Institutional Services

Swayam -NPTEL [June 2024- Ongoing]- Coordinator, Institute-wide

• Coordinated across the BITS Campuses - 9 course proposals by faculty members across the BITS Campuses that were submitted to NPTEL under the coordination of Nodal VC IITKgp. The program is ongoing.

iGOT Karmayogi [January 2025- Ongoing]- Coordinator, Institute-wide

• Collaboration with the Capacity Building Commission for Mission Karmayogi and creating and onboarding courses onto the iGOT Karmayogi platform.
• Coordinated the submission and uploading of 9 courses on the iGOT Karmayogi platform. The program is ongoing.

Teaching Learning Center (TLC) [November 2021- Ongoing]- Faculty-In-Charge, Pilani Campus

Key Contribution as FIC in terms of International Conference/Workshops/FDPs/Certification Programs Developed/Organized/Delivered and contributed to Outreach Programmes as below:

• Developed And Organized FDP-Pedagogy for Effective Education and Reflection (FDP-PEER) For Faculty Members of Adani University (Dated: 19
  – 22 February 2025)
• Developed And Organized - Transforming Education and Creating High-Impact Leadership (Teach 2025) (Date: 25Th- 29Th January 2025).
• Organized Teaching Learning Workshop for Next Generation Academicians (Date: 11Th January 2025)
• Organized Intensive Teaching Workshop (ITW-2024) (Date: 14th & 21St September 2024); Sessions Delivered and Workshop Conducted in ITW 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 For Newly Joined Faculty Members of Bits Pilani, Pilani Campus– Workshop Sessions on Assessment Method and Grading Techniques with Changing Teaching Learning Needs and Pedagogies.
• Organized Workshop on Gen-AI for New Age Educators (23rd March 2024)
• Developed And Organized National Workshop for Next-Generation Academicians (9-10 Feb. 2024)
• Organized Workshop on How to Improve Your Research Skills (27Th To 29Th January 2024)
• Coordinated Industry Abridged Joint Certification Programme Between BITS Pilani and Larsen & Tubro Edutech (February 2024, October 2023)- Ongoing
• Coordinated the Teacher's Day Celebration on the Eve of Teacher's Day by TLC" (4th Sep 2023)
• Delivered a Lecture on Transformations Needed in Assessment Methods and Grading Techniques to Adopt NEP 2020, Delivered to the Newly Joined Faculty Members of BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, 7-8 August 2023.
• Organized/ Delivered Intensive Teaching Workshop (ITW-2023) for Newly Joined Faculty Members, 2nd & 4Th August 2023.
• Developed and organized a 2-Day Exposure Visit for CBSE Principals, in Collaboration with CBSE, 18-19 April 2023.
• Organized Workshop on Active Listening and Holistic Responding in collaboration with ACC, 25Th March 2023.
• Convener of the 2nd International Conference on Best Innovative Teaching Strategies (Icon-Bits 2023), 9-11 February 2023 -
• Contributed to the Infrastructure Development of TLC, 2022: For Digital Content Development - Recording Studio and Computing Facilities for TLC Research and Training
• Composed, Compiled, and Edited TLC Book: TLC The Seven Year Journey, 2022.
• Organized a Workshop on "Using Real-Time Student Engagement Data to Drive In-Class and Off-Class Activities", 6Th October 2022.
• Workshop On College Connect Program By L&T Edutech in Collaboration with TLC Bits Pilani, 14th September 2022.
• Organized Workshop on "The Art and Science of Writing a Research Proposal", 26Th August 2022.
• Intensive Teaching Workshop (ITW) For Newly Joined Faculty Members of BITS, 23rd and 30th April. 2022.
• Developed, organized, and delivered 4-Day FDP- New Age Pedagogy and Tools for Effective Teaching Learning (Pedagogy FDP for PIEMR Indore), 27- 30 January 2022.
• Contributed to Teaching-Learning Workshop for Next Generation Academicians, 27 Nov. 2021 

Department Committee for Academics (DCA) [2024-Ongoing] - Convener

• As DCA convener, Cross-Campus Coordination, Course Load Distribution in the Department, Course Proposals Review Across the Campuses, Department curriculum reviews

Teaching Learning Center (TLC) [September 2020- October 2021] - Nucleus Member

• Coordinated as Resource person (Organizing Committee, Technical reviewer, Session Chair) in International Conference on Best Innovative Teaching Strategies (ICON-BITS 2021), 29 & 31 July 2021
• Contributed as a Resource person in Intensive Teaching Workshop (ITW 2021) and delivered a training session on “Evaluation and Assessment”, 20 & 27 March 2021
• Organized and developed a webinar on “Naya Kshitij: NEP 2020 for Higher Education-Implementation, Preparedness, Challenges, and Way forward” 7 November 2020, Teaching Learning Center (TLC), BITS Pilani, Pilani campus.
• Organized and developed 6 6-day “Naya Kshitij: Faculty Development Programme FDP” from December 17-22, 2020 (FDP contributed 0.4 lakhs INR to TLC, BITS)

BITSAT  2021 - Supervisor

• Contributed as the Supervisor of the BITSAT examination 2021

Academic Counseling Cell (ACC) [2014-2018] - Nucleus Member

• Conducted motivational and Introductory talk from 2014 to 2018, 2022-2024 for 1st year Civil Engineering Students
• Panelist for a panel discussion on “Package and Knowledge”, 2017, BITS Pilani
• Counseling and Mentoring during the period for ACB students

Library Advisory Committee [2014 - 2017] - Nucleus Member

• Invited talk on “Nurturing Young Minds: Parents, Books and Children, 2017, BITS Pilani
• Technical resource person from civil engineering to advise the department on its needs for library resources

Internal Complaint Committee (ICC) [2016 - 2020]- Nucleus Member

• Conducted awareness talk on “Reflections on The Touchstone of Sexual Violence and #MeToo: A talk by Prof. Mary E John” by Prof. Mary E. John in 2020
• Conducted women’s day program to promote gender equality in 2019
• Conducted awareness talk on “A Dream of Gender Equality: Walking Together Matters” by Poet and Activist Pratibha Katiyar in 2018
• Attended a training workshop on “Anti-sexual harassment at workplace” by the Institute of Labour Laws, India, 2018
• Conducted Awareness Talk on “Claiming Gender Equality” by Shabnam Hashmi, an Indian social activist and human rights campaigner, 2017

Departmental Services

Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics Laboratory [2016 - Ongoing]- Officer in charge

• Procurement of Earth Resistivity Imaging System - Syskal Junior and Syskal Kid Junior Resistivity systems
• Instrument and Maintenance Budget proposal for a year
• Procurement of a new UG-level experimental setup
• Modification and maintenance of existing setups (Multipurpose open channel Flume)
• Development of a research experimental setup
• Development of a Video manual for UG lab experiments
• Procurement of new software, COMSOL Multiphysics, RES2DInv

Student Faculty Council (SFC) [2016-2018 and 2024-Ongoing] - Faculty member

• Coordinating With Students for the Departmental/Regular Semester Issues

Department Committee for Academics (DCA) [2018-2024] - Nucleus Member

• As a Nucleus member, contributed to the Curriculum review of courses: Transport Phenomena/Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Hydrology, and Numerical Analysis, 2018.

Departmental Research Committee (DRC) [2015-2018] - Nucleus Member

• Selection interviews of PhD from 2015 to 2018
• Preparation of question papers and an Examiner for the PhD qualifying examination
• Conference paper reviews for passing the Conference budget 

Doctoral Advisory Committee (DAC) [2013-2018]- Faculty Member

• Reviewer and advisor for Doctoral thesis

Other Activities at BITS

• Contributed to the faculty Hiring process as DLSC’s, 2013-Ongoing
• Contributed to KHDA moderation for BITS Dubai for the Hydraulic Engineering course, 2020-2024
• Contributed to the Setting of the Question Paper
• Involved in conducting additional courses for backlog students, 2016-2018, 2020-Ongoing
• Conducted summer course under detention for Backlog students (2015-2016)
• Involved in Consultancy activities in Civil Eng. Groups such as Shear strength of Soils, and Concrete Cube Tests, etc. (2013-2015)