About Research & Product Innovation Cell
The Research and Product Innovation Cell (R&D Center) focuses on fostering inventive, research-oriented engineering education, empowering students to address real-world societal challenges through innovative methods. Recognizing that theoretical knowledge and standard lab work are insufficient for employability, the center emphasizes developing independent thinking, problem-solving, and entrepreneurial skills to enable students to contribute to the nation’s economic growth. Equipped with advanced tools, hardware, and software, the center provides hands-on training in practical research and guides students from conceptual ideation to prototype development, preparing them to create impactful products.
Mission
- To provide a research and development environment that supplements the engineering curriculum so as to focus on the current technological needs and industrial requirements in the country matching with global standards.
Vision
- “To become an R&D Center with a commitment to perform original R&D work on par with global standards.”
Activities
- Creating rigorous, relevant and innovative Engineering Research projects.
- Incubating product development and entrepreneurship culture among the students.
- Facilitating interactions between and within academia and industry.
- Keeping students/staff informed of leading research through dissemination of information via various outlets such as seminars, working papers, etc.
- Publishing national and international papers on topics relevant to the research areas.
- Converting new ideas to Patents.
- Mentoring and guiding the work and research of postgraduate students.
- Leading bids for research, consultancy and other additional funds.
- Applying and obtaining Research grants from VTU, AICTE, CSIR, MHRD, DST, UGC, KSFC as well as others State Government and Central Government agencies.
- Publishing technical articles and videos to showcase the Institute in media and print.
- Obtaining sponsored / funded projects from private sectors and from government organizations.
- Current Activities and Product Developments
- The current focus of the R&D center is on the development of innovative products in association with the students.
- The following products have been developed or are under development at the center:
- Feeding mechanism for handicapped persons
- GPS Satellites based precise clock (installed in the Institute)
- Bar display for traffic lights
- Flip-flop advertisement display
- Continuous Variable Transmission (CVT) demo model.
- 4-stroke engine demo model
- Kannada numerical display with 24 segment display units
- Flyover model with 8 sections
- Cobiax technology based slab
- Industrial robotic arm
- Automotive clutch demonstration model
- Theo Jansen mechanism based 4 legged walking robot
- Nano-molecular machines models
- MCQ testing educational toy
- Robotic monkey head and mouth actuator units
- Differential power transmission demonstration model
- Fleming’s Left-hand rule demonstration model
- Power-On indication two-way switches
- Locomotive on-track drone
- Hydrogen atom automaton
Current Activities and Product Developments
Current Activities and Product Developments The current focus of the R&D center is on development of innovative products in association with the students. The following products have been developed or are under development at the center:
- Feeding mechanism for handicapped persons (completed).
- GPS Satellites based precise clock (Completed and installed in the Instituite).
- Bar display for traffic lights.
- Mirrored display for petrol pump hoses.
- Paper punch positioning aid.
- Flip-flop advertisement display.
- Continuous Variable Transmission (CVT) demo model.
- 4-stroke engine demo mode.
- Several more products and projects are in the pipeline.
