Dr.Sumedh Yamaji Mhaske

S.M. ASCE (USA), MASCE(India), MIGC(Mumbai)

Associate Professor,

Civil and Environmental Engineering Department ;

Incharge, Highway Engineering Laboratory

Education:

B.E.  (Civil), [ V.J.T.I.] , Bombay University, India

(1995)

M.E. (Civil with specialisation In Construction Management ) , [ V.J.T.I.], Mumbai University, India (2001)

Ph.D. (Civil), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay [ IIT Bombay], Mumbai, India

Phone: 91-22-24198138    Email: symhaske@vjti.org.in

Mobile : 9324675220

Active Research Area:

§         Spatial Technology: Geographic Information System (GIS) and its application in Civil and Environmental Engineering such as for site layouts, construction waste management, Disaster management etc.

§         Space Technology: Global Positioning System (GPS) and its application in Civil Engineering such as land mapping, Contour mapping etc.

§         Precise levelling for machine foundations up to micron level accuracy.

§         Advanced Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering: Soil Liquefaction, Reclaimed land development, Liquefaction susceptibility mapping with GIS and GPS etc.

§         Integrated approach of GIS, GPS and GPR ( Ground Penetration Radar) for underground Utilities mapping

§         Integrated approach of GIS and GPS for study of soil and rock properties in Geotechnical Engineering.

§         Advanced Construction Techniques in Civil Engineering

Membership:

1. Life member of  American society of Civil Engineers- India Section ( Life Membership No: ASCE-IS-1136)
2. Life Member of Indian Geotechnical Society – Mumbai Chapter  ( Life Membership No: M-1020)
3. Life Member of VJTI Alumni Association ( Life Membership No:  M02200101)
4. Student Membership of American society of Civil Engineers USA (Student Membership No:1006314)

Excellence in Teaching:

An appreciation letter (No .Dir / Evaluation / 571 /10) from V.J.T.I. Director’s Office for Excellence in Teaching for Course “Geomatics – I “with Score 90/100 to the S.Y.B.Tech (Civil) Class for term December 2009.

Publications:

a) In Refereed International Journals

1.        Sumedh Yamaji Mhaske and Deepankar Choudhury (2010); "GIS-based soil liquefaction susceptibility map of Mumbai city during earthquake", Journal of Applied Geophysics, Volume 70, issue 3, March 2010 , page 216 -225(ISSN: 0926-9851, IF: 1.333/2009) Elsevier, U. K(Print Media Coverage in National News Paper ‘Hindustan Times’ on August 9, 2010)

2.      Sumedh Yamaji Mhaske and Deepankar Choudhury (2011); "Geospatial contour mapping of shear wave velocity for Mumbai city", Natural Hazards, (ISSN: 0921-030X, IF: 1.398/2010) Springer, Netherlands, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 317-327. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9758-z

b) In Geotechnical Special Publications of ASCE, USA

1.      Sumedh Yamaji Mhaske and Deepankar Choudhury (2011); “GIS-GPS based map of soil index properties for Mumbai”, In Geo-Frontiers 2011: Advances in Geotechnical Engineering, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 211, ASCE, Edited by J. Han and D. E. Alzamora, Reston, VA, USA, pp. 2366-2375. 

 [1]  In the  International Conference:

1. Sumedh Yamaji Mhaske and Deepankar Choudhury (2008); “Application of GIS-GPS for studies on liquefaction induced soil movements during earthquake: An overview”, First World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM-2008), October 21 - 24, 2008, Hyderabad, India, Vol.1, pp. 52-63 in CD.

2. Sumedh Yamaji Mhaske (2008); “Application of GIS-GPS for Land records mapping “ Pravara International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering ( PICETE-2008), December 20 – 23, 2008, Loni , India , in CD

3.  Anuj Kishor Budhkar [Student, T.Y.B.Tech (Civil) ] and Sumedh Yamaji Mhaske (2010) “Application of Spatial technology for development of new broad gauge railway line in Kashmir, India” International Conference Advances in Materials and Techniques in Civil Engineering (ICAMAT- 2010) , January 7^th  - 9^th  , 2010, Coimbatore  , India

4. Shankar Bagale , Vijay Kolagotla , S.Y. Mhaske (2010) “Geographic Information System an effective tool for construction project management “ International Conference  on design and construction of Urban transport structure , April 23^rd – 25^th , 2010 , Hyderabad , India , Vol.2 , pp. 553 – 567

5. Shirish Thorat and  Sumedh Mhaske (2010) “Study of innovative testing facilities on bituminous and concrete road construction ” Proc. of international conference DRT-2010, October 8-10,2010,NIT,Rourkela, Orissa, Macmillan Publication, pp 360 – 366.
6. Sachin Amrutkar and Sumedh Mhaske (2010) “Application of Geographical Information System for pavement management system ” Proc. of international conference DRT-2010, October 8-10,2010,NIT,Rourkela, Orissa, Macmillan Publication, pp 686–691.
7. Sumedh Yamaji Mhaske and Deepankar Choudhury (2010); “Use of GIS-GPS for disaster management of liquefied zones during earthquake”, Proc. of Bangladesh Geotechnical Conference 2010 (BGC-2010): Natural Hazards and Countermeasures in Geotechnical Engineering, November 4 – 5, 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh, ISBN No. 978-984-33-2180-0, pp. 340-345.

8. Sumedh Yamaji Mhaske and Deepankar Choudhury (2011); “GIS-GPS based map of soil index properties for Mumbai”, Geo-Frontiers 2011, Annual Conference of Geo-Institute (GI), ASCE, March 13 – 16, 2011, Dallas, Texas, USA (Final Paper ID 1342 accepted, in press for publication as GSP of ASCE).

[b] In Refereed National Journals

1.       Deepankar Choudhury and Sumedh Yamaji Mhaske (2010); "Geospatial technology for study of response system – phase of earthquake disaster management of Mumbai city", Disaster Advances, (ISSN: 0974-262X, IF: 0.138/2009) India, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 23-29.

[2]  In the  National Conference:

1. Durgesh Jadhav and Sumedh Mhaske  (2008); “Integration of GPS and GIS in Construction Waste Management” Proceedings of the Third CUSAT National Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering ( RACE-2008), December 4 – 6 , 2008, Cochin University of Science and Technology , Kochi ,India,  Paper No 10, pp 103 – 108

2. Abhishek Dwivedi and Sumedh Mhaske (2008); “An Integrated approach of GIS in Disaster Management” Proceedings of the Third CUSAT National Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering ( RACE-2008), December 4 – 6 , 2008, Cochin University of Science and Technology , Kochi, India, Paper No 45, pp 301 – 307

3. Laxmikant Mukhedkar and Sumedh Mhaske (2009); “Construction Techniques in earthquakes resistant structure: an overview” Proceedings of the national conference on Recent Trends in Engineering & Technology (ZENITH 2009), October 30 – 31, 2009,Agnel Polytechnic, Vashi, Paper No CV10, pp-67 (abstract), full paper in proceeding CD.

4. Sumedh Y. Mhaske and Deepankar Choudhury (2010); "Application of GIS-GPS for mapping soil index properties", Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC-2009), February 18-20, 2010, Guntur, A.P., India, Vol. I, pp. 35-39.

5. Sachin Mhetrajkar and Sumedh Mhaske (2010); “Application of GPS to measure deformation of Bridge structure” Proceedings of the national conference on Civil Engineeing for Infrastructure Developments (CID 2010), August 30 – 31, 2010, D.Y.Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi, Pune Theme 5, Paper No 01, pp-218 - 224

6. Laxmikant Mukhedkar and Sumedh Mhaske (2010); “Geographical Information System based Flood Management of Mumbai City” Proceedings of the national conference on Civil Engineeing for Infrastructure Developments (CID 2010), August 30 – 31, 2010, D.Y.Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi, Pune Theme 3, Paper No 03, pp-137 - 141

7. Sandip Chaudhari and Sumedh Mhaske  (2010); “Modern techniques for flexible and rigid pavement distress mapping” Proceedings of the fourth CUSAT National Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering ( RACE-2010), September 16 – 18 , 2010, Cochin University of Science and Technology , Kochi ,India,  Paper No 34, pp 237 – 243

8. Bhushan Gupte and Sumedh Mhaske  (2010); “An Integrated approach of GIS and GPR for underground utilities mapping” Proceedings of the fourth CUSAT National Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering ( RACE-2010), September 16 – 18 , 2010, Cochin University of Science and Technology , Kochi ,India,  Paper No 42, pp 285 – 289

Invited Lectures Delivered :

1. Inviting lecture given by Prof.Sumedh Mhaske on 18^th March, 2011, at Oklahoma Transportation Center, Oklahoma, USA, on the topic "GIS applications in Transportation Engineering – a road map", organized by The Oklahoma Transportation Center (OkTC), Tinker Business & Industrial Park, 2601 Liberty Parkway, Suite 110, Oklahoma 73110, USA. Visit the Link (http://www.oktc.org/otc/View.aspx?Type=SeminarDetail&ID=21) to see the presentation given at OKTC.

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[4] Sponsored Training / Quality Improvement Programme Attended:

[5]Guidance to  the Students for  Dissertation / Project Report:

a)      For M.Tech.

b)      For B.Tech.