Research and Development Committee Members

The Roles and Responsibilities of R&D committee are:

• To prepare annual research activity plan for all the departments.
• To establish liaison with near and far industry and identify the technological challenges being faced by them.
• Take up appropriate problems of the industry for finding solutions through R&D projects assigned to faculty and students.
• Explore technological developmental opportunities in common application areas such as transport, traffic regulation, security, healthcare etc. and assign them to faculty and students.
• To initiate and promote MoU with industries and R&D organizations for consultancy, collaborative research, sponsored projects, industry and Institute interactions etc.
• To arrange brainstorming sessions through talks by eminent personalities from industry, R& D organizations and institutions of repute for the better understanding of research methodology and practices currently followed.
• To support faculty for delivering talks at different events and conducting workshops, training programs, seminars, conferences, symposia and faculty development programs.
• To keep everyone informed about announcements by various funding agencies like DST, DAE, DRDO, ISRO, CSIR, AICTE, UGC and University etc.
• To motivate students for presenting papers in National and International conferences and projects in competitions and exhibitions like AVISHKAR at university level. Interdepartmental / collaborative work to be encouraged.
• To monitor progress of the research and development activity.

Recommendations of Committee for implementation and their Impact are:

• Publications in Research Journals.
• Research Proposals for different funding agencies.
• Participation and Organizing Conferences, Workshops and STTP/FDP.
• Participation in Collaborative Research work, e.g. VAP /Industrial Training.
• Encouragement for Higher Education.
• Signing MOU with Industries and Research Organization.

Initiatives taken to inculcate the spirit of research amongst faculty and students are as Follows

Following research policy was framed.

• Incentives are provided for publications.
• Facilities such as flexibility in timings, use of laboratories etc are extended to faculty as per requirement.
• Implementing a policy for distribution of testing and consultancy charges to motivate faculty for providing consultancy.
• Faculty with an aptitude for research is identified.
• An initiative is taken by Library to help researchers in understanding recent updates of their publications in terms of citation index, h-index, etc.
• In house Project development.

Entrepreneurship Development Cell

This cell is headed by Dr.S.Kandasamy It helps student community to conduct research work and survey for identifying entrepreneurial opportunities Functions To invite eminent personalities from small and large industries and organize seminars and workshops with them. To motivate students to become entrepreneurs.

 Functions

• To invite eminent personalities from small and large industries and organize seminars and workshops with them.
• To motivate students to become entrepreneurs

 Collaborative Research Activities:

Total Grants for research projects sponsored by the non-government sources such as industry, corporate houses, international bodies, endowments, Chairs in the institution year-wise during the last five years(INR in Lakhs)