A 10 day (July 10-19, 2010) Workshop on Earthquake Engineering Literature Survey was conducted by the National Information Center of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) at IIT Kanpur. Sixty seven postgraduate students from 18 different engineering colleges across India participated in this workshop.  The workshop has been sponsored by Computers and Structures Inc (CSI), and Poonam and Prabhu Goel Research Foundation Fund at IIT Kanpur.

In this workshop the participants were encouraged to make use of available literature at NICEE library and Central Library for doing quality research work. These faclilities were  made available to the participants till late in the night. During the Workshop the participants also had interaction sessions with Prof Samit Ray Chaudhry, Prof Prashuti Ray Chaudhry, Dr. KK Bajpai and Dr. Rajeev Gupta. During these sessions the participants were given tips on conducting a meaningful literature survey to advance in to the area of research topic chosen for M.Tech./Ph.D. theses.

A visit to the National Wind Tunnel Facility at IIT Kanpur along with a visit to the various laboratories of Civil Engineering was also organised, so that the participants get abreast with the latest available technologies in the country. The participants also deliberated at length with PhD scholars of IIT Kanpur Mr. Vaibhav Singhal regarding their thesis topics.

The workshop was sponsored by M/s UltraTech Cement, New Delhi; Computers and Structures Inc (CSI) and Poonam and Prabhu Goel Research Foundation Fund at IIT Kanpur.