Education

• Ph.D.: University of Mumbai (Pursuing)
• M.E. (2011): Civil Engineering with specialization in Structural Engineering, University of Mumbai
• B.E. (1999): Civil Engineering, Shri Guru Gobind Singhji College of Engineering and Technology (Govt. Aided and Autonomous), Nanded. (Maharashtra)

Courses

• UG:

Strength of Materials; Structural Analysis-I; Structural Analysis-II; Limit State Method Reinforced Concrete Structure; Advanced Construction Equipment and Techniques, Reinforced Concrete Repair and Maintenance; Disaster Management and Mitigation Measures; Advanced Structural Mechanics; Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, Repairs, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Structures; Advanced Construction Technology; Energy Conservation Techniques in Building Construction; Disaster Management and Mitigation Measures; Total Quality Management in Construction and Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System

• PG:

Advanced Construction Technology; Energy Conservation Techniques in Building Construction, Disaster Management and Mitigation Measures, Total Quality Management in Construction and Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, Building Services and
Repairs

Research and Consultancy

• Grant received from the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Disaster Management Support Programme (DMSP) as Course Coordinator (Co-investigator) for conducting a basic course on “Capacity Building in Space-Based Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Support for Maharashtra State” in AY 2022-23. Funding Agency: Indian Space Research Organisation – Disaster Management Support Programme (ISRO-DMSP), Ref No: IIRS/DO/DMSP-ASCB/Cap Build/2023 , Title: “Capacity Building in Space-Based Disaster Management Support and Risk Reduction for Maharashtra State” , Date: 20th March – 26th March 2023 Amount Sanctioned: Rs. 5,91,500 /-
• GEH Research, Smart construction safety helmet: An Arduino-based risk, salary monitoring and management tool, File No: 4645, Total Grant: 1,12,990 , The project started on: 21st August, 2021 Status: Project Completed
• Minor Research Project Grant (Principal Investigator) from University of Mumbai (2014-2015), Status: Project
• Minor Research Project Grant (Principal Investigator) from University of Mumbai (2017-2018), Status: Project Completed
• Minor Research Project Grant (Co-Investigator) from University of Mumbai (2019-2020), Status: Project Completed
• Government and ISRO Sponsored Research Work (National Natural Resource Management System) at ISRO, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun
• Research work at Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Rorkee, Uttarakhand

Patent

• Raju Narwade, Smart construction safety helmet: An Arduino-based risk, salary monitoring and management tool., Application No.: 202121043251
• Raju Narwade, Slope bottom-tuned liquid damper for improving the performance of the flat bottom-tuned liquid damper, Application No.: 202121061528
• Raju Narwade, Smart Eco-friendly E-waste Divider Block (SEED), Application No.: 202221000049
• Raju Narwade, Fly-Ash Aggregate with Light in weight (METAL), Application No.: 202221065222
• Raju Narwade, Smart Concrete Curing by application of IoT, Application No.: 202321008450

Publications

Publication in Peer-Reviewed, National and International Journals: 39
Publication in National and International Conferences: 18

• Raju Narwade and Ruhita Jadhav (2025), Concrete strength monitoring and damage detection using piezoelectric-based wireless sensor, Challenge Journal of Concrete Research Letters,16(1) pp. 40, (Scopus Indexed), DOI: 10.20528/cjcrl.2025.01.005
• Raju Narwade, Dr Karthik Nagarajan and Gunesh Sawant (2025), Enhancing Construction Safety and Efficiency in Brownfield Petroleum Refinery Expansions: A Feasibility Study of Modular Construction in India, International Journal of Environmental Sciences (Scopus Indexed) 11(5s), pp.1303-1313.DOI: 10.64252/229e8t65
• Sahil Waqar Khan, Karthik Nagarajan, and Raju Narwade (2022), Risk assessment and challenges faced in repairs and rehabilitation of the dilapidated building, Journal of Rehabilitation in Civil Engineering, Vol. 10, Issue 2, pp. 93-112
• Sachin Bhere, Shweta Panaskar, Raju Narwade and Karthik Nagarajan (2022), Validating the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Terrestrial Water Storage Dataset using Terra MODIS NDVI Anomaly, Journal of Water Resource Engineering and Management, Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp. 19-28.
• Vishal Ambad, Raju Narwade and Karthik Nagarajan (2021), Impact of controlled permeable formwork liner against chloride penetration on the concrete structures, Journal of Research on Engineering Structures and Materials (JRESM), Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 1-10
• TS Nijampurkar, Raju Narwade and Karthik Nagarajan (2020), Analysis of Sedimentation Deposition in Morbe Reservoir by Using RS and GIS, Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS, Vol.11, Issue 1, pp. 16-24
• Panaskar S, Raju Narwade and Karthik Nagarajan, (2019), Analysis of Changes in LULC of Western Ghat by Comparing NDVI and NDWI, Journal of Remote Sensing & G.I.S., Vol.-08, Issue-04, pp. 01-07. (Dec-2019), ISSN: 2469-4134
• Sanika Kandalekar, Raju Narwade and Karthik Nagarajan (2019), “Experimental Study on Performance of Portland Based Pervious Concrete Using Chemical Supplementary and Varying Curing Technique” i-manager’s Journal on Civil Engineering (JCE), Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 21-28, November 2019

Book Chapters Published: 07

• Raju Narwade and Shrikant Charhate (2022), Integrated RUSLE and GIS approach for estimating soil Erosion in Karjat, Hydrological Modelling (Springer Nature), Water Science and Technology Library Book Series (WSTL), Vol. 109, pp. 85-95, Print ISBN 978-3-030-81357-4
• Vikas Suresh and Raju Narwade (2022), Smart construction safety helmet: A construction safety tool embedded with health monitoring and salary deduction function, Sustainable Technology and Advanced Computing in Electrical Engineering (Springer Nature), Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 939, pp.1149-1168, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-4364-5_81
• Priyanka Bhatkar, Raju Narwade and Dr Karthik Nagarajan (2022), Analysis of the location of oil spills and use of marine tar in bitumen road construction collected near Alibaug beaches (Maharashtra), Groundwater and Water Quality (Springer Nature), Water Science and Technology Library Book Series (WSTL), Vol. 119, pp. 353-364.
• Raju Narwade, Dr G. R. Patil (2022) AI-Based Digital Evaluation of Concrete Building Application of Artificial Intelligence in Real World, Taurean Publication Delhi, ISBN-9789391074-98-256

Books Published: 03

• Sensors and Fibre Optics: Recent Trends, Publisher: Namya Press, Delhi, ISBN:978-93-5545-171-2, Sensors and Fibre Optics: Recent Trends – Namya Press
• Labour Productivity analysis in construction with the application of aluminium formwork, Publisher: Namya Press, Delhi. (Kindle Edition) https://namyapress.com/Books/9789355451736/
• Risk Assessment and challenges faced in repairs and rehabilitation of dilapidated buildings, Publisher: Namya Press, Delhi. (Kindle Edition)

Awards and Recognitions

• Secured Third Rank in the Final Round of 16th Inter-Collegiate / Institute Avishkar Research Convention-2022 organised by University of Mumbai under Engineering and Technology discipline in Teacher Category.
• Selected for Government and ISRO Sponsored Training Programme at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Dehradun (2018)
• Selected for the final round of the Yukti Innovation Challenge, Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC), Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell (MIC) (2023)
• Innovation Ambassador for Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC), Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell (MIC)
• Mentor for the Saraswati Education Society’s Saraswati Institute of Technology, Kharghar, under the Innovation Institute Council Mentor-Mentee program, MoE, AICTE (2024)
• Treasurer, Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), Mumbai Chapter ( 2019 to 2023)
• Recognized Post Graduate Guide, University of Mumbai
• Examiner for Post Graduate, Savitribai Phule Pune University
• Managing Editor, Pratibodh: A Journal for Engineering
• Reviewer for Hydro-24, International Conferences on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering, CWPRS, Pune, 18-20 December 2024
• Reviewer International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Advanced Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2021 (ICSTACE2021), Department of Electrical Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat
• Convener and Member of Syllabus Revision Committee (NEP 2020), Elements of Civil Engineering, Semester-II, UG Program in Civil Engineering, University of Mumbai.
• Convener and Member of Syllabus Revision Committee (R-16 and R-19 Schemes) for Mechanics of Solids, Structural Analysis-I and II, Advanced Construction Technology and Major Project of UG Program in Civil Engineering, University of Mumbai.
• Member of Syllabus Revision Committee (R-16 and R-22 Scheme) for Advanced Construction Technology and Laboratory-I of PG Program in Civil Engineering with specialisation in Construction Engineering and Management, University of Mumbai.
• Member of the result moderation committee of the Civil Engineering Program, University of Mumbai ( First and Second Half from 2020 to 2025)
• Program Coordinator for semester VI Online examination, Civil Engineering, University of Mumbai ( First and Second Half of 2021)
• Joint Chief Conductor (JCC) of Examination, University of Mumbai (First Half and Second Half 2012)
• Member of Panel for examination for various exams of Government of Maharashtra.
• Subject expert of Engineering Mechanics in Sasmira Institute of Man- Made Textile, Worli Mumbai (2000)

MOOC/Training Completed: 12

Training/Courses Completed:

• Raju Narwade (2025) Completed training on Hydrological Modelling using SWAT in the Context of Climate Change, from May 19-24, 2025, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, Government of India.
• Raju Narwade (2023) Completed online training program on Overview of Space Science and Technology, from July 7, 2023, to August 07, 2023, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space, Government of India.
• Raju Narwade (2021) participated in a one-week AICTE-QIP-sponsored faculty Development program on “Impact Assessment of Climate Change using RS and GIS” organised by SGGSCEIT, Nanded. (Govt aided and autonomous), May 25-30, 2021.
• Raju Narwade (2018) completed a course on RS and GIS Applications in Water Resources conducted under off-campus ISRO Outreach Certification Program from April 16-27, 2018
• Raju Narwade (2018) completed an ISRO-sponsored National Natural Resources Management System course on Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems in Water Resources at the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Dehradun, from May 1, 2018 to June 24, 2018.
• Raju Narwade (2017) completed a course on UAV Remote Sensing and Applications conducted under off-campus ISRO Outreach Certification Program from July 03 -7, 2017.
• Raju Narwade (2017) participated in the Hydro 2017: International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering, organised by L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, December 21-23, 2017.
• Raju Narwade (2016) participated in Hydro 2016: International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering, organised by Central Water and Power Research Station, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation (CWPRS), Government of India, December 09-10, 2016.

Seminar/Expert Lecture delivered in Govt, Autonomous and Unaided colleges: 08

Invited lecture delivered:

• Raju Narwade (2024) delivered a lecture on “Disaster Reduction Techniques” in the one-week short-term training program, July 2024, on Disaster Management and Mitigation Measures organised by Datta Meghe College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai
• Raju Narwade (2023) delivered a lecture on “Space-Based Impact Assessment of Climate Change of Maharashtra Region” in a one-week ISRO-DMSP sponsored training program on Capacity Building in Space-Based Disaster Management Support and Risk Reduction for Maharashtra State: A Basic Course organised by Pillai HOC College of Engineering and Technology, Rasayani, during March 20-25, 2023.
• Raju Narwade (2021) delivered a seminar on “Impact Assessment of Climate Change Using RS and GIS” one-week AICTE-QIP-sponsored Faculty Development Program (FDP), organised by Shri Guru Gobind Singhji College of Engineering and Information Technology, Nanded. (Govt aided and Autonomous), May 25-30, 2021
• Raju Narwade (2020) delivered a “Impact Assessment in Climate Change using Remote Sensing and GIS” seminar at the International Workshop organised by Pillai HOC College of Engineering and Technology, Rasayani, January 13-14, 2020.
• Raju Narwade (2019) delivered a seminar on “Evaluation of water balance components of the Godavari River Basin” in a One-week ISTE-approved STTP on advances in Disaster Management and Risk Reduction: A Remote Sensing & GIS Approach, organised by Pillai HOC College of Engineering and Technology, Rasayani, during June 24-29, 2019.

Thesis Guidance at PG Level: Completed: 30 , Ongoing: 10

Memberships of Professional Bodies

• International Association of Hydrological Sciences – United Kingdom (IAHS) LM 17144
• Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) LM 47678
• Indian Society of Hydraulics (ISH) LM 1264
• Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) LM 5058
• Indian Water Work Association (IWWA) LM 9593
• International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) (Yearly)
• Association of Structural Rehabilitation (ASTR) LM
• American Concrete Institute (ACI)- India Chapter Yearly membership

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