The centre for excellence in water resources management (CEWRM), Department of Civil Engineering was initiated with the vision of become centre for innovation in sustainable research, education and training in water resources management and allied fields.
It was established as an initiative of the Department of Civil Engineering, BITS-PILANI, Hyderabad campus in 2010.
Overview
Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) was envisaged by Prof. V. S. Rao, Director, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus with a vision to foster innovation-driven entrepreneurship, in alignment with BITS Pilani’s VISION 2020.
Our vision is to “Be amongst the top 3 Technology & Science institutions in India by 2015 and amongst the top 25 Technology & Science institutions in Asia by 2020. One of the imperatives to achieve our vision is “Innovation & Entrepreneurship”.
CIIE got an impetus in August 2013, when the dedicated physical infrastructure was created in the basement of the library. CIIE is a one-stop source that offers multiple services associated with entrepreneurship.
CIIE comprises of:
- Innovation Cell (I-CELL) which aims to inculcate a spirit of innovation.
- Technology Business Incubator (TBI) which aims to provide support for products, services or process ideas towards commercialization.
- Entrepreneurship Cell(E-CELL) which aims at fostering entrepreneurial skills among the students.
Innovation cell
I-cell is to promote and support innovations across the spectrum of science and technology with application in any field."
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Technology Business Incubator
BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus in collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology, GoI, has established a Technology Business Incubator. TBI@BITS Hyd aims to provide a low cost and resource intensive sandbox where entrepreneurs can develop their product, services or process ideas towards commercialization. TBI@BITS Hyd provides office and lab space equipment, seed funding and vitally, mentorship from an international network of successful business leaders.
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Entrepreneurship Cell
"The E-CELL at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus is aimed at fostering entrepreneurial skills among the students on campus."
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Overview
Center for Technical Education (CTE) is a department headed by Prof Bharat Deshpande, HOD, CS/IS ( http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/bmd/profile ), for the purpose of imparting knowledge on application oriented courses/topics.
- The idea is to build a sustainable system for passing knowledge from seniors to juniors. In the sense that juniors wanting to learn a new field may benefit more by learning the basics from their seniors quickly and building much more on top of that rather than the DIY(Do It Yourself) approach from scratch.
- To expose students early on to the popular research areas in Engineering to broaden their knowledge base rather than simply sticking to the academic curriculum.
- We employ a mentorship model, with 3rd or 4th year students teaching under the guidance of faculty members and 2nd year students acting as mentors for the course. This helps us ensure sustainability.
- The courses are designed to be more practice oriented and some evaluation components are Hackathon's and a coding assignment or a term project in a few courses.
- Each course has a faculty mentor assigned, who oversees the quality of the course being taught.
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Prashanth Palakurthi, an Alumnus of BITS Pilani, is the Founder and CEO of Reflexis Systems. He joined BITS Pilani in 1978. His wife Anuradha, the founder of Juju Productions, is a professional singer, performer and radio personality in the United States. She joined BITS Pilani in 1984.
Anuradha and Prashanth have made a commitment to contribute at least $1 million USD for a centre named Anuradha and Prashanth Palakurthi Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (APPCAIR).
The objectives of the Centre for Materials Science and Technology are to develop and implement projects related to fibre-reinforced plastic composite materials as well as those related to other engineering materials such as metals, ceramics and polymers. The Centre also undertakes mechanical and non-destructive testing of various engineering materials for evaluating their mechanical properties and for evaluating defects such as cracks, voids, delamination, inclusions etc. Other activities include developing courses related to Materials Science and Technology and organizing Conferences/Seminars/Workshops/Short Courses in this area and to provide consultancy related to testing/development and analysis in the field of material science and technology.
The testing facilities available at the Centre include Universal Testing Machine, Hounsfield Tensometer, various hardness testing machines such as Brinell, Rockwell, and Vickers Hardness Testers, Rotating Bending Fatigue Testing Machine, Combined Bending and Torsion Fatigue Testing Machine, Circular Polariscope, Strain-gauge testing facility, Izod and Charpy Impact Testing Machines, X-Ray Diffractometer, Ultrasonic Flaw Detectors, Liquid Penetrant Test kit, Magnetic Crack Detector, Eddy Current Tester etc. The Centre is also well equipped with computational facilities. Advanced software packages for Finite Element Analysis and for micro and macro analysis of composites materials (e.g. PROMAL) are available at the Centre.
This centre was established with financial support from the University Grants Commission, New Delhi.
Objectives and scope of the Centre:
- To become a nerve centre of the Institute in terms of ideas, creativity and innovation.
- To promote research on educational management and administrative processes.
- To systematically document and integrate knowledge and skills generated at the workbench for all levels of education.
- To enable and motivate forces behind operation, expansion, strengthening, updating and modernization of teaching, research and consultancy in formal and informal education.
- To apply the experience obtained through implementation of educational innovation towards strengthening of manpower training.
- To pool interested manpower in the Institute as well as manpower from outside.
- To create facilities and environments for interested faculty from within as well as from outside universities and educational organizations to do research on educational innovations.
- To organize certain specific programs like practice school, vocational courses for other educational institutions who wish to implement such innovations.
- To organize special programs for the use of educators, planners, administrators and managers so as to enable the latest theory and practice in different disciplines and functional areas to reach all sections of manpower in government, education, business and industries.
- To organize seminars, symposia and workshops.
- To collect the data-base from UGC, AIU and various universities relevant for educational reforms and innovations.
- To create software to analyse all these data.
The areas in which the Centre concentrates are:
- Planning and implementation of examination reforms
- Design and restructuring of educational programs
- Course development - Preparation of text books, teaching materials, teaching aids
- Computer software development for educational administration and infrastructural facilities
- Computer software development for student records, time-table, admission process
- Teaching workshops for upgrading teaching skills
- Purchase and upkeep of Educational Hardware
- The new methods of vocational training
- Development of Distance Learning Programs, particularly in Science & Technology areas
- University-Industry linkages
- Development of new methodology for educational and cultural advancement of the socially disadvantaged
- Adult education
- Science education
- Methodology of faculty development
- Systems approach to educational operation and correlation between cost of education and efficiency of education
- Preparation of feasibility project and status reports on specific topics
- Offering services in the acquisition of equipment, library books, journals and experts for new institutions in the country and abroad
- Evolving new norms for innovations in new universities in the developing countries
- Organization of Placement Unit - Campus Interviews, Career Planning
- Counselling of students
The Centre uses for its methodology organization of seminars, symposia, workshops, brainstorming sessions in specific areas. The Centre collates a large data-base already available at BITS and collects data from UGC, AIU, AICTE and various universities and develops systems and software for analyzing these data. The Centre has visiting faculty and research scholars. The Institute faculty picks up topics of research which are of interest to the activities of the Centre. In short it is a place where unique activities in terms of planning, implementation and reforms are taken up. The Centre accepts preparation of study reports and consultancy jobs in the above areas, as well as, plans to conduct certain training programs. The Centre also publishes a quarterly Journal, "CURIE" - Journal of Co-operation among University, Research and Industrial Enterprises.
It is an umbrella agency setup under the prestigious Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani.
The primary objectives of the center are to:
- Conceive, develop, and implement renewable energy applications and environment protection projects
- Develop courses and organize awareness creation programs
- Collaborate with national and international organizations and institutions in the areas of renewable energy education, training and technology development.
The Centre is presently collaborating with MNRE, IREDA, REDA, ARTES, Institute of Flensburg University, Germany, and CEER of SPIC Science Foundation, Chennai.
The centre is actively involved in:
- Research work related to Renewable Energy and Alternate fuels
- Setting up performance evaluation of parabolic solar cookers
- Solar hot water system
- Solar still and fuel cells
- Setting up of an Energy Park
Research Overview
The faculty and students at the centre carry out research / development activities in the following areas:
- Planning and Economics of Renewable Energy Systems
- Renewable Energy Dissemination
- Renewable Energy Education
- Solar Thermal Engineering
- Multi Criteria Decision Making for Energy
- Integrated Renewable Systems
- Demand Side Management
- Passive Architecture
- Energy Efficiency and Steam Systems
New Areas of Research Planned
- Design optimization of biogas based turbines and engines
- Multi-unit planning of wind and small-hydro conversion systems
- Operational control of renewable sources
- Energy efficient buildings
- Solar Thermal Power System
- Hybrid Systems
- Carbon Emission Ranking and Analysis.
- CO2 based Refrigeration
- Biomass Gasifier
This Centre has been set up in Collaboration with MOTOROLA INDIA LTD. The objectives of the Centre is to impart detailed understanding of important features of embedded controller architectures and familiarizing advanced concepts in the field of embedded controllers through
- Industrial projects/sponsored projects/student projects
- Research and development of applications around embedded controllers
- Imparting training to the industry professionals and running short term courses in the field of Applications design
- Developing course modules
The infrastructure of the centre includes Pentium machines, Micro controller Modular Evaluation Systems, Micro controller Development Systems, Emulators, Assemblers and Cross compilers for various micro controller families, DSP processors, logic analyzer and other bench equipments.
The Centre is also collaborating with ST MICROELECTRONICS in this area. The company has gifted two of their ST-7 emulators useful for embedded system design.
Apart from the centres described above, the following specialized laboratories have been established with a view to strengthen research and development in the respective areas:
- Fiber Optics: Infrastructure includes PC based instrumentation for characterization of optical fibers for communication, opto- electronic sources and detectors; facilities for development of point and distributed fiber optic sensors fiber optic communication kits, apart from computational facilities.
- Process Control: Infrastructure includes computer control of chemical engineering process such as distillation column, evaporator, heat exchangers and various types of reactors.
- Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Infrastructure includes state of the art facilities for teaching, training research and development in the field of manufacturing systems, such as computer numerically controlled machining centre and Robot for material handling, lathe and computational facilities.