Annual Report 2017 – 2018
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Annual Report 2017-18 CONTENTS Vice Chancellor’s Report 1 Introduction 6 Departments 21 Off Campuses 190 University Polytechnic 242 Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme 253 National Cadet Corps 256 National Service Scheme 258 Physical Education and Sports 262 Green Initiatives 265 Training and Placement Division 267 Central Library 274 Central Instrumentation Facility 278 Dispensary 281 Student Activities 284 Annexures 289 Annual Report 2017-18 The Vice Chancellor’s Report Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi founded visit was widely covered by the press & media. by the philanthropist, industrialist Late Shri B.M. • The Training & Placement division and all the Birla in 1955, attained the status of a Deemed to be classrooms situated within the main building University in the year 1986. The rich legacy of the have been modernized and refurbished. founder has been carried forward by his son Padma Bhushan Late Shri. G. P. Birla and his grandson, the • Recruitment/promotion/regularization in various present Chairman of our Board of Governors, Shri academic departments as well as interviews by C. K. Birla through continued emphasis on academic Selection Committees for various departments excellence and contribution to nation building. were held during March-April, 2017. BIT Mesra, by virtue of the quality of its academic • Ten departments of the Institute have been programmes, has consistently been ranked amongst provided with additional 72 faculty members the leading technical Institutes of the country. directly recruited by NPIU on contractual basis The Institute offers academic programmes in 17 for a period of 3 years with their salary supported disciplines with 626 faculty members and over by TEQIP-III. 12,000 students spread across various campuses 2.0 Student Placements The Institute has taken many initiatives to strengthen The Campus Recruitment Programme for students and expand the Teaching – Learning environment demonstrates the confidence of the Industry in the and to generate career opportunities for the students quality of graduates of BIT Mesra. In Academic in reputed organizations. Some of these initiatives Year 2017-18, as many as 161 recruiters visited are the G P Birla Scholarship Scheme, Best Student’s the campus and generated a total of 1039 offers Project Award, Inter Hostel Indoor Sports Award and including 341 offers for internship made by different a strong campus placement programme. companies. This year 59 new companies visited BIT A brief report on salient activities of the Institute, Mesra Campus for placement activities. A total of 564 undertaken during the year 2017-18 follows. offers were given to BE students of Mesra Campus. 1.0 Board of Governors This year the recruiter on Campus were a good blend from all major sectors of the Industry • Recommendation of the 7th pay commission including, FMCG, Automobile, Core Engineering, have been implemented as per decision taken Semiconductor, Telecom, E-Commerce, Consulting- by the Board of Governors. 50% of arrear has Analytics, IT Product & Services, Financial Services been paid to all employes. and Pharmaceuticals etc. The highest salary offered • An expert UGC team led by Prof. Yogesh Singh, in BE programme was INR 34 lacs and the average Vice Chancellor, Delhi Technological University salary for all programmes including all campuses visited the Institute during September 25-26, was INR 7.26 lacs. 2017 with the mandate of inspection of BIT as a Deemed to be University. The report of the Expert team, extending the status of Deemed to be University, has been received. • Shri Kewal Kumar Sharma, Secretary, Department of Higher Education, MHRD, Government of India visited the Institute on 25th September 2017. After his tour through the campus and interactions and presentation by BIT officials, he expressed his deep appreciation of BIT in his meetings with state officials. The 1 Annual Report 2017-18 2.1 GP BIRLA SCHOLARSHIP AND OTHER their progress. INITIATIVES Research proposal submitted by the faculty members During the year 2017-18, GP BIRLA Scholarships have been supported by grants from National/ worth Rs. 2.19 Crore were awarded and Rs. 26 International agencies like UGC, CSIR, DST, DAE, Lakhs have been provided to fund the best BE BRNS, ISRO, DRDO, ARDB, DBT, AICTE, NAMPET, and ME projects C-DAC, ICAR, Govt. of Jharkhand, BMBF etc. through sponsored projects and consultancies 3.0 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS The research achievements of the University during • The Department of Architecture has been the year 2017-18 are reflected by the following data: ranked 4th among all Colleges of Architecture in India as per the survey of TOI in 2018 Publication in International Journals : 418 • The Departments of CSE, ECE and EEE have Publication in International Proceedings : 123 been identified for development as Centres of Publication in National Journals : 35 Excellence (COE). Publication in National Proceedings : 36 • ME-Power Electronics Programme of R&D Projects sanctioned : 39 Department of EEE and the B. Pharm Programme of the Pharmaceutical Sciences On-going R&D Projects : 77 and Technology department have been granted R&D Projects Completed : 23 five years Accreditation from NBA during Books Authored & chapters contributed : 128 November 2017. As on date, most of the BE and ME programs of the University stand accredited Patent Granted / Filed : 02 by NBA During the last few years there has been a lot • The Department of Remote Sensing has been of thrust on improving the quality of research by identified for support under FIST programme of faculty members of the institute. This has resulted DST, Govt. of India in level I, UGC-SAP Level I. in an improvement in the number of citations of our publications. This improvement is reflected in the • The Department of Space Engineering & data presented below Rocketry has been identified for support under Special Assistance Programme (SAP, DRS) of CITATION IN SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI, ESCI UGC, Govt. of India in Level - I & II and has also Total No. of No of citations per Year been supported under FIST Programme of DST, citations per year paper Govt. of India in Level - I 2015 2477 10.54 • Department of Animation and Multimedia, BIT 2016 3319 11.06 Off campus NOIDA became the Academic 2017 3726 13.40 Partner of 8th National Science Film Festival, organised by Vigyan Prasar, Ministry of Science 3.2 INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT and Technology, Dept. of Science & Technology, To support the expansion of its academic Govt. of India held at Guwahati University: programmes, the Institute continues its efforts to 3.1 R&D Activities consolidate teaching & research infrastructure in the form of equipment, learning resources and space. The Institute is committed to high end R&D activities The salient initiatives taken during the year are the and supports it through Seed Money scheme, Institute following : Fellowships and travel grants for National and International seminars, symposia and conferences. • The Department of Architecture procured Weather Station, Acmas Technologies- Seven faculty members have received Seed Money ACM-52303-J. (Davies Brand, USA). Grant of Rs. 12.25 lakh during 2017-18 to carry out their research work in different thrust areas. • The Department of Architecture procured Additional grant has also been sanctioned to some Temperature & Humidity Data Loggers. of the Principal Investigators based on evaluation of Metravi (DL-TH-01). 2 Annual Report 2017-18 • The Department of Bio Engineering to fulfill this requirement. procured Bio-Safety Cabinet Class II, • The Department of Mechanical Engineering Computer Controlled Heat Exchanger, Dual procured Fatigue Testing Machine, Cross Axis System with 3 mm Mirror, ALAZAR Flow Heat Exchanger, Water Tunnel, DAQ CARD, Power Lab Teaching system, Radiation conduction module, Conduction Gel Doc system. heat transfer module unit, Humidity • The Department of Chemical Engineering Measurement Unit, Exhaust Gas Analyser, procured Electrospinning, Membrane Computerized VCR diesel and petrol Filtration unit and Tubular Furnace. Engine, Horizon material testing software, 3 D Printer and 3 D Laser Scanner • The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering procured Bentley Academic • The Department of Production Engineering Perpetual Offering Solution including procured CNC Offline Simulation Software, STAAD Pro Latest version with 3 years CNC Trainer, Ecnc Programming e-learning Select Subscription -18 users and Total software, Ericcson Cupping Testing Station Nikon DTM 322 + TBC post- Apparatus, IR Camera, Stir Casting processing software. Accessories and Metallurgical microscope • The Department of Computer Science and • The Department of Remote Sensing Engineering is in the process of establishing procured UAV (Drone): Quadcopter with Intelligent System, Machine Learning and thermal sensor, optical camera and day Internet of Things laboratory. night surveillance camera • The Department of Computer Science and • The Department of Space Engineering Engineering procured Mat TAH License, & Rocketry procured Double Planetary LDRA Software, IoT kit and accessories Mixture, Bomb Calorimeter, Rocket Motor and Fujitsu Tower Server. ICP Pressure Sensor, 1000 Psi, Water cooled, Model No. 124A24 • The Department of ECE procured Comsol software, Xilinx Vertex, VCU108 Evaluation • The Department of EEE, BIT Off campus Kit, Gun Oscillator, Multisim Software, Deoghar procured NI ELVIS II Design VisSim Software. Bundle • The Department of EEE procured Phasor • BIT