R&D

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CELL

Institutes should have separate R&D cell. The R&D cell comprises of faculty members from various departments of the Institute. This committee oversees the smooth and efficient coordination of research and development activities in the Institute, thus fostering overall growth. A senior faculty heads this cell in the capacity of Dean (R&D), with the Principal presiding over.

In all disciplines of technical education, knowledge is dynamic with new technologies being introduced very frequently. In this scenario, it is not possible for the teachers to deliver good quality instructions without being tuned to the current developments in the subjects, for which they must constantly update their knowledge.

A well recognized way to deal with this paradigm is for the teachers to be active researchers in the areas in which they interested. As researchers, they need to understand the past and recent developments in their subject areas. Many high ranking Universities / Institutions in the world (Berkely, MIT, Cornell, Stanford, Princeton etc.) and India (IITs, IISc, IIITs, NITs etc.) exhibit a very high correlation between quality teaching and R & D activities. Even among the affiliated colleges, those which have Ph.D. faculty on their rolls and are engaged in R & D activities are regarded as good colleges.

TKREC recognized the importance of R&D in the vertical growth of the institution and established the R&D cell to focus on the scientific and industrial research in the various disciplines of Engineering. The TKREC R&D cell is a nominated committee consisting of Professors from various programs of Engineering. The organizational structure consists of Advisor, Chairman, Dean and Coordinators for facilitating the routine functioning of the cell.

R & D 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)