Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Department of Applied Mechanics and Hydraulics

Department of Applied Mechanics and Hydraulics has 13 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of Major Funding Agency	Sanction Order No	Date	Duration of the project	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	Research and Development of low cost Automated Guided Vehicles	NIL	20/11/2015	3 Years	4,00,000	Dr. Pruthviraj
2	DST "To strengthen the gear Engineering Research in the department	SR/FST/ETI-360/2014©	20/08/2015	5 Years	2,09,00,000	HOD App.Mech
3	RS & GIS Tools to support conservation and sustainable management of sacred groves in Kodagu District	ES/11/951/05	29/11/2006	Completed	11,04,000	Dr. G.S.Dwarakish
4	ESIC "Coastal ocean Technology Hydrodynamic performance characterstics of cassion type breakwater, NITK Surathkal	MoES/ESTC/3/COT/NITK/2014 PC-III	30/03/2016	5 Years	88,84,000	Dr. Manu
5	SERB Coupled dynamic analysis associated with the response and design loads of offshore floating wind turbines	YSS/2014/000812	08/10/2015	2 Years	24,97,457	Dr. Debabrata Karmakar
6	SERB- optimal damping of porous screen in tuned liquid damper structure intraction	ECR/2015/000176	05/08/2016	3 Years	32,67,880	Dr. Nasar T.
7	kudremukh Wild Life Division Filtering the Camera Trap data	A3/Research-15/2016-17	19/05/2016	2 Years	1,57,000	Dr. Pruthviraj
8	KUDREMUKH "GLIMPSE OF KUDREMUKH WILD LIFE "An Educational Documentation	A3/CR/74/2017-18	15/12/2017	2 Years	1,10,000	Pruthviraj
9	Ministry of Water Resources " Impact of Climate Change on water Resources in river basins from Tadri to Kanyakumari	28/8/2016-R&D/308-336	09/02/2018	3 Years	60,90,556	Mahesh
10	SERB Project "Conjunctive use of surface Water and groundwater management A new framework for strategic decision making	EMR/2016/005647	05/03/2018	3 Years	30,33,200	Ramesh
11	Award Project "Compiliation, Analysis & Mapping of Historical data on bonofide tree felling in Virajpet Division	DCF/VPT/EST/CR-/2017-18	26/10/2017	2 Years	2,18,500	Pruthviraj
12	SERB Project "Effect of Frictional heat on Coefficient of friction during full slip of AI6061 T6 Hertzian contacts	EEQ/2017/000041	17/03/2018	2 Years	27,12,000	Vadivuch
13	DST, MST Indo-Portugal Joint Project "Performance of combined wave and wind energy multi-use platform	DST/TNT/Portugal/P-13/2017	29/08/2017	3 Years	13,00,500	Dr. Debabrata Karmakar
	TOTAL				5,06,75,093

Department of Chemical Engineering

Department of Chemical Engineering has 17 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of Major Funding Agency	Sanction Order No	From	To	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	Future Materials in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Electrolytes sponsored by DST Inspire India	DST/INSPIRE FACULTY AWARD/2013/ENG-48	12/05/2014	5 Years	35,00,000	Dr. Hari Prasad Dasari
2	SERB Project Air Polluction Induced Immune Cell Dysfunction Implication in Viral Infection	SB/S3/CEE/030/2014(NIT Surathkal)	19/07/2015	3 Years	23,17,000	Dr. S. Gangamma
3	Indo-US Methanal as clean	F.194-4/2016(IC)	22/09/2016	3 Years	91,18,600	Dr. M.B.Saidutta
4	In vitro mass culture of Steinernema jeffreyense, a biocontrol agent against key insect pests by DST (International Division)	DST/TNT/South Africa/P-20/2016	07/12/2016	3 Years	28,16,230	Dr. Prasanna B.D/ Dr. Antoinette P.Malan
5	Development of Novel SOFC Electrolyte Materials with enhanced Ionic Conductivity sponsored by DST SERB India	ECR/2016/002010	28/03/2017	3 Years	51,13,800	Dr. Hari Prasad Dasari
6	Biomass fuel burning smoke induced inflammation: Mechanism of biological pathways, CSIR, New Delhi	22(0678)/14/EMR-II	01/12/2014	4 Years	10,00,000	Dr. Gangamma S.
7	Heavy metals removal by adsorption on melanin coated polymer matrix, DST	DST/TSG/WP/2014/58-C	27/03/2015	3 Years	37,68,485	Dr. Keyur Raval
8	DST FIST Project "To Strengthen the research facilities in the Department	SR/FST/ETI-355/2013 ©	29/09/2014	5 Years	2,27,00,000	H.O.D. of Chemical Engg. -Project Implementation Team : Prof. M.B.Saidutta; Prof.Vidya Shetty K, Dr. Prasanna B D, Dr. I Regupathi, Dr. P E Jagadeeshbabu
9	SERB-Reverse Micellar	SERB/MOFPI/0039/2013	16/09/2013	3 Years	37,60,000	Dr. I. Regupathi
10	CSIR Project "Synthesis and Characterization of Spion Embedded inorganic Hollow Core-Shell Nano particle as a magnetic Drug Deliver Vector	22(0646)/13/EMR-II	2015	3 Years	30,00,000	Dr. Jagadeesh Babu P.E.
11	Decreasing the Sintering temperature of Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Electrolytes sponsored by KIST Korea	NIL	28/04/2016	1 Year	11,00,000	Dr.Hari Prasad Dasari
12	SERB Project "Ambient airborne particulate matter:Effect of biological component on lung inflammation	SB/EMEQ-088/2013	03/07/2013	5 Years	5085000	Dr. S. Gangamma
13	SERB Measurements and Characterization of Ambient Bioaerosols in Bangalore City	SR/S4/As-96/2012	13/05/2013	5 Years	46,11,000	Dr. S Gangamma
14	Synthesis of β-cyclodextrin nickel ferrite nanoparticles for the removal of pharmaceutical compounds from aqueous systems, DST – SERB (ASEAN – INDIA)	IMRC/AISTDF/R&D/P-7/2017	01/02/2018	3 Years	35,19,750	Prof.Raj Mohan B
15	Development of Quaternary Ceria - Based Catalysts for soot oxidation Activity sponsored by KIST Korea	NIL	2017	2 Years	25,00,000	Dr. Hari Prasad Dasari
16	Development of a sustainable technology to produce oxalate depleted starch from Taro corms by AISTDF, SERB Principal Investigator	IMRC/AISTDF/R&D/P-4/2017	01/02/2018	3 Years	25,44,000	Dr.Prasanna B D
17	Impact of maternal diabetes on pre-implantation embryo development: Non-invasive approach to assess embryo quality using oxygen consumption, SERB,	EMR/2016/005737	27/04/2017	3 Years	54,00,000	Dr.Keyur Raval
	TOTAL				8,18,53,865

Department of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry has 12 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of Major Funding Agency	Sanction Order No	Date	Duration of the project	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	SERB-Design & synthesis of colorimetric Chemosensors for Environment Pollutant Cations	SB/FT/CS-137/2012	26/12/2013	3 years	2500000	Dr. Darshak R. Trivedi
2	DST-Procurement of Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer	SR/FST/CSI-215/2010	28/12/2010	5 years	12800000	HOD Chemistry
3	DST-Chemical Fixation of Carbon Dioxide via Transition Metal Catalyzed Carboxylation Reactions	IFA-13/CH-98	10/12/2013	5 years	19,00,000	Dr. Beneesh
4	DST-Renewable synthesis of hydrocarbon fuels and specialty chemicals from cellulose-derived angelica lactone	YSS/2015/001649	11/03/2016	3 years	28,99,000	Dr. Saikat Dutta
5	SERB-Synthesis of polyoxometalates-nanoparticles Hybrid based Catalysts for alkane oxidation.	SB/FT/CS-077/2014	24/07/2015	3 years	23,55,000	Dr. Sib Sankar Mal
6	SERB-High Performance Thermoelectric Materials via Band Engineering	EMR/2015/001150	21/12/2015	3 years	26,76,000	Dr. Krishna Bhat
7	VGST-Towards development of Low cost, nanoporous hollow fiber membranes	VGST/CESEM(2014-15)/GRD-312/2015-16	04/05/2015	3 years	60,00,000	Dr. Arun Isloor
8	SERB-Protein at the interface of Liquids	ECR/2016/000707	01/09/2016	3 years	53,41,000	Dr. Debashree Chakra
9	SERB-Efficiency enhancement in organic photovoltaic devices using donor-acceptor conjugated polymers and plasmonic structures.	SB/FT/CS-145/2012	27/12/2013	3 years	2500000	Dr. Udaya Kumar Dalimba
10	CSIR-Chemo-catalytic Conversion of Cellulosic Biomass into CSIR-Renewable Fuels and Chemicals	02(0301)17/EMR-II	05/05/2017	3 years	12,50,000	Dr. Saikat Dutta
11	CSIR-Development of novel thermoelectric materials	01(2905)17/EMR-II	03/05/2017	3 years	10,50,000	Dr. Krishna Bhat
12	CSIR-anadium Based Polyoxometalates: Synthesis, Structure, Characterization and study of its Electrochemical Properties.	01(2906)/17/EMR-II	03/05/2017	3 years	8,00,000	Dr. Sib Sankar Mal
	TOTAL				4,20,71,000

Department of Civil Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering has 9 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of Major Funding Agency/Project Title	Sanction Order No	Date	Duration	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	BRNS project Dynamic Soil	2007/36/31-BRNS/1301	12/09/2007	3Years(on Extension)	24,57,550	Dr. R. Shivashankar
2	BARC- Structural Engg	BARC/Accts/Works/MoU-246/2009/47	19/01/2009	10Years	18,00,000	Dr. Katta Venkataramana
3	DST- FIST	SR/FST/ETI-356/2013 ©	03/09/2014	5years(ongoing)	1,10,80,000	H.O.D. of Civil Engg (Coordinator: Dr.Suresha S.N.)
4	L&T Sponsored Project	L& T agreement		3Years(Ongoing)	0	Dr. Gangadhar Mahesh
5	Remote sensing & GIS	NRDMS/11/3055/014 ©	13/11/2014	4Years(Ongoing)	21,30,200	Dr. K.N. Lokesh
6	Usage of granulated -kirlosker	KFIL/HRM &GA/EMD/2014/397	06/11/2014	3Years	6,45,250	Dr. Sunil B. M.
7	DST- Develop of value	DST/TDT/TDP-08/2017 (G)	20/11/2017	8Months(ongoing)	21,36,000	Dr. B.B.Das
8	IMPRINT- Project	IMPR/GAT/HNC-0012	03/05/2017	3Years (2017-2020)(ongoing)	44,20,000	Dr. Arun Kumar Thalla
9	SERB- Investigation	ECR/2017/000445	03/06/2017	-	39,84,770	Dr.Anjana Bhasi(left the Institute)
	TOTAL				2,86,53,770

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Department of Computer Science & Engineering has 7 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of Major Funding Agency	Sanction Order No	Date	Year of Completion	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	SERB- Design of Modular, FPGA accelerated chip multiprocessor architecture simulation framework	YSS/2015/000196	11/03/2016	3 Years	21,59,500	Dr. Basavaraj Talawar
2	SERB- Retinal Cysts identification and quantification from low SNR optical coherence tomography scans using image processing techniques.	EMR/2016/002677	27/02/2017	2 Years	35,11,475	Dr. Jeny Rajan
3	MCIT - Information Security Education and Awareness Project Phase -II	No.1(1)/ISEA-II/PMU/2015	02/06/2015	5 Years	57,10,000	Dr. Alwyn Roshan Pais
4	CSIR-An automatic system for indentification of phonological processes in children of age from 2.5 years to 6.5 years	SR/CSRI/49/2015(G)	11/05/2016	3 Years	3071400	Dr. Shashidhar G. Koolagudi
5	DST-FIST Program- HOD CSE	SR/FST/ETI-348/2013 ( C)	29/09/2014	4 Years	56,00,000	HOD CSE
6	MEIT: Development of Tool for Detecting of Application Layer Distributed Denial of Service Attacks on Web Applications	12(10)/2017-CSRD	17/11/2017	2 Years	29,78,000	Dr. Santhi Thilagam
7	SERB- Characterization and identification of dialects in Kannada Language	EMR/2016/007947	05/06/2017	3 Years	35,00,000	Dr. Shashidhar G. Koolagudi
	TOTAL				2,65,30,375

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering has 15 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of Major Funding Agency	Sanction Order No	Date	Duration of the project	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	MHRD-Renewable Energy Source integrated Smart Grid Technologies (RENEST)” under Frontier Areas of Science and Technology (FAST)	5-5/2014-TS. VII	21/03/2015	4 years	1,50,00,000	Dr. K.P. Vittal
2	SERB-Utility Interactive Based Hybrid Power Solution for Telecommunication Power Systems	YSS/2014/000854	10/09/2015	3 years	21,77,367	Dr. Kalpana
3	CPRI-Investigation on the Operation & Control of Multiple Distributed Generation resources in a Microgrid(Phase-II)	CPRI/R&D/RSOP/2015	15/12/2015	2 years	25,00,000	Dr. D.N. Gaonkar
4	CPRI-FPGA based development of different MPPT algorithms for a stand-alone photo voltaic system using artificial intelligence	CPRI/R & D / RSOP/Grants/2015	12/01/2015	2 years	25,07,000	Dr. D. jena
5	SERB-Control strategies for dynamic voltage restorer under unbalanced and disturbed grid conditions	SB/FTP/PETA - 0020/2014	7/17/2014	3 years	23,21,000	Dr. Kathikeyan
6	DST-Standalone Evaporative Air Cooler – Pump flow and speed controller using solar energy	TMD/CERI/BEE/2016/064©	15/05/2017	2.6 year	38,69,800	Dr. B.Venkatese Perumal
7	SERB-Adaptive MPPT of Grid- tied Photovoltaic System using Magnetically Coupled Impedance Source Inverters	EMR/2016/005851	27/06/2017	3 years	24,36,795	Dr. Jena
8	SERB-A harmonic elimination scheme with reduced switching losses for a 3-phase Open-end winding Induction Machine using only conventional two-level inverters in the entire modulation range.	ECR/2016/001764	13/07/2017	3 years	28,21,500	Dr. Sheron Figardo
9	SERB-Grid Interfacing of Solar Power Generation: Design, development, and Investigation on High-frequency Transformer Isolated DC-DC Soft-switching Resonant Power Converters	ECR/2017/000550	05/07/2017	3 years	48,94,780	Dr. Nagendrappa H
10	Alumni EEE 1988 batch-DC home -Solar based off grid converter design development of 48V system		23/3/2018	2 years	1,10,000	Dr.Sureh Y
11	Alumni EEE 1988 batch -Silent Speech Interface Developments by Combining Physiological Signal Processing with Image Processing		23/3/2018	2 years	1,05,000	Dr.Krishnan
12	Alumni EEE 1988 batch-Android based home automation ( Light , fan, washing machine and TV control through the phone)- electricity load management		23/3/2018	2 years	1,15,000	Dr.B.Venkatesaperumal
13	Rator Design Technologies Pvt Ltd-Voyager- solar tracker monioring system		22/3/2018	0.5 year	2,00,000	Dr.B.Venkatesaperumal
14	IRG-Solar water pumping system in off-grid mode with change over to grid		29/6/2017	1.5 year	5,00,000	Dr.B.Venkatesaperumal
15	IRG-Rainwater harvesting off the terrace of a high-raised building in coastal areas for micro-hydro power generation and utilization of rain water to augment the existing power and water supply facilities of NITK Surathkal.		29/6/2017	1.5 year	5,00,000	Dr. Nagendrappa H
	TOTAL				4,00,58,242

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering has 10 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Title of the Project	Name of Major Funding Agency	Sanction Order No	Start Date	Date of Completion	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	Uncoordinated Secure and Energy Aware Access in Distributed Wireless Networks	Information Technology Research Academy	ITRA/15(64)/Mobile/USEAADWN/01	19/09/2013	4 Years	21,25,000	Dr. U. Sripathi Acharya
2	Energy Harvesting Seat	ANRC, Boeing		19/01/2015	2 Years	3,00,000	Dr. M. S. Bhat
3	Intel Embedded Initiative	Intel Corporation		02/07/2015	Continuing	5,30,000	Dr. Sumam David S
4	Development and Performance Evaluation of Efficient tracking Algorithms for phased array radars in the presence of electronic counter measures	SERB-DST, Govt. of India (under Early Carrier Research Award)	SB/FTP/ETA-110/2014	27/01/2016	3 Years	13,10,000	Dr. Pathipati Srihari
5	Special Manpower Development Project on VLSI (SMDP-VLSI) phase-III – Chips-to-Systems.	Department of Information Technology (DIT) MCIT, Govt. of India	9(1)2014-MDD	17.11.2015	4 Years	15,95,000	Dr. Ramesh Kini M.
6	Advanced Research Lab in RF Communications and Networks	DST, Govt. of India	SR/FST/ETI-394	18/11/2015	5 Years	1,25,00,000	HOD E&C
7	Building capacity in teaching and collaborative research in sensor systems for public utilities	RAE, under Newton Bhabha Programme & FICCI, UK	Agreement	March, 2016	2 Years	0	Dr. M. S. Bhat
8	Automatic Multilingual Speaker Profiling & Forensics	SERB-DST, Govt. of India (under Early Carrier Research Award)	EMR/2016/007934	04/10/2017	2 Years	49,94,000	Dr. Deepu Vijayasenan
9	Compact multi-band antenna with independently controlled resonant frequency and polarization for mobile wireless applications	SERB-DST, Govt. of India (under Early Carrier Research Award)	ECR/2017/000484	05/07/2017	3 Years	44,22,660	Dr. Krishnamoorthy K.
10	Development and real-time implementation of fully automated liver cancer detection system from H&E stained liver histo-pathological images	SERB-DST, Govt. of India (under Early Carrier Research Award)	ECR/2017/000689	12/07/2017	3 Years	14,43,000	Dr. Shyam Lal
	TOTAL					2,92,19,660

School of Management

School of Management has 6 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of Major Funding Agency	Sanction Order No	Date	Duration	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	ICSSR Sustainability Reporting and Indian Companies A cross Sectional Study to Evalutate the Extent of GRI Compliance	F.No.- 02/229/2017-18/RP/Minor	15.1.2018	1 year	2,50,000	Dr. Suprabha K. R
2	Indian Council of Social Science Research	F.No. 02/25/2017-18/RP/Major	10.01.2018	2 years	8,60,000	Dr. Pradyot Ranjan Jena
3	IUW-LUH, Germany	IUW-LUH/India - 2018-05	01.06.2018	1 year	5,72,880	Dr. Pradyot Ranjan Jena
4	ICSSR Reforming Higher Education for Civic	F.NUEPA(CPRHE)/29/Reform.HE/14-15	01/04/2015	2 years	6,11,600	Sreejit
5	Women Enterprenurship and tourism devemopment	02/14/2013-14/RPR	29/06/2015	2 years	6,00,000	Dr. Sheena
6	NABARD Impediments to growth of hospitality sector a case study of South India	REF.NO.NB/DEAR/R&D Projects: SR 2014-15/ 2015-16	1.4.2015	1 year	7,40,000	Dr. Suprabha K. R
	TOTAL				26,44,480

Department of Information Technology

Department of Information Technology has 1 project for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of Major Funding Agency	Sanction Order No	Date	Duration	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	DST SERB Early Career Research Grant - A Framework for Deep Learning based Analytics for Intelligent Healthcare Applications	ECR/2017/001056	03/06/2017	3 Years	32,56,550	Dr. Sowmya Kamath S
	TOTAL				32,56,550

Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences

Department of Mathematical And Computational Sciences has 5 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of Major Funding Agency	Sanction Order No	Date		Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	Study on MooRE Penrose	2/48(16)/2012/NBHM(R.P.) R&D II/9133	22/07/2013	5 Years	1,89,500	Dr. Sam Johnson
2	On the solutions of Convection difussion equations	No.2/48(24)/2014/NBHM (R.P.)/R&D II/1455	04/02/2015	3 Years	8,30,000	Dr. Engu Satyanarayana
3	SERB- Solutions for viscous & inviscid Burgers equations	EMR/2016/005821	31/07/2017	4 Years	14,77,190	Dr. Engu Satyanarayana
4	SERB- Applications of Kneading Theory in Iterative Root Problems	ECR/2017/000765	12/03/2018	3 Years	4,18,010	Murugan
5	SERB- Frame work for restoring Medical and satellite images corrupted by data correlated noise distribution	ECR/2017/000230	03/06/2017	3 Years	17,43,070	Dr. Jidesh
	Total				46,57,770

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering has 23 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of Major Funding Agency	Sanction Order No	Date	Duration	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	CSIR -Visualization of boiling heat transfer on grooved surface	22/661/14/EMR-II	11/06/2015	3 years	25,00,000	Dr. Sathyabhama
2	CPDM, IISc -Design Innovation Centre	DIC/2015-16/08/001	03/08/2015	3 years	18,00,000	Dr. S.M. Kulkarni
3	SERB- Numerical and experimental studies on two phase carbon dioxide based natural circulation loops	SB/FTP/ETA-0443/2013	17/07/2014	3 years	25,84,000	Dr. Ajay Kumar Yadav
4	HEXAGON PVT LTD -HEXAGON NEXT Gen 3 D LAB	U72200TG1987PI0014464	05/01/2016	3 years	17,00,000	Dr. K.V. Gangadharan, Dr. M R Doddamani
5	SERB- An investigation in to the aerodynamic and aeroelastic behaviour of a compressor cascade in a droplet laden flow	SB/FTP/ETA-0113/2014	08/07/2015	3 years	25,85,000	Dr. Anish
6	DST-Study on low temperature combustion in a CRDI Engine using biodiesel	SB/EMEQ-205/2014	11/03/2016	3 Years	5,50,000	Dr. Kumar G.N.
7	DST-Development of a solar based humidifier/dehumidifier linked with ground water	TMD/CERI/BEE/2016/048(G)	02/03/2017	3 years	29,02,900	Dr. Ajay Kumar Yadav
8	DST-Development of composite filament for light weight 3D printed components	DST/TSG/AMT/2015/394/G	05/05/2016	3 years	33,03,622	Dr. M. Doddamani
9	DST-FIST (Level 1)-Sensors, Actuators and Controllers for an Industrial Automation	SR/FST/ETI-399/2015 ©	07/06/2016	5 years	2,59,00,000	Dr. Vijay Desai & Dr. Navin Karanth P.
10	MHRD- IMPRINT Project-Development of Cost Effective Magneto-Rheological (MR) Fluid Damper in Two wheelers and Four Wheelers Automobile to Improve Ride Comfort and Stability	41-2/2015-T.S.-I(Pt.)	09/01/2016	3 years	3,55,00,000	Dr. Hemantha Kumar
11	NRB-Study the corrosion behaviour of wrought Mg alloys processed by severe plastic deformation for Naval Application	NRB/4003/PG/366	20/07/2015	3 years	22,80,320	Dr. Naredranath S
12	SERB- "Experimental characterisation and numerical modelling of delamination growth in Fiber Reinforced Polymer laminated composites under cyclic loading	EMR/2016/002497	20/03/2017	3 years	26,84,000	Dr. Subhashchandra Kattimani
13	SERB- ANEXPERIMENTALANDTHEORETICALINVESTIGATIONONNARROW TIiERMAL HYSTERESISOF Cu-AI-Be BASEDSMAACTUATORFORVIBRATIONISOLATION	EMR/2016/001247	17/03/2017	3 years	16,47,800	Dr. Murigendrappa
14	SERB- Experimental investigation of passive,semi-activeand active vibration control of composite sandwich structure	ECR/2016/001448	24/03/2017	3 years	50,50,100	Dr. Sharanappa J.
15	SERB- Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Effect of Leading edge Protuberances on the Performance of Wind Turbine Blade	EMR/2015/000879	11/05/2016	3 years	66,00,000	Dr. Sathyabhama
16	SERB- Investigations on the dynamic behaviour of bacterial helical flagellar filaments under axial flow	ECR/2016/001501	23/03/2017	3 years	21,45,600	Dr. Ranjith M
17	DST SERB project under ECR scheme-EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON PULSATING SYNTHETIC JET MICROMIXERS TO DETERMINE THE INJECTION DYNAMICS OF INSULIN IN HYDROGELS FOR SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG DELIVERY	ECR/2017	14/08/2017	3 years	32,67,000	Dr. Arumuga Perumal D
18	SERB-Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Magneto-Rheological (MR) Dampers for Industrial Applications	SB/FTP/ETA-0071/2013	05/06/2014	3 years	20,84,000	Dr. Hemantha Kumar
19	SERB- Investigation of Machining Characteristic of NiTi Based Shape Memory Alloys Using WEDM	SB/S3/MMER/0067/2013	23/04/2014	4 years	18,11,903	Dr. Narendranath S
20	Defence - Experimental and Numerical Investigation on Buckling and Vibration Behavior of Non-Uniformly Heated Laminated Polymer Nano Composite Plate”	ARDB/01/1051860/M/I	01/06/2017	Two Years	15,66,890	Dr. Jeyaraj P.
21	SERB- Standalone evaporative cooler - pump and fan speed controller using solar power	ECR/2017/000387	18/07/2017	Three years	32,67,000	Dr. Arumuga Perumal
22	SERB-active vibration Dr. Karthikeyan J	EEQ/2017/000744	29/11/2017	DST-SERB	47,90,000	Dr. Subhashchandra Kattimani
23	VGST-Pre-operative damage assessment in ortheopedic surgery using 3D printing to minimize healing time	VGST/GRD-606/2016-17/2017-18/133	24/05/2018	2 year	5,00,000	Dr. M. R. Doddamani
	TOTAL				11,37,53,135

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering has 4 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of Major Funding Agency		Sanction Order No	Date	Duration	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	BRNS	Metallurgical Investigation on Thermally Aged SS304 LN Welds	2009/36/43-BRNS/1729	23/09/2009	3 Years	17,63,825	Dr. Jagannatha Nayak
2	SERB	All solution processed transparent low temperature synthesized Indium Zinc Tin Oxide based high performance thin film transistors for active matrix displays	ECR/2015/000339	05/12/2016	2 Years	19,80,000	Dr. Saumen Mandal
3	SERB	Corrosion and Impedance study of Ti-Nb alloy forms developed by PM techniques	YSS/2015/001791	08/09/2016	2 Years	18,81,000	Dr. Shashi Bhushan Arya
4	To augment the research facilities in the Dept. of Metallurgical & Materials Engg.		SR/FST/ETII/2017/97©	13/03/2018	5 Years	2,97,00,000	Dr. Udaya Bhat K.
	TOTAL					3,53,24,825

Department of Mining Engineering

Department of Mining Engineering has 5 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of the Project	Name of Major Funding Agency	Sanction Order No	Date	Durathion	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	R&D Project on “Development of value added product using gold mill tailings for its effective utilization” sponsored by HGML, Hutti	Hutti - Devt of Value	PSO/21/WO/2015	20/04/2015	3 years	13,26,000	Dr. M. Aruna
2	“Study for utilization of fine material of mine waste” sponsored by SMIORE.	Utilization of fine material	MN:GSSK:ENV:GEN:2566	18/10/2013	5 years	14,30,000	Dr. Aruna M.
3	R&D Project on Investigations into the Reduction of Prosperous in Iron or using Micro wave Technology or its Suitability to the Iron and Steel Industry sponsored by M/s. ERM Group Group of companies	R&D Investigation	RPC/NITK/2017-18/170	08/08/2017	3 years	10,06,200	Dr. Harsha Vardhan
4	Development and Charectarization of Advanced Solar Cell	KS& Tech-	KSTeps/Vitamdasa/CISEE/2016-17/GRD-536/2017-18/153/433	19/01/2017	3 years	0	Ch S.N. Murthy
5	Development of a new type of aerocyclone for the dry separation of the minerals	Mysore Minerals	KSMCL/CSR/Sanction/312/2017-18/3839	17/03/2018	3 years	24,00,000	Harsha Vardhan
	TOTAL					61,62,200

Department of Physics

Department of Physics has 7 projects for the year 2017-2018

Sl. No.	Name of Major Funding Agency	Project title	Sanction Order No	Date	Duration	Total Project Fund Sanctioned	Name of the PI
1	UGC-DAE	Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Properties of Boron Carbide	CSR-KN/CRS-44/2012-13/734	17/09/2012	3 years	3,00,000	Dr. Ajith K. M.
2	DST- INSPIRE Project	Fabrication of stable semiconductor nanostructures using ALD technique for environmental remediation and solar fuel generation	DST/INSPIRE FACULTY/BATCH VIII/2015	28/12/2015	5 years	35,00,000	Dr. Kishore Shridharan
3	SERB- DST	Atomistic modeling of Metal Organic Compounds: Towards molecular spintronics	SB/FTP/PS-032/2014	01/12/2015	3 years	22,73,200	Dr. Kartick Tarafder
4	SERB- DST	Dynamics of low-energy antifibrillaton pacing: Unpinning pinned rotating waves using far-field electric pulses	ECR/2016/000983	12/01/2017	3 years	28,50,100	Dr. Shajahan
5	SERB- DST	Transition Metal Oxide Based Devices for Nonvolatile Resistive RAM Applications	ECR/2016/000808	06/03/2017	3 years	37,27,428	Dr. Partha Pratim Das
6	DST- FIST - HOD - Physics		SR/FST/PSI-187-2013 ©	23/06/2014	5 years	64,00,000	H.O.D. Physics
7	SERB-DST	Application of Si nanowire and Si-graphene nanocomposite as anodes for high capacity Li ion battery	SB/S2/CMP-105/2013	20/10/2014	3 years	43,57,215	Dr. H.S. Nagaraja
	TOTAL					2,34,07,943

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