Mr. Panday Published an Article in the Land Journal Mr. Uma Shankar Panday, an Assistant Professor of the Department of Geomatics Engineering (DGE) published an article entitled “Securing Land Rights for All through Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration Approach: The Case of Nepal” in Land Journal. The co-authors of the paper are Mr. Raja Ram Chhatkuli, UN-Habitat, Nepal; Mr. Janak Raj Joshi, the Ministry of Land Management, Co-operatives and Poverty Alleviation, Nepal; Mr. Jagat Deuj...

Mr. Uma Shankar Panday, an Assistant Professor of the Department of Geomatics Engineering (DGE) published a feature paper entitled “A Review on Drone-Based Data Solutions for Cereal Crops” in MDPI Drones Journal. The co-authors of the paper are Dr. Arun Kumar Pratihast, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands; Dr. Jagannath Aryal, Visiting Professor of DGE; and Dr. Rijan Bhakta Kayastha, Associate Professor of the Department of Environmental Science & Engineering (DES...

Mr. Uma Shankar Panday, Mr. Nawaraj Shrestha, Mr. Shashish Maharjan & Dr. Jagannath Aryal, the faculties from Department of Geomatics Engineering (DGE) and Dr. Kundan Lal Shrestha, a faculty from Department of Environmental Science & Engineering (DESE) published a paper entitled “Correlating the Plant Height of Wheat with Above-Ground Biomass and Crop Yield Using Drone Imagery and Crop Surface Model, A Case Study from Nepal” in MDPI Drones Journal. The other co-authors are Dr...

A paper with the title, "Research-based education for industrial development: Experiences of Kathmandu University in turbine technology" has been presented in International Conference on Advancements in Engineering Education (iCAEED-2019), 24-28 Nov 2019, Sydney, Australia. The paper summarizes the different pedagogy and teaching-learning approaches practiced by KU at different stages of its development. A particular focus is given on how the 'Project-Based Learning Method' has evolved and inst...

Dr. Bhim P. Kafle, assistant professor at the Department of Chemical Science & Engineering, published a book chapter (entitled: Application of Reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) for Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells.) in the journal Springer Nature. For those who are working on nanomaterials, especially, on graphene-related devices, the book could be found a very good reference and could be found in the link below: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030302061 Dr. Kafle's contribution ...

New publication from Turbine Testing Lab Dr. Sailesh Chitrakar, Prof. Hari Prasad Neopane and Prof. Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug published a paper entitled ‘Development of a test rig for investigating the flow field around guide vanes of Francis turbines’ in Flow Measurement and Instrumentation Journal (Elsevier). Here is the link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955598619302572 For reference: Sailesh Chitrakar, Hari Prasad Neopane and Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug...

Publication of Proceedings of CRHT-IX in IOP-Journal of Physics The short-listed papers presented in the International Symposium on Current Research in Hydropower Technologies (CRHT) –IX organized by Turbine Testing Lab (TTL) on 9th April 2019 in Kathmandu University has now been published in IOP-Journal of Physics-Conference Series. Following is the link to the published papers. https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1742-6596/1266/1 In this symposium, 30 papers were presented, out of wh...

Dr. Biraj Singh Thapa, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Faculty In-Charge, Turbine Testing Lab has published an article on “Contribution of FranSed Project to the research at Turbine Testing Laboratory at Kathmandu University in Nepal” in a Newsletter published from NTNU. The article can be found at: https://www.ntnu.edu/hydrocen/newsletter-3

Publications of Dr. Gajendra Sharma Dr. Gajendra Sharma, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has got the following papers published in the year 2018: 1. Gajendra Sharma and Ghanshyam Mahaseth. An Empirical Assessment of Service Quality and Customer Preference of Cellular Service Providers in Nepal. International Journal of Excellence Innovation and Development, 1(2), pp. 40-54, 2018. Available online at: http://www.ijeid.com/papers/vol1issue2/IJEID11AB040...