Research & Development

Research is the back bone of academics. For the promotion of research, institute has Research and Development Cell.

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Projects

Publications

Patents

R&D Cell Overview

R&D 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.

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.

Committee

Name	Designation	CRC
Dr. E. Sai Baba Reddy	Principal	Chairman
Dr.A.Padmaja	Dean	Vice-Chairman
Dr V V Satyanarayana	Prof Mechanical	Member
Dr. D. Aruna Kunari	Prof CSE & HOD	Coordinator R & D
Dr B Vijayakumar	Prof CSE	Member
Dr. K. Vasanth	Prof ECE	Member
Dr. Ravi Mathey	Prof CSE	Member
Dr. A. Srujana	Prof EEE & HOD	Member
Dr. Pallavi Badry	Prof Civil &HOD	Member
Dr. G. Sreeram Reddy	Prof Mech & COE	Member
Dr. M. N. Rao	Prof IT	Member
Dr . Mr. M. Rajendra Prasad	Prof ECE & HOD	Member
Dr. P. Chakradhar	MBA HOD	Member
Dr D. B.G.Reddy	Prof EEE	Member
Dr. A. Obuleshu	Prof AI & HOD	Member
Dr. P. Ganesan	Prof ECE	Member
Dr. C. N. Ravi	Prof EEE	Member
Dr. Kamalini Devi	Assoc.Professor Civil	Member
Dr. P. N. Suresh	Prof H&S	Member
Dr. V. Phaneendra	Prof MECH	Member
Dr. M. Hari Krishna	Prof EEE	Member

Advisory Committee

Name of the Faculty	Designation
Dr D Aruna Kumari	Chairperson
Dr Pallavi B	Member 1
Dr V V Satyanarayana	Member 2

R&D Hierarchy

Roles and Responsibilities of R & D Cell

The Role of R & D Cell:

To enhance the Research Ecosystem of the college
To promote Academic Research in the college with Faculty and students
To preserve the Code of ethics of the college while publishing
To help the faculty in applying for funds in the form of Sponsored research / Grants from government and non government agencies
To pave path for the teachers, students and researchers to collaborate for research

Responsibilities of R & D Cell:

To help faculty, researchers and students to know research methodology
Methodology to develop projects
Process of converting projects into prototype and in turn into products
Enhancing their knowledge on Intellectual property rights and Patents
Preserve code of ethics while publishing papers / thesis
Conduct skill development courses that enhancing the capability of students and faculty

Guidelines of Research Advisory Board Committee

Selection Criteria for Research Advisory Board Member
Boards are selected with the goal of creating a balanced working group based on experience level, industry sector, geographic location and area of expertise. Considerations for selection include:

Long-term or widely recognized excellence in academia or practice.
Professional experience and knowledge of privacy and data protection laws, regulations, policies, procedures, best practices and theory.

2. Duties & Responsibilities

The Committee will:

Undertake timely, extensive review of projects from time to time
Establish policies and guidelines as deemed fit for pursuing research
Establish the grant application document
Participate in meetings/teleconferences as called by the Chair/Support Chair;
Submit feedbacks and updates to the Chair/Support Chair.
Sanction project proposals for Seed funding

The Chairperson will:

Chair the meetings and delegate responsibilities;
Review the agenda and minutes for each meeting;
provide written feedback to funding recommendations submitted by students and Faculty
Report to the Board via the R & D cell in charge on the final research priorities to support e. the supporting chair will step in to the role of the chair should the chair refuse or unable to full-fill duties effectively and in the same token, the chair may assign another support chair should the support chair be inefficient.

Members of The Committee:

A Senior Professor who will chair the committee co chaired with two professors who are expertise in the research and Development

Functions

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

Incentives for Publications

In order to motivate the faculty members towards research and publishing their research findings in reputed journals with impact factor, incentives are given to faculty members.