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Janardhanan Gangathulasi

University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Engineering Guindy

ORCID iD 0000-0003-4443-6677
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Dr. Janardhanan Gangathulasi is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Head of Department of Curriculum Development, Planning and Coordination at the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research Chennai. Dr. Janardhanan has over 18 years of research, teaching and consulting experience within the broad fields of civil, environmental engineering, engineering education. His research expertise includes: (1) Technology enabled teaching learning; (2) Assessment and Evaluation; (3) Development of MOOCs; (4) Accreditation, academic quality framework and academic auditing; (5) Learning Spaces – Blended approach; (6) Active and experiential learning; (7) Sustainable Development and Education; (8) Environmental remediation; (9) solid and hazardous waste management and landfill engineering; and (10) life cycle assessment and sustainable construction materials. His research and training programme is funded by the ITEC, DST, World Bank, MHRD, PWD and several prominent state government and industries. His research includes laboratory studies, field experiments, and computer modelling, ultimately leading to fundamental advances and practical solutions to the real-world problems. Dr. Jana published around 45 research articles in international and national journal and conference. He has been granted patent by GoI towards manufacturing artifical aggregate from waste.Dr. Janardhanan has coordinated more than 20 international training programmes and trained around 400 international delegates from 68 different countries across the globe (Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Belarus, Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, Cote d'ivoire, Cuba, Colombia, Cameroon, Demo. Rep. Of Congo, Ethiopia, Egypt, El-Salvador, Fiji, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, , Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Lithuania, Malaysia, Maldives, Malawi, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Madagascar, Moscow-STP, Myanmar Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Poland, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, South Africa South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe). He has coordinated more than 200 training programmes and trained more than 15000 participants. He has developed and offered six MOOCS with a registration more than 30000. He is serving as a reviewer for various journal and international conference. Dr. Janardhanan has received fellowship and awards (a) UNESCO Invitation to the Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar on MOOCs for Higher Education (b) Institution of Engineers, India - Young Engineer Award (c) American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) – Illinois Section – Geotechnical Award; (d) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Fellowship (e) University of Illinois – Doctoral Fellowship. He is a Member in American Society of Engineering Education, American Society of Civil Engineers, International Water Association (IWA), Indian Society of Technical Education, Indian Geotechnical Society, National Solid Waste Association of India, Institution of Engineers (India). His doctoral research is from University of Illinois, USA and Bachelors and Master’s degree from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, India. He extensively traveled within and abroad for technical lectures viz., USA, Germany, Belarus, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia.

Employment

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Education

  • University of Illinois at Chicago Ph.D
    2005 - 2008
  • College of Engineering Guindy M.E
    1999 - 2001
  • College of Engineering Guindy B.E
    1995 - 1999

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Publications (18)