Courses taught by me at CTARA
- TD 613: Ecology and Environment
- TD 608: Project and
Programmes: Management & Analysis
- TD 616: Environmental Systems (Assessments
& Monitoring)
- TD 654: Environmental Services: Design and
Planning
- TD 612: Technologies in Practice
- TD 609: Field work - Directed Research
- TD 691: Development Protocol
- TD 604: Social Science Research Methods and
System Dynamics
- TD 390, TD 490, TD 491 - TDSL Courses
- TD 625: Development Monitoring and Evaluation
- TD 627: Field Research Mathods
- TD 632: SDG(Sustainable Development Goals) & CSR(Corporate social responsibility)
- PS 625: Environmental Governanace & Development
Details of the Courses
Since joining CTARA, I have handled/ taught four core and 7
elective courses:
- Project
Management and Analysis (TD 608) a core course of CTARA
was redesigned and is being taught for eight consecutive
years since 2011.
- TD 609
Field Work Co-ordinator for Summer 2014 & Summer
2015. Redesigned the course and sent 11 groups to
various field destinations.
- Environmental
System: Assessments and Monitoring (TD 616) was
introduced in the Spring Semester of 2010 as a PG Level
Institute Elective Course. The course has been
successfully taught for 5 years (Spring 2010 to Spring
2013 & Spring 2018). Under the course a laboratory
was developed to analyze samples of different
environmental systems including water, soil, wastewater,
microbiological drugs and food samples.
- Rural
Environmental Services: Planning and Design (TD
654) was introduced in the Spring Semester of 2014 as a
PG Level Institute Elective Course and is taught for
past 5 years. The course was taught through
lectures, project/case studies, and a planning \&
design assignment by student groups on water supply,
sanitation and solid waste system for a specific village
(Bhilawadi Village).
- Ecology and
Environment (TD 613) was taught twice during the spring
and autumn semester of 2010 with Prof. Anand Rao and
Prof. Prasad Modak. Subsequently, in 2017, I
taught the course single handedly. In autumn of 2018,
the course is being taught along with Prof Anand Rao
- A protocol
for Municipal Solid Waste Management was developed and
offered in the Development Protocol (TD 691) elective
during the Spring 2013 to 2017 semesters.
- Guided five
batches for the Directed Research component of the TD
609 Field work course.
- Co-ordinated
TD 612 Technologies in Practice course in Autumn 2012
with guest faculty, Mrs Svati Bhogle, TIDE.
- TD 390,
490 & 491 TDSL: Guided B.Tech students for
Technology and Development Supervised Learnings
Other Academic Activities / Responsiblities
- Member of ‘Research Progress Committee (RPC)’
of the following Ph.D. students: Mrs. Anitha Thampi,
Mr. Bharat Damani, Mr. Sivamuthu Prakash Murugan,
Ms.Asha Panwar, Ms. Neelam Rana, Mr. Vipin Singh and
Ms. Punam Singh, Mr. Manu, Mr. Rahul, Ms Laxmi, Ms.
Shruti Sharma
- Reviewer for the Journals / Conferences /
Agencies
- International Journal of Life Cycle
Assessment
- European Journal of Integrative Medicine
- Department of Science and Technology, GOI
- INDICON-2013
- Journal of Water Supply: Research and
Technology - AQUA,
- Ecological Modelling,
- Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
for Development
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Journal of
Renewable and Sustainable Energy
- Reviewed the
book "Environmental Studies" for Under-Graduate Engineering students, Authors: Prof. Shyam Asolekar and Prof. Soli Arceivala; Publishers
McGraw-Hill (India) Ltd
- Post Graduate Programme Committee (PGPC) 2019-2022
- Committee for Institute Support for Participation in International Conference 2019-2022
- BIRAC - Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council
- CTARA - DPGC Member & DPC Member
- External Ph.D/ M.Tech Thesis
Examiner for CEPT University, Ahmedabad, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Member of the
Green Campus Initiative
- CTARA's Budget
Committee, Space Committee Member
- Conducted a
Short-course on Preparation of Project Design
Document (PDD) under the Framework of
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) during
February-March, 2010 at CESE, IIT Bombay.
- Taught at the
School of Habitat Studies, TISS during July-Sept,
2010, lectures on `Ecology and Envi-
ronment' in the course on Basic Technical
Capabilities for Habitat Professionals
