Prof.V.Sundar
Department Of Ocean Engineering
Indian Institute Of Technology Madras
Chennai , INDIA
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Coordination, Training and Special Lectures

Coordination

 1.    Coordinator for Short Term Course on "Wave Action on Coastal and Offshore Offshore Structures", Dec.9-23, 1985 under Continuing Education Programme for Practicing Engineers.

2.     Co-coordinator for "National Workshop on Wave Studies and Applications" Feb.3-5, 1986.

3.      Coordinator for Short-term course on "Coastal Engineering" Dec.11-22, 1989 under Continuing Education Programme.

4.      Coordinator for Short term course on "Coastal and Ocean Engineering", Nov.4-9, 1991 under Continuing Education Programme.

5.  Coordinator for Coastal Engineering for "Inter Institutional Course and Workshop on Dredging, Port, Coastal Engg. and Coastal Zone Management", Indo-Dutch Programme,  Jan.23-31, 1995, IIT, Madras.

6.     Coordinator for Short Term Course on "Course on Coastal Structures", April 13-24, 1998 under Continuing Education Programme for Metallurgical & Engineering Consultants (India) Ltd, Ranchi.

7.   Coordinator for Inter-Institutional Course on 'Coastal Engineering' and Workshop on 'Breakwaters', in collaboration with Technical univ. Delft, The Netherlands, 6-10 March, 2000, IIT Madras

8.   Coordinator a short course on ‘ Coastal & ocean engineering’ for Students of University of Wuppertal, Germany Sep 4 –6, 2002.

9.   Coordinator a short course on ‘Coastal and Offshore engineering’ in University of wuppertal, Germany, Sep 4-6, 2002.

10. Coordinator, Short term course on “ Coastal Engineering” conducted by International Ocean Institute, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, 31Jan-2 Feb 2004

11.   Member, International Standing Committee, Second International Conference on Marine Industry, MARIND '98, 28 Sept to 02 Oct, 1998, Varna, Bulgaria. 

Reviewer / Examiner

  1. External Reviewer for the strategic project titled “Hydraulics and Mixing in exchange flows” for Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada ( Aug 2003)

  2. Examiner for a number of M.Tech Theses submitted to National Institute of Technology, Karnataka of calicut and Suarthkal & University of Pondicherry , INDIA

  3. Examiner for the Ph.D thesis entitled “A Numerical Study of Fully Nonlinear Two-Dimensional free-Surface Flows and Wave-Body Interactions” Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

  4. External Reviewer for the strategic project titled “Hydraulics and Mixing in exchange flows” for Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada ( Aug 2003)

  5. Examiner for the Ph.D thesis entitled “Analytical and Physical Model Study on the Reflection Behaviour of Slotted Quay Wall With Wave Chamber” Anna University, INDIA (Oct 2006).

  6. Examiner for the Ph.D thesis entitled “Applicability of Artificial Neural Networks For Investigating Short-Term Developments Of Near-shore Morphology” University of Cottbus, Germany (Oct 2005)

  7. Reviewer of papers submitted to American Society of the Civil Engineering Jl and Jl. Of Hydraulic Research of IAHR

Organisation of Conferences / Workshops

  1. Organising Secretary (Publications), International Conference in Ocean Engineering, 17-20 Dec’96, IIT Madras.

  2. Organising Secretary, Symposium on “Foundation Engineering In Soft Marine Clays” 1 Dec ’03, in IIT Madras

  3. Organising Secretary, Workshop on “Coastal Protection Measures”, conducted by International Ocean Institute, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, 5 &6 Nov 2004, Kanyakumari

  4. Organising Secretary, workshop on “ Coastal Problems & solutions” conducted by International Ocean Institute, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, 3-4 Feb 2004

  5. Organising Secretary, Workshop on “Tsunami Effects and Mitigation Measures” Dept. Ocean Engg, IIT Madras, 26 Dec 2005

  6. Organising secretary, 15th Congress of the Asian Pacific Division of International Association of Hydraulic Research, 7-10 Aug 2006, IIT Madras.

  7. Organising Secrestary, INDO-JAPAN Workshop on “Coastal Problems and Mitigation Measures – including the effects of Tsunami” (16-17 July 2007)

Technical Committees

  1. Member Course Development Group for Regional Operational Centre of Intl. Ocean Institute, IIT Madras. The task is to prepare course module on topics in Coastal Zone Management, 1995.

  2. Steering Committee Member, Invest Port - National Conference on “Partnerships for infrastructure Development Ports”, 8th & 9th April 1996.

  3. Member, International Scientific Honorary Committee, Eighth Congress of the International Maritime Association of Mediterranean, Istanbul Technical University, 2-9 Nov.’97, Istanbul, Turkey.

  4. Member, selection committee for considering the promotion of Senior Scientists of National Institute of Ocean Technology, Dept. of Ocean Development, Govt. Of India

  5. Advisor to Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Govt. of India for selection of Scientist, Feb’95.

  6. Advisor to UPSC, Govt. of India for Engineering Services Examination ‘97, March’98.

  7. Member, International Standing Committee, Second International Conference on Marine Industry, MARIND’98, 28 Sept to 02 Oct, 1998, Varna, Bulgaria.

  8. Invited by National Institute of Science Communication, New Delhi as panel of experts for the constitution of selection/assessment committees in Oceanography for the period 1998 to 2000.

  9. Member, Steering Committee, Intl. Conf in Ocean Engg, I.I.T.Madras, Dec11-14, 2001

  10. Member, Technical Committee, 13th Asia Pacific Division of Intl. Association of Hydraulic research, 6-8 Aug 2002, Singapore.

  11. Member, Technical Committee, Meet MARIND, Intl conf to be held in Varna , Bulgaria, Oct 2002.

  12. Member, Organising committee, Intl. Conf. On Ship & Ocean Technology, SHOT 200216-17 Dec 2002, IIT Kharagpur, India

  13. Advisor, 2nd APCOS Conf on Offshore Systems, April 2003 to be held in Thailand

  14. Non-Official Expert member of the Coastal Protection & Development Advisory Committee (CPDAC), Govt. of India from June 2004.

  15. Member of Expert Committee from June 2004 to review the Coastal Regulation Zone

  16. Notification of 1991, Govt. of India .

  17. Member of the expert committee for recruitment of scientists for the research labs of Defense Research & development organization (DRDO), and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India.

  18. Member, Expert committee to advice the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and environment on coastal protection

  19. Member, Technical Advisory Committee of Chilika development authority, Govt. of India

  20. Member, Executive committee of Institute for Ocean Management, Anna University, Chennai

  21. Session chairman for Ocean Engineering Symposium-Wave Mechanics & Wave effects, 26th Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2007, 10-15 June 2007, Sandiago-U.S.A

  22. Member, Research council of Centre for earth science studies(CESS), Kerala State Council for Science, Technology & Environment from 27th April 2007 for a period of three years.


Editorial Responsibilty

  1. Member of the Editorial board of the Indian Journal of Marine Sciences for the period 2005-07

  2. Associate Editor, Journal of Hydro-Environment Research by the Asia Pacific division International Association of Hydraulic Research journal to be launched in Jan 2007

  3. Associate Editor, Ocean Engineering journal ( International) by Elsevier Publishing Co.

  4. Member of the Guest Editorial Board for the special issue of International Journal of Ecology and Development on Coastal and Estuarine Environment, 2007


Training Program

Participant - International Training Programme on Exclusive Economic Zone at Dalhousie University, Canada. Conducted by International Ocean Institute, MALTA.


Course Modules

   Completed two course modules titled "BREAKWATERS" and "COASTAL EROSION AND PROTECTION " sponsored by Centre for Continuing Education, I.I.T.Madras