Bio-data

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Name

Dr. M.Chellamuthu, Ph.D. Professor in Soil & Water Conservation Engineering

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Designation

Water Technology Centre, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Coimbatore

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Mobile

9442555762

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Phone

-

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E-mail

[email protected]

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Education

Ph.D. in Soil & Water Conservation Engineering

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Areas of Interest

Soil Conservation, Irrigation, Wastewater Treatment

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Students Guided

Four PG Students

Teaching 9

Courses offered (UG, PG & Ph.D)

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Research

Have taught more than 70 courses in the past 30 years for UG, PG and Ph.D. Currently teaching UG courses Energy & Environment Engineering and Protected cultivation for Horticulture Have conducted research on irrigation for rice, drip and sprinkler irrigations, soil conservation and water harvesting 1) Methodology for Determining Optimum length of field channel lining (1986)

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Technologies developed

2) Mathematical modeling of Time-lag in Rice transplanting and in a large command area and forecasting the water demand pattern over time (1989) 3) TEASI: Software for Techo-Economic Analysis of

Sprinkler Irrigation (1991) 4) gBase: Software for Thesis Abstracts Database: Storage, Editing and Accessing System (2004) 5) DRIPCAD: Software for Computer Aided Design and Evaluation of Drip Irrigation Systems (2005) 6) ADMOSFIT: Numerical Model and Simulation Software for Advection-Dispersion Model for Sewage Flowing into Tank (2005) 1) Land and Water Resource Management at RIT, Stockholm (1988) 2) Diagnostic Studies for Rehabilitation of Irrigation Systems at IMTI, Trichy (1991) 3) Management Development Programme on Watershed Management: Economic, Institutional and Policy Issues 12

Trainings

at Indian Instt, of Forest Management, Bhopal 4) Aerator Selection & Energy Saving in Waste Treatment Plants at Amrita School of Engg, Coimbatore (2006) 5) National: Training on RFID uses in Agriculture at Bartronics India Ltd. Hyderabad (2009)

1) Life Member, Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers 2) Life Member, Indian Association of Soil & Water 13

Membership in Professional bodies/societies

Conervationists 3) Life Member, The Madras Agricultural Journal 4) Life member, South Indian Horticultural Association

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Externsion

*Demonstrated the improved water management practice and assessing the field level constraints for rice through

large scale On-Farm Research * Associate Director for the Summer Institute on Water Resource Management in Command Areas, June 23 to July 2, 1987, AC &RI, Madurai *Demonstrated rain water harvesting and utilization techniques for wasteland development through GoI Wasteland Development project *Acted as a member in the co-ordination committee for the Periyar-Vaigai modernisation project

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Awards & Recognitions

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Publications

Books: 5 Book Chapters: 9 Research Articles:6 Research notes:4 Symposium papers:14 Popular articles: 20 1) Have worked in ICAR-Water Management Scheme at AC & RI, Madurai, 2) ICAR-Post Harvest Technology Scheme, HC & RI, Periyakulam

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Special Assignments

3) GOI Wasteland Devlopment Scheme at WTC, Coimbatore 4) IWDP Mid-term Evaluation for 18 watersheds 5) SIDA consultancy project on Study of Watershed Hydrology