9. R&D activities

9. R&D ACTIVITIES
The R&D cell has been actively involved in promoting research among the faculty members. It is working closely with the student innovation club to identify and engage in novel projects that benefit society at large.
Science Academies’ Summer Research Fellowships - 2012

Summer Research fellowships 2012, sponsored by the 3 National Science academies

1. 
   Indian Academy of Science (IASc), Bangalore,
   
2. 
   Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi,
   
3. 
   The National Academy of Sciences India (NASI), Allahabad,
   

offers 2 months summer fellowship to enable the students and teachers to work with scientist associated with these three academies.

In this academic year 2 of our faculty members Prof. V. Sujatha and Prof. T. Ferdinant from CSE department are selected and sponsored Rs. 20,000/- each to work in a project as SRF along with a scientist.

1. 
   Prof. V. Sujatha, Dept.of CSE has been selected to work with the scientist Prof. Balakrishnan at India Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
   

2. 
   Prof. T. Ferdinant, Dept. of CSE have been selected to work with the scientist Prof. Goutham K. Dass at India Institute of Technology (IIT), Gowahati.
   

Sponsorship Received for Organizing Technical Programmes

In this Academic year, a total of 21, 70, 000 has been received from funding agencies like AICTE, CSIR and DRDO to organize research programme.

The details are

• 
  AICTE has sponsored 13,00,000/- towards Modernization of Thermal Lab.
  
• 
  AICTE has sponsored 8,00,000/- towards Entrepreneur Development Cell for its development and for organizing EDC programmes.
  
• 
  CSIR has sponsored 30,000/- towards IT department for organizing National Conference.
  

Various project proposals worth 1,38,20,000/-(One Crore Thirty Eight Lakhs and Twenty thousand) were submitted to funding agencies like AICTE, DST, DIT, DRDO,DOTE,CSIR, TNSCST &SCRC-DST.

ANNEXURE 8
Consultancy works

In this academic year totally 7 consultancy works have been carried out by CSE, ECE and Mechanical Engineering Departments. Notably the Department of Computer Science & Engineering has developed consultancy projects for Exam Cell Seating arrangement, Automation of Student’s Feedback, Mess Inventory control, Online test quiz Bio-metric Authenticated Attendance project. By this consultancy work revenue of 1,50,000/-