Dr. Vikas Pratap Singh

Profile Overview

Since January 2010, I am working as university level teacher in engineering education. I have more than 14 years of Post-Phd experience in the area of teaching, research, and administration at several academic institutes of repute in the country. Presently, I am working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand at Srinagar Garhwal.

My teaching career is focused on continuously developing skills and improving techniques to efficiently conduct lectures, tutorials and experimental components of teaching-learning process. Being a teacher by choice, I personally adhere to the following principles: (a) student-teacher interactions outside class, (b) incorporation of e-tools, (c) continuous, time-bound and transparent evaluation, (d) highlighting the practical significance of the course taught, and (e) providing state-of-art knowledge. I have taught over 22 different courses at UG / PG levels including tutorials and practical. My biggest achievement as a teacher is the appreciation received from students of all academic acumen. 

My research interests include in-situ earth retaining structures particularly soil nailing technique, reinforced earth, computational modeling of geotechnical structures using Plaxis2D, Plaxis3D, Slide etc., reliability-based analysis, and ground improvement techniques. My doctoral work contributed to the research scheme “Guidelines for Soil Nailing Technique in Highway Engineering (R-86)” sponsored by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Government of India, New Delhi. Based on the thesis, recommendations on soil nailing analyses, design and construction are added under section 3200 in the fifth revision of MoRTH Specifications for Road and Bridge Works. At present, I have over 46 research publications in the form of refereed journals, conferences, book chapters etc., and also supervised several research-based projects at UG / PG level. I am happy to share that I was able to motivate and inspire a few undergraduate students to choose geotechnical engineering discipline as their career path.

As an administrator I have taken several responsibilities including Head-of-the-Department (Civil Engineering), Associate Dean (Planning and Development), and In-charge Dean (Planning and Development). Further, I have been actively involved in professional outreach activities such as being member of Board of Studies of various universities, reviewer for reputed Journals, external member in faculty selection committee, etc. I welcome you for showing interest in my professional profile and invite collaboration in the areas of mutual interest.

Last updated: 31.03.2024