| The TEQIP Program in this
college is being funded by the World Bank
and a massive development drive has been adopted
under its banner. Govt. of India has received
a credit from the International Development
Association (IDA) (Agreement No. Cr.3718-IN)
in various currencies amounting to around
US $ 189.00 million SDR towards the cost of
the Technical Education Quality Improvement
Programme (TEQIP).
This TEQIP Project has many components
such as investments for Laboratories and
Library. Moreover, three most important
components are: 1) Training of Faculty,
2) Networking with different Institutes
for Seminars etc., and 3) Services to Community
and Economy in which we have done commendable
work in terms of the TEQIP objective “Sustainable
Development through Knowledge Transfer”
to the disadvantaged, under the able leadership
of our Director.
Under TEQIP, new laboratories have been
created as proposed in Concise Institutional
Proposal (CIP) and existing old laboratories
have been refurbished by appropriate Civil
works. Various IT Labs have been created
with TEQIP fund. The old Labs. of Ceramics
Dept. have been revamped with new equipment
and facilities.
Library has been modernized as per CIP
with additional reading space of 270 Sq.
ft. An inexhaustible collection of Text
and Reference books, and more than 20 National
& International journals have been procured.
On completion of Campus Wide Networking,
investment are being done on AICTE-INDEST
Consortium for online tracking of International
Journals through various links, such as,
Springer-link, DEL, IEL - online, ESDU,
ASME etc. The following LRs and Softwares
have been procured and are being used by
Faculty and Students. Digital library is
in the process of completion. Softwares
like Matlab, Simulink, Signal Processing
Toolbox, Libsys (exclusively for the Library),
VLSI Design Toolbox Active HDL, Photonics
CAD, NETSIM, ORCAD EDA SUITE-ORCAD Capture,
ORCAD PSPICE, Microcontroller Learning Resource
University Programme, Multisim, Commsim,
Statistica, Molecular Designing, AUTO CAD
etc. have been bought for use by students
and teachers of the college.
Research Projects like MODROB entitled “Development
of VLSI Design Laboratory” under A.I.C.T.E.
is in progress under Dr. Mousumi Maitra,
(Head, IT). A major project entitled “Utilization
of Solid Waste for the Development of Low
Cost Whiteware Products” under UGC
is being pursued at the moment by Dr. Kaberi
Das. More such projects are in the planning
stage.
Collaborative research is being carried
out with Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics,
Kolkata and NIFFT, Ranchi, and many other
International Centres as mentioned earlier.
Under TEQIP programme, many papers have
been presented at the National and International
Conferences. Many such collaborations are
underway and the college hopes to move forward
to contribute to such research effectively
in future. |
