Department of Civil Engineering
Don Bosco College Of Engineering,
Fatorda, Margao,Goa- 403 602.
Tel No : (0832) 2741045/2743944
Fax : (0832)2742648
E-mail: vanessafernandes@dbcegoa.ac.in

Worked at National Institute of technology for 5 years.Also worked at Goa College of Engineering and Government Polytechnic Bicholim.In the industry worked at M/s Prabhugaonkar & Associated as a Consultants Project Engineer and M/s Saldanha Developers as a site Engineer.

• Geotechnical Engineering

• Attended webinar on Saving the ground beneath us:Tackling soil erosion in India,30th July 2025,organized by Maccaferri.
• Attended one day comprehensive workshop on Concrete Mix Design (Theory,Practice and Industrial Insights) on 18/10/2023 organised by Alcolab India LLP.
• Attended three days International conference on Climate resilient construction and building materials at NITK,Surathkal.
• Attended 3 days field training cum implementation workshop on coastal erosion control by bioengineering measures organised by National institute of Disaster management and Goa college of Engineering.
• Indo-Canadian Workshop on Interactive Design in Geotechnical Engineering: Theory to Practice, NITK Suratkal,IIT Kanpur, University of Ottawa.
• Participated in webinar on hydration and microstructure properties of nanosilica admixed cementations mortar organized by GEC on June 1st 2020.
• Participated in webinar on compaction and consolidation- theory and practical applications organized by Goa College of Engineering on 3rd June 2020.
• Participated  in  webinar  on  structural  health  monitoring  using piezosensors organized by GEC on 5th June 2020.
• Participated in two days National Webinar on pollution control and waste  management  organized  by  department  of  environmental engineering Kolhapur Institute of technology on 19th and 20th June 2020.
• Participated  in  one  day  National  workshop  on  advances  in waterproofing technologies organized by Indian Concrete Institute ,Goa on 16th Jan 2020.
• Symposium on recent advances in Sustainable Geotechnics at IIT Kanpur on 17th -20th Oct 2019.
• Attended seminar on improvements to engineering governance through common ethic standards and application of geosynthethics for various civil engineering disciplines organized by Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council hosted by The Institute of Civil Engineers(India) on Sept 27 2019.
• 2nd International Conference on Advances in concrete, Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (ACSGE 2018) at BITS Pilani Rajasthan on Feb 26th -28th 2018.

• Coordinated for short term training program on sustainable future on water resources and climate changes at NIT Goa
• Coordinated ATAL FDP program organized by NIT Goa.
• Organized guest lecture talk on Green Building by Prof.Vibhauri Shirodkar,Faculty GPP at
• NIT Goa.
• Organised guest lecture talk by Eminent speaker Prof.Amit Shrivas from NICMAR institute on challenging Engineering,scopes,career opportunities and different software in construction field conducted at NIT Goa
• Organized guest lecture talk by speaker Er Prashant Pawar on Engineers Day at NIT Goa.

• Vanessa Fernnades and Purnanand Savoikar,”Erosion control by bioengineering measures”,International conference on Climate resilient construction and building materials at NITK,Surathkal MAR 2023.
• Vanessa Fernnades and Purnanand Savoikar, “Erosion studies in lateritic soil”, Indian
• Geotechnical Conference at Cochin,Dec 15-17,2022 DEC 2022
• Vanessa Fernnades and Purnanand Savoikar, “Soil nailing for slope strengthening and design”, 2nd   International Conference, BITS Pilani.
• Vanessa Fernnades and Purnanand Savoikar, “Sustainability and its impacts in Geotechnical Engineering”, Symposium on Recent Advances in Sustainable Geotechnics  IGS Kanpur Chapter 17-20 October 2019, IIT Kanpur, India.
• Vanessa Fernnades and Purnanand Savoikar, “Advances in soil nailing”, International conference, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala on 27th& 28th February 2017
• Praveen Mhaddolkar, Vanessa Fernandes, Amit Salamwade, Shraddha Naik, Diksha Talkar, Shwetha Prasanna,, “Measurement and estimation of Saturated hydraulic conductivity of soil”, Proceedings of Conference on Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics, CoNMiG-2017, held at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
• Leonardo Souza,Vanessa Fernandes, Purnanand Savoikar, “Goa-Saraswat Style Bunds As A Geotechnique for Lowland Reclamation”, International Conference on GEOTECHNIQUES FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS 27th & 28th February 2017, Thiruvananthapuram.

• Member of “Indian Geotechnical society”- LM-5078

9.00 am To 5.00 pm [on prior appointment]

• Material testing Lab
• Geotechnical lab
• Transportation Lab
• Environmental Lab