Prasanna Rousseau

Assistant Professor

Prasanna Rousseau

Geotechnical Engineering

  • Experimental Geotechnique
  • Geotechincal Earthquake Engineering
  • Critical State Soil Mechanics

Academic Background

  • B.E., in Civil Engineering Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Anna University
    2012
  • M.S., in Geotechnical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras
    2015
  • Ph.D in Geotechnical Engineering Carleton University, Canada
    2020

Professional Background

  • Geotechnical Engineer BGC Engineering Inc.,
    June 2020 - February 2022

Awards and Distinctions

  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant award nominee at Carleton University for 2019 and 2020 (one among 100 nominees out of 2000 teaching assistants)
    2018-2020
  • Kochar Family Scholarship
    September, 2015
  • Ontario Trillium Scholarship by the Government of Ontario to attract best qualified international students to Ontario for PhD studies
    2015-2019
  • Michael Bozozuk student forum award for excellence in graduate student research in applied earth sciences
    March, 2019
  • Jagmohan Humar Graduate Student Fellowship, Carleton University
    April, 2019
  • International Doctoral Tuition Bursary, Carleton University
    2019-2020
  • Dr. Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan Engineering Research Award for best paper in Technological Advances in Science, Medicine, and Engineering conference (TASME 2021)
    2022