Prof Sharadkumar P. Purohit along with his colleague Prof. Arth Patel and his M. Tech. (CASAD) student Mr. Vardhan Garg has been awarded Sir Arthur Cotton Memorial Prize for publishing the paper titled “Experimental Investigations on Axial-Flexural Behavior of Slender Concrete Filled Steel Tabular Columns” with the Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, Volume 103, Issue 4, pp. 1089-1100, 2022 by The Institution of Engineers (India) during 38th Indian Engineers Congress held at Hotel Royal Orbit, Jabalpur on 27/12/2023.