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rahul ralegaonkar

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Arlington, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University

ORCID iD 0000-0002-3538-533X
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Dr. Rahul V. Ralegaonkar has completed B.E. (Civil-1998), M.E. (Civil-2000) & Ph.D. (Energy Efficient Buildings-2005). He worked for a year in industry at managerial post in GIS industry and Civil Construction industry. Rest 20 years he has been associated with academics including research, testing, consultancy of civil engineering materials, projects etc. He was awarded one of the most prestigious Indo-US BHAVAN Fellowship by DST, New Delhi to work at University of Texas, US during 2016. He has been awarded Visiting Professor post at Liverpool John Moores University, UK for the track February 2019-January 2022. Apart from US and UK he also travelled to Australia and Singapore for research exchange programs. He has 3 international and 3 national awards to his credit for novel product design which are used as energy efficient construction materials. He was also awarded doctoral fellowship by National Renewable Energy Fellowship by Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, New Delhi. He holds international diploma certification to serve as sustainability practioner for CSR activities and rendered his services to Fondazione Cariplo, Italy for bio-economy related research projects.

He is presently working as Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India with keen interest in broad areas of Sustainable Construction Engineering. He has completed several R & D sponsored projects of National and International repute. Currently two R & D sponsored projects funded by British Council & Truform Industries Pvt. Ltd., Nagpur is ongoing. Six technologies related to sustainable construction materials were granted patent. Two software tools were designed and received copyright for design of carbon minus building designs & implementation of sustainable technologies in large scale construction projects. Till date over 160 publications were brought out at international and national level. He has authored a book & contributed over five chapters in international handbooks published by Elsevier and IGI global publishers.

Presently 9 doctoral candidates, over 50 master’s candidates and 15 graduating student groups have completed their projects under his supervision. As the interactions with other professionals are concerned, the lecture notes were published and presented in more than 15 training programs. More than 100 lectures were delivered as invited speaker on several management and engineering topics like energy management, energy economics, application of sustainable technologies in construction industry and disaster management, etc. at various national and international level interactive platforms. As an organising committee member including principal coordinator and secretary for workshops, training program and national conference more than 60 events were participated. He has been lead editor for couple of SCI Journals and is also actively involved with technical forums as an editorial board member and the reviewer for several journals and conferences at national and international level. He is also a member of Board of Studies for several deemed universities. He was also associated with National Mission projects like Principal Nodal Officer for E-hub of Ministry of Skill development program, Nodal coordinator for Housing for all program of Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, New Delhi and Member for Environmental clearance cell constituted by Local Improvement trust.

Employment

  • Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology PROFESSOR
    2018 - Present
  • University of Texas at Arlington Visiting Researcher
    2016 - 2016
  • Birla Institute of Technology and Science Lecturer
    2005 - 2007

Education

  • Birla Institute of Technology and Science PHD
    2001 - 2004
  • Birla Institute of Technology and Science M.E.
    1999 - 2000
  • Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University B.E.
    1994 - 1998

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Publications (68)