Research and Development

R&D Policy    Format for In-House Project     Funding Agencies Code of Ethics in Research

Research is the backbone of academics. It simplifies concept building and transforms new ideas into innovations in pursuance of a new era of passion for researches. Each finding gives immense pleasure and multiplies enthusiasm towards achieving target.

Research Committee:

1. Dr. T. Brahmananda Reddy, Professor of EEE – Convener, R&D Cell
2. Dr. M. Sreenivasula Reddy, Assco.Professor of CE  – Member
3. Dr. S.Sailaja, Asst.Professor of HBS – Member
4. Dr. G. Venkata Subba Reddy, Assco.Professor of EEE – Member
5. Dr. Shaik Saheb Basha, Professor of  ECE – Member
6. Dr. H. Raghavendra Rao, Assco.Professor of ME – Member
7. Sri. K.Sudhakar, Asst. Professor of CSE – Member
8. Sri. K.Ashfaq Ahmed, Asst. Professor of ECS – Member

Objectives:

•    To create research awareness among the faculty and students by promoting research in newly emerging, challenging and frontier areas of Engineering, Technology, Science and Humanities.
•    To enhance team work between researchers for multidisciplinary research across the departments.
•    To create the awareness among the faculty members about various funding agencies such as Government, Private, NGOs, etc and how to send the proposals for the same.
•    To establish strategic partnerships and developing funding solutions with industries/research laboratories (centers) / funding agencies for progressive and collaborative research activities.
•    To promote the projects and research activities to cater the needs of local community and local industries.
•    To enhance the research awareness by conducting various national level and international level workshops, conferences, guest lectures, panel discussions and filed trips.
•    To improve the quality of publications, research proposals and patents in order to establish the college as an R&D institution.
•    To protect and commercialize the Institute’s intellectual property rights (IPR) by following the IPR norms and regulations.
•    To improve the internships, innovative technologies, startups and entrepreneurship activities by collaborating with various reputed academic institutions and industries across the globe.
•    To enhance the student/faculty exchange programs and joint research by collaborating with foreign universities.
•    To monitor the status of research scholars, mobilization of research funds, performance of individual researcher and departments by conducting regular review meetings.

Functioning of R&D Cell:

•    The R & D cell committee shall meet at least twice a semester and the quorum for the meetings shall     be the whole number above 50% of the team members. The convener may decide for any additional     meetings, whenever it is necessary.
•    To make the institute as a Research Centre of affiliating University to offer regular PhD program.
•    The R&D cell submit the progress of research scholars and research activities of the college to the      affiliating university periodically or as and when called for by the university.
•    The R&D cell shall submit the report on various activities of the cell to the Governing Council and    IQAC annually.
•    To Facilitate timely auditing and submission of utilization certificates to the various sponsored bodies/research organizations.
•    To undertake sponsored research projects activities offered by various Government agencies such as AICTE, UGC, DST, DRDO, ISRO, etc and industries.
•    To assist for applying and getting funds for conducting International conferences/seminars/Workshops/FDPs from various funding agencies.
•    To assist the faculty and students for applying and getting travel grants to attend various events across the globe.
•    To conduct workshops/guest lectures/outreach programs/webinars on regular basis to promote industry-institute interaction, research activities, industrial internships, faculty and student exchange activities, etc..
•    To encourage the faculty members in publishing more number of research papers in reputed journals, which improves the research profile of the institution.
•    To get more MoUs with Institutes of National importance and industries for collaborative research activities, strengthening the curriculum, visiting professors and consultancy works. This will strengthen the research profile of individual faculty members, departments and the institution.

Incentives:

a) Incentives to the Faculty:

Faculty members will be offered a cash incentive of 2.5% of the sanctioned grant for the externally funded project which can be claimed after successful completion of the project. This cash incentive will be paid from the management funds but not from the funds sanctioned to the project. If more than one faculty member is involved in carrying out the project, the incentive amount shall be shared equally among them.

The details of the incentives for publishing papers in various journals / conference/ book chapters, etc are given below:

b) Incentives to the Students:

The college is giving one way travelling fare for the students, who won the prizes in various conferences/workshops/symposiums. In order to encourage the students towards the research activities, the college is providing the funding for the fabrication/hardware projects.

In-House Project Scheme:

The college encourages the faculty members to get involved in Research and Development activities by providing initial funding for research projects under In-House Project Scheme. The interested faculty members of GPREC can avail this initial funding facility. By availing this scheme, the faculty members publish good number of research papers in peer reviewed National and International Journals and Conference Proceedings. Also, faculty members are encouraged to attend trainings, FDPs in thrust areas to be abreast with the latest developments.

Guidelines:

• In-house project scheme is initiated by inviting proposals from the faculty of all departments. In this regard, a circular from the Principal is issued every on-behalf of R&D cell of the college.
• Faculty members can apply individually or as a team, with a maximum of three members including the Principal Investigator.
• R&D cell provides in-house project proposal format on the website of the college.
• All the proposals received are scrutinized by Research Review Committee constituted by the R&D Cell and Principal of the college.
• Based on the merits of the proposals, the committee recommends for provisional acceptance of the proposals.
• The Principal and R&D Cell committee members will select the final in-house project proposals based on the recommendations of the Research Review Committee.
• Maximum duration of the In-House Project is for TWO years from the sanctioned date of project.
• At least one full length publication in SCI/SCIE/Scopus/ESCI indexed Journal, related to the sanctioned in-house project is mandatory. The team members can also opt for patent(s) filing depending on the feasibility and applicability of the work, if they wish in place of journal publication(s).
• R & D Cell monitors the progress of in-house projects through periodic reviews.
• After completion of the project, the R&D Cell provides necessary help and motivates the faculty to submit research proposals to the major funding agencies, like, AICTE, DST, UGC and other funding agencies for further analysis and deeper/advanced research extension activities.