R & D

Research Promotion Policy

The activities that are to be carried out to improve the research performance of the Institute are:

The reputation and success of any education institution highly depends on attaining its objectives by aligning the faculty towards research initiatives and relevant activities. SRGEC committed in pursuit of excellence in research and aims to achieve national and international recognition through inter departmental and inter institutional collaborative research activities. The research promotion policy aims to help SRGEC and its faculty achieve excellence and contribute to organizations and society. The faculty and students are encouraged to carry out research activities in the respective domains and interdisciplinary areas with a set of guidelines. The institute undertakes a wide range of activities that broaden the horizons of knowledge and expertise in engineering and technology to create and sustain a conducive environment.

This Research Promotion policy provides a broad framework to guide and promote research consultancy and Innovations while upholding the code of ethics.
The main objectives of the research promotion policy are as follows:

  • To promote and accelerate quality research within the institute and in collaboration with industry, other institutes and R&D organizations.
  • To promote Innovation and consultancy activities through development of Research Centres and Centres of Excellence.
  • To integrate Teaching and Research.
  • To promote generation of intellectual capital.
  • To activate Incubation centres and see that the products so emanate march ahead towards commercialization.
  • To ensure integrity, quality and ethics in research.

Promotion of Research

The activities that are to be carried out to improve the research performance of the Institute are:

  • To develop and enhance the institute’s research capacities.
  • To motivate all faculties to pursue research in their respective areas of expertise.
  • To protect and commercialize the Institute’s intellectual property.
  • To take care of Consultancy activities related to R&D.
  • To provide research and development opportunities for faculty and students
  • To provide necessary facilities, infrastructure and a promising environment to promote research, consultancy, innovation and intellectual capital.
  • To establish research and development priorities; and monitoring the quality and quantity of school research and development.
  • To disburse Institute Research Funds to established researchers, both individually and in group, including research infrastructure, seed money grants to initiate the research culture across the all departments.
  • To identify the emerging areas and promote the research culture.
  • To organise quality of research programs like international conference, workshops and so on  including training to research scholars.
  • To foster the development of multi-disciplinary and collaborative research 
  • To encourage excellence and productivity by maintaining a database of research and development activities.
  • To monitor adherence to code of research ethics for the responsible practice of research.
  • To formulate incentive schemes for  teachers and student scholars for promoting research activities 
  • To fortify the resource base including advanced books, high rated journals and periodical in the central library such that exposure of the students and faculty stands at expected level.
  • To include and upgrade research component in the UG and PG curriculum in several forms which include Term paper with dynamic progression, field projects, Research methodology related tasks, etc.
  • To encourage students to do research projects even interdisciplinary and publish papers.
  • To form research groups to promote research in thrust areas.
  • To conduct regularly Scholarly Communication Programs to make faculty learn how to write research papers/articles.
  • To encourage the  faculty regularly to
    • Publish research papers
    • Apply research proposals
    • Apply for patents
    • Do collaborative research with other external people.
    • Establish research labs
    • Attend conferences/ seminars as participants/session chairs
    • Act as a editorial member

Research Facilities:

Institute always provides all the necessary infrastructural facilities, financial support (seed money for in-house R&D projects) and conducive environment to carryout research. The facilities to conduct the research is continuously procured either through seed money in the name of internal R & D or through funded agencies or through a separate budget. Improvement of research facilities has led to the recognition of research centers by the affiliating university.

Research Centres and Centres of  Excellence

They act as platforms to conduct research activities by the faculty and the students in the form of project works.

  • Departments are encouraged to get recognized by the affiliating university as Research Centre with PhD scholars being admitted and making sustained efforts for fruitful research outcomes.
  • Institute provides necessary facilities required to carry out the non-funded research work in the research centers.
  • Relevant efforts are made by each department to excel in one focused area and get recognized as ‘Center of Excellence’. The institute supports in this process through research funds.

Innovation and Incubation Centre
Incubation Centre of the college endeavours to enable the young minds to transform their innovative ideas with multidisciplinary expertise into viable business propositions which serve the local problems also.  The primary objectives of the Incubation Centre are:

  • To create physical infrastructures, space and support systems necessary for business incubation activities.
  • To facilitate networking with professional resources, which include mentors, experts, consultants and advisors for the incubate companies.
  • To introduce new value added courses and conduct workshops and training programs that promotes students towards innovation and entrepreneurship.
  • To provide links to higher education resources that help promote and facilitate knowledge creation, innovation and entrepreneurship activities.
  • To award new and innovative ideas and reward participation in commercialization of product.

Seed Money Funding for Research

Faculty members are motivated to submit the project proposals at the beginning of every academic year, to render a shape to their innovative idea. All the proposals are scrutinized  by research advisory committee and feasible proposals are approved by granting seed money from in-house R&D budget.

  • The seed funding is the system in which  faculty are encouraged to undertake research with certain basic grant released by the institution to procure new equipment /instruments, etc or to meet expenses on fabrication.
  • The very concept or process is to offer a fundamental hand-holding in research in order that the  faculty expand their proposal and obtain funded projects.
  • In addition, Student projects leading to innovative model development are financially supported either partially or fully based on the quality of the project.
  • Separate budgetary proposal are made to meet the above financial requirements in the form of ‘Seed Funding for  Research’/In house R&D project.

Intellectual Property Rights
The college aims at strengthening its research leading to filing patents.

  • Submission of Patent application to the relevant registry by the faculty and/or students 
  • Incorporating Institutional affiliation in mandatory for submission of Patent claims/proposals either to Indian offices or to overseas establishments/registries.
  • Patent filing by research in rewarded.
  • In case of Commercialization of the patent, the revenue so generated is shared by the college and the Researcher on a ratio fixed from time to time.

Incentives for promoting Research
The institute encourages quality research in different fields of engineering and in particular, the thrust areas identified by the departments. As part of this, the quality research work done by faculty, scholars and students is recognized and the institute prepared a scheme for providing incentives to quality research publications and involvement in sponsored projects and other related research activities. It also allows faculty to visit industries, research centers, conferences and symposiums, either to enhance their interaction with external world or to know latest trends in technology or to get ideas from them.

Journal Publications:

  1. SCI/SCI-E Journal Publication (Impact factor 5.0 and above)    : Rs. 10,000/- per paper
  2. SCI/SCI-E Journal Publication (Impact factor 3.0 to 5.0)    : Rs. 8,000/- per paper
  3. SCI/SCI-E Journal Publication (Impact factor less than 3.0)    : Rs. 6,000/- per paper
  4. ESCI Journal Publication                    : Rs. 4,000/- per paper
  5. Scopus Indexed Journal publication (unpaid)            : Rs. 3,000/- per paper
    • Full incentive amount shall be paid to the first author.
    • If a faculty member of the college is a supervisor/co-supervisor to the outside research scholars, all such faculty members can furnish the details for their research papers published along with their scholars even his/her name appeared on publication as second or third or fourth author. Only 50% of eligible amount shall be paid upon production of proofs of guidance to the first author.
    • If the first author is not from SRGEC and the Faculty of SRGEC is Second/Third/Fourth/Fifth author, one-third amount will be disbursed equally among Faculty of SRGEC.
    • If the first author is the Faculty of SRGEC and a Research Scholar and another Faculty of SRGEC is Second/Third/Fourth/Fifth author of the paper, the amount will be equally distributed to the SRGEC Faculty members.
    • Publications without the affiliation of GEC/SRGEC will not be consider for providing incentives.

Patents

  • Patent filed by faculty with SRGEC as applicant
    • Publication(Indian)     : Rs. 2,000/- (Per Author)
    • Grant (Indian)     : Rs. 12,500/- (Per Author)
  • Patent filed by faculty without SRGEC as applicant
    • Filing charges will be paid as incentive will be shared equally among the authors and disbursed the amount payable to SRGEC Faculty.

Book Chapters (not through conference Proceedings)

  • Web of Science/ Scopus Indexed Book Chapters    :  Rs. 3000 /-.
  • Incentive will be shared equally among the authors and disbursed the amount payable to SRGEC Faculty.

Ph.D Guidance:
Incentives to SRGEC faculty will be granted for supervising/co-supervising the research work of Ph.D degree awardees from a recognized university. 

  • Supervisor: Rs.10000 /-
  • Co Supervisor: Rs.5000/-

Funded Projects: (Principal Investigator)

  • Conference / workshop / seminar grants             : 5% of grant
  • Funded research project without equipment             : 7.5 % of the grant
  • Funded research project with the need of equipment        : 10 % of the grant

Consultancy Projects:

  1. Net worth of the consultancy work up to Rs.5 lakh will be paid to the faculty as incentive subject to the following conditions: 
    1. Faculty should be the sole Principal Investigator (PI) of the consultancy work and obtain the work on his own. 
    2. The said consultancy work should be undertaken after the approval of the Head of the Institution and the agreement should be undertaken between faculty and the concerned third party. 
    3. The consultancy amount should be credited to SRGEC account by the third party.
    4. Consultancy incentive will be shared among the SRGEC faculty involved in the work
    5. The expenses incurred for project personnel/technician, contingencies, travel, consumables, stay, food, overheads and other costs should be borne from the consultant amount to  arrive at net worth of the consultancy work
    6. The period attended by the faculty to the consultancy project will be considered as on duty(OD) up to a maximum 15 working days per semester.
  2. In case the infrastructural and other facilities of SRGEC are used for the consultancy work, 60% of the consultancy amount will be paid to the faculty and other related staff.

Fundamental Administrative procedures for executing Sponsored/ Collaborative Research

  • The member(s) of faculty prepare(s) the proposal for undertaking sponsored/ collaborative projects with relevant documents as per the format issued by the relevant agencies.
  • Research advisory committee reviews the proposal and forwards to the principal for approval leading to the submission to the funding agency.
  • Consequent on the sanction of the project and release of funds, the principal investigator of the project creates a new bank account 
  • The PI appoints the required number of project associates by means of an advertisement and payment for such associates is made based on the budget approval of the funding agency.
  • The PIs present the progress of the project periodically and submit to the sponsoring agency 
  • The PIs prepare a draft Utilization Certificate (UC) certified by both the finance officer and the Principal of the college which gets duly audited by a qualified chartered Accountant and signed before submitting to the funding agency.
  • Any expenses for items not covered or permitted in the project are met by the college from the Institute research funds with permission from the principal.
  • The outcomes in the form of formulae put forward/observations made/ products/prototypes developed/process invented in / through Sponsored and Collaborative projects are published in high rated journals and relevant endeavours are made for patents and necessary support gets extended by the institute.
  • As for intra-institutional research is concerned, the Faculty are encouraged to come up with upgraded proposals to work in collaboration with premier institute like IITs, central universities and other engineering institutions having research interest.