A research development programme for the faculty on application of emerging methodologies vital for future of engineering research was organised by UPES at its Bidholi campus. The day-long event was organised by the university’s department of health, safety and environment and civil engineering.
Prabhat Kumar, vice president of data science at Foote Cone and Belding (FCB), Chicago and Harshingar Patel, associate professor, HSE and civil engineering department at UPES were the guest speakers at the event.
Speaking on the occasion, Patel conducted a session on introduction to predictive models, optimisation techniques and decision-making methods in engineering.
Her second session was on data processing techniques for large scale data analysis, data analytics and data imputation. Addressing the gathering, Kumar introduced the participants to the concepts of data mining, artificial intelligence, artificial neural network and machine learning along with their applications in the engineering research. This interactive sessionwas followed by a real-life case study discussion.
The second session was an activity-based one dividing the participants into groups and providing them with real-world dataset to formulate a research methodology using the information provided to them during the session.
The participant groups then presented their idea and discussed them thoroughly to understand the information provided was better in terms of application. The university’s public affairs senior director Arun Dhand informed the media that the the knowledge of the faculty and their continual research learning to keep themselves abreast with the current trends form the foundation of the academic strength of a university.
The research development programme was conducted to benefit the UPES School of Engineering’s faculty and PhD scholars who are actively involved in research in any engineering arena on application of the new research methodologies in engineering. A total of 27 faculty members and PhD scholars participated in the event, he informed.
