Music
Professor Sandeep Bhagwati is a multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including six operas) have been performed by leading performers at leading venues and festivals worldwide. He has directed international music festivals and intercultural exchange projects with Indian and Chinese musicians and leading new music ensembles. He was Professor of Composition at Karlsruhe Music University and Composer-in-Residence at the IRCAM Paris, ZKM Karlsruhe, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, IEM Graz, CalArts Los Angeles, Heidelberg University and Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow.
As Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Arts at Concordia University from 2006-2016, Professor Bhagwati founded and currently directs matralab, a research/creation center for intercultural and interdisciplinary arts. His current work centers on comprovisation, inter-traditional aesthetics, the aesthetics of interdisciplinarity, gestural theatre, sonic theatre and interactive visual and non-visual scores, interdisciplinary 'comprovisation,' live-dramaturgy, and experimental performance topologies.
He has founded and is the musical director of three ensembles of trans-traditional experimental music in Montréal ("Ecstasies of Influence"), Berlin ("Extrakte") and Pune ("Sangeet Prayog"). He has worked with many of the leading musicians of our time, including Wu Wei, Catherine Milliken, Shubha Mudgal, Simon Rattle, Dhruba Ghosh, Dave Taylor, Uday Bhawalkar, Gebrüder Teichmann, Kiya Tabassian, Mark Applebaum, Aiyun Huang, Nicholas Isherwood, David Rosenboom, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, China Found Music Workshop, Ensemble Modern, Lori Freedman, Klangforum Wien, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Jieun Kang, Jocelyn Clarke, Marie Annick Beliveau, Lorraine Vaillancourt, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Ruzicka, Lau Bonitz, Moritz Ernst, Arraymusic, Bozzini Quartet, Sonar Quartett, Berner Streichquartett, etc. and with many artists in fields other than music.
Awards & Grants
1991 European Composition Prize (Academy of Arts Berlin)
1992 Ernst-von-Siemens Prize (for the A*devantgarde Festival)
1995 Cité des Arts Paris Bursary
1997 Residency at Fondation Royaumont (France)
1997 Residency at Abbaye de la Prée (France)
1998 Fellowship at ZKM Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe (Germany)
1999 Composer-in-Residence at Institute for Electronic Music Graz (Austria)
2000 Composer-in-Residence at Beethoven Orchestra Bonn (Germany)
2003 Composer-in-Residence at Darmstadt Spring Festival (Germany)
2003 Ernst-von-Siemens Prize (for the KlAngRiffe Festival)
2004 Composer-in-Residence at Villa Concordia Bamberg (Germany)
2006 Canada Research Chair Award
2006 Composer-in-Residence at "links - biennial for contemporary music" Heidelberg (Germany)
2007 Composer-in-Residence at California Institute for the Arts Los Angeles (USA)
2009 Guest Professor at the Centre for Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg (Germany)
2013/14 Guest Professor at the University of Arts UdK Berlin
2014 Composer-in-Residence, Time of Music Festival Viitasaari Finland
2015 Hind Rattan Award (Jewel of India Award)
Undergraduate courses
- ENGR 202: Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship
Introduction to the concept of sustainable development and the approaches for achieving it. Relationships with economic, social, and technological development. Methods for evaluating sustainability of engineering projects, including utilization of relevant databases and software. Impact of engineering design and industrial development on the environment.
Basic principles of thermodynamics and their application to various systems
composed of pure substances and their homogeneous non‑reactive mixtures. Simple power production and utilization cycles.
- BLDG 341: Building Engineering Systems
Introduction to systematic solution of building engineering problems. Techniques treated include linear programming, network analysis, nonlinear programming. Introduction to decision analysis and simulation. Application of optimization methods for solution of design problems in building science, building environment, building structures, and construction management, taking into account sustainability issues.
- ENGR/EMAT 391: Numerical Methods
Roots of algebraic and transcendental equations; function approximation; numerical differentiation; numerical integration; solution of simultaneous algebraic equations; numerical integration of ordinary differential equations
- BLDG 472: Building Energy Conservation Technologies
Standards of energy efficiency in buildings. Trends in energy consumption.
Energy audit: evaluation of energy performance of existing buildings, weather normalization methods, measurements, disaggregation of total energy consumption, use of computer models, impact of people behaviour. Energy efficiency measures in buildings: approaches, materials and equipments, operating strategies, evaluation methods of energy savings. Renewable energy sources: passive or active solar systems, geothermal systems, free‑cooling. Optimum selection of energy sources. Impact of emerging technologies.
- BLDG 479: Commissioning of HVAC systems in buildings
Introduction. Scope of commissioning of Heating, Ventilation, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning systems.
Commissioning, retro-commissioning,recommissioning, continuous commissioning, and ongoing commissioning. Process versus technical commissioning. Instrumentation for the monitoring of HVAC operation and performance. Uncertainty analysis of experimental data. Mathematical models of different classes of virtual sensors. Data mining techniques applied to measurements from HVAC systems. Development of benchmarking models of the normal HVAC operation: correlation-based models, Artificial Neural Networks, and calibrated models. Methods for the automated faults detection and diagnostic (FDD). Forecasting models of the energy demand in buildings. Recommissioning measures for HVAC systems. Methods of estimation of energy and cost savings due to the commissioning of HVAC systems.
- BLDG 490: Capstone Building Engineering Design Project
The project of each team encompasses the integrated design of at least three sub‑systems of a new or retro‑fitted building to achieve high performance and efficiency at reasonable cost; sustainable design and environmental impact issues are addressed in all projects. In the process, students learn, through case studies and literature survey, the information gathering and decision/design process, problem‑resolution as well as aspects related to management, teamwork and communication.
Graduate courses
- BLDG 6701: Building Environment
Design criteria of indoor environment. Assessment of thermal comfort and sensation. Mathematical models of thermal comfort: predictive models and adaptive models. Prediction of thermal sensation using: computer simulation, and measurements with thermal comfort meter. Verification of compliance with standards. Visual comfort. Standards for quality of visual environment. Calculation of photometric parameters. Preliminary design of the indoor lighting system. Evaluation of illuminance level using commercially available software packages. Acoustical comfort. Standards for quality of acoustical environment. Sound control measures through the design of buildings and HVAC systems.
- BLDG 6781: Energy Management in Buildings
Energy-related standards, codes and by-laws. Methods of assessment of the actual energy performance. Conventional and innovative measurement and analysis techniques. Energy-oriented renovation or replacement of building sub-systems (e.g., HVAC and lighting systems). Prediction of energy and cost savings using commercially available software packages. Verification of compliance with standards. Life cycle analysis.
