Chennai

Solid Waste Management - A Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
Managing the country's waste better - A course at the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science to enhance the quality of engineering education. Posted on 13 Oct, 2010 09:36 PM

This Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Solid Waste Management is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. The broad group of Solid Waste Management is structured into modules on the following topics:

Salvaging and scapegoating: Slum evictions on Chennai’s waterways - EPW paper
This document discusses the historical shifts in the governance of urban water and the urban poor in cities, their reflection in the transformed cultural and political imagery of rivers in Chennai. Posted on 02 Aug, 2010 01:03 AM

The paper highlights the case of recent projects that have been planned on the river Cooum in Chennai.

National Seminar on Water Security, WEDO, Chennai
Posted on 25 Jun, 2010 11:57 AM

Water and Food Equitable Distribution Organisation (WEDO)

Organizer: Water and Food Equitable Distribution Organisation (WEDO)

Topics:

  • Making more surface water available
  • Sustainable and enduring solutions for water

Venue: Anna University, Chennai

National seminar on water security - Call for papers
WEDO is a unique Initiative of professionals and experts with hands-on experience in the field of design and distribution of vital resources. Posted on 07 Jun, 2010 01:16 PM

Water and Food Equitable Distribution Organisation

Organizer: Water and Food Equitable Distribution Organisation (WEDO)

Topics:

  • Making more surface water available
  • Sustainable and enduring solutions for water

Venue: Henry Maudslay Hall, Anna University, Chennai

Description:

WEDO ( Water and Food Equitable Distribution Organisation) is a unique Initiative of professionals and experts with hands-on experience, a Think-tank of the free enterprise with lateral thinking to design and evolve projects on a scientific and technological basis to provide acceptable engineering solutions to be proposed to the nation:  Models, designs and plans for  Production,  storage  and distribution of vital resources in India.

Open Source GIS Training Program - IIT Madras, Chennai
Posted on 13 Apr, 2010 09:31 PM

Program Name : Open Source GIS - Quantum GIS – 5 Day Training Program

Organiser: IIT Madras in collaboration with kCube,

IIT Madras in collaboration with kCube, Chennai is organizing a five day Training Program on Open Source GIS – Quantum GIS.

Workshop on Protecting water bodies of Chennai, ASCE-EWRI, Chennai
Posted on 20 Mar, 2010 10:05 AM

The first international chapter of Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE - EWRI  South India Chapter was  inaugurated at IIT Madras on January 6th 2010.

Open Source GIS Training Program Calendar - March 2010, Chennai
Posted on 01 Mar, 2010 11:28 AM

Dear Patrons

kCube conducting the following Open Source GIS training programs during the month of March 2010 at Chennai

UMN MapServer – Open Source WebGIS – Three day Program – Match 10th – 12th 2010