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Greetings from the Indian Geotechnical Society Thiruvananthapuram Chapter of LBSITW.
We organized the 5th T S Ramanatha Aiyyer memorial lecture in virtual mode on 20th November, 2021.It was a great honor for us to invite Dr. Deepankar Choudhury, who is currently the Prof. T. Kant Chair Professor and Head, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay to handle the technical session. Topic of the lecture was "Foundation Systems for Mega Structures- Recent Advances". Faculty Members, Engineers, Research Scholars and PG students attended the lecture.

About Dr. T S Ramanatha Ayyer

Prof. T.S. Ramanatha Ayyer was born on 8th October 1932 in Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu. He obtained B.Sc. (Engg) in Civil Engineering from College of Engineeering Trivandrum in 1953, M.Sc. (Engg) in Soil Mechanics from University of Madras and Ph. D. from University of Roorkee. He was the first PhD conferment in Geotechnical Engineering in the country. He started his career as demonstrator and rose to the position of Professor in Civil Engineering in 1965. He was the Post-Doctoral fellow during 1971-72 at Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Professor at the University of Zambia during 1977-79 and Visiting Professor, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria during 1983-84. He has served as Principal of both the Government Engineering colleges at Thrissur and Thiruvananthapuram and was the Director of Technical Education during the period 1986-87. Later he served as Visiting professor at I.I.T., Madras and U.G.C. Emeritus Fellow. Apart from being member of many academic bodies at the University and National level, Prof. Ayyer has published 3 books on soil and about 70 papers in leading journals.

New elected executive committe 2021-22🥳🥳

Newly elected executive committee 2021-22🥳🥳

Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) Student Chapter, LBSITW was established on 9th February 2018 and successfully inaugurated on 15th March 2018 by the Chief Guest Prof. Dr. G. Venkatappa Rao, Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad.

In his inaugural speech he emphasized that learning from failures is of utmost significance in order to develop better and more economical design strategies. He congratulated the students of the civil department and wished them luck for the success of this student chapter.

The Indian National Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering was established in 1948. In 1970 the name Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) was adopted. The society is affiliated to International Society from its inception. The First chapter in Kerala was formed in the year 2009.To promote closer interaction amongst geotechnical engineers spread all over the country, local chapters of the Society were introduced in 1968. IGS Thiruvananthapuram chapter is functioning under the leadership of chairman Dr. Krishnan Balan and Hon. Secretary Dr. N.Unnikrishnan in order to motivate students to give exposure to careers and opportunities in this area and also develop leadership skills among students which will help them in their career.

Student chapters provide an opportunity for Bachelor Degree students of 2nd, 3rd and 4th year in Civil Engineering and Master’s Degree students of Geotechnical Engineering program. Activities such as seminars/workshops/lectures are conducted by student chapters under the guidance of faculty coordinators from the Institutions/colleges and the members of local chapters will significantly help the student community.

IGS Student Chapter LBSITW accomplishes its aim by regular technical meetings, workshops, conferences, seminars and site visits to make a concerted effort to educate the upcoming civil engineers particularly geotechnical engineers about the significance and importance of Geotechnical Engineering and by arranging to render unbiased advice on problems of Geotechnical Engineering.
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