APARNA. S R
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Email.id : aparna89sr@gmail.com
Qualification
M. Tech in Geotechnical Engineering
Experience
Worked as Assistant Professor in PRS College of Engineering and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala from August 2012 to June 2016
Areas of Interest
Soil Stabilization
Bioremediation
Geo environmental Engineering
Foundation Engineering
Irrigation engineering
Courses Handled:
Engineering mechanics
Basics of Civil Engineering
Engineering Geology
Geotechnical Engineering
Ground Improvement Techniques
Design of Hydraulic Structures
Industrial Waste Water Engineering
Lab-In- Charge:
· Geotechnical Engineering Lab
Membership in Professional Bodies
Indian Society for Technical Education ISTE (Lifetime Member)
Publications :
In national and International conferences :
S. R Aparna, M S Neethu, T R Sethuraman (2010)“ Earthquake Resistant Design of Concrete Structures” Proceeding of International Conference on Advances of Materials and Techniques in Civil Engineering January 2010 conducted by VLB Janakiammal College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore.
Aparna S R , Unnikrishnan N , “Footings on stressed Encapsulated Granular Trenches “International Conference on Technological Trends during November 25-27, 2010 held at College of Engineering ,Trivandrum.
Unnikrishnan, N. and Aparna, S.R. (2011) Footings on Stressed Encapsulated Granular Trenches. National Conference on Technological Trends, NCTT 2011, Trivandrum
Aparna, S.R. and Unnikrishnan, N. (2012). Investigation on Stressed Encapsulated Granular Trenches. National Conference on Technological Trends, NCTT 2012, Trivandrum.
Journals :
Aparna.S.R, Unnikrishnan N (2016) “Behaviour of Strip Footing Supported on Stressed Encapsulated Granular Trenches” International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology Volume 5, Special Issue 14, December 2016
Awards and Recognition:
Secured 22nd Rank in Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Engineering)
Won Best Paper Award for the Paper “Investigation on Stressed Encapsulated Granular Trenches” presented in the National Conference on Technological Trends 2012 conducted at College of Engineering Trivandrum.
Won the Best Paper Award for the paper “ Behaviour of footings Supported on Stressed Encapsulated Granular Trenches” presented in TECHSYNOD’16 conducted at Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology
Other achievements
Participated in a Short term course on “Recent Advances in the use of Geosynthetics in Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering” conducted at College of Engineering Trivandrum from 30th November 2011 to 13th December 2011
Participated in Aspire –Avant , the Faculty development Workshop Conducted on 3rd June 2013 at Prs college of Engineering and Technology.
Participated in short term course on “Recent Advances in Subsoil Investigation” conducted at College of Engineering Trivandrum on November 28-30, 2013.
Participated in “Faculty Induction Programme” conducted by Indian Society for Technical Education from 27th June to 2nd July 2016 at Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology.
Participated in an One day Workshop on “Structural Design and Analysis “ Conducted by CAAD centre in association with Bentley Institute on 14th October 2017.
Participated in Online Faculty Development Programme on Recent Advances in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering conducted by College of Enginnering Punnapra during 11 th to 13th ,March 2021.
Positions held:
Mentor – IGS Student Chapter
Staff Advisory
Lab in Charge
Project Guidance
KTU Auditing (Department Representative )
Alumni Executive Member,
Internal Exam Cell (Department Coordinator )
Projects Guided :
· Stabilization Of Clay Using Various Additives (2017)
· Sustainable Building Blocks Using E-Waste (2018)
· Design Of Waste Disposal Facility For College Campus (2019)
· Investigation Of Soil Stabilisation Using Chitosan Biopolymer And Sawdust (2019|)
· Reuse of Foundry Sand to Brick (2020)
· To Study the Effectiveness of Coir Geotextile as Filter Media (2024)