Research & Development Cell

VISION:

  • Evolve into a Centre of Excellence for Research in Meenakshi College of Engineering.

MISSION:

  • The research department strives to create a strong sense of community, provide a variety of engaging and enriching opportunities for staff/students and to prepare the students for research carriers.
  • Attaining academic excellence through well designed curriculum flexible to dynamic technological needs, competent faculty and innovative research-learning process.
  • Promoting collaborative research through special interest groups, state of the Madras university, Anna University, IIT and CICRI research labs.
  • We should conduct the research meeting to every academic years last month.

FUNCTION OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

  • The R&D cell was established to promote and monitor the development of research activities of the college.
  • The R & D cell motivates the students in research activities, by providing the required training and suggestion.
  • The R & D cell aims to nurture the research culture in the institute by promoting research in newly emerging and challenging areas of engineering and technology.
  • It encourages the students and faculty to undertake research in newly emerging and challenging areas of engineering and technology, including multidisciplinary fields.
  • To monitor progress of the research and development activity.

Roles and Responsibilities of the committee members:

Committee coordinator:

  • Conduct meetings with committee members in order to implement the current trends in engineering discipline.
  • To organize research-based programs to build an effective relationship among students, faculty and industry.
  • To identify the interdisciplinary research proposal from faculty and students.
  • To co-ordinate the faculty and students to conduct the research and development activity.

Faculty coordinator:

  • To invite the resource person to conduct research-based programs.
  • Introduce new concepts to students in different domains.
  • Contribute active participation in research to publish the paper.
  • To conduct research and development activities.

Student coordinator:

  • Identify the students to crack new ideas in their projects.
  • Follow the directions of faculty to execute the research-based projects.
  • To help the faculty members with organizing different events in R & D.
  • Identify the students having relationships with other departments to do research proposal.
  • To follow up and implement the instructions given by coordinator and faculty members of the committee.
NAME
DESIGNATION
Chairperson: Dr. R. Ganesan Principal
Dr. S. Muruganandam Convener Asso.Professor/(S&H)
Dr. S. Rajesh Members Professor/Mech
Dr. S. Ramamurthy Members Professor/EEE
Dr. D. Muralitharan Members Asso.Professor/CIVIL
Dr. Sheryl Radley Members Asso.Professor/ECE
Dr. C. H. Sarada devi  Members Asso.Professor/CSE
Dr. E. Hemavathi Members Asso.Professor/MBA
Mr. M Uma Chakkaravarthy Members HOD/B. Arch

The total number of research papers published per teacher in the journals notifiedon UGC care list during the last five years are listed below.

Year

2022-23

2021-22

2020-21

2019-20

2018-19

Number of journals

39

41

18

30

17

Total No. of Journals

145

The total number of books and chapters in edited volumes/books published and papers published in national/ international conference proceedings per teacher during last five years.

Year

2022-23

2021-22

2020-21

2019-20

2018-19

Number of Books, Chapters, Conferences

17

12

19

10

13

Total No. of  Books, Chapters, Conferences

71

Grants received from Government for research projects (2018-2023)

  S.NO   Name of the research project/ endowment   Name of the Principal Investigator/Co-investigator   Amount Sanctioned   Name of the Funding Agency
  1 User friendly functional simulation tool development through experimental validation for integration of PCM in energy efficient buildings for thermal management Dr.N.B.Geetha 10,50,000 Ministry of Science and Technology
  2 GSM Based Fire Fighting Robot Mrs.N.P.G.Bhavani 7,500 Tamilnadu State Council For Science and  Technology
  3 Solar Powered Awos For Airports With Voice Over Communication Mrs.R.Anandha Praba 7,25,000 Electrosolar Solutions, Chennai
  4 Maximum Demand Controller With Energy Management System.  Iot / Voice/ Tripping/Data Logger/Annunciator Facility Dr.S. Ramamurthy 7,75,000 V.K.T. Ginning Mills, salem