The GIAN (Global Initiative on Academic Network) programme has been initiated at the IIT Bhubaneswar with the inauguration of the first course titled “Soil Structure Interaction” organised by the School of Infrastructure on Monday.
Under this flagship programme of the Government of India, the objective is to garner the best international expertise into the systems of education by enabling exposure of students and faculty with the academic and industrial available globally.
This course will involve highlight of the field conditions which require consideration of soil-structure interaction (SSI), guidance on the soil behaviour and modelling parameters for SSI and exposure of the participants to various numerical tools available to model soil-structure interaction problem with various examples and case studies.
IIT Bhubaneswar Director Prof RV Raja Kumar said the GIAN is an interesting programme aims at providing scope to invite very acclaimed professionals from across the globe to visit and teach a short course at an IIT, and the present course is the first of six such courses allotted to the IIT Bhubaneswar under the GIAN.