Gyanendra Nath Pande or Gyan N Pande (died 20 January 2020) was a British

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of Indian descent associated with developments in computational engineering. He was Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Civil and Computational Engineering at

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and founder president of the International Centre for Computational Engineering (IC2E).

Education and career

Pande grew up in

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and obtained a

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from the

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) is a public institute of technology established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Established in 1951, the institute is the first of the IITs to be established ...

in 1959. He worked in the field of geomechanics, gaining more than ten years experience as a project engineer in tunnelling and hydroelectric installations in the Himalayas. From 1973 he studied at

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(now

) from where he received a PhD in 1976. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Wales in 1975 as lecturer, and was awarded a 'Personal Chair' in 1994 (the same year he was awarded a DSc degree). In 1985 he was the founding editor of the computational geomechanics journal, ''Computers & Geotechnics''. He was the founder president of the International Centre for Computational Engineering (IC2E), an organisation instrumental in setting up research and collaborations between universities and industry. He was Emeritus Professor at Swansea University and a Fellow of

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. He died on 20 January 2020.

Professional appointments

* Co-Chair, International Symposium on Computational Geomechanics * Chief Editor, ''Computers & Geotechnics'' * Member, Advisory Panel of Geotechnique * Chairman, Ground Engineering Group of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Wales Branch * Chairman, International Committee on ‘Computer Modelling of Masonry’ * Member of an expert committee appointed by Hydro-Quebec, Canada

Awards and honours

* Special Achievements in Geomechanics Award, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), 2014 * Manby Prize, Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 2005 * Significant paper award of IACMAG, 2001 and 2002 * Best paper award – Journal of Rock Mechanics & Tunnelling Technology, 2003

Works

Pande wrote over 250 books and research papers.

Personal and family life

Pande was a founding member and trustee of the Tridev Meditation and Spiritual Awareness Society at

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. Pande's younger brother Jitendra Nath Pande was professor and head of medicine,

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. He was senior consultant (medicine) at the Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research,

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References

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