Acharya Narendra Dev College

Research

Innovation Project Lab

The Department has a unique facility for research/projects on Optics, Photonics, Robotics and Embedded Systems. UG students working under ELITE, Innovative Projects, e-Yantra and SPIE avail the advanced facilities of this lab. InnoV8- The Embedded System and Robotics Lab was set up in 2014, under e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) of IIT Bombay, also a part of this multi-faceted lab.

Material Science Research Lab

It is a state-of-the-art facility for contemporary research for developing gas sensors, new materials for the efficient harnessing of solar energy and water purification membranes, where Ph.D. as well as UG students pursuing their dissertation carry out their research work.

Summer Training

Though not part of their curriculum, motivated by the various research activities, students have been regularly attending summer training in the research laboratories within and outside the college. The summer fellowship scheme of the college, ELITE, provides the right platform for the students for introspection and recognize their potential in research or any other field. They can work on any idea under a teacher mentor. They are also paid a stipend of Rs. 2000/- during the two month long fellowship during the summer break. The following table gives a summary of the projects done at the Department under ELITE during the last six years:

Research Platform for Students

The Department of Electronics works synchronously with one of the visions of the college, bringing research into the classroom. Active participation of students in research projects is promoted and one can see the UG students working in the research laboratories at all times. Due to active participation and timely tapping of the research potential of the undergraduate students, a number of research papers have been co-authored by the undergraduate students as well.

Due to the active involvement of the faculty members in research, the Department has got many extra-mural projects. The research project grants help in the development of state-of-the-art laboratories to perform cutting edge scientific research and provide recurring funds to carry out day to day research activities. This helps in the active involvement of the faculty in research at all times. Further, the college provides research contingency grant to each research laboratory to meet some of the recurring expenditures. A summary of the research projects carried out in the last few years is as under:

Projects

DBT STAR COLLEGE SCHEME

Ph.D. Research Scholars

In recognition of the potential of the faculty members of the Electronics department to conduct independent research and for having the required research facilities, two teachers have been recognized as Ph.D. supervisors by the University of Delhi. Currently, six research scholars are carrying out doctoral programmes in the college.

Publications by Faculty Members

The faculty members of the Department have been actively engaged in research. This can be gauged from the fact that the combined number of publications from them is more than 200 in peer reviewed national and international journals, conference proceedings etc. Please visit the teachers’ profiles to see the list of publications.

Publications by Students (2014-2018)

Some of the publications are listed as under:

• Gesture Recognising Smart System, Amrita Kumari, Abhijeet, Aman Sharma, Ankit Kumar Baliyan, Kiran, Ravneet Kaur, Journal of Undergraduate Research and Innovation, Vol. 3(2), pp. 1-11, 2018
• Shani Kumar, Amit Garg and Arijit Chowdhuri, Effect of concentration variation in Graphene Oxide (GO) membranes for water flux optimization, 2nd International conference on Condensed Matter and Applied Physics (ICC-2017), Bikaner, Rajasthan, 24-25 November, 2017
• Minesweeper Drones: An automated approach to land minesweeping, Amit Garg, Sadashiv Raj Bharadwaj, Ayesha Rustgi, Vishal Sharma, “National Conference on Advances in Science & Technology: A Step Towards Make in Indian in Defence Sector” (NCAST 2017) , Indian Military Academy, Dehradun (Uttarakhand) during 24-25 March 2017
• Development of low cost and user friendly medical diagnostic tools, Amit Garg, Sadashiv Raj Bhardwaj, Raj Kumar, Saksham Tyagi, Avinash Kumar Shudhanshu, Journal of Basic and Applied Engineering Research (JBAER), Vol 1(9), Page 80-83, 2014
• Easing wave optics understanding through technology, Amit Garg, Priyanka Kachru, Shatakshi Singh, Rishabh Tiwary, Optical Engineering + Applications(SPIE Optics + Photonics), 17–21 August 2014, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA, SPIE Vol. 9188 91880T-1-T-9, 2014
• Development of open source low cost wireless data acquisition systems for science experiments, Amit Garg, Avinash Kumar Shudhanshu, Raj Kumar, Sadashiv Raj Bharadwaj, Roopesh Tehri, Chandra Kanta Samal, International Journal of Information & Computation Technology, Vol 4(2), Page 1123-1128, 2014

Participation of Students in workshops and conferences