Omprakash Ramalingam Rethnam

Omprakash Ramalingam Rethnam is a construction management graduate from Trichy. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in “Mechanical engineering” from the College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, and his Master’s degree in “Construction Technology and Management” from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

He was working with L&T Ltd. from 2014 to 2020 catering to multifunctional roles from design engineer to proposals-estimation manager, and then started his pursuit of doctoral research

He has been selected for the prestigious PMRF fellowship for December 2020 and has been working on the domain of ‘Urban Building Energy Modelling’ supervised by Prof. Albert Thomas (https://www.civil.iitb.ac.in/~albert/) at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Courses

EN 653: Energy Policy and Analysis

The course provides the tools and techniques necessary for analyzing energy policies. Students will be expected to carry out a project to analyze an existing policy in a specific context or design a policy intervention for a specific goal.

IE 630: Simulation Modelling and Analysis

Overview of basic concepts from probability and statistics, Fundamental concepts of System Simulation, Input modeling, and Simulation Output data analysis

CE 630: Geographical Information Systems in Civil Engineering

Overview of GIS: GIS Data, Spatial Referencing of GIS data, Spatial Data Models, Spatial Data Analysis (Raster/Vector Geoprocessing, Digital Terrain Modelling), Spatial Data Modelling, Overview of Web GIS, Potential Applications and Simple Case Studies