The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT Madras) was founded in the year 1959. It is situated in the south Indian City Chennai (formerly known as Madras). The institute is a self-contained, beautiful, green residential campus of about 250 hectares with all the modern amenities and support services. The conference will be organized by Department of Ocean Engineering & IOE Center of Excellence Maritime Experiments to Maritime Experience (ME2ME), which are center of excellence in the field of coastal, ocean, port engineering, inland navigation, sedimentation problems and Naval Architecture.