KSCST ACTIVITY REPORT for the Financial year 2017 – 2018 KARNATAKA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore- 560012 Phone: 080 – 23341652, Tele-fax: 080 – 23348840 E-mail: [email protected] || Website: www.kscst.org.in Page 2 KSCST Activity Report 2017–18 Contents Sl Particulars Page No. No. PROGRAMMES 1 Student Project Programme (SPP) 5 2 Natural Resources Data Management System – Karnataka Project 20 3 Development of Geospatial Web Applications on Karnataka Geoportal for G - 25 Governance (KSSDI Phase II Project) 4 State Awards for Scientists and Engineers 29 5 Rainwater Harvesting Cell 33 6 Biofuel Cell 42 7 Energy Cell 48 8 Patent Information Centre 50 9 Karnataka - Israel industrial research & development program (KIRD) 53 PROJECTS 1 Field Testing of Hybrid Ultra Capacitors (HUC) Powered Solar Lighting Kits 54 and Solar Street Lights for Grid Deprived Rural areas, Lighting in Varying Climatic Zones of India 2 Assessment of hydrological and physical status of traditional water harvesting 57 systems in Karnataka state using geo-spatial technologies and measures for restoration and rejuvenation 3 Utilization of crude glycerol obtained in biodiesel production as an alternate to 60 glycogenic feed supplement for dairy cows 4 Village Information System 63 5 Mapping of Indian Institute of Science Campus 69 6 Restoration and rejuvenation of Kalyanis in Karnataka 70 7 National Science Day 71 8 National Mathematics Day 73 KSCST Activity Report 2017–18 Page 3 9 Implementation of virtual laboratory (e-learning centres) to improve the 74 quality of education in the backward taluks of Karnataka – GoK & REC, New Delhi 10 Vigyan Darshan 76 11 Teacher Enrichment Programme 77 12 Chetana Programme 78 13 Radio Serial on “Sustainable Development 79 14 Science Express 80 15 Multimedia Studio Cum Video Conferencing Facility at KSCST 81 Workshops / Seminars / Training Programmes / PAMC Meetings 2 Workshop on "State SDI’s and their Applications 82 3 Training programme for High School Teachers at Chickballapura district 84 4 Two day workshop for High School teachers on Science syllabus and Assistive 85 technology in 4 different locations of Karnataka 5 One Day workshop on Assistive Technology for High School Students 86 6 Two day Workshop on Geosciences for High School Teachers at Uttara 86 Kannada and Tumakuru district 7 Two day teachers training workshop on Mathematics syllabus 87 8 Two day training workshop on Science and Mathematics for Tribal region 87 High School Teachers 9 Consultative Meeting on preparation of DPR for National Mission on ICPS 88 10 Discussion Meeting on Establishment of Water University 89 11 Discussion Meeting on Establishment of Railway Engineering University 89 12 NSAC Committee on India-EU Water Projects Progress Review Meeting 89 13 2nd Information and Networking Meeting on India-EU - Call on Water 91 14 Celebration of 42nd Foundation Day of KSCST 92 15 Kalburagi Regional Centre Activities 93 Page 4 KSCST Activity Report 2017–18 1. STUDENT PROJECT PROGRAMME (SPP) Principal Co-ordinator : Dr. S. G. S. Swamy, Executive Secretary, KSCST Co-ordinator : Mr. K. N. Venkatesh, KSCST Introduction: Recognizing the need for the improvement in quality of education in Engineering Colleges and also for the sustainable development of the State through Innovation and Technology, the Council initiated Student Project Programme, popularly known as SPP, as early as 1977. The main purpose of this programme is to recognize the need to bring out hidden talents and innovative ideas in the minds of young students of engineering colleges in the state of Karnataka. Under SPP, KSCST provides both financial and technical support to the final year engineering students to undertake project work that are meaningful, innovative and having relevance to solve the problems being faced by the State. Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, has hailed this programme as unique and intends to adopt this model at all India level. Several of these projects are very innovative and address local societal needs. Student project proposals, received under this programme, are reviewed by panel of experts and recommended for financial support. The expert panel consists of more than one hundred senior faculty and scientists from Indian Institute of Science, National Aeronautical Laboratory and other R&D institutions. The panel also provides guidelines and suggestions to make projects more innovative and meaningful. Several projects have been recognized as promising and the concerned faculty/students of such projects are encouraged to take up further modification, field trials or scale-up. Projects have been diverse, reflect varied interests of the students/guides and are quite innovative. The enhancement of financial support has enabled the Council to support many such innovative projects and some of them have attracted some publicity in local as well as in the national media. KSCST sponsorship of the project has now become a benchmark for engineering projects carried out by students and are accepted by the academic and industrial communities. Under the 40th series of SPP, Council received 2349 projects from 145 engineering colleges and 542 projects have been supported with a total funding of Rs. 25.92 Lakhs. So far, over 8000 projects have been supported by the KSCST under this programme during last 39 years. The activities of 40th Series of SPP started in October 2016. The Council contacted experts from Indian Institute of Science and various R&D institutions in identifying thrust areas for selection of student projects. KSCST Activity Report 2017–18 Page 5 As per the recommendations of the subject experts SPP poster was printed in A3 size which displayed information about the thrust areas for this series. The following were the thrust areas recommended by the experts to submit the student project proposals for the 40th series of SPP. In this series KSCST had invited Project proposals under two categories in Stream A and stream B. STREAM A: The submitted projects should be selected from the list of "best projects of the year award" and the deliverables should clearly indicate the improvement / additional development made with respect to the selected project. KSCST has prepared such "best projects list" for the last five years ((35th Series - 2011-2012 to 39th Series - 2015-2016) and students should look into this list and prepare the proposal. STREAM B: KSCST has identified the following Areas for the student's project proposal: 1. Providing solution for conversion of the solid wastes into briquettes / Pellets. 2. Utilizing solar power for de-frothing the lakes. 3. Utilizing solar power for desalination: bench-scale demonstration. 4. Utilizing solar power for flue-gas / auto-exhaust cleaning. 5. Exploring new applications for agriculture / mariculture waste. 6. Intelligent inverters for roof top solar panels connected to grid. 7. Different technologies for rejuvenating the water sources. 8. Application of robotics in disaster management. 9. Enhancing battery life for portable devices. 10. Development of technologies for water purification. 11. Intelligent Fire Extinguishing Systems 12. Maintenance and safety technologies for high rise buildings. 13. Application of Nano technology in Health, Water and Agriculture. 14. Mobile Applications: Disaster Management, Disease Management & Education. 15. Identifying Network and other Software stacks for Free RTOS or any other Real Time Operating System for Embedded Systems from already available open source. 16. Power monitoring and possibly controlled socket with IoT connectivity to aggregate to specific building or locations. 17. Low cost LCD / LED based Name Display board with network connectivity for use in conferences and seminars etc. 18. Sound alarm detector which will then convey this alarm over wireless to receiver with a contact within a range of 250 mtrs. The sound detector and transmitter is battery operated and should run over a year on a button cell. Page 6 KSCST Activity Report 2017–18 SPP poster contains, in addition to thrust areas, format of the proposal and other relevant details. Posters were sent to all the engineering colleges of the State and Universities, indicating last date for submission of the project proposals. The council received 2349 project proposals (Annexure 1) from various disciplines from 145 institutions in the state. These proposals were scrutinized by experts from Indian Institute of Science and other R&D institutions. After rigorous processing of the project proposals and evaluation by experts, 542 projects from 136 engineering colleges were supported and sponsored with a total financial assistance of about Rs. 25.92 lakhs. Project sanction letters and budget sanction details were sent to the concerned project guides and principals of the engineering colleges. KSCST has organized nodal centre evaluation of the supported projects at following engineering colleges namely: No of Sl. Name of the Nodal Centre and Sanctioned Name of the College No. Date of Evaluation Projects evaluated ADICHUNCHANAGIRI 1. ADICHUNCHANAGIRI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHIKKAMAGALURU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 2. BAHUBALI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, SHRAVANABELAGOLA 1. CHIKKAMAGALURU 3. BGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BELLUR CROSS,MANDYA 12 4. MALNAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, HASSAN 11th May 2017 5. NDRK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, HASSAN 6. ACHARYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BENGALURU 7. ATRIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BENGALURU 8. BMS INSTITUTE OF TECH., & MANAGEMENT,