Ms.Susan John Masters in Geotechnical Engineering Engineering Experience Susan John completed her Masters in Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She graduated in Civil Engineering from TKM College Of Engineering (Kerala University) and qualified GATE and got admitted to IISc., Bangalore. Her first foray into teaching was when she joined MVJ College of Engineering , Bangalore as a Lecturer. She then relocated to Kerala where she joined Saint Gits College of Engineering as a Lecturer. Currently she is teaching as Senior Lecturer in Manipal University, Dubai.
She has published 4 papers in National and International conferences. She is a lifetime member of ISTE, an organization for promoting the quality and standards in technical education. She has won the Rashtrapati Guide Award. Areas of Interest in teaching
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Fluid Mechanics
- Transportation Engineering
- Engineering Mechanics
Top 5 research publications/ Projects
- Sitharam,T.G., Yamini Reddy and Susan Kurien, 1998, “ Role of friction on mechanical behavior of granular materials using discrete element modeling”, Proceedings of the International conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental mechanics”, Aerospace dept, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, Dec 1-5, Paper No. 42.
- Sitharam,T.G and Susan Kurien, 1999, “ Shear Strength and Volume change behavior of aggregates using big size box shear apparatus,” IGC (99), Calcutta.
- Vinod,P., Manoj,M.,Gigi Susan George, Susan Kurien, Sweetie Mathew and Vijayalakshmi, K., 1997, “Compaction characteristics of lateritic soils”. Proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference, IGC(97), Vadodara.
- Vinod,P., Manoj,M.,Gigi Susan George, Susan Kurien, Sweetie Mathew and Vijayalakshmi,K., 1997, “A Framework for Compaction Characteristics of Lateritic soils “. 4th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (GEOTROPICA-'97), Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
- Participated in National Conference on `Emerging Trends in Engineering Technology ` in May 2007 in Kerala.
- Attended a short term training program on ` Creative Approaches In Teaching ` jointly organized by Dept. Of Civil Engg,, College of Engineering, Trivandrum and IIT, Madras during Dec. 2006
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