Continuing Education

The Centre, catering to the needs of the engineering profession, conducts several continuing education programme especially seminars, refresher courses, workshops and training programmes. They are listed below

• Modelling for Managing Ground Water Aquifer, April 1985(GOTN)
• Field Programme in Irrigation Water Measurements, December 1985(USAID)
• Management of Ground Water Supply for Urban and Rural Areas, February 1986 (WAPCOS)
• Selection, Erection, O&M of Irrigation Pumps - Conducted for Farmers, October 1986 (USAID)
• Field Programme in Irrigation Water Measurement, December 1986 (USAID)
• Conjunctive Use of Surface and Ground Water, April 1987 (USAID)
• Training of Trainers in Irrigation Management Programme, February 1988 (USAID)
• Training Programme for Irrigation Community Organisers, August 1988 (GOTN)
• Micro Computer Application in System Analysis, November 1988, (USAID)
• Training of Trainers in Irrigation Management Programme, December 1988 (USAID)
• Orientation Programme on Small Tank Development, March 1989 (GOTN)
• Sprinkler and Drip Irrigation Systems, July 1989 (USAID)
• Sprinkler and Drip Irrigation Systems, July 1990 (USAID)
• Micro Computer Application in System Analysis, March 1991 (USAID)
• On-Farm Development Works, August 1991 (USAID)
• Micro Computer Application in System Analysis, December 1991 (USAID)
• Water Quality: Monitoring, Modelling, Management, February 1995(UGC)
• Micro Computer Applications in Irrigation Water Management, May-June 1996 (MOWR)
• Rainfall and its Impact, July 1998 (TWAD)
• Rain water harvesting, 2002 (NSS)

Conferences, Workshops, Training, Symposia and Seminars Organised

• Tank rehabilitation programme Problems and Issues, 1982
• Sedimentation Problems in Reservoirs, June 1986 (GOTN)
• Ocean Resources of India, December 1986 (DOD)
• Rehabilitation of Tank Irrigation Systems, January 1987 (USAID)
• Efficacy of On-farm Development Works, December 1987(USAID)
• Aquaculture Engineering, April 1988 (DOD)
• Coastal Zone Management, October 1989
• Identification of Problems in Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in Tamil Nadu: Focus on R&D Support and S&T Application, MOR&E, July 1996
• Management of Drinking Water Resources, December 1997, CLRI, CSIR, TWAD, UGC
• Future Research on Tank Modernisation, March 1998, FORD
• Management Aspects of Tank Irrigation May, 1999, EEC
• Framework for Action – Southern Region – Consultation Meeting of GWP June 1999, GWP
• India Water Vision 2025 – Consultation meeting of India Water Partnership – December 1999, GWP
• Sustainability of Farmers Organisation – March 2000, FORD
• Flow measurements in irrigation system its adequacy, Suitability and Reliability - March 2000, UGC
• Integrated Water Management Strategies for Municipalities/Townships/ Panchayat of greater Chennai – March 2000, UGC
• Dams and Development, India Water Partnership, 2002.
• Role of Technical Education in Sustainable Development, March 2005.
• Inter/ Re-linking of Urban lakes through People’s Participation, December, 2005.
• Eco-Environmental Impact on Water Resources Potential towards Re-linking and Integrating its Hydrological Cycle, January 3rd – 5th, 2007.
• South Asia Water Research Conference on “Water Access and Conflicts: Implications for Governance, 21st and 22nd March 2007
• Workshop on “Application of Science. Geography and Value Education for Flood Management in Chennai”, 24th and 25th October 2007
  
• Training Programme on “Renovation of traditional village ponds (Ooranies)”, 24th to 26th August 2008.
• Training Programme on “Capacity of tank using total station & GPS”, 8th to 12th February 2010.
• Training Programme on “Localization of ayacut”, 22nd to 26th February 2010. (IAMWARM, PWD)
• Training Programme on “Introduction to flow measurements and flow measuring devices in channels”, 22nd to 26th November 2010. (IAMWARM, PWD)
• Training Programme on “Irrigation efficiency and water balances”, 20th to 24th December 2010. (IAMWARM, PWD)
• Training Programme on “Irrigation scheduling and Crop Water Requirement computation”, 3rd to 7th January 2011. (IAMWARM, PWD)
• One day workshop on “Isotope tracers for water resources management”, 25th February 2011 (CWRDM, Kozhikode)
• Training Programme on “Management Information System using IT”, 6th to 17th June 2011. (IAMWARM, PWD)
• Training Programme on “Developing modernization strategies”, 16th to 26th August 2011. (IAMWARM, PWD)
• Training Programme on “Concept of canal control and operation and Methodologies for making operation easy and effective”, 26th to 30th September 2011. (IAMWARM, PWD)
• Training Programme on “Design and operation of an irrigation projects”, 10th to 14th October 2011. (IAMWARM, PWD)
• Training Programme on “Capacity of tank – using total station”, 30th January to 3rd February 2012. (IAMWARM, PWD)
• Training Programme on “Localization of ayacut”, 20th to 24th February 2012
• Training Programme on “Hydraulic principles of unsteady flow and their relation to operation”, 23rd to 27th April 2012. (IAMWARM, PWD)
• Training Programme on “The concept of water delivery service”, 28th May to 1st June 2012. (IAMWARM, PWD)
• ISTE Main Workshop on “Fluid Mechanics” 20th May to 30th May 2014, National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, GOI) Trained Faculties of Engineering Colleges in Tamil Nadu.
• Training programme on “Watershed Management Programmes in Tamil Nadu”, 11th July to 12th July 2013,  State Planning Commission, Tamil Nadu.

ENDOWMENT LECTURES

An International Hydrological Decade (IHD) endowment lecture programme is conducted once in two years by the Centre, inviting eminent engineers and scientists from within India and abroad, related to various topics of water resources engineering and water management. So far, sixteen such endowment lectures were organized; the first one was delivered by late Prof. Ven Te Chow of University of Illinois, USA, in the year 1975 and the latest lecture was by Dr. Christopher Saint of Australia in 2013.

Dr. Jayasekhar endowment lecture is conducted once in two year; the aim of this endowment is to award gold medals for the 1st ranker holders of M.E (H.W.R.E) and M.E (I.W.M) from 2003-2005 batch onwards. The first lecture was delivered by Er. M. Dheenadhayalan, Engineer –in Chief, WRO, PWD on 16th July, 2004. So far three lectures have been conducted under this series.

THRUST AREAS AND FUTURE PROGRAMMES

• Experimental Hydraulics
• Hydraulic Transients
• Computational Intelligence for Hydro Systems
• Integrated Water Resources Management
• Climate Change and Water Resources
• Performance Evaluation of Irrigation Systems
• Rain Water Harvesting and Recharge
• Watershed Management
• Ground Water Modelling and Management
• Drought Analysis and Management
• Waste Water Reuse
• Irrigation Scheduling
• Micro Irrigation
• Application of GIS and Remote Sensing
• Dam Improvement and Rehabilitation Programme
• Water Quality Management
• Participatory Irrigation Management