPs

C.1 Research revealed by Dr Kshitija Kadam

1. Theme: Expert Lectures in Refresher Course, Webinar Serious, Session Chair in

International Conference

2. Duration: one session each as given below

3. Coordinator: Dr Kshitija Kadam

4. Target audience: Civil Engineering Faulty, students and industry persons

5. Beneficiaries: Total 1000 plus registrations pan India

Dr Kshitija Kadam, Dean Research and Development at Govt College of Engineering Nagpur

has revealed her research to all engineering fraternity and students. She has been invited to

various institutes for webinars and conference. A few glimpses are as below

Expert Lecture in STTP sponsored by TEQIP II “Modeling issues of soil-structure

interaction problem” at VNIT Nagpur, 08th

– 12th

July 2019

Joint Organizing Secretary at National Conference organized by VNIT Nagpur,

NEERI Nagpur, IWWA Nagpur, ICI, ACC, NIT Agartala, GCoEN

Expert Talk at STTP at Government College of Engineering, Jalgaon

Session chair at International Conference at G H Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur

A few more expert talks at Shri

Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of

Engineering and Technology,

Nanded P. R. Pote Patil College of

Engineering and Management,

Amravati

C2. Research revealed by Dr Rajan L. Wankhade

6. Theme: Expert Lectures in Refresher Course, Webinar Serious, Session Chair in

International Conference

7. Duration: one session each as given below

8. Coordinator: Dr Dr. Rajan L. Wankhade

9. Target audience: Civil Engineering Faulty, students and industry persons

10. Beneficiaries: Total 1000 plus registrations pan India

Dr. Rajan L. Wankhade, Assistant Professor, Applied Mechanics Department, Government

College of Engineering Nagpur has worked as Resource Person at various events which are

listed as below.

(1) Delivered expert lecture for One week TEQIP sponsored Faculty Development

Programme “MATLAB Applications in engineering and science” (MAES 2020)

Organized by Government College of Engineering Karad, Maharashtra, India during 23-

27 March, 2020.

(2) Delivered expert lecture for Two days Refresher Course for Faculties on “Theories of

Beams and Plates” organized by G H Raisoni College of Engineering and Management

Wagholi, Pune during 02-03 May, 2020

(3) Delivered online webinar on “ Design of Steel Structures by LSM” organized by Pimpri

Chinchwad Education Trust’s Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering & Research

Pune on 19 May 2020.

(4) Worked as Session chair for 4th

International Conference on “Advances in Civil and

Structural Engineering” organized by Government College of Engineering Karad,

Maharashtra, India during 28-30 May, 2020.

D. Testing & Consulty

Major Consultancy projects/ clients-

WAPCOS, Shapoorji & Palloniji, PWD, Ministry of Urban, NEERI, Zilla Parishad, Uttar

Pradesh Jal Nigam, MIDC-Butibori, Central Public Works Dept, Maharashtra Jeevan

Pradhikaran

…...ranging from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Jammu

E. Webinars

Hand holding with Industry

1. Theme: ANSYS Applications for Civil Engineers

2. Duration: 28.5.2020

3. Coordinator: Dr Kshitija Kadam and Er Pravin Manokar

4. Target audience: Civil Engineering Faulty, students and industry persons

5. Beneficiaries: 200 plus registrations

Govt College of Engineering Nagpur always proactively harnesses each and every possibility to

hold hands with industry. This college along with ARK infosolutions Pvt Ltd Mumbai has

organized a webinar on ‘ANSYS Applications for Civil Engineers’ for faculty and students of

Civil Engineering. The webinar was scheduled on 28.5.2020. From College side Dr Kshitija

Kadam, Dean R & D, Govt College of Engineering and from Industry side Pravin Manokar,

Regional Manager (HE)-West have coordinated the event. The webinar got huge response Pan

India. 200 plus registrations were the beneficiary. The flayer of the webinar is as follows.

The webinar has included all different aspects of civil engineering like, geotechnical engineering,

structural engineering, earth quack engineering, gas explosion, thermal analysis etc. The college

and industry partner are hoping to continue this synergy in future.A few screen shots of event are

as below.