Soumen Maji - About

Soumen Maji is a hydraulician and educator. He is currently an Assistant Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering, Central Institute of Technology (CIT) Kokrajhar, where he teaches Engineering Drawing, Building Material & Construction, Hydraulic Engineering at Under-Graduate level. Geo-hydraulics, Sediment Transport and Turbulent Fluid Flow in Post-Graduate level. Presently, he is engaged in studying various hydrodynamics-related problems. His general areas of research interests are sediment transport, applied hydrodynamics, turbulence and other recent trends.

2009 B.Tech in Civil Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Rourkela

2013 M.Tech in Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering from IIT Kharagpur

2018 PhD in Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering from IIT Kharagpur

Academic & Administrative responsibilities

Current positions

2025- Secretary, Departmental UG Program Committee (DUGPC, CE), CITK

2024- Nodal Officer for Surya Ghar Yojana, CITK

2024- Assistant Dean (Planning and Development), CIT Kokrajhar.

2024- Faculty-In-Charge of Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, CE, CITK

2024- Member of the DPGPC for Postgraduate Program.

2024- Departmental faculty in-charge for monitoring, providing departmental inputs to the Institute-level coordinators, and assist in the time-bound department-level implementation of various Governmental schemes like implementation of Universal Human Values (UHV) programme as per NEP 2020, Jal Jeevan Mission, ATAL innovation Mission, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan etc., and aspects related to Equal Opportunities in workplace.

2024- Departmental faculty in-charge of implementation and maintenance of the ERP for cooperating with the coordinator of the ERP system for the Institute-level for implementation with departmental inputs

2022- Institute Coordinator, Implementation of hybrid learning uniformly in Technical colleges in India (AICTE initiative).

2022-2025 Member, Institute Level Committee for implementation of NEP 2020 in CIT Kokrajhar.

2022- Member, Adoption of "UGC (Credit Framework for Online Learning Courses through Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) Regulations, 2021", for CITK.

2022- Faculty-In-Charge of Water Resources Engineering Laboratory and Physical Model Study, CE, CITK

2019- Assistant Professor (Senior Scale), Department of Civil Engineering, CITK

Previous positions

2022- 23 Secretary, Departmental Ph.D. Program Committee (DPhDPC, CE), CITK

2022- 23 Member, Departmental Diploma Program Committee (CE), CITK

2022 In-Charge of Green Energy Technology Laboratory, Department of Green Energy Technology, CITK

2020-21 In-Charge of Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, CE, CITK

2020-21 Departmental faculty in-charge for the implementation and maintenance of the ERP for liaising with the coordinator of the ERP system for the Institute-level

2019-21 Secretary, Departmental Post Graduate Program Committee (DPGPC, CE), CITK

2018- 21 Member, Departmental PHD Program Committee (CE), CITK

2019- 20 Secretary, Institute Post Graduate Committee (IPGPC), CITK

2018- 20 In-Charge of establishing of Water Resources Laboratory in the Department of CE, CITK

2018- 20 In-Charge of Preparing Course structure & Curriculum for PG program in WRHE, CE, CITK

2016-17 Nodal Officer (Aadhar Card), CIT Kokrajhar

2016-17 Coordinator of Solar Panel installation inside CIT campus

2016-17 Member of Building Works Committee, CIT Kokrajhar

2015-17 Member of Anti-ragging squad, CIT Kokrajhar

2015-17 Warden, Sujit Narzary Memorial Boy's Hostel, CIT Kokrajhar

2015-16 Member of Medical Committee, CIT Kokrajhar

2015-19 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, CITK

2010-11 Site Engineer in RailOne Pvt. Ltd. Hydrabad

2009-10 Supervision Engineer in IOCL Refinary Vadodara, Guajarat

Extra Academic/Administrative/Outreach Activities

Invited as the 'Chief Guest' to attend inter-school Art competition, held on 19/01/25 in the campus of The Reality Public School, Chandamari, KOKRAJHAR, BTR, Assam.
Invited as the 'Session Chair' for International Water Conference for Sustainable Development Goals (IWCSDG) 2024 held at MANIT Bhopal on 22-23 March 2024.
Participated as External Evaluator for GUNOTSAV2023 (Phase I), Axom Sarba Siksha Abhijan Mission.
Invited as the 'Session Chair' for Water Quality Session during 23rd Congress of IAHR-APD 2022, held on December 14th-17th, 2022 at IIT Madras, India.
Conducted various scientific and motivational programs for Class IX-XII students at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Chirang on 08 January 2022.
Participated in "National Service Scheme (NSS)-Special camp" program organised by CIT Kokrajhar at our adopted village-Khagrabari, PO-Banargaon, under Block: Dotma block, Kokrajhar on 02nd Deceember, 2021.
Participated in "Unnat Bharat Abhiyan" program organised by CIT Kokrajhar at our adopted village-Khagrabari, PO-Banargaon, under Block: Dotma block, Kokrajhar on 27th November, 2021.
Participated in "Unnat Bharat Abhiyan" program organised by CIT Kokrajhar at our adopted village-Khagrabari, PO-Banargaon, under Block: Dotma block on 6th February, 2021.
Participated in "Out Reached programme: Reaching the unreached" organised by NSS Team of CIT Kokrajhar at Alayaran Anath Ashram, Kokrajhar.
External Evaluator for GUNOTSAV-2017, Axom Sarba Siksha Abhijan Mission.

Member of Professional Bodies

Life Member of Indian Society of Hydraulics (ISH) [LM1329]
Life Member of Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE) [LM123357]
Member of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR)
Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Member of Institution of Engineers (India) (IEI)

Invited speaker

Invited as a Keynote Speaker during 'Recent Trends and Future Scope in Civil Engineering (RTFSCE-2024)' workshop held at NIT Jamshedpur on 9-13 September 2024.
Invited as a Keynote Speaker during 'International Water Conference for Sustainable Development Goals (IWCSDG) 2024' held at MANIT Bhopal on 22-23 March 2024.
Invited as a resource person for training on "Non-structural Retrofitting and Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) for Engineers" sponsored by District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), Kokrajhar and organized by the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Bineswar Brahma Engineering College, Kokrajhar on 17-18 February 2021.

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