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Sara Ferdousi

Assistant Professor

Department of Water Resources Engineering (WRE)

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)

Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh

Tel. 880-2-966 5650, Ext. 7718 (office), 880-2-966 5650 Ext. 7186 (residence) 

Mobile:

Fax: 880-2-861 3026

E-mail:    sara@wre.buet.ac.bd

 

Education:  

 

Experiences:

 

October 2004-September 2005

Research Fellow, UNESCO International Research Course for the Environment, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan 

September 2004-Till present

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Water Resources Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. 

August, 2001- September 2004

Lecturer, Dept. of Water Resources Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh.

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Workshop/Short Course Attended:

(i)         Successfully completed the “Teacher’s Appreciation Workshop”, Organized by BUET, 14-15 September 2001, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

(ii)       Successfully completed the workshop on “IHP-FRIEND Low Flows Workshop”,(May 2-9, 2002) Organized by the Centre for Ecology &Hydrology(CEH) and Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology,  Dhaka, Bangladesh

(iii)       Successfully completed the workshop on “ HKH-FRIEND Regional Training Workshop On Capacity Building For Monitoring River Quality in The Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region”,(May10-14,2003) Organized jointly by HKH-FRIEND Surface Water Group , International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) & Kathmandu University(KU), Dhulikhel, Nepal  

(iv)     Successfully completed the Short Course on “ River Training & Management”,(July 22-25, 2003) Organized under the Linkage Program Phase III between Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology(BUET) and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, held at Directorate of Continuing Education(DCE),  BUET, Dhaka 

(v)        Successfully completed the Training Course on “ Introduction to Desktop GIS ArcView”,(August 7,2003) , conducted at CEGIS Training Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh 

(vi)     Successfully completed Short Course on “ Integrated Water Resources Management”,(Sep27th-Oct 1st, 2003) Organized under the Linkage Program Phase III between Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) and Delft University of Technology(TU Delft),The Netherlands, held at Directorate of Continuing Education (DCE), BUET, Dhaka 

(vii)  Successfully completed Short Course on “Physical & Mathematical Modeling in water Resources Engineering”,(Dec31st, 2003-Jan4th ,2004) Organized under the Linkage Program Phase III between Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) and Delft University of Technology(TU Delft),The Netherlands, held at Directorate of Continuing Education (DCE), BUET, Dhaka 

(viii)     Successfully completed Short Course on “ Dredging”,(Feb17 -19,2004) Organized under the Linkage Program Phase III between Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) and Delft University of Technology(TU Delft),The Netherlands, held at Directorate of Continuing Education (DCE), BUET, Dhaka 

(ix)      Successfully completed the workshop on “River Basin Management”,(April 21-22, 2004) Organized under the Linkage Program Phase III between Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) and Delft University of Technology(TU Delft),The Netherlands, held at Directorate of Continuing Education (DCE), BUET, Dhaka 

(x)       Successfully completed the Introductory Course on “Delft 3D”(May12,2004)

jointly Organized by WL/Delft Hydraulics, The Netherlands and Water Resources Engineering Department, BUET, held at Water Resources Engineering Department, BUET, Dhaka 

(xi)      Successfully completed Short Course on “ Monitoring and Evaluation of Water Resources Projects”,(June1-3, 2004) Organized under the Linkage Program Phase III between Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) and Delft University of Technology(TU Delft),The Netherlands, held at Directorate of Continuing Education (DCE), BUET, Dhaka 

(xii)  Successfully completed the workshop on “Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies(PRECIS)”,(July20-24,2004) Organized by Hadley Center ,UK in collaboration with National Environment Commission(NEC) in Thimphu,Bhutan

 

 

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Publications and Presentations:

 

Journals:  

                        i.               Hossain, M. M., Islam, Md. R. and Ferdousi, S.,(2003), “Pollution and Sediment Flux In The Coastal Water of Bangladesh” , The Journal of NOAMI (National Oceanographic and Maritime Institute), Volume 20, No 1, June 2003, pp1-13, Dhaka, Bangladesh 

                   ii.                  Jahan, N., Ferdousi, S., Zobeyer, A. T. M., and Islam, Md. R.,(2003), “A Direction to Resolve water Conflict in Ganges-Brahmaputra River Basin”, Journal of Applied Hydrology, Volume XVI, No 4A, October 2003,India

Conference / Seminar  Proceedings: 

                           i.            Ferdousi, S., Shahriar, A., Bosunia, S.Z., (2001), “Rehabilitation of Concrete           Beams Using Ferrocement”, Proc. The First International Conference & Annual Paper Meet On Civil Engineering, Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB), pp 369-373, Bangladesh. 

                         ii.            Hossain, M. M., Lambeek, J.P., Islam, Md. R., Ferdousi, S. and Saha, S., (2002): “Effect of Bottom Vanes on Transverse Flow in Mobile Bed Channel”, Proc. 29th   National and 2nd International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (INCFMFP-2002), Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, pp 57-64, India. 

                        iii.            Hossain, M.M., Islam, Md. R. and Ferdousi, S. (2003): “Globalization of Water   Management: Bangladesh Perspective”, Proc. Globalization and the Challenges for the Developing Countries: Bangladesh Perspective, pp 23-27, Bangladesh. 

                       iv.            Islam, Md. R., Mukto, M. A, Hossain, M. M., Ferdousi, S. and Saha, S (2003): “Ground Water Level Forecasting Using ANN”, Proc. 1st International Conference on Hydrology and Water Resources in Asia-Pacific Region”, pp 899-902, Japan. 

                         v.            Islam, Md. R., Hossain, M. M., Mukto, M. A., Ferdousi, S.,(2003), “Vane Performance in River Bend”, Proc. 1st  International Yellow River Forum on River Basin Management, Volume II, pp207, May 12-15, 2003, China 

                       vi.            Hossain, M. M., Islam, Md. R., Ferdousi, S., Saha, S.(2004), “A Laboratory Investigation on Bottom Vanes In a Meandering Mobile Bed Channel”, Proc. Of Abstracts and Papers of Advances in Hydro-Science and Engineering, Volume II,6 th International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering, May 31-June3, 2004, Brisbane, Australia 

                    vii.            Bosunia, S.Z., Ahmed, A.U., Ferdousi, S., (2004), “ Repair and Restoration of Reinforced Concrete Beams Using Ferrocement”, Proceedings of 5th Structural Specialty Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, June 2-5, 2004, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada 

                  viii.            Sarker, Md. M.H., Ferdousi, S.,(2004), “Assessment for role of GIS Based Natural Disaster Database in Environmental Management and Planning Activity in Bangladesh”, Proceedings of the Abstracts of the International Society for Environmental Information Sciences(ISEIS)’2004 Conference, August 25-27,2004, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 

                      ix.             Hossain, M. M., Islam, Md.R, Saha, S, Ferdousi,S., Zwol, B.V.,Zijlstra,R., Mosselman, E.,(2004), “Laboratory Tests on Scour around Bottom Vanes”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Scour  and Erosion (ICSE2),14-17 November 2004, Singapore 

                         x.            Ferdousi, S., Islam, Md. T., (2005), “Disaster Management Information Centre (DMIC) –  A new Initiative For Better Disaster Preparedness in Bangladesh” Proceedings of MPMD 2005 International Conference on Monitoring, Prediction and Mitigation of Water-Related Disasters, 12-15 January 2005, Kyoto, Japan 

                       xi.            Ferdousi, S., Islam, Md. T., (2005), “ Local Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (LDRRF) in Bangladesh: Challenges Ahead” Proceedings of the International  Conference on Energy, Environment and Disasters (INCEED 2005), 24-30 July 2005, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA 

                      xii.            Islam, Md. T., Ferdousi, S., (2005), “Renewable Energy Development- Challenges for Bangladesh” Proceedings of the International  Conference on Energy, Environment and Disasters (INCEED 2005), 24-30 July 2005, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA 

                  xiii.            Ferdousi, S., Abdullah, K., Hossain, M. M., (2005), “ Institutional Development and People’s Participation of the Catchment Area of Baggar Dona River” Proceedings of 8 th International River symposium 2005, 6-9 September 2005, Brisbane, Australia 

                  xiv.            Hossain, M.M., Rahman, K.M., Ferdousi, S., Islam, M.Z. and Mosselman, E. , 2005, “Bottom vanes to mitigate erosion hazard in medium sized rivers of Bangladesh”  , Proceedings of International Conference on Disaster Management and Achievement Challenges (DiMAC- 2005), 18-20 November , 2005, Kathmandu, Nepal

 

 Accepted / Submitted :  

 Thesis:

Ferdousi, S., “ Rehabilitation of Concrete Beams Using Ferrocement” ,B.Sc. Engg Thesis, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology(BUET) , August 2001 

Ferdousi, S., “Experimental Investigation of Local Scour and Morphology around Bottom Vanes”, M.Sc Engg Thesis, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), June 2004.

 

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