About
About The Institution
LBS Institute of Technology for Women, established in the year 2001 is the first Engineering College for Women in the state of Kerala. LBSITW is managed by LBS Centre for Science and Technology, a premier Research and Consultancy organization under the Government of Kerala. During the Twenty One years of existence, it has achieved excellence in imparting technical education for women. At present, the College offers five undergraduate programs (B.Tech) in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Applied Electronics and Instrumentation, Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology and Civil Engineering and two post graduate programs (M.Tech) in Signal Processing and Computer Science and Engineering.
B.Tech Programme in Civil Engineering was introduced in the Institution in 2012. Since inception, the Department of Civil Engineering is actively engaged in grooming a large pool of students into well trained engineers. The Department keeps pace with the advances in technology by engaging in research and consultancy works in the various emerging areas of Civil Engineering
About the Conference
National Conference on
Soils and Foundations SAF-2024
This is the Sixth National Conference organized by the Department of Civil Engineering of LBS Institute of Technology for Women. This conference is being organized with the technical support of Indian Geotechnical Society-Thiruvananthapuram Chapter, Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and the Technical Committee TC 212 of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for Academicians, Research scholars, Practicing Engineers and Students, working in the area of Geotechnical Engineering and Deep Foundations to interact and share their experience and knowledge. This conference provides an opportunity for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find partners for future collaboration.
Memorial Lecture
7th Annual
T S Ramanatha Ayyer Memorial Lecture
Prof. T.S. Ramanatha Ayyer was born on 8th October 1932 in Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu. He obtained B.Sc. (Engg) in Civil Engineering from College of Engineering Trivandrum in 1953, M.Sc. (Engg) in Soil Mechanics from University of Madras and Ph. D. from University of Roorkee. He was the first PhD conferment in Geotechnical Engineering in the country. He started his career as demonstrator and rose to the position of Professor in Civil Engineering in 1965. He was the Post-Doctoral fellow during 1971-72 at Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Professor at the University of Zambia during 1977-79 and Visiting Professor, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria during 1983-84.He has served as Principal of both the Government Engineering colleges at Thrissur and Thiruvananthapuram and was the Director of Technical Education during the period 1986-87. Later he served as Visiting professor at I.I.T., Madras and U.G.C. Emeritus Fellow. Apart from being member of many academic bodies at the University and National level, Prof. Ayyer has published 3 books on soil and about 70 papers in leading journals.