• Undergraduate thesis: Around 50 (fifty) undergraduate thesis supervision. Topics covered a wide range as mentioned in the fields of interest.
• Graduate: Around 12 (twelve) graduate thesis supervision.Topics as mentioned in the fields of interest.
• “Improvement of flash flood warning device Shonabondhu through coupling with Hydrologic models” NSU funded research project. PI: Dr. Sirajul Islam, Co-PI: Dr. Nova Ahmed, Dr. NazmunNahar, Ms. SifatKalam

Fields of interest:
Major: Water resources,Climate change, Disaster management, Industrial compliances and Urban Environment.

Specifically;

• Climate Risk Screening and Vulnerability Assessment (CRS/CRVA) tool: Screening of government projects for their sensitivity to future climate change and budgeting for adaptation.
• Technology for adaptation to climate change: Coastal adaptation for drinking water supply, adaptation technology for the infrastructure sectors, Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC) and its relevance to climate change.
• Loss and damage assessment due to climate change: Flash flood and other natural disasters, HEVR analysis of natural hazards.
• Environmental modeling: Hydrological modeling, downscaling of GCM data to regional and country level, Global scale modeling of Virtual Water trading.
• Risk management: Weather Index based crop insurance for disaster risk management in developing countries, Insurance as a risk management strategy as a whole.
• Urban environmental management: Dynamics of urban growth, Traffic jam and drainage congestion.
• Industrial environment and compliances, health and safety issues: ISO1400, OHSAS 1800 and LEED compliances in the Ready Made Garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh – problems and prospects.
• Social, economic and environmental aspects of development: EIA/SEIA, community based resource management, participatory approach for evaluating development projects.
• SDG goals: its relevance to Bangladesh, specifically in the infrastructure development sectors.

Funded projects/External projects

• National Consultant, Asian Development Bank(July 2017 to June 2018) on the project TA-8572 REG: Action on Climate Change in South Asia. The main task of the project is to develop a Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tool for the government development projects of Bangladesh, to be used by the Planning Commission. Spatial HEVR analysis for the whole country followed by development of a CRS/CRVA tool are the main tasks.Consultant, World Bank: SRCWP, Watershed Management and Biodiversity of Pablakhali Protected Area, as Engineering and Water Management Specialist, World Bank, 2014-2017
• Consultant, World Bank: Mid Term Evaluation of Community Climate Change Program(CCCP), PKSF and World Bank, 2015. Bangladesh
• Consultant, Asian Development Bank as Climate Change Expert, June-August 2012: on Introduction of Weather Index based Crop Insurance in Bangladesh.
• Awarded UNFCCC Fellowship at theUNFCCC Secretariatin Bonn, Germany, April-September, 2010. Worked on the topic Technology for Adaptation to Climate Change (in the water resources sector).
• Served as Project Coordinator of the project Crop Insurance as a Risk Management Strategy for Bangladesh, as part of the NAPA (National Adaptation Program of Action) by Climate Change Cell (CCC) of the Department of Environment (DoE), Bangladesh, supported by UNDP, DFID and EU; 2007-2009.
• Post-Doctoral research atOki &Kanae Laboratory, Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering Division,Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo, Japan on the topic Global Water Resources Assessment under Future Climatic Change. Supplementary topic: Global Trading of Virtual Water : A grid based analysis. Supervisor: Prof. taikan Oki (IPCC LA)
• UNCRD-BUET Joint Research program, as Research fellow on the topic “Living Environment Problems and its Solution: Estimation of Available River Water and Drought Risk for Dhaka City Water Supply”.

1. "Implementation of Performance Grade (PG) Specifications for Asphalt Binders in Bangladesh":
   Individual Research. 2018.
2. "Implementation of SUPERPAVE Asphalt Mix Design in Bangladesh". Individual Research. 2018.
3. "Impact Evaluation of Iswardi Export Processing Zone". Individual Research. 2018.
4. "Identification of Black Spot Locations on National Highway-N2 of Bangladesh". BSCE Thesis/Capstone Design of Maisha Noshin, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, USA. August 2017.
5. "Development of a Methodology for Assessing the Condition of Sidewalks in Dhaka City". BSCEE Thesis/Capstone Design of Md. Azad Rahman, NSU. September 2017.
6. "Development, Calibration and Validation of Sidewalk Condition Index (SCI) for Dhanmondi, Gulshan and Bashundhara R/A". BSCEE Thesis/Capstone Design of Morshedul Haque Sunny, Sattyjit Kumar Nag, Shakawat Hossain Tushar and Md.Touhidul Haque, NSU. 2018.
7. "Evaluation and Solution of Black Spots of National Highway #N2 of Bangladesh". BSCEE Thesis/Capstone Design of Sakib Nibras Siddiquey and Md. Ahad Hossain, NSU. 2018.
8. "Improvement of the Transportation System of Dhaka City through Enhancing Waterway Transport". BSCEE Thesis/Capstone Design of Md. Hozaiful Islam Emon, M. G. Sabbir, Md. Muhaminul Islam Sadi and Md. Ashif Iqbal,
   NSU. 2018.
9. "Railway Level Crossing Accidents in Bangladesh - Current Status and the Way Forward". Thesis/Capstone Design of Md. Masudur Rahman et. al., BSCEE students of NSU. 2018.
10. "Characterization of Plastic-Modified Asphalt and Aggregates for use in Flexible Pavements". Thesis/Capstone Design of Moshiur Rahaman (Shetu), Md. Amdad Ullah, Md.Abdus Sabur Sardar and Nura Alam, NSU. 2018.

1. “Identification of Key Indicators and Development of Severity Index for Field Inspection of Urban Drainage Structures in Bangladesh” by Irtiza Ahmed, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, North South University, Fall 2017
2. “Assessment of Integrated Rainwater Management Alternatives for Urban Environment: Case Study North South University” by Md. Wasi Uddin and Md. Mohaiminul Islam, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, North South University, Fall 2017.
3. “Improvement of flash flood warning device Shanbandhu through coupling with Hydrologic models”, worked with PI Dr. Sirajul Islam, Co-PI Dr. Nova Ahmed and SIfat Kalam, Fall 2017.
4. “Recycled water: Alternate source of water for firefighting in Dhaka City” by Tushon Dey, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, North South University, Fall 2018.
5. “Preliminary investigation of water and sanitation condition of Uttara Lake Slum” by Farhana Aktar and Md Owalid Hossain, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, North South University, Fall 2018. Dr. Shama E Haque, Associate Professor of CEE was the co-researcher in this project.
6. “Modular Green Roof System Design for Hot, Wet and Humid Tropical Climate” by Mostafizur Rahman, Sanjoy Paul, and Sheikh Muhtasim Abid, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, North South University, Summer 2019. Ms. Ismat Hossain, Faculty member of Department of Architecture is a co-researcher in this project.

1. "Development of Integrated Hydrological Landscape Framework for Water Sensitive Urban Design : A Case of Eastern Part of Dhaka Metropolitan Area" by Ayesha Siddiqua, Department of Architecture, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Fall 2017 (Co supervising with Professor Dr. Farida Nilufar, Dept of Architecture, BUET).

1. Hazaribagh Environmental Geochemistry Project

Funded by NSU for 2018-2019
Funding Amount: 3.5 million BDT

Dr. Shama E. Haque
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NSU

Dr. Nazmun Nahar, PhD, P.Eng
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NSU

Ms Sadia Chowdhury
Graduate Student, Memorial University, Canada
Former Lecturer, NSU

Dr Abhijit Mukherjee
Associate Professor, IIT-Kharagpur, India

PI and CO-PI Project Group

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1. Acetogenic pretreatment of industrial waste water for waste stabilization and hydrogen generation from textile processing wastewater.
2. Development of energy efficient treatment train for textile processing wastewater using state of the art membrane processes.
3. Physical chemical treatment process development for color removal from textile processing wastewater.
4. Research into reutilization of waste sludge from wastewater treatment system as construction materials and
   as thermal fuel.
5. Sequestration of fly ash from coal fired power plants for beneficial use.
6. Waste to energy generation from industrial wastewater and household waste.
7. In situ arsenic removal technology development to treat contaminated groundwater.
8. Saline intrusion of costal aquifers and development of low cost treatment strategies.
9. Development of industrial scale burners energy efficient burners for hospitality industry and industrial burners.
10. Development of iron and manganese removal rapid filters using state of the art technologies.

Dr. Md. Shoaib Chowdhury [Details]

Professor, Transportation Engineering

“Dr. Md Shoaib Chowdhury is an expert in the field of transportation and has extensive research experience in various areas of transportation including transportation policy, planning, operations, management and safety. He is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and actively participates in various ASCE activities. At NSU, he supervises civil engineering undergraduate students on their engineering projects that attempt to solve local transportation problems. His research interests include the development of sustainable and resilient transportation systems and application of advanced technologies in transportation; and his current research projects include optimizing fare and headway to facilitate timed transfer, and sustainable transportation for Dhaka metropolitan city. Dr. Chowdhury is available for research collaboration with academia and industry on critical, emerging and challenging transportation issues.”

Undergraduate Research/Project Supervised

1. “A Study on Water-Bus Service (Gabtoli-Sadarghat Route)” by Badhan Saha, Rahish Uddin Prodhan, and Shovon Das, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, North South University, Fall 2017.
2. “Construction Sequence, Cost Estimation and Scheduling of a Public Project in Purbachal: A review” by Akib Mostafa and Md. Al Amin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, North South University, Fall 2017.