from ISSMGE Bulletin: Volume 3 Issue 2 June 2009 (p.4)
Views of Young Geotechnical Engineers
Young Geotechnical Engineers: Welcome Message by New Editorial Member
As a new member of the extended editorial board of ISSMGE Bulletin and Coorinator for Asia, I convey my sincere greetings to the entire Geotechnical faternity of the world.
As per the invitation and approval letter dated March 6, 2009, by Prof. Pinto, President ISSMGE and other board members, we following six young geotechnical engineer will act as coordinator of respective region for ISSMGE Bulletin during a period of four years from 2009. As felt by ISSMGE board members, inclusion of us, from geographical areas like Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and America, in the editorial board of ISSMGE Bulletin will reinforce the management of the board in near future.
On behalf of my other colleagues, representing different regions, we all welcome this new extended editorial board of the bulletin and thank ISSMGE board for this new selection. It will definitely provide and maintain a strong connection between the experineced and young geotechnical engineers throughout the world using this bulletin.
As a team, we all will work together under the leadership of Prof. Kusakabe, Board member and Editor-in-Chief of ISSMGE Bulletin. However, the responsibility for collection of materials for each issue of the bulletin will be taken by each one of us, in rotation.
To promote the geotechnical news, which are of important concern for our worldwide faternity, we request all the members and non-members to communicate us for possible wide circulation of the material through this bulletin. We solicit all of your valuable suggestions, observations, extract and notices for making this bulletin more helpful and useful to our geotechnical world. The details of the new regional coordinators for communication are given below,
| Head of Coordinators Dr. Pongsakorn Punrattanasin Khon Kaen University, Thailand Email: ppunrattanasin@gmail.com |
Coordinator for Asia Dr. Deepankar Choudhury IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India Email: dc@civil.iitb.ac.in |
| Coordinator for North Africa Dr. Imen Said Tunisia Email: imen_said@yahoo.fr |
Coordinator for South America Dr. Makoto Namba Bureau de Projetos e Consultoria Ltda., Brazil Email: makoto@bureauprojetos.com.br |
| Coordinator for Europe Dr. Erdin Ibraim University of Bristol, UK Email: Erdin.Ibraim@bristol.ac.uk |
Coordinator for Australasia Dr.Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn University of Wollongong, Australia Email: cholacha@uow.edu.au |
Reported by Deepankar Choudhury, Coordinator for Asia, ISSMGE Bulletin, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India (Email: dc@civil.iitb.ac.in, dchoudhury@iitb.ac.in)
