Ranjan , Sri Ranjan
( he/him )
Title/Position
Dr. (Ranjan) Sri Ranjan is a Professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering at the University of Manitoba teaching and doing research in water management since 1990. He completed his PhD (1989) and MS (1986) degrees from Colorado State University, USA. He is a registered professional engineer.
Dr. Sri Ranjan has been conducting irrigation and drainage research in fully instrumented fields in Manitoba and helping farmers see the benefits of advanced water management techniques through computer modelling and simulation using long-term weather data. He is a pioneer in testing controlled drainage with subirrigation in his research plots in Manitoba showing the economic and environmental benefits. He has been designing aeroponic systems to promote urban and northern agriculture. He holds many competitive grants, including NSERC, and has published over 140 papers at national and international journals and conference proceedings and made over 30 invited presentations in Canada, the USA, India, China, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. He has four patents on electronic instruments that were designed to improve water management at the field level.
