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Visiting International Fellowship 2015‐2016 The International Council (IC) of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) congratulates the following Visiting International Fellows to the 2016 World Water and Environmental Resources Congress in West Palm Beach, Florida: Dr. Mohamed El Zayat, Egypt Host: Mr. Paul Bizier Paper title: Odor treatment for advanced wastewater treatment technology Dr. Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, China Host: Dr. Bing Chen Paper title: Physico‐chemical treatment of stabilized leachate using integrated ammonia stripping and ozone‐treated activated carbon Dr. Ritesh Vijay, India Host: Dr. Aditya Tyagi Paper title: Object based image analysis fo rimpact of sewage pollution in creek and coastal environment of Mumbai, India Dr. Saied Yousefi, Iran Host: Dr. Seyed Hajimirzaie Paper title: Altitude‐based negotiations for resolving water and environmental conflicts In addition to presenting their papers at the Congress, each Fellow also participated in professional exchange activities during their visit to the United States (see their reports for more details). The Fellows were selected based on a competitive review of their applications.

World Environmental & Water Resources Congress

Visiting International Fellowship Awardee Report

Dr. Mohamed El Zayat

May 2016

World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2016 Visiting International Fellowship Awardee Report Mohamed El Zayat

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As an expert in the field of Water and Environmental Engineering, I have being

participated in several conferences with the Environmental and Water Resources Institute since

2011. The EWRI conferences and events are not like any others because it provides an extensive,

comprehensive and updated knowledge in the field of water and environment. The conferences

organized by EWRI are also distinguished by the participation of highly number of qualified

international experts from both academic and industrial fields. Thus, participating in any EWRI

event is an honor.

The EWRI annually invites Visiting International Fellows from developing countries to

participate in the annual World Water and Environmental Resources Congresses in May of each

year. I participated in the EWRI congress 2015 where I was presenting my work. Hence, I decided

to submit my VIF application for the following EWRI Congress held in West Palm Beach in 2016. I

cannot explain my feelings when I knew that I was selected to be one of the VIF awardees in the

EWRI 2016, and it was awesome to have Mr. Paul Bizier as my host. I would like first to gratefully

acknowledge all the EWRI staff for selecting me this year and for their invaluable effort to make

the 2016 EWRI congress unforgettable. I am especially thankful for: Dr. E. Zia Hosseinipour (Chair

of VIF), Mr. Brian Parsons (EWRI Director), Dr. Cristiane Queiroz (Co-Chair of VIF and EWRI Vice

President), Dr.Steve K. Starrett (EWRI President Elect), and Mr. David Dee (EWRI President). I

would like to express my heartfelt thanks and my deep gratitude to my wonderful host Mr. Paul

Bizier (EWRI Past President) and his wife Mrs. Beth Bizier for their support and kindness.

While attending the 2016 EWRI congress, I had a lot of professional, technical and cultural

activities. I started with my cultural activities in New York on May 17 and May 18 where my wife

and I visited the liberty statue and the central park. We also watched one of the amazing theaters

in the broad way. Then we arrived Nashville to meet Mr. Paul Bizier and his decent wife Mrs. Beth

Bizier who hosted us in their lovely house. Paul organized for me several technical tours in

Nashville. We visited together a small wastewater treatment plant and the Nashville City

Wastewater Treatment Plant with its anaerobic digestion unit. I had the opportunity to visit and

have technical discussions with Paul’s team at his office at BWSC. It was a great opportunity for

me and my wife to explore Nashville which I can say it is one of best attractive sites in the world

due to it calmness and friendly people. We visited the civil war related sites (Carnton Plantation

and the Battle of Franklin) and we watched the amazing RODEO show. We moved then to West

Palm Beach to attend the conference on May 21. On May 22, we had the welcoming VIP dinner

with the other VIF awardees and the EWRI governing board. On May 23, I was honored to receive

my VIF award in a pleasant ceremony for the 2016 Visiting International Fellowships awardees.

On May 25, I presented my latest research work entitled “Odor Treatment for Advanced

Wastewater Treatment Technology” in the technical plenary session “Innovative Water,


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Wastewater and Stormwater Treatment“. On May 26, I have participated in the Wastewater

Engineering Technical Committee (WWETC). Also, I attended several plenary sessions in the

conference and had discussions with many of the participants. I had also casual technical

discussions with the other VIF awardees from India, Iran, and China. We then moved to Orlando

for other technical and cultural activities. Paul and I have visited the Reedy Creek Improvement

District WWTP at Disney Land. Finally, my wife and I had great time at Orlando where we visited

the Universal Studios and the Sea World.

Finally, I would like to encourage researchers from developing countries not only to

attend the EWRI conferences but also to apply for the VIF award. The VIF award together with

the EWRI congress is unique due to the vast technical and cultural activities that are provided. It

gives a great opportunity for researchers to exchange technical ideas and activities

internationally.

PHOTOS

NEW YORK (May 17& May 18)

Figure 1: Central Park – New York

Figure 2: Liberty Statue


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NASHVILLE( May 18 to May 21)

Figure 3: Nashville Downtown

Figure 4: Carnton Plantation

Figure 5: Professional Tour at a compact WWTP in Nashville

Figure 6: RODEO Show

Figure 7: A Professional Tour at Nashville Main WWTP

Figure 8: Battle of Franklin


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WEST PALM BEACH – EWRI CONGRESS (May 22- May 26)

Figure 9: VIP Dinner

Figure 10: VIF Award Ceremony

Figure 11: Mr. Paul Bizier (Host and EWRI Past President)

Figure 12: Mr. David Dee (EWRI President)

Figure 13: Dr. Cristiane Queiroz

Figure 14: My Technical Session


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ORLANDO (May 27- May 29)

Figure 15: Paul & Beth Bezeir and Mohamed & Amira El Zayat at

Disney

Figure 16: Professional Tour at Reedy Creek

Improvement District WWTP

Figure 17: Universal Studios

Figure 18: Sea World

Report on

VISITING INTERNATIONAL FELLOW AWARD AND CONGRESS ATTENDANCE

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

May 22-26, 2016

RITESH VIJAY Senior Scientist

Environmental Systems Design and Modeling

CSIR- NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Nagpur - 440020, Maharashtra, INDIA

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International Council (IC) of American Society of Civil Engineers’ Environmental and

Water Resources Institute (ASCE-EWRI) established the Visiting International Fellowship

(VIF) program to increase the participation of water resources and environmental

professionals from developing countries and to promote sustained professional and cultural

exchange. VIF award provides visit of the fellow to USA and a unique opportunity to interact

and understand the problems of developed and developing countries in the area of

environment and water resources. It helps the fellow to the latest development in both

technical methods and instrumentation. I came to know about this fellowship by my Ph. D.

guide Professor Rajesh Gupta, VNIT, Nagpur who received VIF award in 2013 at Cincinnati,

Ohio and by Dr. Aditya Tyagi Principal Technocrat, CH2M HILL, Austin during his visit to

India in 2015. Based on my research work and publications in Science Citation Index

journals in the field of Environmental System Design and Modelling, he encouraged me to

apply for VIF award and accepted to be my host. Due to his continuous guidance and

encouragement, I applied for VIF award in September 2015 and received award letter in

October 2015 for the fellowship award of 2015-2016.

I was excited and honoured to receive VIF award on May 23, 2016 from Brian K

Parson, the Director EWRI. I take this opportunity to thank my host Dr. Aditya Tyagi for his

constantly support and encouragement for this award and also provided all necessary

support during my stay in West Palm Beach. During the congress, we discussed various

issues of environmental and water resources engineering. He explained his research work in

the field of reliability engineering and introduced me with various technical committees and

expert. He is a fantastic host who really take care of me like a family. I am also thankful to

Ms. Veronique Nguyen and Dr. E. Zia Hosseinipour for their continuous updates and support

during the congress. It was difficult for me to attend the congress and visit USA first time

without this fellowship.

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On very first day of the congress on May 22, 2016 in Ice Breaker Reception, I met my host

Dr. Aditya Typagi, Principal Technologist, CH2M Hill for VIF Award and Professor Vijay P.

Singh, Texas A and M University. It was great pleasure to meet them after a long time. We

had discussed various issues of environmental and water resources especially on Indian

context. My host introduced me with Mr. Brian Parson, Director, ASCE-EWRI and Dr.

Cristiane (Cris) Q. Surbeck, Associate Professor at University of Mississippi and Vice

President, EWRI, who welcomed me for the congress and congratulated for VIF award.

During the event, I met Dr. Bijoy K. Panigahi, General Chair of the congress and Dr.

Chandra S. Pathak, Technical Program Co-Chair.

On very next day May 23, 2016, I enjoyed the Welcome and Keynote lectures, Grand

Ballroom by Mr. Peter Antonacci Executive Director, South Florida Water District and Major

General Donal E. (Ed) Jackson Jr, US Army Corps of Engineers. After inauguration of the

congress and networking break, Concurrent Technical Session I was started in 12 parallel

themes of environmental and water resources engineering. I attended the full session

(EN01) on “Emerging Contaminants in Surface and Groundwaters”.

After first technical session, Welcome Luncheon Featuring by Professor Mark Edwards,

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University alongwith VIF Award ceremony was held

in Grand Ballroom. It was great honour to receive the VIF award. We all the four VIF

awardees Dr. Mohamed El Zayat, Dr. Ritesh Vijay, Dr. Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan and Dr.

Saied Yousefi were presented in the function. We congratulated each other and had

common photo session. During Lunch, Mark Edwards addressed the importance of civil

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engineering profession in the quality of nation’s water supply. He also mentioned the failed

decision process lead to the tragedy in Flint River water supply. His talk was really

impressive and need of techncial, societal and economic system safeguards in public

drinking water supply.

In Concurrent Technical Session II, I presented my research work “Object based image

analysis for impact of sewage pollution in creek and coastal environment of Mumbai, India”

in Technical Program – Environmental Health and Water Quality (EN02). Today object-

based image analysis provides an option for integrating spatial information beyond the

conventional pixel based classifications for high resolution imagery. Due to its rare

applicability in pollution assessment, an attempt has been made to assess the spatial extent

of sewage pollution in creek and coastal environmental of Mumbai, India.

There were 14 parallel sessions on Emerging Technolgies (ET), Planning and

Management (PM), Hydraulics & Waterways (HW), Symposium Hydro-Climate / Climate

Change (SHC), Urban Watershed Management Symposium (UW), Water, Wastewater &

Stormwater (WWS), History & Heritage (HH), Watershed (WA), Symposium Groundwater

(GW), Hydraulic Fracturing (HF), Environmetnal (EN), Sustainability (SU), Irrigation &

Draiange (IN), Water Distribution Systems Analysis Symposium (WD). Apart from technical

session, half-day technical workshop was also orgainized on May 26, 2016 considering

various tools and technolgies namely Watershed Analysis Tool (Hec-Wat), Riverbank

Filtration for Water Supply, Flood Frequency Analysis, Outfall Design for Desalination

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Discharges using Cormix, Distributed Hydrologic Modelling with GSSHA with the WMS,

Real-Time Hydrolgic and Hydraulic Simulation with Hec-Rts 3.0, Hydrologic Modeling

System (Hec-Hms), 1D/2D Unsteady Flow Modeling and Output Visualization with Hec-Ras

5.0, Switch to R from Ms Excel for Data Analysis, Dam and Levee Breach Modeling using

Dlbreach. I also enjoyed the poster session very much presented by young researchers and

professionals.

During the congress, I attended sessions of Environment, Symposium Groundwater,

Water Quality Modeling, Urban Flood Modeling and Water Resource Modeling by various

academician, scientist, researchers, engineers, students in various fields of environmental

and water resources engineering from various countries. Other than technical session, I fully

enjoyed the technical workshop on “1D/2D Unsteady Flow Modeling and Output

Visualization with Hec-Ras 5.0” by Dr. Gary W. Brunner and Dr. Cameron T. Ackerman.

Accordingy to me, this workshop was the best session of congress. Both the speakers

presented the updates in the software and its technicality so well.

At congress networking breaks, I met and interacted with several EWRI-ASCE and

other officials (Dr. Brian Parsons, Dr. Vijay P. Singh, Dr. Bijoy K. Panigahi, and Dr. Chandra

S. Pathak) to promote EWRI-ASCE activities in India. I met and interacted with many

researchers and studnents in the area of Environment and Water Resources Engineering.

Some of them are Mr. Michael G. Cox, Gannett Fleming, Forida; Dr. Biswa Bhattacharya,

UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education Delft, The Netherlands; Dr. Nani G. Bhowmik,

Illinois State Water Supply; Mr. Sudershan Gangrade, OAK Ridge National Laboratory; Dr.

Sudhir Kshirsagar, HydroTrek; Dr. Om Prakash, WEST Consultants Inc CA; Adam Luke,

Univeristy of California. I also met Indian delegates name Dr. P. L. Patel, Professor, SVNIT,

Surat, Gujarat, Dr. Thummala Ravinde Reddy, Professor, Kakatiya Univeristy, Warangal,

Telangana, Dr. Hareshkumar M. Patel, Professor, M. S. University of Baroda; Mr. Akhil

Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Water, Wastewater & Storm water Council Award Lecture by Dr.

George Tchobanoglous on “Advanced Treated Water – Third Alternative Source of Potable

Waer”, Ven Te Chow Award Lecture by Professor Larry Mays on “Anceint Stormwater

Management” and Julian Hinds Award Lecture by Dr. Lindell Ormsbee, Director, Kentuchy

Water Resources Research Institute, University of Kentucky on “Reflections on 40 years of

Modeling”. It was great meeting with Dr. George Tchobanoglous even though I met him in

2009 at Myconos island, Greece in one of the International Conference on Environmental

Management, Engineering, Planning and Economics. All the lectures were informative and

best practices of civil and environmental engineerings.

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Award Lectures during the Lunch

During the congress, a panel discussion was expected amongst the VIF awardees and other

fellows on an international topic about water resources issues as mentioned in VIF award

letter. But, this could not be materialized. Although, I prepared a presentation on water

reources issues and challenges in India and discussed it with various experts.

Apart from EWRI congress activities, I met Dr. Sudhagar Nagarajan, Assistant Professor,

Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.

We discussed application of photogrametry and remote sensing in environmental and water

resources engineering. We both explored the posibilities of LIDAR which provide the digital

elevation model required for various modelling of water reousrces planning and

management. It was a nice and fruitful meeting with him and future prospects in this field.

I left West Palm Beach on 28th May morning and reached my place Nagpur on 30th May with

excellent memories of congress especially about VIF award. I am very thankful to VIF task

committee, who supported my candidature and found me worthy for this fellowship. VIF

award has added a feather on my cap of achievements. Once again I would like to thank my

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host Dr. Aditya Tyagi for providing all logistic and technical support during the congress and

my stay at West Palm Beach. At the last, I enjoyed the congress thoroughly and I am really

looking for next congress to be held at Sacramento, California during May 21-25, 2017 of

course it will depend up on funding. I have considered this congress as one of the best

congress, I have attended so for. I am also encouraging my students and colleagues for

attending EWRI congress.

Other than congress, I visited some of the important places in West Palm Beach like South

Florida Science Center and Aquarium, West Palm Beach Zoo, City Place, Palm Beach etc. A

few photographs are attached herewith.

Visiting International Fellowship 2016-2017 The International Council (IC) of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) congratulates the following Visiting International Fellows to the 2017 World Water and Environmental Resources Congress in Sacramento, California: Ms. Fariba Arzhung, Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, Kabul, Afghanistan (unable to obtain visa to attend) Host: Dr. Vinka Craver Paper title: The role of women in rural water supply in Afghanistan Ms. Lucy Lahrita, Sanata Dharma University, Pontianak, Indonesia Host: Dr. Bing Chen Paper title: Adding value to unused wastewater for generating electricity on site and treating municipal wastewater Dr. Reza Modarres, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran (unable to obtain visa to attend) Host: Mr. Mehdi Rezaeianzadeh Paper title: Modeling dynamic oceanic-atmospheric connection to drought in California Dr. Prem Lal Patel, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India Host: Dr. Aditya Tyagi Paper title: A 1D numerical model for prediction of bed levels of aggrading channels In addition to presenting their papers at the Congress, each Fellow also participated in professional exchange activities during their visit to the United States (see their reports for more details). The Fellows were selected based on a competitive review of their applications.

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress

Visiting International Fellowship Awardee Report

Submitted by

Dr. P L Patel, Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

SVNIT Surat, India

May 2017

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Visiting International Fellowship award report by Dr P L Patel

The visiting International Fellowship (VIF) Award, instituted by World Water and

Environmental Resources (EWRI) Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), is

more than sixteen years old award, given to the outstanding researchers and professionals of

developing countries in the world. The award has been instituted to increase the participation

of developing countries in ASCE EWRI Congress and foster sustained professional cultural

exchange between the participants.

The idea of making application of VIF award for ASCE-EWRI-2017 Congress, was originated

when I met my current host Dr. Aditya Tyagi, Principal Technologist, CH2M HILL, Austin,

USA, during ASCE EWRI Congress 2016 at West Palm beach, Florida. Dr. Aditya had

encouraged me to make application for VIF 2017 award. He has always been source of

inspiration and encouragement for making the application and writing Technical paper for the

ASCE-EWRI Congress 2017. During the congress, he took my personal care like my own

family member. While staying together, we had discussed several research areas of common

interest in the Water Resources, for possible collaboration in near future. In short, I can say, he

has been excellent host during my participation in ASCE EWRI Congress 2017 at Sacromento,

CA, USA.

Brief description of activities undertaken by me during the ASCE-EWRI Congress 2017 and

Post Conference tour is reported in the following Paragraphs:

May 20, 2017

I arrived from India for participation in the ASCE EWRI 2017 Congress on May 20, 2017 at

Sacromento Airport at 10:30 PM. I was picked up from the airport by one of my known

colleagues Mr. M R Bhatt to his residence at 3708, Gibbons Park Way, Carmichael, CA, 95608

USA. Mr Bhatt is Senior Municipal Engineer in Sacromento city, CA, USA. During my stay

with Mr. Bhatt, we had discussions on several climatic and cultural aspects of California. I had

the opportunity to see the application of SCADA systems in conserving and managing the

water through 'Drip irrigation' in his house garden. He has given overwhelming hospitality to

me while my stay at his residence during May 20, 2017 to May 21, 2017 (AN).

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May 21, 2017

I joined my host Dr. Aditya Tyagi on May 21, 2017 (AN) and stayed together during the

Congress at Hyatt Regency, Sacromento, USA. I visited the ASCE EWRI Congress venue, i.e.,

Sacromento Convention Centre, and registered for the Conference in the afternoon session. My

ASCE Membership ID is 000010654675.

The Special Ice Breaker Plenary Session was attended in the Afternoon session wherein the

renowned experts shared their views on 'Oroville Dam' crisis which took place in February

2017 wherein significant damages took place in main and emergency spillways.

May 22, 2017

The participation in the Congress begins by attending Key notes address, in the opening plenary

session, delivered Mr. K. Taraka Rama Rao, Minister of Information Technology and

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Industries, Government of Telangana, India. He emphasized the application of innovative

technologies management of water resources in the Telangana state, India.

I have presented my Technical Paper on ' A 1D numerical model for prediction of bed levels

of aggrading channels’ (ID 243779)'. The paper deals with Experimental and Numerical

investigations on prediction of bed levels of aggrading channels. The performances of different

sediment transport functions are included in the numerical model in prediction of bed levels of

aggrading channel of uniform sediments. The reported study could be useful in selection of

appropriate sediment transport function in prediction of aggradations in alluvial channels.

During the presentation, the technical queries were raised by the participants and same were

addressed satisfactorily.

Prof. Weiming Wu, Clarkson University, USA

In Post presentation session, Prof. Weiming Wu, PhD,James K. Edzwald Professor of Water

Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University, USA

was interacted for possible future collaborations in the area of Fluival Hydraulics. Apart from

the paper presentation, following sessions were attended by me during the congress:

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a) 14th Urban Watershed Management Symposium: Large-Scale/Multi-Site BMP/SCM

Implementation

b) Welcome Luncheon Featuring Dr. F. Marty Ralph

c) Sedimentation Symposium: Sediment Transport Modeling

May 23, 2017

The following technical sessions were attended during the congress, apart from interacting the

participants during the congress.

a) 1D/2D Unsteady Flow Modeling & Output Visualization with HEC-RAS 5.0.

b) Planning and Management Lecture and Luncheon

c) Water Distribution Systems Analysis Symposium: Water Distribution Network

Modeling

d) Water Distribution Systems Analysis Symposium: Network Vulnerability, Reliability,

Resilience and Risk Analysis

Apart from attending aforesaid sessions, the renowned expert in the area of Water Resources

like Prof. Govidraju, Rao S., Purdue University, USA was interacted for possible collaboration

in terms of hosting him as International expert for GIAN scheme of MHRD, Govt of India for

delivering the talks to the faculty and research students at SVNIT Surat, India.

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May 24, 2017


participants during the congress.

a) Sedimentation Symposium: Stochastic Sediment Transport

b) Smart Water Technologies Symposium: Real-Time Modeling and Control

c) Watershed Council Lecture and Luncheon

d) Water Distribution Systems Analysis Symposium: Emerging Technologies in Water

Distribution Systems Practice

e) Technical Workshop: Introduction to the Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS)

During the Luncheon, I had been awarded Visiting International Fellowship award (VIF) by

the eminent experts from ASCE-EWRI in the presence of my host Dr. Aditya Tyagi.

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A View of Dinner hosted by VIF host Dr. Aditya Tyagi

May 25, 2017


participants during the congress:

a) Technical Workshop: Real-Time Hydrologic & Hydraulic Simulation with HEC-RTS

Version 3.0

b) Hydraulic & Waterways Council/WDSA Luncheon & Awards Lecture

c) Water Distribution Systems Analysis Symposium: Real Time Monitoring, Modeling

and Control of Water Systems II

I also participated in the panel discussion specially organised for Visiting International Fellows

wherein I have highlighted the major challenging issues related to climatic and anthropogenic

changes at basin scales in India.

May 26, 2017

Visit to University of California: DAVIS Campus and Berkley campus

The visit to both to both campuses were fantastic. During the visit, I could interact faculty and

students of Civil Engineering Departments of both the universities. I could get the insight of

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their ongoing research which are challenging and very much applied in nature. The researchers

give equal emphasize to both experimental and computational work in their ongoing research

activities.

Dr. P L Patel with Faculty and Research Scholar at UC Davis Campus

Acknowledgement

I am thankful to the committee of Visiting International Fellow, ASCE-EWRI for year 2017

for giving me the opportunity for attending the ASCE-EWRI 2017 by awarding VIF-2017. I

would like to express my heartfelt thanks to my VIF host Dr. Aditya Tyagi, Principal

Technologist, CH2M HILL, Austin, USA for taking all the care during the ASCE-EWRI 2017

Congress.

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