Aditanar college of arts and science
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3.3 Research Facilities 3.3.1 What are the research facilities available to the students and research scholars within the campus? Four departments viz., English, Economics, Mathematics and Chemistry are recognized as research centres for doctoral studies. Crystal Growth Centre is established which carries out crystal growth research. Three separate rooms are allotted for doing major research projects in our college. Internet facility is used by our research scholars. The library is equipped with research journals and Back volumes. Our college provides free access to UGC N-LIST e- resources to all our research scholars. We have four Research departments in Mathematics, Economics, Chemistry and English. In all the other UG Departments and Part-I Tamil department part-time research scholars are being guided by our research guides. Twenty Two faculty members of our college are guiding 126 Ph.D, scholars. 3.3.2 What are the institutional strategies for planning, upgrading and creating infrastructural facilities to meet the needs of researchers especially in the new and emerging areas of research? The institution plans, upgrades and creates infrastructural facilities to meet the needs of the researchers.
Our institution plans to upgrade PG departments into research centres. Upgradation The Department of English was upgraded into a research centre in the year 2012. The Department of Zoology introduced M. Phil., course in the year 2013 to promote research activities.
For the major research project of Dr. P. Selvarajan, Associate Professor of Physics, a separate air conditioned room is given. For the major projects of Dr. C.P.Balakrishnan, Associate Professor of Botany, a separate room is allotted near Sivanthi Community Radio and all the necessary facilities are provided in that room. For the major project of Dr. P. Subramanian, Head, and Associate Professor of Chemistry, a separate room is provided in the department itself. Further, in the Physics Department a separate room (Crystal Growth Centre) has been provided to facilitate crystal growth research, in which many scholars are doing M. Phil., and Ph. D. Many research journals and periodicals are available in the library. Besides, the library provides free access to UGC N-LIST e-resources to all our faculty and research scholars. 3.3.3 Has the institution received any special grants or finances from the industry or other beneficiary agency for developing research facilities?? If ‘yes’, what are the instruments / facilities created during the last four years. Our institution has not received any special grants or finances from the industry or other beneficiary agency for developing research facilities. 3.3.4 What are the research facilities made available to the students and research scholars outside the campus / other research laboratories?
All the Departments have linkages with other research centres, institutes and laboratories and are made available to the students and research scholars. The Chemistry Department maintains a link with the School of chemistry, Madurai Kamaraj University. The Commerce Department maintains a link with the Research centre in commerce, Scott Christian College, Nagercoil for carrying out research. The Physics Department of our college has a link with the Crystal Growth Centre of Anna University, Chennai. The Department of Zoology has a link with the Fisheries college, Thoothukudi, Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve and Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology for project guidance and references. The Department of Mathematics has linkage with Ramanujam Mathematical Research Centre, Saraswathi Narayanan College, Madurai. 3.3.5 Provide details on the library/ information resource centre or any other facilities available specifically for the researchers? Library Resources Details of Research Journals, Back volumes and Dissertations available in the library are given below:
Other facilities Our college has very good laboratories and sophisticated instruments for doing research. Our College management has permitted the research scholars to come and work at any time in our college. Our college has four research centres. In all the centres the research scholars work even on holidays. Our college research committee takes care of promoting research activities in our college. They help the faculty in getting projects.
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Dr.C.Velayutham, Associate professor of Computer Science, in his Ph.D thesis entitled “Mammogram Image Analysis using Rough Set Theory” has proposed a novel relative dependency measure using the Rough Set Theory (RST) for the identification of the pectoral muscle in Medio-Lateral Oblique (MLO) view of mammograms. This technique will help in the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer increasing the mammogram accuracy.
Dr. D. Vasumathi, Assistant Professor of Zoology received Rs. 7,78,000 from the Department of Science and Technology for doing a project on “Women and Child Health and Nutrition” for the period 2009 – 2010. Women community will be benefitted by this project. Mr. M. Kamalraj, Head & Associate Professor of Economics did a survey on Self Help Groups (SHG) in Thoothukudi District, Tamil Nadu during the year 2011 under the UGC XI Plan (P.G.) Economics grant and gave a lot of suggestions to the Government to empower the women in Thoothukudi District. An Economic survey of the performance of “Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in Thoothukudi District – Tamil Nadu” was conducted by Dr. A. Challadurai, Head, Associate Professor of Economics, during the year 2012 under the UGC XI Plan (P.G.) Economics grant. The field work done came out with appropriate strategies to tackle poverty, issues related to poverty, ways and means of reducing the income inequalities and to generate new employment opportunities in the rural areas. Research inputs contributing to new initiatives and social development A three day training programme sponsored by TNSCST on “Vermi Composting” for women Self Help Group was conducted by the Zoology Department from 19th to 21st August 2010. This helped self help group women to get training on Vermi Composting. A three day training programme sponsored by TNSCST on "Dissemination on Innovative Technology - Bioplastics from Fish scales" was conducted by the Zoology Department from 15 to 17 April 2014. This new technology will immensely benefit Self Help Group women and students to become self-employed. 3.4.2 Does the Institute publish or partner in publication of research journal(s)? If ‘yes’, indicate the composition of the editorial board, publication policies and whether such publication is listed in any international database? No. The institution is neither a publisher nor a partner in the publication of research journals. However, Dr.P.Subramaniam is in the Editorial Team of an International Journal titled, “Journal of Catalyst & Catalysis”, Dr.R.Babu Sivaraja Kirubanithi, Dr.K.Thanikasalam, and Mr. T. Paulpandian , of the Department of English are editors and publishers of an e-journal namely JELTALS. Further Dr. A. Soundrarajan, Associate Professor of Commerce is the member of the Advisory Board in the journal of Business Management studies (SMART) (ISSN: 0973 1578). Dr. S.Narayanarajan is an editor of ‘Bulletin of Social Sciences’ (ISSN: 2348 7992). Dr.P.Selvarajan is an editor of ‘World Journal of Science and Technology’, ‘International Journal of Simulation in Physics’ and ‘Recent Research in Science and Technology’.
Details of publications by our faculty, and publications listed in international database are given below:
Details of publications of our faculty with impact factors, h-index, and ICV are given below:
3.4.4 Provide details (if any) of
Dr.T.Balu, Associate Professor of Physics got best oral presentation award for the paper entitled “Investigation of the FTIR, Thermal and Mechanical Properties of L-Araginine doped ZTC Crystals” presented in the ‘National Seminar on Advances in Physics – 2011’ held at Manonmanium sundaranar University, Tirunelveli on 10 & 11 Mar 2011. Mr.V.Natarajan, Assistant Professor of Physics, was invited to make a collaborative research work at Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Japan as Visiting Researcher to do research in the field of “In-Situ observation of Crystal growth from melt” during the period from 1 May to 29 June 2011. Dr.B.Annadurai, Associate Professor of Physics, was awarded “Fellow of Hind Agri-horticultural Society (FHAS)” at Fifth Annual General body meeting held at Muzaffarnagar on 3 Dec 2011. Dr.P.Selvarajan, Associate Professor in Physics and Research Scholar, D.Shanthi got first prize and awarded the Pandian Scientific Tamil Award for the paper “Nano Ariviyulum athan payangalum” presented in the 20th Scientific Tamil National Seminar held at Tamil University, Tanjavur on 27.10.2012 and 28.10.2012. Dr.K.Kathireson, Assistant Professor in Tamil got second prize and awarded the Dr.Aruna Rajagopal Science Tamil Award for the paper entitled “Ariviyulukku Moolam Illakkiyankala” presented in the 20th Scientific Tamil National Seminar held at Tamil University, Tanjavur on 27.10.2012 and 28.10.2012. Dr.P.Selvarajan, Associate Professor in Physics and Research Scholar, D.Shanthi got the Best paper Award for their paper entitled ‘Unidirectional growth of Beta-alaninium Picrtate single crystal by SR method & its characterization” in the 18th National Seminar on Crystal Growth, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai during 24-26, Feb 2014.
Dr. A. Soundrarajan, Associate Professor in Commerce, is the member of Advisory Board in the journal of Business studies - (SMART). Mr.C.P.Balakarishnan, Assistant Professor of Botany is a treasurer of International journals namely “Seaweed research”
The policy of the Management is to encourage the staff members by giving a gold coin weighing 4 grams of pure gold for getting major projects from any funding agency. Our Management felicitates the teachers who have successfully completed their Ph.D., by honouring them with a ‘Silver Kuthuvilakku’ during the college day function. Further, if the faculty receives any ‘Research Award’, they are honoured by the management on the College Day. 3.5 Consultancy 3.5.1 Give details of the systems and strategies for establishing institute-industry interface? Academic projects, Industrial visits and Guest lectures are the strategies we use to establish institute-industry interface.
Institution-industry interface is established through inviting eminent personalities from the nearby leading industries so as to enhance the technical knowledge of the students. 3.5.2 What is the stated policy of the institution to promote consultancy? How is the available expertise advocated and publicized? The policy of the institution is to provide the necessary opportunities and facilities for the staff members to promote consultancy. Once a faculty is awarded a Ph.D., it is uploaded in the college website so that the faculty’s expertise can be made use of. Sivanthi Academy, an extension service centre of our management publicizes our staff members’ profile and their consultancy role. 3.5.3 How does the institution encourage the staff to utilize their expertise and available facilities for consultancy services? Our institution has created an impression in the minds of the consumers , whoever he may be, that the faculty of Aditanar college will always be ready to share their expertise free of cost . The faculty of our college acts upon the need of the beneficiary immediately. It so happens that so far the expertise of our faculty has been mostly utilized only academically. 3.5.4 List the broad areas and major consultancy services provided by the institution and the revenue generated during the last four years. As our college is situated in a rural and backward area, our expertise is not utilized commercially, even though the faculty is fully prepared to meet any kind of demand. Paid consultancy is not permitted by the Government. So the consultancy is carried out only on honourary basis. The consultancy offered by our college faculty is given below:
3.5.5 What is the policy of the institution in sharing the income generated through consultancy (staff involved: Institution) and its use for institutional development The institution does not generate revenue through consultancy services. Yüklə 5,95 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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