Research & Development
About
Research is the back bone of academics. For the promotion of research, institute has Research and Development Cell which aims to nurture research culture in the College by promoting research in newly emerging and challenging frontier areas of Engineering, Technology, Science and Humanities.
It encourages the students and faculty to undertake the research in newly emerging frontier areas including multidisciplinary fields. This enhances the general research capability of budding technocrats by way of participating in conferences, seminars, workshops, project competition, etc.
The Research and Development Cell is functioning with the following objectives:
- To create awareness and opportunities in Research and Development among the faculty and students and to create Research and Development atmosphere in every department
- To create atmosphere among the staff members to take up Research projects and improve their knowledge, skills and qualifications by registering Ph. D‘s
- To motivate the faculty members of the group for R&D activities in the area of their specialization
- To encourage staff members and students to publish technical papers for publishing in National and reputed International Conferences/ Journals
- To undertake research activities and development projects offered by agencies such as DRDO,RCI, DST, AICTE, UGC, etc
- To assist for applying and getting funds for conducting Seminar/Workshop/FDP from various available funding agencies
- To facilitate the growth of research activity among the academic community
- To coordinate faculty level workshops and staff development activities on research-related issue.
In order to promote research and development activities, the institute extends its full support to students/ faculty/ staff. Full/Partial financial support is given to all innovative research & development works taken up by the students, faculty and staff members. The college encourages students, faculty and staff to participate in National/International Conferences, Training programs.
The institution has a research and development committee in addition to state of art technology R & D cell facilities to facilitate and monitor research activities. The faculty as well as students is actively engaged in reactivity & other research projects.
R & D Committee
The Institute has a Research & Development Committee comprising of the following members
Functions of Research & Development Committee
- To make the institute as a Research Centre of affiliating University / Other organizations
- To address the issues of research
- To suggest recommendations with their impact
- To provide autonomy to the Principal investigators as per the guidelines provided by the funding authorities
- To encourage /motivate faculty to take research initiatives in the department.
- To provide adequate infrastructure and support in terms of technology and information needs
- Facilitating timely auditing and submission of utilization certificates
- To create awareness among the students and faculty on the culture of research and aptitude
- To obtain information once in three months in the prescribed format on faculty involvement on guiding students, paper publications, research projects from external funding agencies and involving in collaborative research activity
- To conduct/ participate in workshops, training programs and sensitization programs on capacity building in terms of research and consultancy and imbibing research culture among staff and students
- Arranging guest lecturers under Institute-Industry-Interaction programs to promote research on industry needs
- Modernizing the existing laboratories with additional experimental set ups/ instruments and technology for utilizing the labs for research activity
- To depute senior faculty to various research organizations for getting collaborative projects and adopting best practices
- To provide the facility to the faculty in the form of incentives, sabbatical leaves, academic leaves for improving their qualification and quality of research
- To provide the budget for in-house R & D projects mentioning the guidelines and targets to achieve the expected outcome of the projects proposed
- Sponsoring faculty and students to present papers at National /International
conferences as per the stipulated guidelines mentioned in the Quality Document of the institute - To appoint part-time Research Advisors for promoting the quality of research and guidance for applying for projects
