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Multidisciplinary Research and Consultancy Centre (MRCC)

Inauguration of MRCC on

12th October 2015.


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Multidisciplinary Research and Consultancy Centre (MRCC) Report-2016-2017

The Multi-disciplinary Research and Consultancy Centre (MRCC) has a full-fledged Central Instrumentation

Centre(CIC) that serves as a hub for multi-disciplinary research and the E-Learning Centre facilitates staff and students

to access online research content. Software like SPSS, R and Minitab help scholars in Statistical analysis of their research

results.

Activities/ Events

• The College has been awarded three UGC Minor Research Projects. The Projects have been awarded to Ms.Kavitha

Dhanraj & Ms.Meherunissa of the Department of Psychology and Dr.Madhana Rekha of the Centre for Women‟s

Studies.

• Seed Capital Assistance Scheme for faculty and Student‟s Project Grant Introduced.

• New guidelines for award of financial assistance for research work drafted during the year and 18 faculty have been

awarded financial assistance during the year.

Activities/Events:

1.The Multi-disciplinary Research and Consultancy Centre (MRCC)

organized a competition titled “Idea Factory” on the 20th July 2016. The

Competition was a call for Original Ideas, Inventions and Innovations.

The students enthusiastically participated in the competitions. They built

models, prototypes, conducted surveys, created new and innovative

designs. A total of 32 students from the forenoon session and 46 students

from the afternoon session participated in the competition. Cash prizes

were awarded under the arts, science and commerce streams for the best

ideas and models.

2.A Workshop of the MRCC titled „Research Projects – Do‟s and Dont‟s

was held for faculty on 16th September 2016. The workshop addressed

the faculty on the modalities of applying for research projects from

UGC, DBT, DST, ICSSR and other private funding agencies. Dr.Selvam,

National Professor of Eminence, IIT Delhi chaired the sessions. This was

followed by a session on checking of research proposals prepared on

26.10.2016. Dr.Usha Antony, Professor, Centre for food technology,

Department of Biotechnology, Anna University was the resource person.

3.An intensive four day workshop on SPSS was conducted. The program

was conducted from 13th – 17th March 2017 for M. Phil and Ph.D.

students. Dr.Ravanan, Head, Department of Statistics, Presidency

College, Chennai was the resource person.

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Activities/Events

From 2017-2018 the Seed Capital Assistance Scheme of the management is being implemented and

Seven (7) faculty members have been sanctioned research projects.

Research Project Grants of Undergraduate and Postgraduate students has been sanctioned from the

year 2017-2018. There was an overwhelming response from the students and the following parameters

were set for selection of projects

1.Innovative / Socially relevant research topic

2.Feasibility of the proposal

3.Methodology adopted

4.Output to society

5.Confidence in presentation

19 undergraduate research projects (11 from forenoon and 8 from afternoon) and eight (8) postgraduate

research projects have been sanctioned

Financial assistance for research work for 35 faculty has been awarded.

From this academic year only papers published in Journals approved by the UGC are awarded

incentives after scrutiny by an internal committee.

Online research database EBSCO has been purchased. Over 3000 peer reviewed journals are available

for use by students and faculty and the database is accessible through all computers in the college.

A hands-on training Workshop for the Science faculty on the use of the High

Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) was held on Wednesday, the 30th

August 2017.

A programme on Patents was held on 21st September 2017. The resource person for

this programme was Mr.Ajith, Deputy Controller of Patents and design at the Patents

office, Intellectual Property Rights Office, Guindy

A programme on Copyrights was held on 22nd November 2017. The resource person

for this programme was Dr. Feroz Ali, the Department of Industry Policy and

Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce and Industry Chair on Intellectual

Property Rights (IPR) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.

A special lecture on the topic Mathematics and Research – An Insight for the

undergraduate mathematics students was held on 7th December 2017.

Dr.Ramanujam, Professor, Institute of Mathematical Sciences was the resource

person for the lecture.

A competition titled „Idea factory‟ was held on 5th of February for the forenoon

session and 6th of February for the afternoon session. The Competition was a call for

Original Ideas, Inventions and Innovations. The students enthusiastically

participated in the competitions. They had built models, prototypes, conducted

surveys, created new and innovative designs. A total of 58 students took part in the

competitions and won cash prizes.


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Activities/Events

Through the Seed Capital Assistance Scheme,this year two faculty have been sanctioned

research projects

Student Research grant has been awarded to 12 undergraduate research projects and 4

postgraduate research projects.

Financial assistance for research work to 20 faculty has been awarded.

From this academic year research papers published in Scopus indexed journals are

awarded the highest incentive immaterial of the impact factor.

A Seminar on Publishing in Scopus Indexed Journals – An insight was held on

26.11.2018. Ms.Rahila Nahid, Publishing Content Manager, Reed Elsevier was the

resource person.

A demonstration to faculty on the working of FTIR was conducted on 30.08.2018.

Two faculty members were sent for a short term skill development training program on

IPR conducted by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Intellectual Property Management,

Nagpur run by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of

Commerce and Industry, Government of India for 6 days starting from 29th October 2018

to 3rd November 2018


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4 faculty projects under the Seed Capital Assistance Scheme have been

sanctioned during the year 2019-2020

17 Student Research Grants, 11 undergraduate and 6 postgraduate have

been sanctioned.

Financial assistance for research work to 23 faculty members have been

awarded during the academic year.

From this year the college has started subscribing to SCOPUS online

research database. The database can be accessed by all staff and students

through intranet.

Remote Scopus IDs for accessing entire SCOPUS journals by faculty

were created during the pandemic

To kindle young minds to think, a competition titled „Idea factory‟

was held on 3rd of August, 2019.

An Awareness program on Intellectual property rights was conducted

in the Library hall on 17th December,2019.

An online workshop on “Scopus” was organized by MRCC in

collaboration with ELSEVIER for the faculty members on 3rd and 4th

February. The speaker was Dr.Subhra Dutta, Customer Consultant,

ELSEVIER.

A program on “Exploring Consultancy Avenues” was held on 26th

February, 2020 which was organized by the Department of

Commerce (FN) & Department of Business Studies (AN) in

collaboration with Multi-disciplinary Research and Consultancy

Centre. The speaker was Dr.Paul Jayakar, Director, M/s.CNK

Associates, Chartered Accountants.

A lecture on “Scientific indicators to measure research output” was

organized on the occasion of National Science Day on 28th February,

2020 in collaboration with MRCC. The speaker was Dr.Faizunnisa

Syed, Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information

science, University of Madras.

A Webinar on “Role of Scopus analytics in research workflow” was

organized 27th, April,2020 where Dr.Subhra Dutta, Customer

Consultant, ELSEVIER.

Activities/Events

It was decided to carry out research through online means during this Pandemic year

2020-2021, Two faculty projects were sanctioned projects under the Seed Capital

Assistance Scheme.

12 Student Research Grants have also been sanctioned. The Students Research

Projects sanctioned by the Management in the year 2020-21 have all been

successfully completed. Incentives are given to papers published in Journals in the

UGC-CARE list.

Financial assistance for research work for 25 faculty have been awarded this year

New internal members were inducted into MRCC to infuse new thoughts and ideas.

The college had subscribed to the N-list, Delnet, SCOPUS online research database

and remote access to the database was given to faculty for their research work as well

as for publishing research papers during the Pandemic.

Students enthusiastically participated in the online Idea factory Competition, a

platform for Original Ideas, Inventions and Innovations, Models, prototypes and

designs.

An initiative was taken to create Vidwan IDs by all the faculty members of our

college so that we can be a part of the web-based Research Information Management,

IRINS, developed by the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre.


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A Webinar on “Role of Scopus analytics in research workflow” was

organised on 27th April 2020 where Dr.Subhra Dutta, Customer

Consultant, ELSEVIER was the resource person.

A webinar on “Publishing in High impact factor journals” was organised

for our faculty on 18th May, 2020.The speaker was Dr.Fazlunnisa Syed,

Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information science,

University of Madras.

MRCC in collaboration with Central Library of our college on 9th

June,2020 organised a Webinar on “Applying for Government and Non-

government research projects.” by Dr.S.Amilan, Professor & Head,

Department of Commerce, Pondicherry University.

The IPR Cell conducted an IPR programme on Development and Careers

in Intellectual and Property Rights.

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