Mohan Venigalla, associate professor in Mason Engineering’s Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, says India is currently dealing with environmental issues such as poor air quality and noise pollution on an unprecedented scale. He taught a course in India in August on transportation and the environment.
Mohan Venigalla, associate professor in Mason Engineering’s Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, taught a course in August on transportation and the environment at the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India.
“Due to rapid urbanization and exploding automobile usage, India is currently dealing with environmental issues such as poor air quality and noise pollution at an unprecedented scale,” Venigalla says. “In an effort to train Indian researchers and practitioners to understand these problems and develop solutions to solving them, the government of India sponsored this short course through its program on Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)."
GIAN is a competitive program, sponsored by the government of India and managed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, one of India’s premier engineering schools. In the first two phases of the program, proposals for 1,649 courses from distinguished professors at various prestigious universities around the world were approved. The organization expects the third phase of the program will be announced in fall 2018.
Venigalla specializes in transportation systems analysis and planning with an emphasis on sustainable transportation. His current and prior research areas include transportation, air quality, transit-oriented developments, shared mobility, and urban freight planning.
More information on GIAN can be found here. Faculty of all disciplines who are interested in submitting proposals for the GIAN program may contact Venigalla at mvenigal@gmu.edu for more information.