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...

NEW PUBLICATION OF KUSET We are glad to inform that the Vol. 14 (No. 1) of KUSET has been published online in April, 2020. The link to the publication is: http://old.ku.edu.np/kuset/index.php?go=vol14_no1 (The webpage of KUSET will eventually be migrated to a new website.) Editor-in-Chief of KUSET Prof. Dr. Deepak Prasad Subedi

A research paper titled, "Decadal Variation in the Land Use and Land Cover Pattern of Madi, Chitwan from 1989 to 2017 with Flood Hazard Mapping" has been published in the Lowland Technology International Journal 2020; 21 (4): 287–295 by B. Adhikari, P. Pokhrel, Y. Pradhan and A. Ulak from the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, School of Science, Kathmandu University Article link:  http://cot.unhas.ac.id/journals/index.php/ialt_lti/article/view/728

Paper Details Saroj Gautam, Hari Prasad Neopane, Nirmal Acharya, Sailesh Chitrakar, Biraj Singh Thapa, Baoshan Zhu, "Sediment erosion in low specific speed francis turbines: A case study on effects and causes", Wear, Vol. 442-443, 2020

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...

Agreement Signed Between Kathmandu University and Pokhara University for the transfer of Sanitation program An agreement between Kathmandu University - School of Engineering (KU-SoE) and Pokhara University – Faculty of Science & Technology (PU-FST) was signed on 19th November 2019 at Kathmandu University (KU), Dhulikhel. The purpose of this agreement is to transfer the Sanitation programs (Masters Degree and Graduate Professional Diploma program) to Pokhara University (PU) as a 2nd ti...

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...