वार्षिक प्रतिवेदन ANNUAL REPORT 2017-18 01 अप्रैऱ 2017 - 31 मा셍ि 2018 (April 01, 2017 - March 31, 2018) भारिीय अतभया車र्िकी र्वज्ञान और प्रौद्योतिकी स車थान, तिबूपुर INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SHIBPUR VISION-MISSION STATEMENTS VISION The Vision of IIEST, Shibpur is to become one of the best Institutes in the world in providing the state-of-the art multi-disciplinary research ambience that will usher innovative world- class technologies developed towards realizing the goal of Developed India, and thereby establish a unique identity for the institute amongst national and international academic and research organizations through knowledge creation, acquisition and dissemination for the benefit of society and humanity. MISSION The Mission of the Institute are as below: To generate high quality human and knowledge resources in our core areas of competence and emerging areas to make valuable contribution in technology for social and economic development of the nation. To make focused efforts towards identification, monitoring and control of objective attributes of quality for continuous enhancement of academic processes, infrastructure and ambience. To efficaciously enhance and expand, even beyond national boundaries, its contribution to the betterment of technical education and offer international programmes of teaching, consultancy and research. GOALS The Goals of the Institute are as below: (i) To provide the best educational infrastructure for imparting high class education in science and technology and a creative atmosphere for inter-disciplinary research both by the students and the faculty. (ii) To increase the student capacity to meet the growing demands for industry (iii) To maintain global standards in student-faculty ratio, research output, publications in journals and placement of students (iv) To participate in and contribute to nation building through various flagship schemes of the Government of India/State Governments requiring technological interventions thereby spurring economic growth for the welfare of the masses (v) To provide research and development consultancy, which will foster healthy industry-academia partnership, thereby providing a competitive edge to the indigenous manufacturing i An old painting of the Bishop's College (estd 1820) where the Institute moved in in 1880 The lush green campus of the Institute is located on the west bank of the river Hooghly ii Contents Vision Statements i Contents iii Annual Report 2017-18: At a Glance vi From the Desk of the Director xii The Year in Snapshots xiii 1 Organisation and Administration 1 1.1 Framing and Amendment of Statutes 2 1.2 NITSER Council 2 1.3 The Board of Governors 4 1.4 The Senate 7 1.5 The Finance Committee 11 1.6 The Building and Works Committee 12 1.7 Important Functionaries 14 1.8 Administration 15 1.9 Wardens of Hostels/ Halls of Residence 17 1.10 Academic Departments/ Schools/ Centres, Centres of Excellence, Service Centres and Other Units 18 2 Academic and Non-Academic Staff 20 2.1 Academic Staff 20 2.2 Non-Academic Staff 21 2.3 Non-Teaching Officers 23 2.4 Faculty/ Officers/ Staff members Superannuated in 2017-18 24 3 Academic Programmes 25 3.1 Undergraduate Programmes 25 3.1.1 Four Year B.Tech Degree Programme 25 3.1.2 Five Year B.Arch degree Programme 25 3.1.3 Five Year Integrated Dual (B.Tech-M.Tech) Degree Programme 25 3.1.4 Eligibility for Admission 26 3.1.5 Selection for Admission 26 3.1.6 Admission 26 3.2 Two-Year Full-Time M. Tech/ MURP Degree Programme 28 3.2.1 Eligibility 28 3.2.2 GATE Scholarships 28 3.3 Two-Year Full Time MSc Degree Programme 30 3.3.1 Admission 30 3.3.2 Eligibility and Seat Matrix 30 3.4 Two Year Full Time MBA Programme 32 3.4.1 Eligibility for Admission 32 3.4.2 Selection Procedure 32 iii 3.5 PhD programme 32 3.5.1 PhD Admissions 33 3.6 Reservations for SC/ST/PWD/OBC/Other categories of Candidates 34 3.7 Student Strength 34 3.7.1 Scholarship to Students 36 3.8 Institute Results 36 3.9 Annual Convocation 2018 38 4 Academic Departments, Schools and Centres 39 4.1 Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics 39 4.2 Architecture, Town and Regional Planning 40 4.3 Chemistry 42 4.4 Civil Engineering 42 4.5 Community Science and Technology 44 4.6 Computer Science and Technology 45 4.7 Ecology, Infrastructure, and Human Settlement Management 47 4.8 Electrical Engineering 48 4.9 Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering 51 4.10 Centre of Excellence for Green Energy and Sensor Systems 53 4.11 Healthcare Science and Technology 54 4.12 Information Technology 56 4.13 Materials Science and Engineering 59 4.14 Mathematics 61 4.15 Mechanical Engineerng 61 4.16 Mechatronics 62 4.17 Metallurgy and Materials Engineering 64 4.18 Mining Engineering 66 4.19 Physics 71 4.20 VLSI Technology 73 5 Academic Service Centres 76 5.1 Ramanujan Central Library 76 5.2 Tagore Centre for Green Technology Business Incubation (TCGTBI) 77 5.3 Computer Centre 79 5.4 Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre 79 5.5 Continuing Education Programme (CEP) CELL 80 5.6 Workshop 82 6 Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy 83 6.1 Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy Activities 83 6.2 Conference/ Symposia/ Seminars 98 6.3 Sponsored Research Projects 98 6.4 Industrial Consultancy/Testing 98 6.5 Academic and research collaboration 100 iv 7 Students Amenities and Activities 102 7.1 General 102 7.2 Proctorial Board: 102 7.3 Students’ Hostels 102 7.4 Sports and Games 102 7.5 Students Senate 104 7.5.1 Students’ Societies 104 8 Training and Placement 109 8.1 On-Campus Recruitment 109 8.1.1 Placement Statistics for 2018 passout batch of IIEST, Shibpur 110 8.1.2 Recruiters over recent years 110 8.1.3 Department wise Training and Placement 117 9 Campus facilities 121 9.1 Estate 121 9.2 Health Services 122 9.3 Banks 123 9.4 Campus Services and Management 123 9.5 Halls / Hostels of Students 123 9.6 Sports Grounds 125 9.6.1 Basketball Court 125 9.6.2 Alumni Swimming Pool 126 9.6.3 Gymnasium 126 9.7 Students' Amenity Centre 126 9.7.1 Students' Centre for Creative Expressions 126 9.7.2 Netaji Bhavan 127 9.7.3 Spiritual Development 127 9.8 Water Bodies 128 9.9 Institute Gates 128 9.10 Clocktower 129 9.11 The cemetery 129 9.12 Odyssey of the institute 129 10 Institute Accounts 130 10.1 Summary of Balance Sheet 131 10.2 Income and Expenditure Account 132 10.3 Receipts and Payments Accounts 133 Appendices Appendix-1 136 Appendix-2A 149 Appendix-2B 164 Appendix-2C 165 Appendix-2D 168 Appendix-2E 177 Appendix-3 178 v Annual Report, 2017-18: At a Glance INTRODUCTION Way back in 1856 the Institute made a humble beginning as the Calcutta Civil Engineering College. After two changes in address and three changes in its name the Institute came to be known as Bengal Engineering College in 1921. The contributions made by the fine products of the College in advancing the human society are well known. Known for its academic finesse the Institute was first accorded the status of a Deemed University by the union ministry of Human Resources Development in the year 1993, subsequently in 2004, it became a full fledged university and its name changed to Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur. Almost a decade later with the passage of the NITSER (Amendment) Bill 2014 the Institute has been rechristened as Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur. Ever since, the Institute has been making continual endeavours towards achieving excellence in all spheres of its activities involving teaching, research and extension services. GLIMPSES OF ACADEMIC PURSUITS A total of 799 students successfully completed their courses of study in the session 2017-18 While 439 students obtained bachelor's degree in nine different disciplines in Engineering and in Architecture, 277 scholars obtained postgraduate degrees in Engineering, Technology, Urban Planning, Science, and Management. PhD degree was conferred on 83 scholars. 30 students received Institute Medals for excelling in different branches of study. The President of India Gold Medal was awarded to Asmita Chakraborty, a student of Metallurgy & Materials Engineering Department who secured 1st position amongst all the undergraduates of all ten engineering/architecture disciplines taken together. Some endowment medals were also awarded to the students who have stood first in their respective disciplines or have secured highest marks in particular subjects. A total of 592 Students took admission in BTech/ BArch programme of the Institute in July 2017. Year wise break up of undergraduate students in 2017-18 was as below I Sem 592 III Sem 527 V Sem 587 VII Sem 446 IX Sem (B.Arch) 17 Total 2163 Strength of postgraduate students in 2017-18 session was 700. A programme wise break up of students strength is furnished below vi MSc I year 105 II year 115 MTech I year 253 II year 211 MBA I year 10 II year 06 TOTAL 700 PhD Enrolled 166 Registered 696 TOTAL 862 Statistics relating to admission in 2017-18 are furnished in the table below Student admitted in the academic session 2017-18 No. of student admitted in 2017-18 Category UG PG PhD Total General 282 211 130 623 SC 91 58 21 170 ST 46 11 1 58 OBC 162 116 14 292 PWD 8 1 0 9 Total 589 397 166 1152 Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research Programs In recent years, purposeful thrusts on research activities, have resulted in greater focus of the Institute faculty towards cutting edge top-notch research.