Sudhir K Jain
received his education as Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)
from University of Roorkee in 1979, the Master of Science
from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena,
USA in 1980, and the Doctor of Philosophy, also from Caltech,
in 1983. He joined Civil Engineering faculty at IIT Kanpur
in 1984.
At IIT Kanpur, Professor Jain
has been teaching earthquake and structural engineering and
has mentored a large number of students and young engineers
from Industry. He is an active researcher in earthquake engineering
and has published more than 150 research papers. He has carried
out important studies after all the major earthquakes in India
since 1988. He has been instrumental in improving state-of-the-practice
in the construction industry in India, through development
of Indian seismic codes and commentaries, and extremely popular
continuing education courses for professional engineers. Since
2001, Dr. Jain has organized the hugely popular annual Summer
Camp (http://www.iitk.ac.in/summercamp)
for undergraduate students of Civil Engineering from all over
India to motivate them towards the profession.
Dr. Jain has offered his expertise
as consultant to several major bridge projects in high seismic
regions of India, two concrete gravity dams in Sikkim, a base-isolated
hospital in Simla, and a major crude oil pipeline. He has
consulted for the World Bank on seismic safety issues in Srinagar,
Kashmir and in Istanbul, Turkey.
To meet the information needs
of professionals and the public, he set up the National Information
Center of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) at IIT Kanpur (www.nicee.org).
NICEE receives no budgetary support from anywhere, and operates
entirely on the interest income of its endowment, sponsorships,
publications sales, and donations.
He is the key person behind
the development of the National Program on Earthquake Engineering
Education (NPEEE) in India (www.nicee.org/npeee)
to build capacity in earthquake engineering in numerous civil
engineering and architecture colleges across India. He was
the National Coordinator of NPEEE during 2003-07. More than
1,300 faculty members from across India were trained in earthquake
engineering under this programme.
Professor Sudhir Jain has
shouldered many administrative responsibilities at IIT Kanpur
that include Head of Civil Engineering Department (2001-2003);
Chairman, Student Placement Committee (1995-96); Coordinator,
Quality Improvement Programme (1997-1999); and Coordinator,
Centre for Development of Technical Education (1997-1999).
Most recently, Professor Jain served as the Dean, Resource
Planning and Generation (2005-2008) wherein he mobilized the
alumni, raised very substantial funds, and initiated a number
of new programmes to encourage and support excellence at IITK.
Dr. Jain serves on the Board
of Directors of the International Association for Earthquake
Engineering (2000- ) and is currently its Executive Vice President
(2008- ). He is on the Board of Directors of the World Seismic
Safety Initiative (2002- ), an organization that promotes
earthquake risk reduction in developing countries. He is also
the Executive Board Member of the Asia-Pacific Association
for Public Safety Science and Technology (2008- ). Professor
Jain was elected a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of
Engineering in 2003.
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