Trends in Civil Engineering and Challenges for Sustainability

of Civil Engineering, NITK, Surathkal during 2017-19. He has more than 33 years of teaching experience. Dr. Varghese George is a life member of professional bodies like the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Roads Congress (IRC), Coorg and South Kanara Engineer's Assn and the Institute of Urban Transport (IUT), and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India). He is also an Associate member of the ASCE, USA. He has has published 20 research papers in International Journals, 22 papers in National journals, and 20 papers in International Conferences. He has guided 5 Doctoral Research students till date. His areas of expertise include urban transport planning, traffic engineering, road safety audit, porous friction courses, warm Mix asphalt, pavement evaluation and monitoring, ground improvement, genetic algorithm & ANN applications, town panning and architecture, surveying, and green building. 
Dr. G. Udayakumar, Former Professor and Head of Civil Engineering Department in N.M.A.M Institute of Technology, Nitte. He obtained his B.E. (Civil Engineering) from Mysore University, M.Tech (Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering) from Mangalore University and Ph.D (Water conservation) from NITK, Surathkal. He has 32 years of teaching experience and served as the Chief Project Leader of EDC for 3 years from 2013 to 2016 at NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte. Dr. Udayakumar G is the member of professional bodies like ISTE, MIE and IAHS. He also served as a member of BOS and BOE in Mangalore University and VTU, Belgaum. He has published 19 research papers in National, International journals and conferences. He has guided 23 Under Graduate projects, 6 Post-Graduate students, 1 Doctoral student and 1 Post-Doctoral student. His areas of interest includes hydrology and water resources engineering, water conservation, engineering mechanics, strength of materials, fluid mechanics, hydraulics and hydra