SECON'21 - yet another success story

 SECON is the annual conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management organised by  the Department, since 2017. The fifth edition was held from 12-15 May 2021. As the the curtains fell today, there was a sense of achievement. The keynote speakers, chairs, co-chairs, authors, participants, each and everyone who associated with the conference expressed their appreciation for the maintaining the quality and executing it in the best possible way. The team was so exited when the feedback poured in during the valedictory function today. 

The highlight of this years conference was the presence of 6 international speakers. (https://secon21.fisat.ac.in) The subject varied from trenches technologies, to machine learning to structural health monitoring and earthquake risk assessment.  This year also springer is associating with SECON for publications. There was an overwhelming response to the call for paper. With nearly 400+ submissions, it was a herculean task for the committee to review and finally accept 100 papers for presentation and publication. There were 100+ reviewers, both from academia and industry. The papers were presented in 27 sessions during the four days of the conference. It was not an easy fete, the entire team of faculty members, student volunteers worked tirelessly for months to execute it. The hurdles posed by the pandemic and unfavourable weather conditions were managed by the team in a perfect manner. The association with professional bodies like ASCE, ISTE, ICI, IE and Paradigm made the conference  special.