Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
M.E.in Environmental Engineering, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore
B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, Government Engineering College, Thrissur
Employment History
SASTRA Deemed University Thanjavur,Lecturer,1 Years 9 months(4 semesters)
Viswajyothi college of Engineering and Technology,Lecturer, Assistant Professor,9 Months (2 Semesters
NIT Calicut,Adhoc Faculty -7 Semesters
Teaching Interests
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Pollution Control Engineering
Groundwater Hydrology
Research Interests
Drinking water treatment
Organics in water and its removal
Riverbank Filtration
Disinfection By Products
Publications
Riverbank filtration as an alternative to pre chlorination: a case study at Mathura in Drinking Water: Source, Treatment and Distribution,Nisha Luckins, Indu Mehrotra, Pradeep Kumar and T. Grischek 2011
Awards and Honours
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Short term fellowship from 1/10/2009 to 31/01/2010 to pursue a part of the research work at University of Applied Sciences, Friedrich-List-Platz 1. Dresden.
National Doctoral Fellowship(NDF) awarded by AICTE for pursuing research in Civil Engineering at IIT Roorkee from 01/04/2008 for three years. Under this scheme only fifty (50) Doctoral Fellowships are awarded every year to selected candidates in emerging areas / disciplines of Technical Education by AICTE.
Best paper award for the paper titled “Fish mortality and conservation strategies in various Indian lakes” in the Symposium on Conservation, Restoration and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems held on December 9-12, 2002 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Participated in the National level Jawaharlal Nehru National Science Exhibition for Children organized by NCERT during 19-26 January 1994.
Secured first place in District Science Fair for Project with A grade
MHRD Fellowship To pursue Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at IIT Roorkee from 25/07/2007 to 31/03/2008
MHRD (GATE) Fellowship To study Master of Engineering in Environmental engineering at Bharathiar University.
Professional Activities
Indian Association of Hydrologists,Life Member,LM-1575
Technical programs attended
Metro Traffic System for Greater Cochin by The Institution of Engineers (India)
Indo- German Workshop on Design and Operation of Riverbank Filtration Schemes by University of Applied Sciences, Dresden and Nirma University, Ahmedabad
Pedagogical aspects of Engineering Education by NIT Calicut
Land use based Estimation & Prediction of Solid Waste Generation by Department of Architecture, NIT Calicut