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originally published in Sept 17th, 2020 on  GROW's website . Ever wondered how floods are monitored across the world? Very often we might think that there is someone regularly monitoring the flood extents when a calamity strikes, and when relief efforts are in full swing. This is based on our assumption that with the advent of satellite remote sensing, including optical and synthetic radar satellites, it gives us the capability to map flood events on an unprecedented spatial scale. However, even with such advancement of technology, we still cannot predict which places might be flooded on any given day. This in turn always results in an inadequate temporal sampling of flood extents since these traditional satellites do not cover the entire world at any given time. We have come up with a methodology to map inundation periodically which makes use of novel reflected GPS signals that are available daily on a near-global scale. The paper can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/...

by  Dr. Rakesh  originally published in July 23rd, 2020 on  GROW's website . Dr. Rakesh (our alum) is back with another video related to PhD admissions. So, here are some tips for your interview preparation that can bring you one step closer to cracking the admission. Watch here

by Prof . Arpita Mondal originally published in July 15th, 2020 on  GROW's website . In the interview below, Prof. Arpita Monda l talks with Irene Josa of Barcelona Tech about the importance, strengths, and challenges of Civil Engineering education, the need for interdisciplinary approaches in engineering education and research, and what lies ahead in the future.

by  Dr. Rakesh  originally published in July 15th, 2020 on  GROW's website . Greetings Friends!  In this video, Dr. Rakesh Sinha, an alum of IITB, explains how to get admissions into the IITs and IISc for higher education (Ph.D.) in India. He explains the five most important points that can be helpful in your attempt at such admissions. 

by  Prof . Arpita Mondal originally published in June14th, 2020 on  GROW's website . Many a times, I get asked by friends and family, on days that I don’t have a class – ‘but you don’t have to teach! What keeps you busy?’ I thought of penning it down once and for all, and hence this article. What does an average day in the life of an IIT professor look like? Is teaching the only thing we do? If not, what else? Why is this profession not a nine-to-seven job that let’s you forget about its joys and worries beyond the office hours? Let’s discuss that a bit. Let me take a typical day with teaching as an example, to give you some idea about what fraction of my job actually constitutes teaching. It is a day in April. I have an 8.30 am lecture. Since I have the support of my family and domestic help to look after my infant, I am at least relieved of the worry of freshening him up, brushing his teeth, feeding him, bathing him, and so on and so forth on the days that I am away for wor...

by Prof. Arpita Mondal originally published in March 6th, 2020 on  GROW's website . I am into fourth year of my teaching Applied Hydraulic Engineering to Civil Engineering BTech students at IIT Bombay – and this experience gives me some confidence to attempt to explain what hydraulic engineering is and why civil engineers should study it. Loosely put, hydraulic engineering is fluid mechanics put to engineering use. However, it is worth noting right at the outset that much of hydraulic engineering historically developed as empirical science. What is empirical science? Science that is based on observed data and that works for our practical purpose. Therefore, right from the outset of modern, urban-and-industry centric civilization, out of necessity more than anything else, engineers proudly continued to build water systems such as conduits, canals, dams or reservoirs based on empirical relationships derived from real-life observations without bothering too much about the physics of ...

Written by B.Tech students Srijan Karn, Nikhil Musale, Tushar Jindal, Tanisha Agrawal and Swastik Dasgaonkar as part of their Fluid Mechanics lab project. O riginally published in Dec 8th, 2019 on  GROW's website . We almost take our Internal Combustion Engines for granted, don’t we? All we do is buy our vehicles, hop in and drive around. There is, however, a history of development to know about. The compact, well-toned, powerful and surprisingly quiet engine that is purring under your vehicle’s hood just wasn’t the tame beast it seems to be now. It was loud, it used to roar and it used to be rather bulky. In fact, one of the very first engine designs to be conceived wasn’t even like the engine we know so well of today. An internal combustion engine is defined as an engine in which the chemical energy of the fuel is released inside the engine and used directly for mechanical work, as opposed to an external combustion engine in which a separate combustor is used to burn the fuel....