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EDUCATION
Univ of Illinois UC IL USA 1960 1964 M.S.(CE)1962; Ph.D(Civil Engg) 1964
AC College of Engg & Tech Karaikudi Madras University 1953 1957 B.E.(Civil Engg)in I Class with Honours
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Institute of Remote Sensing, Anna University Chennai TN India May 03 May 05 Visiting Prof Research & Curriculum Development
Kongu Engg College Perundurai May 98 - May 02 Professor & Head of Department of Civil Engg. Teaching, Research & Management of the Dept.
Harvard Univ Center for Pop. Studies Aug 75 Feb 76 Senior Res. Fellow Participation in interdisciplinary research
National Inst. Of Hydrology Roorkee Feb 79 Jul 83 Director Establishing and management of the Institute under UNDP Project
Indian Inst of Tech. Kanpur Oct 67 June 96 Asst. Prof/ Assoc. Professor/ Professor Teaching Hydrology, Water Resources and Civil Engg subjects to undergrad and grad. students; Research guidance, Consultancy.
Aug 73 Dec 74 Head,Dept. of Civil Engg. Administration,
AC College of Engg & Tech Karaikkudi Jul 57 Oct 67 Assoc Lect/Lecturer/ Asst. Professor Teaching Civil Engg undergrad. courses
PWD Madras May 57 July 57 Jr.Engr Construction of minor irrig. works
FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
a. TCM Fellowship of USA for Postgraduate Studies 1960-64
b. Senior Research Fellowship of Harvard Univ. Center for Population Studies c. Winner of J.A.Jones' Prize 1957 from Univ. of Madras for Proficiency in Hydraulics.
LANGUAGES
Mother Tongue: Tamil Other Languages: English; Hindi
Read only: French; German
SYNOPSIS OF EXPERIENCE
a. Working in the area of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering since earning Ph. D. Degree in Civil Engineering in 1964 under late Prof. Ven Te Chow at the University of Illinois.
b. involved earlier in education, research and training in the area of Hydrology, Water Resources and Civil Engineering at IIT, Kanpur, for more than two decades and a decade in an under graduate engineering institution and 4 years recently in another undergraduate engineering institution and now in GIS in a Postgraduate Institution.
c. Has guided particularly computer oriented thesis research at M.Tech and Ph. D. level at IIT Kanpur and at National Institute of Hydrology field oriented research problems.
d. Has developed or guided developement and/or implementation of several computer oriented algorithms in several areas of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering and applied them to practical problems.
e. Has published a number of technical papers in technical journals and presented papers in national and international conferences; organised and participated in training programmes, and special courses; has been a member of editorial panels of journals ( for e.g., Journal of Hydrology for 3 years); has participated in national and international hydrologic activities; etc.
f. Has successfully established the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India, the national research Institution in the area of hydrology and water resources.
g. Has been a consultant to a number of field organisations in the area of hydrology and water resources. The areas include resources estimation, hydrologic design for floods, water distribution systems, drainage systems and water resources systems planning, operation and optimal design.
h. Has been an editor of the Journal of Hydrology and similar Journals in India.
i. Former Member of Unesco Working Group on Urban Hydrology and subsequently of the International Working Group.
j. Expert Member, Environmental Subgroup of Narmada Control Authority, Govt of India.
k. Chairman of Special Technical Group for identifying and investigating the causes of unsatisfactory pollution control of River Ganga at Kanpur; Member, Technical Evaluation Mission for Indo-Dutch Project for Kanpur and Mirzapur.
l. Offered a Graduate Course on GIS GRASS and is developing a 4 month professional Course on GIS in IRS, Anna University, Chennai, TN, India.
15. Important Consultancy Projects a. System study of the water resources of Punjab: Ford Foundation / Punjab Water Resources Directorate - Studies dealing with time series analysis of stream flows; a related study on multi objective optimisation of the system using bottom up methodology.
b. Amritsar City / Bhatinda Water Distribution System Design: World Bank / Punjab Water Supply & Sewerage Board - Design of the water distribution systems for the two cities of Amritsar and Bhatinda.
c. Hydrology of Cauvery Basin: Cauvery Technical Committee of Government of Tamil Nadu – Stream flow and rainfall - runoff analyses for all CWC stations in Cauvery River and yield estimation at LCA and Mettur.
d. Water Resources of Upper Ganges Canal Command Area: World Bank / UP Irrigation Department - NIH study for groundwater modelling and planning of SW-GW system for a modernisation project.
e. Narmada Flood Studies: World Bank / Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nirman Nigam - NIH Study on design flood estimation at Sardar Sarovar and Narmada Sagar.
f. Design of Sharda Nagar Drainage system: Lucknow Development Authority - Hydraulic and Hydrologic Design of a drainage system for a new colony.
g. Establishment of Central Training Unit of Central Water Commission, Government of India: USAID / Consultancy Engineering Services (CES), New Delhi - Participation in planning and conduct of courses of CTC.
h. Establishment of Water Resources Centre, Patna University, Patna: USAID / CES - Participation in planning and courses of WRC.
i. Urban Runoff in Developing Countries - Kanpur Subproject: NERC UK / Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK - Establishment of data logger based rain gauges and depth cum doppler velocity meters in two urban watersheds in Kanpur, India at IIT and Jajmau along with digital electromagnetic Current meters for rating the drains; and their use for collection of urban rainfall - runoff data.
j. Application of System Models for Planning and Management of Water Resources, Consultancy Research Project: IWS, Tamil Nadu PWD & World Bank, jointly with Krishnan Associates; Anna University & IIT Madras - Development of Mathematical models for above using Vaigai Basin for the Case Study.
REFEREES:
Available upon request
16. PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
A. Books or Monographs:
1. Ramaseshan, S.,1964. A Stochastic Analysis of Rainfall and Runoff Characteristics by Sequential Generation and Simulation, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana,IL.
2. Chow, V.T. and S.Ramaseshan,1965. Sequential Generation of Rainfall and Runoff Data by Stochastic Analysis, Civil Engg. Studies, Hydraulic Engg. Series, Univ. of Illinois, No. 11, Oct. 1965.
3. Ramaseshan, S., 1976 Systems Approach in Civil Engg Design, Notes of Lectures, Dept. of Civil Engg., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
4. Ramaseshan, S.,1970. Intensive Course on Water Resources Evaluation, Lecture Notes,ed., Dept of Civil Engg.,I.I.T. Kanpur, UP, India.
5. Ramaseshan, S.,1971. Water Resources, Sect.IV, Notes of Lectures Summer School in Groundwater Engg and Hydrology, College of Engg., Guindy, Madras, June.
6. Ramaseshan, S. et al.,1972. Lecture Notes- Intensive Course on Applications in Hydrology, eds., Dept. of Civil Engg., I.I.T., Kanpur.
7. Ramaseshan, S.,1976. Notes of Lectures- Advanced Summer School on System Analysis of Hydrologic Problems, Dept. of Civil Engg, I.I.T., Kanpur.
8. Ramaseshan, S. and M.R.Madhav,(eds.),1991. Proc. National Seminar on Recent Trends in Water Resources Engineering, IIT, Kanpur.
B. Papers published in Professional Journals:
1. Ramaseshan, S.,1962. Discussion on 'Aqueduct capacity under the optimum benefit policy', by W.A. Hall, Jour. of Irr. & Dr. Divn., Proc. ASCE, vol. 88, no. IR2, June, pp.
2. Chow, V.T. and S. Ramaseshan, 1965. Sequential generation of rainfall and runoff data, Jour. of Hydraulics Divn., Proc. ASCE, vol. 91, no. HY4, July, pp. 205-223.
3. Chow, V.T. and S. Ramaseshan,1966. Closure of (2),Jour. of Hydraulics Div, Proc. ASCE, vol. 92, no. HY4, July, pp.162-165.
4. Ramaseshan, S.,1966. Discussion on 'Parametric hydrology and stochastic hydrology' by the Committee on Surface Water Hydrology, Jour. of Hydraulics Divn., Proc. ASCE, vol. 92, no. HY5, Sept., pp. 238-241.
5. Ramaseshan, S.,1970. Simulation analysis for estimation and control of floods, Irrigation and Power, July, pp. 263-269.
6. Ramaseshan, S.,1971. Stochastic modelling of storm precipitation, Art. 24, Nordic Hydrology, vol. II, no. 2, June, pp.109- 129.
7. Ramaseshan, S.,1971. Engineering system analysis- a review, Jour. Institution of Engrs(India), vol. 51, no. 9, Pt. IDCE 3, May, pp.106-111.
8. Ramaseshan, S. et al, 1971. Feasibility study of a mechanised dairy system, Indian Jour. of Tech. Education, vol. 1, no. 1.
9. Ramaseshan, S.,1973: Status of research and applications of stochastic hydrology in India, IHD Newsletter, nos. 20- 21, April-July, pp. 50-54.
10.Ramaseshan, S. and R. S. Anant, 1977. A parametric approach to station weights, Jour. of Hydrology, vol. 35, pp.325- 340.
11.Ramaseshan,S. and C. V. Ramamurthy, 1977. A laboratory facility for simulation of rainfall over infiltrating watersheds, Hydrology Review, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 78-83.
12.Ramaseshan, S.,1978. Stochastic models of precipitation, Vayu Mandal, vol. 8, no. 3/4,pp. 97-104.
13.Ramaseshan, S. and G. C. Panda,1980. Analysis of hydrologic droughts of some peninsular rivers, Jour. of IWRS, vol.1, no. 1, pp. 24-36.
14.Rao, P.S. and S. Ramaseshan, 1985. Study of Bhakra reservoir operations in 'Water Resources System Planning' by Chaturvedi, M.C. and P.Rogers, eds., Indian Academy of Sciences, pp. 179-206. Also in Sadhana, vol. 8, no.2.
15.Rao, P.S. and S. Ramaseshan, 1985. Integrated operation of the Beas Sutlej system in 'Water Resources System Planning ', by Chaturvedi, M.C. and P. Rogers,eds., Indian Acad. of Sciences, pp. 207-221. Also in Sadhana, vol. 8, no.2.
16.Ramaseshan, S., 1990. Water conservation and management in urban areas during drought, Hydrology Journal, vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 100 - 105.
17.Ramaseshan, S., Kulshreshta, M. A. Srivastava and C. Venkobachar, 1990. Upgrading Kanpur Wastewater Treatment Plant by Phased Expansion, Water Science and Technology(UK), vol. 22, No. 7/8, pp.303-304.
18.Ramaseshan, S., S.S. Rao and D.K. Singh, 1992. Hydraulic Transients in Pumping Mains due to Power Failure, Journal of Instn. of Engrs(India), CE Divn., vol. 72, Pt CV 5, Jan., pp. 181- 186.
C. Conference Papers(National/International): 58 Numbers
4D. Other Reports:
1. Ramaseshan, S. et al, 1973. Interim Progress Report, Punjab Water Resources System Study, Water Science and Systems Group, IIT Delhi - IIT Kanpur, Sept.
2. Rao, K.B. and S. Ramaseshan, 1978. Digital Simulation of Watersheds, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT, Kanpur.
3. Rao, P.S. and S. Ramaseshan, 1978. Multi objective Analysis of Punjab Water Resources System, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT, Kanpur.
4. Panda, G.C. and S. Ramaseshan, 1978. Analysis of Hydrologic Drought of Some Peninsular Rivers, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT, Kanpur.
5. Singh, Vijendra and S. Ramaseshan, 1978. Digital Simulation of Beas Sutlej System, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT, Kanpur.
6. Ramaseshan, S., 1989. Report of the Special Technical Group to Department of Urban Development, Govt. of UP
7. Ramaseshan et al, 1989. Report on Midterm Evaluation, Indo Dutch Mission, Environmental and Sanitary Engineering Project, Kanpur - Mirzapur
8. Ramaseshan, S., 1991. Analysis of Proposed Drainage System for Sharda Nagar Scheme, Lucknow, Report, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT, Kanpur.
9. Ramaseshan, S., 1995. Hydrology of Cauvery Basin, Report, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT, Kanpur.
10. Ramaseshan, S. et al, 2003. Application of System Models for Planning and Management of Water Resources, Report submitted to IWS, PWD, Tamil Nadu
F. RESEARCH WORK
1. Field of Research: Analysis and Optimal Design of Hydrologic, Water Resources and Civil Engineering Systems
GIS (in particular GRASS)
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