PROGRAM

Continuing Education

The Centre, catering to the needs of the engineering profession, conducts several continuing education programme especially seminars, refresher courses, workshops and training programmes. They are listed below

Conferences, Workshops, Training, Symposia and Seminars Organised

ENDOWMENT LECTURES

An International Hydrological Decade (IHD) endowment lecture programme is conducted once in two years by the Centre, inviting eminent engineers and scientists from within India and abroad, related to various topics of water resources engineering and water management. So far, nineteen such IHD endowment lectures were organized. The list speakers are given below:

Sl.No	Year	Name of the Speaker	Title of the Lecture
1.	1975	Prof. Ven Te Chow, University of Illinois, USA	Modern Approach to Water System Planning
2.	1977	Thiru. Y. K. Murthy, Chairman, Central Water Commission, New Delhi	Water Resources Development in India and its related problems
3.	1980	Dr. Roberto Lenton, Programme Officer, The Ford Foundation, New Delhi	Water Resources Planning: The Contribution of Modern Methodologies for Analysis
4.	1982	Dr. S. Ramaseshan, Director, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee	Evaluation and Utilisation of Water Resources in India-An Engineering Perspective
5.	1983	Mr. W. H. Gilbrich, Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO, Paris	-
6.	1985	Dr. Jagadish Narain, Secretary, Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi	Irrigation and Water Management in India: Education and Training needs
7.	1987	Dr. Vijay P. Singh, Louisiana State University, USA	Hydrologic Modelling using Entropy
8.	1987	Dr. A. Ramachandra Rao, Purdue University, USA	Detection of Climatic Changes in Hydrologic Time series
9.	1991	Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, Centre for Research on Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development, Madras	Sustainable Management of Water Resources: implication for food an livelihood Security
10.	1992	Thiru. M. S. Reddy, Member (Water Planning), Central Water Commission, New Delhi	Water Resources Development in 21st Century: Policy options for India
11.	1994	Dr. P. Basak, Executive Director, CWRDM, Kozhikode, Kerala	Ground Water Pollution- Prediction and Management
12.	1997	Prof. James C. I. Doege, Professor of Civil Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland	Water in development and Environment
13.	1997	Dr.Ujjwal Pradhan, Program Officer, Ford Foundation, Water Resources Management and Policy, New Delhi	Participatory Approach to Water Resources Management
14.	2002	Prof. Victor R. Baker, Regents Professor, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources; Professor of Planetary Sciences; Professor of Geosciences, and Professor in The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory; The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA	Catastrophic flooding: Scientific understanding and continuing human
15.	2009	Dr. M. Prithviraj, Director, Earth System Sciences, Department of Science & technology, Government of India, New Delhi	S & T Interventions for Alleviating the Stress on the Water Resource Exerted by Modern day Pressures
16.	2013	Prof.Christopher Saint, Director, SA Water Centre for Water Management and Reuse Australia	Hydrology and Water Quality: An Australian Perspective on a Global Issue
17.	2015	Dr.S.Mohan, Professor, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai - 36	Big Data for Water Resources Managemen
18.	2017	Dr.Audrey Richard-Ferroudji, Head, Social Sciences Department, French Institute of Pondicherry, Pondicherry	The Social Depth of Groundwater and Management Issues
19.	2018	Dr.K.V.Jayakumar, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana, India	Environmental Flow in Indian Context

Dr. L. Jayasekhar endowment lecture was created in memory of Dr. L. Jayasekhar who served as Irrigation Sociologist in the Centre for Water Resources, Anna University during 1995 to 2001. Two lectures were organized; first lecture was delivered by Er. M. Dheenadhayalan, Engineer - in Chief, WRO, PWD in the year 2004 and the second lecture was given by Dr.D.Sundaram, Former Professor of Sociology, University of Madras, Chennai in the year 2012. Due to administrative reasons Dr. L. Jayasekhar endowment was merged with the IHD endowment in the year 2013.

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