Dr. Koorapati Eshswara Prasad

Biography

He obtained B.Tech. (Civil Engg) from JNTU Hyderabad and M.E. (Hons) from University of Roorkee, and PhD. from University of Nottingham (U.K). He did two Post Doctoral Research Programmes one from Saint Maries University, Halifax, Canada and the other from University of Birmingham, (U.K). He held various administrative posts and developed the university with his projects and developmental activities. Notable among his awards are the American Society for Testing Materials Award for the year 1998 for outstanding research paper, Shamshare Prakash Research Award 2000 from University of Roorkee now IIT, Roorkee, Commonwealth Scholarship for Ph.D. and Commonwealth Fellowship for post-doctoral research. He was Chairman/Member of a number of Expert Committees formulated by the A.P. Government to examine the causes of failures and to suggest solution to the problems. He was the Convener EAMCET 2007 and EAMCET 2008 and Convener PRITACET 2008. He also served as Expert Committee Member of AICTE for scrutinizing project reports as well as was the member in the Board of Reviewers for the Institution of Engineers journal. Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering. He is the member/fellow of as many as ten professional bodies in the field of Civil Engineering and Technical Education. He has visited as many as 20 foreign Universities in UK, US and Canada.

Research Interest

Pile Foundations under static and cyclic loading, Machine foundations, Ground improvement techniques and Environmental Geotechnology