Research opportunities in Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering Department at The NorthCap University

At The NorthCap University, the goal of the research programmes is to increase the number of underrepresented students who pursue post-graduate or doctorate degrees and seek opportunities in academic and research careers. As the scope of research is growing fast, the university has upgraded its resources which are required for progressive research, so that research scholars or students can explore more in their respective fields or beyond that. The NCU supports and encourages the students and faculty researchers to take new and challenging work in their respective fields.

A healthy faculty and student relationship is also maintained in all the departments so that students or research scholars can be supported in their research fields as well as to build their successful career path. Most of the faculties in NCU are PhD holders and are cooperative with students so that they can freely propose their ideas and research works. A healthy environment is a key to successful research. The university encourages learning so that the thinking skills of the students can be improved which leads to quality and innovative research. The students of NCU are more future-ready and can learn new research methods and technology.  

Moreover, NCU also supports the students financially by providing monthly fellowship to PhD research scholars in all the departments. The yearly contingency is also provided to all the research fellows for stationery, memberships in reputed societies, reimbursement of conference expenditure and travelling allowances. Other grants such as vice chancellor’s innovation fund aim to encourage innovative ideas amongst researchers, faculty members and students to seed research activity. The funding from the VC Innovation Fund acts as an initial grant to nurture ideas and research work.

Research & Development Cell

Further, to support research, The Master Jaggannath Centre of Excellence & Incubation (MJCEI) is established at NCU. The Tinkering lab is also established so that students and researchers can discover and invent products from their ideas. Nowadays, it is important to promote the industry and academia linkages and research-based teaching practices in order to keep the pace with the latest technologies evolving globally. Keeping this in mind, the NCU has established the Research, Development and Industrial Liaison (RDIL) Cell to promote the industrial consultancy works, sponsored research projects to promote the industry and academia interaction. The university constantly seeks to undertake collaborative research and consultancy projects with industry and organisations to remain at the forefront of scientific and technological developments. At present, several collaborative Research Projects are under operation with funding from many reputed funding agencies.

Recently the NavIC lab has been set up at the EECE department of the university as an outcome of MoU signed with SAC-ISRO Ahmedabad. The NavIC is an independent regional navigation satellite system being developed by India. It is designed to provide accurate position information service to users in India as well as the region extending up to 1500 km from its boundary. At this lab, the data from IRNSS satellites are recorded 24*7 and after analysing the data it is sent to SAC-ISRO, Ahmedabad on a weekly basis.

Providing Licensed Software & Tools

To analyse the research objectives and built the prototypes in the above-mentioned research areas, various licensed software and tools are provided to the students and researchers such as Keil, MATLAB 2020, CST, QualNet, OptSim, Tanner tools, FPGA development professional kits, ORCAD, Cadence design tools, Xillin Vivado system edition, LABView, Mi Power, Software-defined radio and WSN developments tools. The library provides access to an extensive range of informative resources like books, e-books, journals, e-journals, newspapers and a wide range of resources to improve the knowledge and thought process of the academic fraternity and students. Also, individual departmental libraries are set up especially for research scholars so that they can take the best advantage of literature. In nutshell, the NCU is the ideal platform to learn and achieve qualitative research and innovative ideas and it facilitates the students with a world-class education and research environment those who are dedicated and committed to research.

About the author

Anshul Vats and Ghanishtha Narang are research scholars at EECE Department of The NorthCap University.

Note: The views expressed in this article are solely author’s own and do not reflect/represent those of Shiksha