arpan.sherring@shuats.edu.in
Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
arpan.sherring@shuats.edu.in
Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Educational Details
Graduated in 2009
Graduated in 1997
Graduated in 1994
Graduated in 2002
Professional Summary
Dr. Arpan Sherring is presently working as a Professor in the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Vaugh Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology And Sciences, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.
He did his graduation in Agricultural Engineering (B. Tech.) from Allahabad Agricultural Institute (AU) in 1994 and completed his Masters (M. Tech.) from Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana in 1997 with major in Soil and Water Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. in 2009 from Allahabad Agricultural Institute (DU) in Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. He has also completed Advanced Certificated Course on Pressurized Irrigation System from Centre for International Cooperation (MASHAV), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel and sponsored by CINADCO. He was also the recipient of National Merit Scholarship from the Government of Uttar Pradesh throughout from High school to B. Tech. and later University Merit Scholarship of PAU, Ludhiana during his M. Tech. He was also awarded with “ICAR Best Teacher Award” for the year 2014-15 with cash prize of Rs. one lakh and a certificate.
Area of Specialization
Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Ground Water EngineeringExpertise
He started his professional career as Research Fellow at Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana in 1997 in ICAR scheme “Use of Plastics in Agriculture” where he was a part of a team who developed low tunnel green houses with pressurized irrigation systems for medicinal and aromatic plants. Later, he joined the team of ICAR National Professorship Project at Department of Soil and Water Engineering, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana as a Senior Research Fellow and developed two innovative ground water recharge techniques to control declining ground water level through surface drains and paddy fields. In 1999. he was selected for the post of Assistant Professor of Agricultural Engineering (Soil, Water, Land Engineering and Management) at the then Allahabad Agricultural Institute.
He has more than 25 years of experience in his professional career. He is mainly involved in teaching Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral students and his area of research is ground water engineering, reclamation of water logged and salt affected soils through agricultural drainage systems, energy utilization in irrigation, water balance and crop growth modeling, control of groundwater depletion using innovative techniques, crop response to deficit irrigation, restructuring of canal irrigation network, demand based management of water supply in irrigated commands, participatory irrigation management, irrigation and groundwater modelling, rainfall-runoff modeling, etc. Till now he has guided/guiding 06 Ph.D. students and more than 60 M. Tech. students.
During his professional career, Dr. Arpan Sherring served on several administrative and academic posts at the university, which are:
| (July 2019– June 2021) |
| (July 2021 – June 2024) |
| (March 2023 – June 2024) |
| (July 2024 – Till Date) |
| (November 2018 – June 2019) |
| (Jan 2011– June 2019) |
| ( July 2020- June 2024) |
| (July 2017-June 2020) |
| (July 2014 – June 2023) |
| (July 2012- June 2018) |
| (July 2007– June 2019) |
| (July 2011- June 2018) |
| (July2007-June2015) |
| (July 2003-June 2012) |
Publications
Teaching Experience
He has more than 25 years of experience in his professional career. He is mainly involved in teaching Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral students and his area of research is ground water engineering, reclamation of water logged and salt affected soils through agricultural drainage systems, energy utilization in irrigation, water balance and crop growth modeling, control of groundwater depletion using innovative techniques, crop response to deficit irrigation, restructuring of canal irrigation network, demand based management of water supply in irrigated commands, participatory irrigation management, irrigation and groundwater modelling, rainfall-runoff modeling, etc. Till now he has guided/guiding 06 Ph.D. students and more than 60 M. Tech. students.
Other
Dr. Arpan Sherring is in the expert panel of Bihar Public Service Commission and Rajasthan Public service Commission and also having life membership of various professional societies including Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers, Society of Soil and Water Conservationist and Indian Water Resource Society. He has published more than 70 Research Papers in various International and National Journals of repute, conferences and Seminars. He has been invited as a keynote speaker in serval technical conferences and workshop. He is also in the reviewers panel of several International and National Journals in the field of Agricultural and Allied subjects including Arabian Journal of Geosciences (springer), Modelling Earth Systems and Environment (Springer publication), Environment & Sustainability (Taylor and Francis), Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Agricultural Research Journal (formerly Journal of Research PAU). He is the Technical Editor of Journal “The Allahabad Farmer” which is one of the oldest Journal in the field of Agriculture and Allied Sciences.