Goa Chapter of Indian Geotechnical Society and Civil Engineering Department of Goa Engineering College conducted the First prestigious Dr. Victor deMello Goa Lecture and seminar on Soil Investigations and Forensic Engineering on 29th April 2017 at Goa Engineering College, Farmagudi. The first Dr. Victor deMello lecture was presented by Prof. Madhira Madhav, Professor Emeritus IIT Hyderabad and JNTU on the topic “Carrying Capacity of Foundations on and in the Ground”.