Janardhanan Gangathulasi Email & Phone Number

Dr. Janardhanan Gangathulasi is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Head, Centre for Academic Studies and Research at the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research Chennai. Dr. Janardhanan has over 18 years of research, teaching and consulting experience within the broad fields of civil, environmental engineering, engineering education. His research expertise includes: Technology enabled teaching learning; Sustainable construction Materials, EIA, MOOC. His research and training programme is funded by the ITEC, DST, World Bank, MHRD, PWD and several prominent state government and industries. I have coordinated more than 20 international training programmes and trained around 400 international delegates from 68 different countries across the globe (Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Belarus, Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, Cote d'ivoire, Cuba, Colombia, Cameroon, Demo. Rep. Of Congo, Ethiopia, Egypt, El-Salvador, Fiji, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, , Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Lithuania, Malaysia, Maldives, Malawi, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Madagascar, Moscow-STP, Myanmar Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Poland, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, South Africa South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe). He has coordinated more than 200 training programmes and trained more than 15000 participants. He has developed and offered six MOOCS with a registration more than 30000. He is serving as a reviewer for various journal and international conference. Dr. Janardhanan has received fellowship and awards (a) UNESCO Invitation to the Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar on MOOCs for Higher Education (b) Institution of Engineers, India - Young Engineer Award (c) American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) – Illinois Section – Geotechnical Award; (d) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Fellowship (e) University of Illinois – Doctoral Fellowship. His doctoral research is from University of Illinois, USA and Bachelors and Master’s degree from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, India. He extensively traveled within and abroad for technical lectures viz., USA, China, Thailand, Malaysia.