About me

 ACHIEVEMENTS

•  Best Paper Award - SISTEEM 2022, BIT Sathyamangalam 

•  Best Paper Award - CIET 2021, GNA University

• Advisor of Interview Panel for the post of Junior Engineer - Civil for Staff Selection Commission - Karnataka - Kerala region - 25th March to 27th March 2015.

• Student project related to pervious concrete properties had been published in 4 English daily and 4 Kannada daily along with a 4 minute video news in TV9 and News9.

• Invited talk for the subject - Mechanics of Fluids in New Horizon College of Engineering.

INVITED TALKS

• Delivered Expert Talk(Online) on "Process of Innovation Development & Technology Readiness Level(TRL)" at ITM University, Raipur on 19th January 2022.

• Delivered Expert Talk(Online) on "Entrepreneurship and Innovation as Career Opportunity" at Tagore Institute of Engineering and Technology on 16th December 2021.

PUBLICATIONS

• Arega Mulu, Preeti Jacob, G. S. Dwarakish, "Hydraulic Performance of Pervious Concrete Based on Small Size Aggregates", Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 2022, Article ID 2973255, 12 pages, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/2973255 

• Preeti Jacob, G. S. Dwarakish, Abroo Shabir Wani, Vijay Jalihal, "Use of image analysis to study top surface of pervious concrete", AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol 2902, Issue 1, (05004)2023.  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0178951 

• Preeti Jacob, Pranathi Kommuru, Ruchitha R, Kuracha Harshitha, Thameneni Taruni, "Comparative Study of MODIS, LANDSAT-8, SENTINEL-2B, and LISS-4 images for Precision farming using NDVI approach", E3S Web of Conferences 405, 01004 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf /202340501004 

BOOK CHAPTERS

Jacob, P., Dwarakish, G.S., Sharath, G.O., Ramesh, G.N. (2022). Pervious Concrete as an Effective Urban Flood Management Tool. In: Jha, R., Singh, V.P., Singh, V., Roy, L., Thendiyath, R. (eds) River and Coastal Engineering. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 117. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05057-2_13 

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• P. Jacob, G.S. Dwarakish, Temporal Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Built-Up Area in Peri- Urban Areas of Cochin , Kerala : Case-Study of Sub-Watershed in Periyar River, Aquat. Procedia. 4 (2015) 1445–1451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aqpro.2015.02.187.

 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 INTERNATIONAL

•  Presented a paper on "Geometric characteristics of multitudinous lakes and lake catchments for Bangalore rural catchment" in Sustainable Infrastructure with Smart Technology for Energy and Environmental Management(ISISTEEM- 2022) held at BIT, Satyamangalam, Tamil Nadu - Online mode(24th - 26th March 2022).

• Presented a paper on "Hydrological Performance of Pervious Concrete based on Small Size Aggregates" in Contemporary Issues in Engineering and Technology(CIET- 2021) held at GNA University, Punjab - Online mode(8th - 9th January 2021).

• Presented a paper on "Pervious Concrete as an effective Urban Flood Management Tool" in HYDRO 2018 organized by National Institute of Technology, Patna.

• Presented a paper on "Ground water quality assessment around Effluent fed Bellandur Lake, Bangalore" in HYDRO 2015 organised by Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

• Presented a paper on "Temporal Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Built-Up Area in Peri-Urban Areas of Cochin, Kerala: Case-Study of Sub-Watershed in Periyar River" in International Conference on Water Resources, Coastal and Ocean Engineering(ICWRCOE - 2015) held at National Institute of Technology, Surathkal.

 NATIONAL

• Presented a paper on “Utility of Spatial Data for Mineral Exploration: An Overview” in the National Seminar on “Synergy in Mineral Sector for Sustainable Development (SMSSD) – Vision 2020” at National Institute of Technology, Surathkal.

 POSTER

• Presented a poster on “Mobile Application in Mitigating Urban Runoff - Swachha Nagara” in the 8th KSTA Conference on Science and Technology for GenNext Urban Space at Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore.

WORKSHOP CONDUCTED

• Design thinking workshops for students and faculty

• Patent Drafting workshop for students and faculty

 WORKSHOP ATTENDED

• Attended five day AICTE sponsored Universal Human Value Workshop  - Online (1st Feb - 5th Feb 2021)

• Attended five day AICTE - QIP Short term course on "Free and Open Source Geospatial Technologies (FOSS4G) for Natural Resources Management" by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (9th April  - 13th April 2018).

• Attended three day workshop on "GeoSpatial Technology - Essential Workflows of QGIS" organised by Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum (16th February  - 18th February  2017).

• Attended five day workshop on " Monsoon School of Urban Floods" organised by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (24th August  - 29th August 2015).

• Attended five day hands - on training on ‘Introduction to ArcGIS 9.3’ from NIIT-GIS, ESRI India, Bangalore - 2008(5th May - 9th May 2008).

ONLINE COURSE CERTIFICATIONS

•  Spatial Data Science and Applications from Yonsei University  - Coursera.

• Introduction to Probability and Data in R from Duke University – Coursera.

• Microsoft Excel - Data Analysis with Excel Pivot Tables - Udemy

SOFTWARE SKILLS

1. Platforms :  Windows 10

2. Image Processing Software :  GRASS 7.2(Open Source), ERDAS IMAGINE 9

3. GIS Softwares : QGIS 3.4(Open Source), ArcGIS 9.2     

4. Programming Language : R ( for statistics - Open Source)

5. Video Editing - Blender(Open Source)

6. CAD softwares : AUTOCAD(Basic)                                                                         

7. Computer Languages : C, C++ (Basics)

8. Proficient in use of Microsoft Excel and Word.

9.  Microsoft Power BI - Project Knowledge

10.  Tally - Basic

AREAS OF INTEREST IN TEACHING

• Design Thinking 

• Patent Drafting

• Hydrology and Irrigation Engineering

• Engineering Mechanics

• Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulics

• Hydraulic Structures and Irrigation Design - Drawing

AREAS OF INTEREST IN RESEARCH

• Statistical Analysis of Infrastructural Data 

• Urban Runoff and Flood

• Hydrological Modelling

• Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Resources

• Hydraulic properties of Pervious concrete system

PROJECT IN THE NEWS

Property Plus in The Hindu dated 5th August 2017

Economic Times dated 19th June 2017

Bangalore Mirror Dated 22nd July 2017