1. Introduction
The College is set to achieve the next level of excellence through a well- designed Research To this end, the faculty members are continuously urged to take up research projects and publication works with greater assiduity and passion. This is to ensure that in due and inevitable course,Sri Shanmugha College of Engineering and Technology (SSCET), Salem achieves recognition not only as a college that imparts quality education, but also as a college that has outgrown its undergraduate character to evolve into an institution of genuine and meritorious research and development.
- The College stresses the need to expand its footprint in consultancy, Copyrights and patenting of ideas emerging from research
- To provoke more meaningful engagement in Engineering Solutions with various multi-disciplinary applications, the College is also mooting the idea of setting up a Special Interest Group (SIG) which help the faculty member and researchers to work diverse tools for taking up their
- The college also plans to implement a scheme to support and incentivize professors who take up research Publications in peer-reviewed journals listed in SCIE, Web of Science, Scopus and other reputed platforms, Patenting the idea (both national patent and International Patent).
2. Planned Incentives:
- An annual yearbook in which publication will be listed with impact factor/Citations h-index, among other numerical quality measurements.
- Listing on a scroll of honour to be acknowledged by special mention in the Annual Two members from each of the faculties from each department will be shortlisted based on highest score calculated on [total of (each Publication x impact factor)]. Their contribution to their respective field of the society will be acknowledged with an award.
- Listing a special publication page on the College website / dedicated Research and Publication Notice Boards / Digital Notice
- Publications to be shelved in hard copy in a special section in the library devoted solely to publication by college faculty / an online
- Seed money for attending conference to present a paper: for registration or travelling expenses or part thereof up to limit of rupees 20000/-
- Adjustment of teaching workload
- Promotion to Professorship based on year of services, and merit and quality of Publications.
3. Strategies evolving to achieve the targets of the Research Policy
- Promotion of inter-disciplinary research collaborations across all the departments through project proposals and grants funded by national and international research bodies and MoU partners including
- Incentivise staff members to publish research papers in standard journals along with
- Encouraging and incentivising faculty members to edit and publish monographs and books on subject specific
- The College recognises the Ph.D recipients among its faculty and students at the annual Convocation and Valedictory ceremony.
- Research output is an essential criterion for faculty recruitment and
- The College maintains a regulatory body in the form of its Research and Development (R & D) Cell which conducts the research related
- Encouraging student research, both independent and collaborative with faculty Departmental magazines and journals regularly feature students’ research articles.
- To further encourage research by faculty members, the College reimburses expenses related to registration, travel and participation and presentation in National and International seminars, conferences etc.
- In tune with the policy of research ethics and conduct, the College has subscribed to the Anti-Plagiarism
- Health and Safety protocols in line with ISO 9001:2015 standards are maintained in all the research
- To secure National and State level Grant for research promotion and innovation and accordingly the college.
- The R & D Cell of SSCET helps the faculty members to go with industrial project grants and consultancies, to equip themselves and effective Knowledge Transfer is made to students to provoke the industrial requirements for research.
- The consultancy cell is proactive and has a general practice of providing research-based consultancy to industry and other business firm.
- Developing in house products from research For example, Electric Bike Department of Mechanical Engineering has been utilized for emergency needs to students and staff at free of cost.
- There is a general practice of the college to support filing of patents trademarks and