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Research Committee

Committee Heads:

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S.NO NAME DESIGNATION DEPARTMENT POSITION
1. Dr. S. Anandakumar Principal - Chairperson
2. Dr. S. Muruganandam Professor (S&H) Convenor
3. Dr. S. Ramamurthy Professor EEE Coordinator
4. Dr. S. Rajesh Professor Mech Member
5. Ar. M. Uma Chakravarthy Professor B. Arch Member
6. Dr. Sheryl Radley Professor IT Member
7. Dr. R.S. Muralitharan Associate Professor CIVIL Member
8. Dr. C.H. Sarada devi Associate Professor CSE Member
9. Dr. E. Hemavathi Associate Professor MBA Member
10. Dr. G. Brindha Associate Professor EIE Member
11. Dr. M. Anandha Lakshmi Associate Professor ECE Member
Functions of the 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.
About the Committee
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 year last month.
Roles & Responsibilities
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.
Total No. of Journals 2018-2024
Department Year 2024-25 Year 2023-24 Year 2022-23 Year 2021-22 Year 2020-21 Year 2019-20 Year 2018-19
Number of journals 03 32 39 41 18 30 17
Total No. of Journals 180

The total number of books and chapters in edited volumes/books published and papers published in national/ international conference proceedings.

  Year 2024-25 Year 2023-24 Year 2022-23 Year 2021-22 Year 2020-21 Year 2019-20 Year 2018-19
Number of Books, Chapters, Conferences 04 15 17 12 19 10 13
  Total No. of  Books, Chapters, Conferences 90  
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