Research & Development Cell

Research has been an integral component of the engineering education in Sasi Institute of Technology and Engineering even before its attainment of NAAC and NBA accreditation. A noteworthy development in this direction has been the recent establishment of R & D Cell. Establishment of the centre is definitely going to boost the research environment.

Encouraging and sustaining innovation and research in the regular academics of the institution requires a sturdy administrative courage and strong concern for academic excellence and the SITE has continuously evinced it through its functioning. The Central Library is very rich in its contents to facilitate research. Internet access is provided to the library by way of Campus Networking and getting connected to IEEE library, N-List, DELNET, NDLI and OPAC. Access to more than 9768 books, 64,552 volumes, 116 International and National Journals are also made available. In addition there are several department libraries catering to the needs of the respective departments.

Extension activities can be seen in the various means of disseminating the experiences and research outputs of staff and students. SITE provides platform in the form of organizing regional and national level workshops, seminars, conferences and symposia in various disciplines. Similarly the faculty members are encouraged and given full support to participate in various National and International fora. Besides these, there are several other ways in which expertise available is extended to personnel in and outside the Institute.

The research findings and project outcomes of the staff and students always find a fair place in various standard publications in the form of books, reports, monographs and articles in journals and periodicals. Newsletter is also brought out by the Institute from time to time to keep the members of the SITE abreast with its activities and achievements.

• • To establish, run and maintain amicable rapport with professional research institutions to provide suitable education, training, research etc. for advancement of knowledge and intellectual identity.
  • To initiate and integrate a network with various peer academicians for strengthening the technical research and development activities.
  • To promote and propagate technical, computer and managerial education, and create an individual human assets among the staff members.
  • To provide full pledged infrastructure with high standard facilities for healthy interaction with the industry and with other universities/ institutions.
  • To conduct workshops, discussion, seminar, conference by professional body corporate on contemporary issues with identification of thrust areas in the technical and the managerial education.
  • To promote the exchange of information, ideas and research findings to the policy- makers for ultimate benefit of the society.

• Dept.	Department	Scheme Name	Funding Agency	Fund Value (Rs.)
  1	SITE	New Gen IEDC	EDII	2,27,50,000
  2	CSE	AICTE Seminar Grant	AICTE, New Delhi	93,000
  3	CSE	AICTE Seminar Grant	AICTE, New Delhi	3,00,000
  4	ECE	ELECTRAMA 2016	The World Electricity Forum, Bangalore	86,000
  5	ECE	Hackthon 2021	AICTE	1,00,000
  6	ECE	MODROB	AICTE	13,74,000
  7	ECE	MODROB	AICTE	14,52,098
  8	ECE	Startup	Kemiva Bioscience	2,00,000
  9	AS&H	Research project	BRNS	23,45,100
  10	MS	NSG	AICTE	2,00,000
  11	MS	Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp	DST-NIMAT	1,20,000
  12	MS	Online Women Entrepreneurship Program	DST	1,00,000
  13	MS	FDP	DST-NIMAT	2,50,000
  14	MS	FDP & EDP	DST-NIMAT	4,50,000
  15	MS	FDP & EDP	DST-NIMAT	4,50,000
  17	MS	SDP	AICTE	7,00,000
  18	EEE	FDP	AICTE	4,81,167
  19	ME	IE Grant	IE	34,000
  20	ME	IE Grant	IE	20,000
  21	ME	IE Grant	IE	35,000
  Grand Total				3,15,40,365

• To build and sustain strategic research clusters of excellence that leverage existing institute strengths, match well with future directions of the organization, offer good career opportunities for institute’s graduates that are of strategic importance to nation, and are in areas attracting significant extramural funding.
• To expand regional, national, and international partnerships with industry, government, and academia in economic development.
• To emphasize across the targeted strategic research clusters interdisciplinary initiatives that result in nationally and internationally recognized distinctive and innovative sponsored research programs.
• To foster research partnerships, integrating research programs across campus, and promoting opportunities for collaboration with other campuses of JNTU Kakinada.
• To promote the protection, transferring, and commercialization of intellectual property, and develop links to economic development in India, advancing Translating Research into Practice and other initiatives with major economic and societal impact.
• To foster systematic integration of the research experience in undergraduate programs, leading to research-based learning in the academic disciplines across the institution.
• To promote alignment and optimization of graduate programs with respect to the strategic research clusters, consultancy services including development of distinctive doctoral programs. Moreover, to expand research opportunities and resources to that extent and support a robust number of postdoctoral fellows in future development.

Dean (R & D)
SASI Institute of Technology and Engineering,
Tadepalligudem- 534101
Email id : research@sasi.ac.in