Dipanjan Basu, Other

Dr. Dipanjan Basu is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo (UW). He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut before joining UW. He is a Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario in Canada, and a Chartered Engineer and Professional Engineer in India. Professor Basu is a member of several learned societies in the U.S.A., Canada, and India. He has served in the editorial boards of multiple journals and in multiple committees of the learned societies. He has delivered several keynotes and invited lectures in the U.S.A., Canada, South Africa, Argentina, India, China, and Kazakhstan. He has won multiple awards in the U.S.A., U.K., and India. He hails from Kolkata, India, and has lived in India, U.S.A., and Canada.

Professor Basu is a geotechnical engineer with diverse interest in mechanics, mathematics, numerical methods, renewable energy, and sustainability. He teaches courses on Geotechnical Engineering and Numerical Analysis. He has taught several professional and university short courses in the U.S.A., South Africa, India, and Ethiopia. Professor Basu’s current research focus is on Geothermal Energy, Soil Structure Interaction, Life Cycle Assessment, and Pile Foundations. “From fundamentals to applications”  he likes developing theories based on the principles of physics and mechanics, and finally produces results that are useful in practice. He has over 150 publications with more than 60 refereed articles in reputed journals.

• Soil Behavior, Pile Foundations, Constitutive Modeling, Soil Structure Interaction, Geothermal Energy, Sustainability Assessment, Soil Dynamics, Load and Resistance Factor Design, Ground Improvement, Probabilistic Analysis, Energy harvesting/bio-energy, Energy storage, Renewable energy

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE, Energy Geomechanics – Wind Energy Foundations, Enhanced Geothermal Systems, Geothermal Energy Piles, Ground Source Heat Pumps, Compressed Air Energy Storage Systems, Borehole Geothermal Storage Systems, Infrastructure Sustainability and Resilience, Foundation Engineering – Pile Foundations, Piled Rafts, Rafts, Soil Structure Interaction, Soil and Foundation Dynamics – Dynamic Soil Testing, Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction, Moving Loads, Soil Plasticity and Constitutive Modeling, High-Rate Behavior of Soil and Rock, Blast Analysis of Geo-structures, Probabilistic Analysis – Stochastic Characterization, Reliability Analysis, Load and Resistance Factor Design, Computational Solid Mechanics, Analytical Techniques, Numerical Methods, and Finite Element Analysis, Ground Improvement – Prefabricated Vertical Drains, Vacuum Consolidation, _________ PROFESSIONAL SERVICE/SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES rnrn- Chair of ISSMGE Technical Committee TC 307 (2012-2013), Member of ISSMGE TC 103 Numerical Methods in Geomechanics (2009-2013) and TC 305 Geotechnical Infrastructure for Megacities and New Capitals (2009-2013) ______ - Member of the following ASCE Geo-Institute Committees: Sustainable Practices (2011-present), Computational Geotechnics (2010-present) and Soil Properties and Modeling (2010-present)______ rnrn- Session Chair: Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering, GeoCongress 2012, Oakland, California, U.S.A., 2012 and Soil-Structure-Geosynthetics Interaction, GeoFrontiers 2011, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., 2011 ______ Official Discusser of the Session on Liquefaction, 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, San Diego, California, U.S.A., 2010 _______- Co-General Reporter, 6th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A., 2008 _______- Reviewer of Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Journal of Bridge Engineering, Proceedings of the ICE - Ground Improvement, Computers and Geotechnics, Indian Geotechnical Journal, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Journal of Zhejiang University - Science A, Scientia Iranica, Soils and Foundations and Journal of Testing and Evaluation ________- Faculty Advisor of the Tau Beta Pi Chapter at the University of Connecticut __________ - Founder Member and Vice-President, Geo-Institute (of ASCE) Graduate Student Organization at Purdue University, April 2006 - December 2006 _____________

• 2006, Doctorate Civil Engineering, Purdue University, USA

• 2006, Master's Civil Engineering, Purdue University, USA

• 2001, Master's Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

• 1997, Bachelor's Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, India

• 1997 Prof. S. Neogi Award

• 2005 Fugro Fellowship

• 2009 ExCEEd Teaching Fellowship

• 2011 Telford Premium Award

• 2016 Awarded Fellowship of the Institution of Engineers (India)

• 2020 Best Paper Award in Indian Geotechnical Journal

• 2021 Fellow of ASCE

• 2021 Teaching Excellence Award from UW Student Society

• AE 353 - Soil Mechanics and Foundations
  • Taught in 2024
• CIVE 353 - Geotechnical Engineering 1
  • Taught in 2026
• CIVE 354 - Geotechnical Engineering 2
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• CIVE 554 - Geotechnical Engineering 3
  • Taught in 2023, 2026
• CIVE 653 - Numerical Methods in Geomechanics
  • Taught in 2023, 2024
• CIVE 750 - Topics in Geotechnical Engineering
  • Taught in 2022
• GEOE 353 - Geotechnical Engineering 1
  • Taught in 2021, 2022
• GEOE 354 - Geotechnical Engineering 2
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• GEOE 554 - Geotechnical Engineering 3
  • Taught in 2023, 2026

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