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Faculty Profile

Dr. Yogini Deshpande

Chair Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

School of Engineering

  yogini.deshpande@opju.ac.in

  •  Doctorate of Philosophy, Civil Engineering, Materials Purdue University, IN, USA – 2006.
  •  Master of Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering Bombay University, Mumbai, India - 2002.
  •  Bachelor of Engineering, Construction Engineering - 1996.
  •  Technical Director in Renuka Consultants from 2012- present.
  •  Worked as a Assistant Professor in University of South Alabama, USA, from 2010 to 2012.
  •  Worked as a Assistant Research Professor in Michigan Technological University, USA , from 2007 to 2010.
  •  Worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in Purdue University, from 2002 to 2007.
  •  Worked as a Senior Research Fellow in Atomic Energy Regulatory Board from 1999 to 2002.
  •  Worked as a Senior Engineer Renuka Consultants in Gannon Dunkerley & Co. Ltd., Kolkata, India, from Jul 2013 to Dec 2014.
  •  Hiller, J.E., Deshpande, Y.S. Qin, Y., Shorkey, C., and Peterson, K., (2010) “Efficient Use of Recycled Concrete in Transportation Infrastructure”, for Michigan Department of Transportation
  •  Deshpande, Y.S., Ahlborn, T., Aktan, H., and Attanayake, U., (2009) “Methods of Abatment of Prestressed Concrete Box-Beam Deterioration”, for Michigan Department of Transportation.
  •  Deshpande, Y.S., Olek, J. and Nantung, T., (2007) “Dowel Bar Retrofit Mix Design and Specification”, Joint Transportation Research Program, Project No. C-36-46X, SPR-2789 for Indiana Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration.
  •  Deshpande, Y. S and Basu, P.C., (2001) “Quality Assurance and Quality Control Manual for Optimization of High-Performance Concrete Mix using Indigenous Materials and Study of its Microstructure,” Final Report submitted to the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board Committee, Government of India.
  •  Deshpande, Y.S., Mavinkurve, S., Basu, S., Bhattacharya, A., and Basu P. C; (2000) “Optimization of High-Performance Concrete Mix using Indigenous Materials and Study of its Microstructure,” Stage I Report submitted to the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board Committee, Government of India.
  •   Project Title: Development of Specifications for Construction of New Highway between Mobile to Birmingham, AL for Alabama Department of Transportation
    Project Amount: $ 250,000/-
    Funding Agency: ALDOT
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Yogini Deshpande
    Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Alabama, USA
  •   Project Title: Development of Specifications and Quality Control Maintenance for Construction of New Highway using recycled concrete aggregates for Michigan Department of Transportation
    Funding Agency: MDOT
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Yogini Deshpande
    Departments: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University, USA
  •   Project Title: Development of Specifications for Repair and Strengthening of Pre-Stressed Box Girder Bridges in state of Michigan for Michigan Department of Transportation
    Funding Agency: MDOT
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Yogini Deshpande
    Departments: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University, USA
  •  Deshpande, Y.S., (2006) Evaluation of Commercial Rapid-Setting Repair Materials and Rapid- Setting Self-Consolidating Concrete for Dowel Bar Retrofit Repair, PhD Thesis, Purdue University..
  •  Bonen, D., Deshpande, Y., Olek, J., Shen, L., Struble, L, Lange, D. and Khayat, K., (2007) Robustness of Self-Consolidating Concrete, Self –Consolidating Concrete: A White Paper by Researchers at The Center for Advanced Cement Based Materials, Ed. by Lange, D.A.
  •  Deshpande, Y.S., Hiller, J.E., and Li, Y., (2009) Performance Prediction of Pavement Rehabilitation using the Dowel Bar Retrofit Technique Using Statistical Modeling, Road Materials and Pavement Design, Vol 11, No. 3, 701-723.
  •  Deshpande, Y.S., and Hiller, J.E., 2011 Pore Characterization of Manufactured Aggregates: Recycled Concrete Aggregates and Light Weight Aggregates Publication at Materials and Structures DOI 10.1617/s11527-011-9749-2.
  •  Deshpande, Y.S., and Hiller, J.E., 2011 Effect of Characterization Techniques of Recycled Concrete Aggregates and Light Weight Aggregates on Long Term Properties of Concrete ASCE Journal of Civil Engineering Materials.
  •  Deshpande, Y.S., Harris, D.K., Mukherjee, A. and Waghchaure, A., Using Embedded Wireless Sensor Networks to Monitor and Predict Behavior of Concrete Members, fib2010, WashingtonD.C. May 21-25.
  •  Deshpande, Y.S., Li, Y., Hiller, J.E., and Yuejun, Y., (2009) Effects of Uncertainty on Performance of Pavement Rehabilitation using the Dowel Bar Retrofit Technique, at International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability to be held in Osaka, Japan, September 20-25.
  •  Deshpande, Y.S., and Hiller, J.E., (2009) Volumetric Stability of Concrete using Recycled Concrete Aggregates, Ninth International Symposium on Brittle Matrix Composites, Warsaw, Poland, October21-24.
  •  Deshpande, Y.S., and Olek, J., (2008) Performance of Rapid-Setting Repair Materials for Concrete Pavements, Transportation Research Board, Washington, January 12-17.
  •  Bonen, D., Deshpande, Y., Olek, J., Shen, L., Struble, L, Lange, D. and Khayat, K., (2007) Robustness of Self- Consolidating Concrete, Invited keynote paper at the 5th International RILEM Symposium on Self-Compacting Concrete, Ghent, Belgium, September 3-5.
  •  Deshpande, Y.S. and Olek, J., (2006) Sensitivity of Rapid-Setting Self-Consolidating Concrete to Production Variables, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Brittle Matrix Composites, Warsaw, Poland, October 23-25.
  •  Deshpande, Y.S. and Olek, J., (2006) Development of Rapid-Setting Self-Consolidating Concrete Using Small Size Aggregate, Proceedings of the RILEM Conference on Advances in Concrete through Science and Engineering, Montreal, Canada, September 11-13.
  •  Deshpande, Y.S. and Olek, J., (2005) Effect Of Mixing Equipment And Mixing Sequence on Rapid - Setting Self-Consolidating Concrete, Proceedings of The Second North American Conference on the Design and Use of Self-Consolidating Concrete and The Fourth International RILEM Symposium on Self-Compacting Concrete, Hanley Wood Publications, Ed. Shah, S.P., Chicago, Oct- 30 to Nov 2, pp 897-904.
  •  1 day workshop on Structural Audit and Non-Destructive Testing, Ambuja Foundation Centre, July 2019.
  •  2 Day Workshop on Conducting Structural Audit in Five Cities, 2018.
  •  1-Day Workshop on Concrete Technology- Materials, Mixture Proportioning & Durability, for Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, 2015.
  •  Durability and Service Life Prediction of Concrete, Ultratech Cement Ltd. & Indian Concrete Institute- Ghaziabad Centre, May 2021.
  •  Building Sustainable Structures- Role of Civil Engineering Materials, Rajarambapu Institute of Technology (RIT), Rajaramnagar Islampur, March 2021,
  •  Sustainable Development in Structural Engineering, CV Raman Global University (CGU), Bhubaneswar, July 24, 2020.
  •  Lightweight Aggregate Concretes (LWAC): Process, Utilisation & Durability from the Indian Context, Invited Speaker for CEMCON 2019, Indian Concrete Institute, Pune Chapter, December 2019.
  •  Women in Engineering: Challenges, Opportunities and Paving the Way, Vigyan Jyoti, IIT Guwahati, September 10, 2018.
  •  Insitu Rehabilitation- The When, The How, for NAREDCO- BMTPC Conference on Emerging Technologies in Housing and Building Construction, 2015
  •  Building Sustainable Structures – Role of Civil Engineering Materials, Civil Engineering Department, AIKTC, Panvel, 2015.
  •  Geophysical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering Consultants Association, November, 2014.
  •  Mitigating Shrinkage in Concrete Structures, Ambuja Knowledge Centre, 2014.
  •  Smart Materials and Smart Buildings, Smart Buildings in Real Estate, 2013
  •  Damage Assessment and Repair Techniques, Public Works Department, Maharashtra, 2013.
  •  Sustainable Concretes, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India, June, 2011.
  •  Repair Materials and Durability of Structures, Oregon State University, OR, May 5, 2008.
  •  Increasing the Performance Life of Repaired Concrete, RJ Lee Group Inc., Monroeville, PA, February 1, 2007.
  •  Importance of Material Performance in Concrete Repair, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, January 12, 2007.
  •  Increasing the Performance Life of Repaired Concrete, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, December 13, 2006.
  •  Rapid-Setting Self-Consolidating Concrete: A Product Development, Halliburton, Duncan OK, December 8, 2006.
  •  Development of Rapid-Setting Self-Compacting Concrete, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Department of Defense, Bombay, India, January 5, 2006.
  •  Rapid-Setting Self-Compacting Concrete: A Product Development, The Indian Concrete Institute, Veer Jijamata Technical Institute, Bombay, India, December 17, 2005.
  •  Microstructural Characterization of Recycled Concrete Aggregates, ACI Spring Convention, Tampa, FL, April 2011.
  •  Characterization of Recycled Concrete Aggregates, ACI Spring Convention, Chicago, Illinois, March 2010.
  •  Durability of Repaired Pre-Stressed Box Beam Bridges, ACI Fall Convention, St. Louis, Missouri, November 2008.
  •  Sensitivity of Rapid-Setting Self-Consolidating Concrete to Mixture Production Variables, ACI Spring Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2007.
  •  Overview of Development of Rapid-Setting Self-Consolidating Concrete at Purdue University, ACBM Semi-Annual Meeting, October 2006.
  •  Evaluation of Commercial Rapid-Setting Materials and Rapid-Setting Self-Consolidating Concrete for Repair Applications, PhD Defense Presentation, Purdue University, July 2006.
  •  Development of Specifications for Rapid-Setting Repair Materials for Use in Dowel Bar Retrofitting Techniques, ACI Spring Convention, Charlotte, South Carolina, 2006.
  •  Stability of RSSCC at different water to cementitious ratios, Semi-Annual Meeting of ACBM, March 2006.
  •  Robustness and Sensitivity of RSSCC to Production Variables, Semi-Annual Meeting of ACBM, September 2005.
  •  Mixing Issues Related to RSSCC, Semi-Annual Meeting of ACBM, April 2005.
  •  Poster Presentations at Center for ACBM, Semi-Annual Meeting April 2005 and 2007, September 2005 and 2006.
  •  International Road Federation (IRF) Executive Leadership Program Fellowship 2006.
  •  William & Mary Goetz Graduate Scholarship in Civil Engineering for Best Research in Civil Engineering Materials 2006
  •  Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in the School of Civil Engineering (Awarded amongst a total of about 50-60 graduate teaching assistants) 2005 & 2006
  •  Purdue Graduate Student Government and Graduate School of Purdue University Travel Grant for Research Purpose 2004
  •  Felicitation by Ambuja Foundation as pioneering Engineer in the field of Civil Engineering. 2017
  •  Member of Board of Direction India Chapter of American Concrete Institute (ICACI)
  •  Fellow Institute of Engineers (FIE)
  •  Fellow of Indian Concrete Institute (ICI)
  •  American Concrete Institute (ACI)
  •  Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials (ACBM)
  •  American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  •  American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
  •  Deep Foundation Institute (DFI)
  •  Indian Geotechnical Institute (IGS)
  •  Reviewer- American Concrete Institute Material Journal

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