• Academic  Experience: 33 years
  • Industrial Experience: 1 years 11 Month
Post Held Institution/Organization Period
Graduate Engineer Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Mumbai 1986 to 1987
Administrative Officer (Engg.) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Chennai 1988 to 1989
Lecturer in Civil Engg. Govt. Engg. College Trichur 1989 to 1992
Lecturer in Civil Engg. Govt. College of Engg. Kannur 1992 to 1997
Lecturer in Civil Engg. Govt. Engg. College Trichur 1997 to 1999
Asst. Professor of Civil Engg. Govt. College of Engg. Kannur 1999 to 2002
Asst. Professor of Civil Engg. Govt. Engg. College Trichur 2002 to 2005
Associate Professor of Civil Engg. Govt. Engg. College Trichur 2006 to 2008
Professor of Civil Engg. Govt. Engg. College Trichur 2008 to 2016
Principal Govt. Engg. College Idukki 2016 to 2019
Professor of Civil Engg. Govt. Engg. College Trichur 2019 to 2020
Professor of Civil Engg. Thejus Engg. College Trichur 2020 to 2022
Principal (in Charge) Thejus Engg. College Trichur 2022 onwards
Degree Institute    Year     Class/Grade    Field/Discipline
UG (B. Tech.) REC Calicut 1986 First Class with
Honours & 1st Rank
Civil Engg.
PG (M. Tech.) IIT Delhi 1993 1st Rank Structural Engg.
Ph. D. NIT Calicut 2008 - Structural/Geotechnical Engg.
         
     
     
  • Member, Indian Society for Technical Education
  • Fellow, Institution of Engineers (India)
  • Member, Indian Concrete Institute
  • Best Paper Award from Institution of Engineers (India) for the paper entitled ‘A Simplified Procedure for Design of Machine Foundations Subjected to Vertical Vibrations’ published in the Journal of the Institution during 2007-08.
  • Structural design for various buildings for Govt and private agencies in Kerala.
  • Testing and certification of construction materials and soils for various Govt and private agencies.
  • Design of innovative low-cost Vent-Pipe Bridges in different parts of Kerala, such as Mukkom and Thalakkalathur in Kozhikode District, and Eryam in Kannur District.
  • Structural for multi-storeyed buildings and various other structures for Formula 1 Racing Circuit, Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia.
  • Chairman, M. Tech. (Water Resources & Hydroinformatics), Calicut University during 2010 to 2016
  • Chairman, M. Tech. (Structural Engineering), Calicut University during 2010 to 2018
  • Soil Structure Interaction, Steel & Concrete Structures, Modern Construction Materials.
Journal Papers
  1. P. Vijayan, A. K. Nagpal and Y. Singh (1995): “A Reduction Procedure for Load Distribution in Asymmetric Tall Buildings”, International Journal on Computers and Structures, Vol. 56, No. 4, 1995, pp. 615-624.
  2. P. Vijayan, S. Chandrakaran and N. Ganesan (2005): “Sliding Compliance Functions for Embedded Circular Footings in Horizontal Sliding Interaction”, Indian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 245-266.
  3. S. Chandrakaran, P. Vijayan, and N. Ganesan (2006): “A Simplified Procedure for Design of Machine Foundations Subjected to Rocking Vibrations”, Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 1, April-May 2006, pp. 81-90.
  4. P. Vijayan, S, Chandrakaran and N. Ganesan (2006): “Vertical Stiffness of Rectangular Footings Embedded into Elastic Half Space”, Indian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 195-219.
  5. Dr, S. Chandrakaran, P. Vijayan and N. Ganesan (2007): “A Simplified Procedure for Design of Foundations Subjected to Vertical Vibrations”, Journal of Institution of Engineers (India), Vol. 88, May 2007, pp. 03-12.
  6. Vijayan, P., Chandrakaran, S. And Ganesan, N (2007): “Sliding Stiffness of Footings Embedded into an Elastic Stratum”, Geotechnical Engineering, the Journal of South East Asian Geotechnical Society, Vol. 38, No. 2, August 2007, pp. 37-50.
Conference Papers
  1. Chandrakaran S. and Vijayan P. (2004): “Horizontal Stiffness of Embedded Foundations”, 1st CUSAT National Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India 25-27 March 2004, pp. 271-280.
  2. Vijayan, P., Chandrakaran, S. And Ganesan, N (2004): “Dynamic Characteristics of Lateritic Soils as Supporting Medium for RC Footings”, National Conference on Recent Developments in Materials and Structures, NIT Calicut, Kerala, India, 2-3 December 2004, pp. 273-278.
  3. Vijayan, P., Chandrakaran, S. and Ganesan, N (2004): “Horizontal Stiffness Enhancement in Embedded Circular Footings”, Indian Geotechnical Conference 2004, pp. 335-339.
  4. Vijayan, P., Chandrakaran, S. and Ganesan, N (2005): “Prediction of Amplitude of Vibration for Embedded Footings”, National Conference on Geotechnics in Environmental Protection, Indian geotechnical Society Allahabad, India, 9-10 April 2005, pp. IX-5 – IX-8.
  5. Vijayan, P., Chandrakaran, S. and Ganesan, N (2005): “Effect of Sidewall Contact on Horizontal Stiffness of Embedded Footings”, Indian Geotechnical Conference 2005, pp. 7-10.
  6. Vijayan, P., Chandrakaran, S. And Ganesan, N (2006): “Vertical Stiffness Snhancement in Embedded Rectangular Footings”, National Conference on National Disaster Management, Andhra University and GITAM College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam, India, 27-28 February 2006, pp. 190-195.
  7. Vijayan, P., Chandrakaran, S. and Ganesan, N (2006): “A Simplified procedure for Design of Embedded Machine Foundations Subjected to Rocking Vibrations ”, Indian Geotechnical Conference 2006.
  8. Vijayan, P., Chandrakaran, S. And Ganesan, N (2007): “Effect of Embedment on Rocking Stiffness of Circular Footings”, International Conference on Civil Engineering in the New Millennium- Opportunities and Challenges (CENeM-2007), Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, India, 11-14 January 2007.
  9. Vidya Gopinath and Vijayan, P. (2011): “Corrugated Plastic Pipe Packed-bed Aerobic Bioreactor for Treatment of Leachate from Laloor Landfills”, 2nd International Conference on Materials for the Future (ICMF-2011), Govt. Engineering College Trichur, Thrissur-9, Kerala, 23-25 February 2011.