SCIENCE STORY – Evolution of an adaptive paradigm to develop safer cities
On the occasion of National Science Day, 2021 A story based on my PhD Thesis By this day, more than half of the global population is living in urban areas.…
Town Planning Scheme
On 24th May 2020 A webinar was organized by the Civil Engineering Department of Dr. S. & S. S. Ghandhy Government Engineering College, Surat under the aegis of ISTE Students'…
UGC revises the list of journals – a selective list from SCOPUS
It is important for an innovator/researcher to prove the novelty of work accomplished. It can be done by any means of which one is to prepare an article and get it published in a reputed journal.
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Blogging for building a great product
I received an intimation - invitation to talk about Blogging in an informative session on creating a great product. Unfortunately, the event did not take place with the uncertainty that…
RUCTD2018 Conference Proceeding
The second international conference organized by the ISTE with the title, "Reaching the Unreached: Challenges for Technological Development" was held at Bali, Indonesia during 19th - 20th November 2018. I…
Webinar – The scope of an Urban planner for the society
Purposefully the event is kept on a 'Sunday evening' for the aspiring students who seek to choose urban planning as a career path hence the discussions will be held…
Participant Feedback based Evaluation
A teacher is a teacher and a student should not evaluate the performance of a teacher as the understanding and attitude of the student will create a bias. At times, the speakers’ level of exposure, knowledge and expertise is beyond understanding levels of a student and there may be false alarms.Hence, to have an idea about the performance of the teacher giving a lecture/ speech/ expert talk during a session of a workshop/seminar/training program, a module is developed based on important criteria, providing weightage to each relatively.
Social Infrastructure gap identification
As we all use, there exists a lot of variety of infrastructure and facilities in our surrounding. These facilities can broadly be classified as (1) Physical infrastructure and, (2) Virtual…
One week STTP on “Air Pollution Measurement and Its Control Strategies”
The health and safety of mankind favor clean air as one of its predominant need. The threats produced by industrialization and urbanization have led to watching us keenly – the…
Expert talk – Basics of Earthquake – Building planning in EQ prone areas
Total 1,987 earthquakes were recorded/reported by the USGS having a magnitude of 2.5+ in a period of last 30 days. Earthquakes are phenomenal and keep occurring every moment on the…
SCAMPER in Design Thinking and Engineering
Using SCAMPER Tool is so very compelling for carrying out brainstorm - that too, in a structured manner (not restrictive, yet in an organized way)....
Web-based logs by students
It indeed is an achievement by each of the students who could successfully create and maintain an online log of their activities using WordPress website. On a suggestive mode, students…