Exploring Sustainable Advancements in Transportation Engineering

The Department of Civil Engineering is organising an Industry Guest Lecture by Mr Kota Sitaramanjaneyulu, Former Chief Scientist and Professor at CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) and the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research on September 22, 2023. Mr K Sitaramanjaneyulu will elucidate on “Sustainable Advancements in Road Construction Industry” emphasising topics such as Milled materials for granular bases (pilot case study) and Advanced materials and technologies for the construction and maintenance of roads.

Join the session and gain perspective on transportation engineering!

About the Speaker

Mr Kota Sitaramanjaneyulu is a Former Chief Scientist and Professor at CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) and the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Bangalore University and Masters from BITS-Philani. He has over 32 years of professional work experience with CRRI until his retirement in July 2021. His areas of expertise are highway engineering covering quality control and technical inspection; pavement design; pavement performance evaluation; pavement maintenance and management. He has held many prestigious positions such as member secretary, convener, and member on several IRC technical committees during his tenure at CRRI. He has over 50 publications in national and international journals and conferences. He was also involved as project coordinator, project leader and team member in multiple R&D and consultancy projects relating to Pavement Performance, Investigation of Road Failures, Technical Audit and Third-party Quality Assurance/Audit of Road Projects, Structural and Functional Evaluation of Pavements and Maintenance Management aspects. He was awarded the Medal for Best Paper on Road Research (Instituted by Bihar PWD) by the Indian Roads Congress during the 72nd Annual Session, 2011 held at Lucknow for the Research Paper entitled “Critical Evaluation of Roadway Capacity of Multi-Lane Speed Corridors under Heterogeneous Traffic Condition through Traditional and Microscopic Simulation Models”.