Mobility Engineering : Proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on Pathways to Sustainability

The book contains the proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on ‘Pathways to Sustainability: Energy, Mobility and Healthcare Engineering’ that was held on October 13-14, 2015 in New Delhi. This 3 volume proceedings provide an international forum for discussion and communication of engineering and technological issues of common concern. This volume talks about ‘Mobility’ and includes 14 chapters on diverse topics like creating sustainable transportation systems, mobility of the future, unique engineering features like Delhi metro, digitally re-imagining mobility, trends and future strategies of transportation electrification, etc. The contents of this book will be useful to researchers, professionals, and policy makers alike.

Mahesh Chandra Tandon is an international expert in the field of Structural Engineering. Many of the structures designed by Prof. Tandon and his firm Tandon Consultants Pvt. Ltd (TCPL) have been widely acclaimed and have received recognition in India as well as internationally. He is the President, Indian Association of Structural Engineers (2015-16) and the President, Indian Society of Wind Engineering (2015-16). He was conferred the Honorary Fellowship of the Indian Concrete Institute (2015). TCPL was given the Industry Excellence Award by the Institution of Engineers at the Indian Engineering Congress in 2015. Under the AICTE-INAE program he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee and IIT Gandhinagar (2005-2015). 

Purnendu Ghosh is the Executive Director, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur. Prior to this he was Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He worked at the Swiss Federal Instituteof Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland; University of Melbourne, Australia; National Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF), Braunschweig, Germany. He has taken a lead role in augmenting bioprocess engineering and biotechnology activities in the country as a member of several Task Forces of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. He is currently the Chief Editor of Publications of Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is a columnist of a leading newspaper group. Besides technical publications, he has written books of different genre.