October 11, 2016

CE PhD alumnae, Dr. Govindaraju receive ASCE State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award

Dr. Richa Ojha
Dr. Richa Ojha
Dr. Meenu Ramadas
Dr. Meenu Ramadas
Richa Ojha, Meenu Ramadas and Rao S. Govindaraju (Bowen Engineering Head and Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Professor of Civil Engineering) were the 2016 recipients of the ASCE State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award. The annual award is for scholarly review, evaluation, and documentation of the scientific and technical information needed by the profession.

Richa Ojha, Meenu Ramadas and Rao S. Govindaraju (Bowen Engineering Head and Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Professor of Civil Engineering) were the 2016 recipients of the ASCE State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award.  The basis for the award was their two-part paper:

Ojha, R., M. Ramadas and R.S. Govindaraju (2014). “Current and future challenges in groundwater. I. Modeling and Water Management”, ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000928, A4014007-1 to A4014007-21.

Ramadas, M., R. Ojha, and R.S. Govindaraju (2014) “Current and future challenges in groundwater II. Water Quality Modeling”, ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000936, A4014008-1 to A4014008-24.

The award was announced at the ASCE 2016 Convention in Portland, Oregon. The annual award is for scholarly review, evaluation, and documentation of the scientific and technical information needed by the profession. Both Richa Ojha and Meenu Ramadas were PhD students in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering. Dr. Richa Ojha is now a faculty member at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (http://www.iitk.ac.in/new/richa-ojha), and Dr. Ramadas is a faculty member at Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar (http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/profile.php/meenu).