Welcome
The School of Environment, Resources and Development cordially welcomes Prof. Surendra Singh (right) as a Visiting Professor, seconded by the Indian Government to the Regional and Rural Development Planning Field of Study for the January 2004 Semester.
Prof. Singh is currently working as Professor of Geography and Dean, School of Human and Environmental Sciences in the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. Prof. Singh did his Master's degree (1970) in Geography and Ph.D. (1979) in Regional Development and Planning from the Meerut University, Meerut and presently teaching Agricultural Development and Integrated Area Planning at M.A./M.Sc. level in the North-Eastern Hill University for the past 14 years. He has been Career Awardee (University Grants Commission, New Delhi) in the early 1980s; prepared extra research monographs related to the field of agriculture and published more than 40 research papers in national as well as international journals.
At AIT, Prof. Singh will be involved mainly in teaching the course on 'Agricultural Development Planning' for this January semester 2004. He can be contacted at Room E102, SERD main building, tel. 5601, email: surendra_singh1@ait.ac.th
Professor Namsivayam Ganesan (left) joined the Structural Engineering field of study at the School of Civil Engineering in January 2004. Seconded to AIT by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, Professor Ganesan will serve the Institute a 4-month tenure during which period he will teach the course CE72.52 'Advanced Concrete Structures'.
Dr. Ganesan is on leave as Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology in Calicut, India. He completed his Bachelor's of Civil Engineering degree from Madurai University, his Master's and Doctoral Degrees in Structural Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. His research interests revolve around the fields of fibre reinforced concrete, ferrocement, polymer modified SFRC, application of fracture mechanics to cementitious materials, and strength and ductility of seismic resistant structural members.
He has 24 years of teaching and research experience and has guided 40 M. Tech and 2 Ph. D. theses. In 1986, he received the Sir N. Vithal Chandawarkar Gold Medal from the Institute of Science (Bangalore) for completing the best Ph.D. Thesis.
Dr. Ganesan holds office at Room E236 with telephone extension 5542. He may be contacted through e-mail: ganesan@ait.ac.th