National
Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering
(www.nicee.org),
IIT Kanpur
Coordinator (Since 2009)
Co-ordinator, National Information Center of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) at IIT Kanpur, since 2009. Supported by an endowment corpus of over Rs 200 lacs, the centre is actively engaged in dissemination of information and literature since 1999. It is equipped with a good collection of study materials and books in earthquake engineering related topics. It also helps in publication and wide dissemination through its subscriber base of over 13000 for its electronic newsletter and active website (www.nicee.org), In addition, NICEE has undertaken a range of capacity building activities towards earthquake safety such as organising Literature Review/Workshops, hosting papers presented in all 15 world conferences of earthquake engineering since 1956, etc.The
Centre operates without any budget from government sources, and is funded
entirely by donations, interest of the endowment, sale of publications and
sponsorships.
Scribe (Since 2009) and Member Advisory Committee
(2007-09) For quarterly
periodical from NICEE, Earthquake Engineering Practice, to disseminate
information about current research and state-of-the-art in earthquake
engineering to engineers in developing countries. Consists of already published
articles in reputed international journals of wide interest to the
professionals, academicians and researchers. Over 3 000 subscribers from 70 countries.
Designed by
Sandhya Sharma
NICEE, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur