Dr. Shilpa R. Dongre – VNIT- CIVIL Engineering

Dr. Shilpa R. Dongre

Assistant Professor

Brief Bio
Dr. Shilpa R. Dongre is an Assistant Professor at Civil Engineering Department, VNIT, Nagpur. Teaching Experience : 18 Years

Research Interest
Analysis and Design of Water Distribution Networks
Water and Wastewater Treatment

Education

Degree	Year	Specialization	University
PhD	2013	Civil Engineering	Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur
M.Tech	2006	Environmental Engineering	Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur
B.E.	2003	Civil Engineering	Nagpur University
Diploma	2000	Civil Engineering	Government Polytechnic, Nagpur

Contact Details

Phone:	0712-2801082
Email:	shilpadongre@civ.vnit.ac.in
	Dept. of Civil Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, South Ambazari Road, Nagpur-440010 (India)

Publications

Sponsored Research Projects

Consultancy Projects

Book or Book Chapters

Patents

STTP & Workshop

Administrative Responsibilities

Awards & Honors

Sponsored Research Projects

Title	Funding Agency	Role	Year	Amount (in Lakhs INR)
Impact on peak factor, water quantity and quality at consumer ends due to continuing use of underground storage sumps after conversion of intermittent to continuous water supply	Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation (CPHEEO), Ministry of Urban & Housing Affairs (MoUHA), GoI	Principal Investigator	April 2023 to January 2024	29.98

Consultancy Projects

Title	Funding Agency	Role	Year	Amount (Lakhs)
Modifications in water supply systems- from treatment plant to various ESRs of Wena water works	Executive Engineer, Water Management Division, MJP, Nagpur	Co-Coordinator	2014	₹ 0.53
Scrutiny and redesign of distribution system for Deolameti	Executive Engineer, Water Management Division, MJP, Nagpur	Co-Coordinator	2013	₹ 0.56
Hydraulic design of pumping mains and design of water distribution networks for 17 zones of Raipur city.	Executive Engineer, PHED, Raipur, Chhattisgarh	Co-Coordinator	2007	₹ 4.29

Book or Book Chapters

Description	Author(s)	Publisher	ISBN	Year
Simulation Based Heuristic and Metaheuristic Approaches for the Design of Large Water Distribution Networks in Computational Techniques in Environmental Engineering	Rajesh Gupta, Laxmi Gangwani, Nikita Palod and Shilpa Dongre	Taylor & Francis Group	978-1-032-79694-9	2024
Dynamic Search Space Reduction Methodology to Improve the Computational efficiency of Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimal Pipe Sizing of Large Water Distribution Networks” in Integrated Management of Water Resources in India: A Computational Approach	Rajesh Gupta, Laxmi Gangwani, Nikita Palod and Shilpa Dongre	Springer	eBook ISBN978-3-031-62079-9	2024
Soft Computing Techniques for Forecasting of Water Demand”, in Modeling and Simulation of Environmental Systems: A Computation Approach	Prerna Pandey, Shilpa Dongre, Rajesh Gupta	Taylor & Francis Group	eBook ISBN: 9781003203445 DOI: 10.1201/9781003203445-8	2022

Patents

Patent Title	Application No.	Date	Present Staus
NIL

STTP & Workshop

Title	Funding Agency	Host Institute	Dates	No. of Participants
One week STTP on “Environmental Systems Modeling and Design”	TEQIP-III	VNIT, Nagpur	July 1-5, 2019	42
Refresher course on ‘Computer Aided Design of pipelines and pipe networks for water supply and sewerage systems’	CPHEEO	VNIT, Nagpur	December 6-12, 2018	26
Two week ISTE STTP on “Environmental Studies” conducted by IIT Bombay	MHRD(National Mission on Education through ICT)	VNIT, Nagpur	June 02- 12, 2015	20

Administrative Responsibilities

Responsibility	Institute	Role	Year
PG Coordinator for M. Tech. Environmental Engg.	VNIT Nagpur	Coordinator	Since 2019
M.Tech.admission Committee (CCMT)	VNIT Nagpur	Member	2023, 2024, 2025
Incharge of Computer laboratory	VNIT Nagpur	Incharge	Since March 2021
Exam Committee for Online Examination (DEC)	VNIT Nagpur	Coordinator	2020-21
APAR Grievance committee	VNIT Nagpur	Member	2019-20
Member of Vigilance Cum Anti-Disciplinary Action committee to look after use of unfair means by students during the examination	VNIT Nagpur	Member
Worked as member of Convocation Committees	VNIT Nagpur	Member	2014, 2016, 2017
Departmental coordinator for NIRF	VNIT Nagpur	Coordinator	2017
Departmental Coordinator under Student Mentorship Program	VNIT Nagpur	Faculty coordinator	2015-16 batch
Ph.D. admissions coordinator	VNIT Nagpur	Coordinator	2014
Stock Verification	VNIT Nagpur	Officer	2014-15
Preperation of Annual Reports	VNIT Nagpur	Coordinator	2014-15
Equipment Purchase Central Committee	VNIT Nagpur	Member	2014-15
Recruitments of non-teaching staff	VNIT Nagpur	Member	2014-15, 2019-20
Incarge of Building Materials laboratory	VNIT Nagpur	Incharge	2006-2020

Awards & Honors

Year	Award Description
2017	I.H. Kencha Reddy Award” for the Best paper in 49th Annual convention of Indian Water Works Association on Smart Water Management organized at VNIT from January, 19-21, 2017.
2021	Second award for paper on “Comparison of Heuristic and Metaheuristic Evolutionary Algorithms on Optimal Design of WDN” at HYDRO 2021
2021	Second award for paper on “Comparison of Long Short term memory model with statistical based water demand prediction models” at HYDRO 2021