I feel like privileged to work as Associate Dean (R&D) in Anjuman College of Engineering &Technology, Nagpur. To uplift the work culture of the R&D, we are planning to organize various technical events in the institute with the aid of external funding agencies, like Short Term Training Programme (STTP) under AQIS from AICTE.
So far college have received funding from AICTE for schemes like, 1.Research promotion Scheme (RPS) of AICTE, 2.Prerana Scheme of AICTE, 3. Modernization and Removal of obsolescence Aspirational (MoDRoB- ASp) scheme of AICTE etc. It helps in updating the knowledge of the faculty and students in the recent trends of technological growth.
Any educational institution’s growth depends on its research work. The quality research undoubtedly brings good ranking to the Institution. This includes various parameters like sponsored projects, the number of peer reviewed research publications in the journals by the faculty, number of Ph.D degree holder available in the institute and number of technical events being organized in the college. In the present day trend, research is of prime importance apart from infrastructural facilities, teaching & learning processes for getting good accreditation grading
Unless the institution is strong enough in its research background, it will be difficult to compete with other good educational institutions. We are encouraging all the faculty of ACET to complete their Ph. D. degree at the earliest. Mechanical Engineering Department of ACET have Ph.D. research centre.
Research labs are essential in the departments which are having PG & PhD courses & Research centres to promote quality research& to come out with innovative patentable products. For this we are having research centre in Mechanical Engineering Department of ACET &also MOU with VNIT Nagpur ,V. R. Jamdar Siemens Center of Excellence for high- end equipment in various specialized fields. These labs will also be useful for executing UG, PG projects.
In addition to the above facts, value-added classes for the students and guest lectures by eminent people from academia and industry are regular activities in the college. The faculty members are being motivated to organize events like workshops, conferences/symposia, FDP on specific themes which will be useful to the faculty to update their domain knowledge. Faculties are also encouraged to publish research papers in the refereed journals and to apply for sponsored projects.
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