Research

Research Overview

Goal / Mission –

To develop an integrated R&D environment, that will promote and strengthen the research activities in the institute, to meet the immediate as well as futuristic requirements of the Industry and Society and thus improve the quality of various study programs at Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune (CCEW).

The focus of research at CCEW will be – From students’ projects to faculty funded projects and from inter-disciplinary research programs to national and international programs.

Objectives –

• Build research culture at CCEW.
• Increase publication activities.
• Encourage faculty to undertake sponsored and consultancy research projects in order to strengthen the research profile of CCEW.
• Maintain external and global relationship with industries / other universities through R & D activities.
• Encourage faculty to collaborate with other faculty members of dept / college as well as with other researchers in his / her area of research both nationally / internationally.
• Facilitate the faculty and students of CCEW through the IPR Cell, by providing the
  guidelines / policies of the Institute with respect to Disclosure, Protection, and Ownership.
• Licensing of the Intellectual Property generated with or without any external funding and also in actual filing, licensing, and commercialisation of intellectual properties.
• Work towards adopting research practices in pedagogical development activities
  Research & Development Cell Activities.
• R & D cell provides administrative and managerial support for the operation of sponsored research, consultancy and other R & D related activities.
• Facilitates interaction with external entities such as funding agencies, industries etc.
• Prepare MoUs between institute and funding agencies.
• Maintain records of proposals sent to various agencies.
• Check and Maintain expenditure details / utilization of funds under a funding project.
• Maintain progress reports.
• Encourage and guide, faculty and students to prepare technical papers on their work and submit it to good quality journals / conferences.
• Define budgetary / financial norms in consultancy projects.
• Maintain a centralised repository of research activities data and generate various reports, as and when needed Encourage students as well as faculty to file patents for their innovative work.
• Protect Institute IPR.

Research Recognition Committee
1. Dr. Madhuri Khambete, Principal
2. Dr. Sunita Jahirabadkar, Dean (R & D)
3. Dr. Anand Bewoor, Dean (Academics)
4. Dr. Vikram Athalye, Dean (Quality Assurance)
5. Dr. Ajit Bhosale, Dean (Examination)
6. Prof. Ashutosh Muchrikar, Dean (Students Affairs)
7. Dr. Revati Shriram, Asso. Dean (R & D)

Research Advisory Committee
1. Dr. Madhuri Khambete, Principal
2. Dr. Amarnath (Cummins Chair of Mech. Engg.)
3. Dr. Shrirang Karandikar (Adjunct Professor (E & TC))
4. Dr. Dhananjay Bodas (Adjunct Professor (Instrumentation & Control))
5. Dr. Padmaja Joshi ((Adjunct Professor (IT))
6. Dr. Abhijat Vichare (Adjunct Professor (Computers)
7. Dr. Sunita Jahirabadkar, Dean (R & D)
8. Dr. Anand Bewoor, Dean (Academics)
9. Dr. Vikram Athalye, Dean (Quality Assurance)
10. Dr. Ajit Bhosale, Dean (Examination)
11. Prof. Ashutosh Muchrikar, Dean (Students Affairs)
12. Dr. Revati Shriram, Asso. Dean (R & D)

Cummins college of Engineering for Women, Pune have set up mechanisms to enhance the awareness about ethical research, promote academic integrity and prevent plagiarism by student, faculty, researcher or staff of Cummins College. To observe the norms set by University Grants Commission (UGC), various committees at college as well at department level are formed.

To encourage faculty as well as students for quality research, institute has many incentives / reimbursement schemes. Institute pays incentives to faculty authors / guides for Journal publications, Funded research projects, Consultancy projects etc.  Institute also reimburses conference registration fee upto 100%. In case of international conference, institute also reimburses travel charges.

Institute also encourages faculty to attend Faculty Development programs and various training programs to enhance knowledge in their domain. Institute pays registration charges, travel charges and also DA.

Institute also encourages faculty and students for filing patents and other forms of IP.  All the charges of filing and maintaining IP are born by the institute.

For all these, institute has well defined policies.

i) Institute Research support scheme and policy

ii) Research Initiation Fund Scheme for Faculty

iii) Cummins College IPR Policy

iv) Innovation and Startup Policy

Faculty and students of Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune engage in different type of innovative project work that gets reflected in technical / research publications in peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional conference proceedings, books, book chapters etc.

Faculty and student’s research and publications showcase as how they are actively engaged in the creation of knowledge, and profile their publications and professional achievements.

List of publications of all the departments (AY 2010-11 to AY 2021-22)

Faculty and students of Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha’s Cummins college of Engineering for Women, Pune are involved in various Research and Development activities. Many of these activities further give rise to the Intellectual Property (IP) in the form of Patents, Copyrights, Designs, devices / instruments, software and other inventions.

Purpose

The purpose of the IPR cell / Technology transfer cell of Cummins College, Pune is to –

• Activate, promote, encourage, facilitate and safe guard research and development activities in the areas of Engineering, sciences and humanities.
• Secure the legal interests of students, faculty and the Institute and to avoid as far as possible conflict of opposing interests.
• Create an innovation culture which will stimulate the creation and development of Intellectual Property at the institute.
• State the policies of the Institute with respect to Disclosure, Protection, Ownership and Commercialization of Intellectual Property generated with or without any external funding.
• Provide the procedures and guidelines for Securing the Intellectual Property Rights through filing of necessary applications such as Patents, Industrial Designs, Trademarks, Copyright and other available mechanisms.

Objectives

The IPR cell of the Cummins College, Pune aims to –

• Protect Intellectual Property and make it available to industry and others while providing recognition to its faculty / students and other individual inventors.
• Put forth a transparent administration system for the ownership control as well as the assignment of Intellectual Properties and sharing of the revenues generated by the intellectual properties generated and owned by the Institute.
• Frame standards for do’s and don’ts for the Institute and creators of Intellectual Property relating to inventions, discoveries and original works originating from the Institute.
• Make the Institute a prime academic research institution enabling it to make use of developed IP for the maximum possible benefit of the creators as well as the Institute.
• Assisting the Institute with respect to Industry funded projects and related arrangements with a focus on Intellectual Property Rights

For all this, apart from “Innovation and Startup Policy” (based on NISP), Institute has it’s own well defined IPR policy.

The policy document provides the guidelines and states the policies of the Institute with respect to Disclosure, Protection, Ownership and Licensing of Intellectual Property generated with or without any external funding. It also provides the guidelines relating to the procedure of filing patent applications via the Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune IP cell.

Cummins College IPR Policy

The successful execution of the research project depends not only on the effort of the researcher but also on the available infrastructure to conduct the research. Research funding is thus needed to meet necessary expenses related to research project implementation.

CCEW faculty thus works on various research projects and have obtained grants for conducting their scientific research from many government organizations such as DST (Department of Science and Technology), Pune University, DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization), Rajiv Gandhi Science and Technology Commission, Govt of Maharashtra, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization); as well as from Private organizations such as Ramchandra Dattatray Pratishthan, Pune or IBM Global etc.

Funded Research Projects

Research Initiation Fund scheme for Cummins Faculty
The ‘Research Initiation Fund’ scheme is designed to attract faculty of Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune to perform quality research. The scheme aims at promotion of research culture in the institute and strengthen research quality among faculty. It will provide a substantial package to begin a scholarly research work at CCEW. The objective is also to enable the beginning of any research and related activities which will further evolve with significant potential to
attract external funding.

A grant up to Rs. 2 Lakh is awarded to applicant faculty. The duration of the project is 24 months from the date of approval of the project. Based on the requirement and progress, an additional amount up to Rs. 1 Lac may be considered.

A full Time, Approved / Appointed faculty with demonstrated interest / inclination to pursue research activities and have potential to be nurtured as researchers if provided guidance, mentorship and funding; are eligible to apply for this scheme. The faculty should commit to do research and to seek external funding for R & D projects. Faculty members need to apply for Research Initiation Grant, by providing details of the research to be carried out in the prescribed form.

Current projects under ‘Research Initiation Scheme’

Research Initiation Policy 

The Research Centre in Electronics and Telecommunication is established in the year 2013. Currently seven faculty / guides, as mentioned here, are associated with the center –

1. Dr. Madhuri Khambete
2. Dr. Prachi Mukherji
3. Dr. Ashwini Deshpande
4. Dr. Sharda Ohatkar
5. Dr. Sandeep Musale
6. Dr. Bageshree Pathak
7. Dr. Megha Borse

Areas of Specialization of Research:

1. Image Processing
2. Computer Vision
3. Microstrip Antenna
4. Wireless Networks
5. Communication
6. Computer Networking
7. IIoT
8. Signal Processing and applications of AI-ML and
9. Deep Learning

Research Facilities available with Research Center

The institute has procured state of the art software facilities to encourage research. These facilities are used by research candidates registered in the centre as well as the faculty members in the institute to conduct research activities in various domains of their areas of interest.

Two workstations are procured for research work with configuration as follows:

Model: HP Z4 G4 Workstation with RTX 6000 Graphics, Intel Xeon W- 2245 3.9Ghz, 8C 155W  CPU, 32 GB (2*16) DDR4 293.3 DIMM ECC Memory. 1 TB 7200RPM SATA 3.5 in, Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000  24GB(4)DP+USBc, Intel Ethernet 1210-T1 PCLe * Gb NIC, HP Wired mouse & HP Wired Keyboard, HP Linux Ready.

Also, 21 PCs having the configuration as DH87RL, core i5, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, LG Monitor, along with printers and LCD projector are available for the Research students for their research work.

In addition to this, following software and hardware facilities are available.

A)Software facilities: 

i) The software MATLAB R2022a is available campus wide, which is used by the research candidates and faculty.
ii) The Center for Research and Intellectual Entrepreneurship(CeRIE) lab is developed at Institute In collaboration with Cummins India Limited. It is equipped with advanced computers having Ansys HFSS (High Frequency Structure Simulator) and the campus wide license of Matlab R2022a software. Various types of antennas can be designed using this software.
iii) The license of software Qualnet 6.1 is available in the institute. It is a network simulator software that supports research activities in wireless sensor networks.

B) Hardware facilities: 

Some of the major instruments  purchased for research are:

i. Spectrum Analyzer(4GHz with signal tracking facility).
ii. Mixed Signal Oscilloscope(4 channel, 500MHz).
iii. One TI Flix 3 infrared thermal camera.

List of Students enrolled in Research Center for Ph. D. (E & TC) program

Here is the list of faculty who are Research Guides along with other information such as – their department, specialization and number of students enrolled.

1) Danfoss Hydraulics Centre of Excellence
In an endeavour to inculcate and develop young engineers of today, especially in the Hydraulics domain, a Centre of Excellence is established at MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune in collaboration with  Danfoss, a world leader in Hydraulics and Power Systems.
The Centre of Excellence will boost studies and innovation related to Hydraulics and its allied branches. The centre is well equipped with various cut sections, working models and allied electronics components used in hydraulic systems.

For this CoE, purchased very high end computers (HP Z4 G4 Workstation, RTX A6000 Graphics, NVIDIA RTX A6000). This will help enhance research and innovation in the field of Machine learning, Neural networks, Deep Learning, intelligent process design etc.

3) CoE in Electrical Vehicles (In process) 
State of the art lab development, procurement and other arrangements are in progress, Honours course in EV started for TY students, 24 students opted for this course.