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.
Chairperson: Dr. R. Ganesan | Principal | |
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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 |