NANDHA

Welcome to the NCT Research and Development Cell

The Research and Development Cell of Nandha College of Technology has been established to promote research activities. The Cell will monitor and administer research programs offered by Anna University, Chennai. It will evaluate and oversee the candidates admitted to research programs in Anna University recognized departments of the institution.

At Nandha College of Technology, all departments are recognized as research centers under research institute recognition. Scholars from various institutions, as well as faculty from this college who wish to enhance their qualifications, conduct their research work within their respective disciplines. Details of infrastructure, publications, and related research activities are presented in the respective disciplines.

Dr. N. NANDHAGOPAL, M.E., Ph.D.

Professor & Head – Research & Development
✉ rd@nandhatech.org

Research Policy

            Nandha College of Technology is committed to serve the society by conducting state of art research on par with the national and international standards. Our college creates an open platform to foster academic excellence and to pursue scholarly research activities. Researchers will abide by the research policy of the Institute in accordance with the two key principles namely, Quality and Ethics. They are also responsible for ensuring that the research practices are carried out in conformance with the Anna University research policy.

Academic Research

1. Norms for Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

• Candidates should enroll and register at Nandha College of Technology on getting provisional registration letter from Anna University and renew their registration during second week of January / July every semester. For full time scholars, every day attendance is preferred.
• Candidates should present his / her progress of research in the review meeting once in six months during third week of January / July and submit the Half Yearly Progress Review Report to the department in which they have registered. The schedule for the review meeting would be prepared and announced by the concerned department.
• The faculty after the award of Ph.D. shall get the guideship within 3 years. A supervisor, at any point of time, can guide 8 scholars at the maximum (including joint supervisor-ship). However, the number of full-time scholars to the supervisors can be limited by the institution time to time based on the infrastructure availability. Prior approval / permission should be obtained when there arises a need to guide more than the stipulated number of scholars under special / extraordinary / circumstances.
• The Supervisors shall endorse the candidates to publish their research work. The candidate shall publish their research paper in reputed (Anna University Annexure / Scopus/ SCI/SCI-E/ESCI, Indian Citation Index) indexed conferences / Workshops / Journals) after obtaining formal permission from the respective Supervisor. The form should enclose both the paper and the Urkund report of the paper. Only after checking for Plagiarism, the Research supervisor can sign the form and permit the candidate to submit the paper to the journal.
• The research scholar shall submit a copy of Ph.D. thesis to the College Library on successful completion of the Viva-Voce.

2. Plagiarism Check

• All research supervisors recognized by Anna University will have login ID for online access to Urkund Plagiarism detection software by Centre for Research, Anna University Chennai.
• Research Scholar should submit the copy of Urkund plagiarism check report to the concern supervisor for a paper before submitting to the journal / Conference.
• The research scholar Synopsis/ Thesis should accompany Urkund plagiarism report while submitting same to Center for Research, Anna university

3. The Act of Plagiarism

• In the case of scholars who have committed the act of plagiarism in the Thesis / journal publication, his / her Thesis / degree shall be forfeited and his / her research registration shall be cancelled and also he / she shall be debarred to register for any other programme in the University.
• For the abetment of above such action, the recognition of his / her Supervisor ship shall be withdrawn for a period of five years and he / she shall be debarred from guiding the scholars for any research programme in the University till such period.
• If any scholar has committed an act of self plagiarism in the publications and ascertained by the Committee, such work shall not be allowed in his / her thesis and the scholar shall be fined up as per the affiliating university, while the Supervisor shall also face action. The Synopsis / Thesis of such scholar shall be accepted only based on a new publication in a referred journal (as applicable).
• If plagiarism is detected in the Publications / Thesis of any other scholar under the same supervisor, the recognition of his / her Supervisor ship shall be withdrawn for a period of five years and he / she shall be debarred from guiding the scholars, besides other disciplinary action.
• Providing generous seed funding to the Faculty members to publish their research findings in refereed Journal / Conference. 
• Providing international travel grant to faculty and students to enable them to participate and present papers in International Conferences or to attend the internship training in an emerging area.

4. Sponsored / Collaborative Research Project

• The faculty shall apply for funding support from the Govt / Industries, to do Sponsored / Collaborative research based on the call for proposals from the agencies.
• A Department Level Proposal Review Committee / Project Review Committee (PRC) shall be constituted that comprises of Principal Investigator, Subject Expert, Dean / HOD for proposal assessment.
• The PRC shall forward the proposals upon review to the Principal for approval towards the submission of proposals to the funding agencies
• The Principal Investigator shall then submit the application along with supporting documents based on the approval to the Funding Agencies.
• The PIs shall create a new Head of Account and prepare a Stock Register with proper entries of purchase of recurring and Non-Recurring items upon sanction of the project by the funding agency.
• The PIs shall appoint a Project fellow (if applicable) by means of advertising and then selection shall be done by conducting the interview based on the budget approval of the funding agency. The interview panel should be constituted with one external expert member along with PI and HOD.
• The PIs shall attend the Progress Review Meeting (Once in six months) conducted by the Progress Review Committee that comprises of Principal, Dean-R&D and expert members. The PIs shall submit the Annual Progress Review Report to the funding agencies as per the guidelines.
• The PIs shall prepare Project Completion Report on completion of the project duration according to the guidelines of the funding agency.
• The PIs shall prepare the Utilization Certificate (UC) duly signed by the Auditor.
• The PIs shall submit the Project Completion Report, Utilization Certificate and Publications / patent list to the Sponsoring agency through the Dean and the Principal.

Remuneration Policy for Consultancy, Testing and Sponsored Research projects

Faculty members who are doing Consultancy, Testing and Sponsored Research projects are entitled to get remuneration as per the following norms.

Consultancy and Testing Assignments

• The consultancy charges shall be shared as 20:80 for the College and the faculty members respectively.
• The testing charges are shared as 40:60 for the College and the faculty members respectively.
• The maximum remuneration is capped at Rs.1.00 lakh per project per faculty member.
• The faculty members who are going for consultancy and testing work outside during the College working days are entitled to apply for on duty leave.
• The faculty members who are going for testing work outside the College should get necessary out pass from the department and College.

Sponsored Projects

      Clause 1

• Faculty members who do sponsored research are entitled to get remuneration as per the guidelines of Sponsoring Agencies.
• The maximum remuneration is capped at Rs.1.00 lakh per project per faculty member.

     Clause 2

• For consultancy projects sponsored by government agencies, the project Principal Investigator (PI) is entitled to get the actual expertise charges as approved in the financial budget.

     Clause 3

• The faculty members are eligible for project remuneration only after getting the completion certificate / approval of the final Utilization Certificate from the sponsoring agency.

R & D CODE OF ETHICS

CODE OF ETHICS

Nandha College of Technology (NCT) (Autonomous) is keen to restoring and maintaining highest standards of honesty and liability in carrying out academic and research activities within the campus.

Objectives of Ethical Committee

• Ensure the highest scientific and ethical standards of research at NCT.
• Normative ethics- includes determining what is right and wrong
• Compliance- includes instituted policies and regulations at the university
• Rigor and reproducibility – only kind of science that can offer social value and justify risks to subjects and financial investment in research.
• Social Value- means that research addresses problems of importance to society, generating knowledge used to solve real-world problems through new technologies or procedures.

Misconduct in Academic Research

Fabrication and falsification of data, plagiarism, or dishonesty in proposing, conducting, or presenting scientific results are all examples of academic research misconduct. Academic misconduct also includes deliberate, dangerous, or negligent deviations from accepted research practice, such as flouting an agreed protocol if and when this failure provokes absurd risk or harm to people or the environment, and when it facilitates research misconduct by collusion in, or concealment of, such actions by others.

Misconduct includes (and is not limited to) the following acts:

Plagiarism:

Premeditated replication of a manuscript, data, results, images, figures, process and ideas from others work, and reproducing others results without proper consent from the original authors.

Piracy: The deliberate exploitation of ideas from others without proper acknowledgement

Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights:

 Failure to observe legal norms regarding copyright and the moral rights of authors.

Abuse of Research Resources:

Failure to observe the rules concerning copyright and IPR of author

Defamation:

 Failure  to observe relevant legal norms governing libel and slander.

Misinterpretation:

The deliberate attempt to represent falsely or unfairly the ideas or work of other research

Personation:

Depredation and submitting others research as one own

Fabrication and Fraud:

Data fabrication without doing proper experiments, falsification of experimental data and ideas without sufficient replication of experiments deliberate reporting of data with misleading interpretations

Sabotage:

            Acting to prevent others from completing  their work. This includes stealing or cutting pages out of library books or otherwise damaging them; or willfully disrupting the experiments of others; or endangering institutional access to licensed research resources by willfully failing to observe their terms and conditions.

Professorial misconduct:

Professorial acts those are arbitrary, biased or exploitative.

Denying access to information or material:

To deny others access arbitrarily to scholarly resources or to deliberately and groundlessly impede their progress

Misconduct in formal examinations:

Averting others from using instruments, stealing others laboratory notebooks and damaging others laboratory notebooks

Violations of proper academic practice can be divided into two categories.

1. Minor Violations:

Minor violations might arise due to inexperience or a lack of understanding of academic integrity standards, and they are generally characterized by the lack of dishonest intent on the part of the perpetrator.

They can be the result of:

1. Weak procedures and methods that may jeopardize the integrity of the research but are not done on purpose or recklessly;
2. Weaknesses that pose no major risks to either subjects or policies that they may influence on the whole, these minor violations can be seen as failings that reflect only poor, rather than unacceptable practices, and thus primarily require additional training and development rather than any formal disciplinarily.

2. Major Violations:

Interviews shall be conducted with the complainant and the respondent. All individuals interviewed during the investigation will be asked to respect the confidential nature of the investigation.

Investigation report and recommendations

            The Ethics Committee will produce a report stating: the procedures under which the formal investigation was conducted; how and, where appropriate, from whom information was obtained; the finding of the committee and the basis for these; a summary of the views of the respondent; and a description of any recommendations made by the committee.

Based on the investigation report and recommendations of the Ethics Committee, the Disciplinary Committee may decide on penalties (when considered appropriate)

Penalties

Disciplinary actions recommended by the research committee may include but are not limited to:

1. Resubmission of an assignment or academic work
2. A failing grade for the examination or specific assigned exercise; or a failing grade for the course as a whole, depending on the importance of the work to the overall course grade
3. A letter of reprimand, issued by the chair of the Disciplinary Committee, which may or may not be recorded on the scholar’s file
4. Suspension from the programme (for Students)
5. Suspension of grant/contract (For faculty)
6. Revocation of a degree or certificate (For Students)

Research Publications

• Scopus – Affiliated authors

ANNA UNIVERSITY: CHENNAI – 600 025

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH

NANDHA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY (AUTONOMOUS), ERODE-52

Name and Registration number of Ph.D./ M.S. (By Research) scholars presently registered with this University

LIST OF FUNDING AGENCIES

MEMBERS OF RESEARCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Chairman

·         Dr. S. Nandagopal, Principal, Nandha College of Technology

·         Dr. N. Nandhagopal, Professor & Head R& D

·         Dr. C. Anand, Research Coordinator, Nandha College of Technology

External Members

·         Dr. K. Selvakumar, Professor – Information Technology, Annamalai University

·         Dr. N. Krishnaraj, Professor – Networking and Communications, SRM University

Internal Members

·         Dr. V.S. Sureshkumar, assistant professor – Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering

·         Dr. D. Baskaran, Associate Professor – Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

·         Mr.V. Gowri Shankar, Assistant professor – Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

·         Dr. C. Anand, Professor – Department of Information Technology

·         Mr. T. Anand, Assistant professor – Department of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

·         Dr. R. Vijayachandra,  Professor – Department of Science and Humanities