Research Policy Document

    Deputation of Faculty for Ph.D programme:
  • The management introduced this scheme of granting financial assistance to the faculty members to pursue Ph.D programme for a period of three years, extendable for the fourth year with 75% of their gross salary since 24/04/1992. The deputation allowance was revised to 65% of gross salary in 2011. After completion of Ph.D work faculty member has to re-join for work.
  • All the faculty members availing this facility are required to given an undertaking on a stamped paper stating that they will serve SIT for a period of 5 years after completion of Ph.D.
  • Any faculty who discontinues the Ph.D programme, has to repay the amount of allowance he/she taken in one lump sum with 12% interest.
  • Total number of faculty members who have availed this facility from 1992 - December 2021: 136
    Deputation of Faculty for Post Doctoral programme:
  • Faculty members with Ph.D are deputed to take up Post Doctoral Programme in reputed institutions for a period of one year with full salary.
  • Total number of faculty members who have availed this facility from 2016 - 2022: 5
    Research Initiative at UG level:
    (This option is not available for students under 160 credits scheme)
  • Totally six credits are prescribed for UG research.
  • Research work can be taken up individually or a group of two students from the same or different departments.
  • Students pursue UG research and complete successfully are exempted from studying professional elective I (PE-1) in V semester and professional elective II (PE-2) in VI semester.
  • The students are required to identify the guide, propose the research topic and submit the application in the format available in the department, to the HoD at the beginning of V semester. If the work is interdisciplinary, one guide will be allotted from each of the participating departments.
  • Students who have opted UG research shall carry out an extensive literature survey to decide abstract, introduction, motivation, objectives and methodology. Further, they shall work on the research to complete the project with a publication of paper in refereed journal / conference of repute / applying for patent / preparation of proof of concepts. CIE shall be from the start to completion of the UG Research. The final CIE marks shall be the average of all the CIEs marks reduced to maximum 50 marks. In case, the students complete the UG research before the end of VI semester, they can appear for VI semester SEE viva-voce examination. The prescribed 06 credits shall be included with the credits of the VI semester. In case, UG research is incomplete, students are permitted to continue with the same during the subsequent year/s of the programme.
  • SEE shall be conducted at VII or VIII semester examinations depending on the semester during which the students complete the research. The credits of UG research shall be added to the corresponding semester in which students appear for the SEE.
  • The students can opt to discontinue the UG research at any time of the programme. However, they have to complete professional electives I (PE-1) and II (PE-2) to become eligible for the award of degree.
  • In case, UG research is incomplete even after the completion of VIII semester and students wish to continue the UG research, they shall be permitted to do so till they complete it within the maximum period of the programme. However, the appearance to SEE shall be considered as first attempt and credits shall be included with VIII semester grade card, indicating the year in which the students have appeared for the SEE.

Incentives for faculty: To motivate faculty members to pursue research activities, management sanctions incentives for publishing articles in journals which are indexed by Scopus/Web-of-Science databases, writing Books, and obtaining Patents. Sponsored R&D projects of Rs.1014.39 Lakhs are ongoing which are funded by various funding organisations. Incentive of 1% of grant is offered for getting research grants for sponsored projects.

Sl.No. Category Incentive (INR)
01 Journal Article Publications - International 4000
02 Journal Article Publications - National 2000
03 Books with ISBN 5000
04 Patents 5000
05 Sponsored Research Projects %1 of grant amount obtained for the project

If the authors are multiple from SIT in the publication & articles in journals and conferences the incentive will be shared among them. The same policy is followed in authoring the book and book chapters.

M.Tech Publications: All M.Tech students are required to publish the work done in project work in a conference or a journal. For publishing in Scopus / Web of Science indexed conference the institution provides the registration fee and travel allowance. This was approved in the 26th Academic Council meeting held on 26/12/2015.

Seed / Start-up research grant to young /new faculty members

  • Management sanctions Seed money to young/new faculty members to pursue research in their areas of interest. Using this seed money the required equipment to start the research can be procured.
  • Management sanctions additional funds for any shortage of money for procuring equipment under sponsored research grant.

Extension of Research Assistantship to Full-time Ph.D. Scholars from the institute fund:

SIT Research-Assistantship of Rs.18,000/- per month is offered to Ph.D. research scholars from the institute fund for 24 research scholars every year. Selection for this Assistantship is made through a qualifying written test and an interview before a panel.

Sl.No. Specialization Assitantship
01 Civil Engineering 02
02 Mechanical Engineering 04
03 Electrical and Electronics Engineering 1
04 Telecommunication Engineering 1
05 Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering 1
06 Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering 1
07 Computer Science and Engineering 3
08 Industrial Engineering and Management 1
09 Chemical Engineering 1
10 Biotechnology 1
11 MBA 1
12 MCA 1
13 Nano- Technology 1
14 Physics 1
15 Chemistry 1
16 Mathematics 1
Total 24
  • Process for selection of Research Scholars:
    • Advertisement is given in newspapers and in the institute's website inviting applications.
    • Following is the eligibility criteria to avail the Research Assistantship:
      • Candidates should possess first class degree at both UG and PG level.
      • Selection of the candidates is based on the written test followed by an interview at the institution level.
      • Candidates must have registered for Ph.D programme of VTU in research centres of SIT.
      • The candidates who are on deputation or already availing other fellowships are not eligible to apply.
    • The syllabus for the Qualifying test is prepared by the respective departments focusing on strong basics and fundamentals with GATE syllabus as a reference. The panel of examiners comprising of only external members (Professors from reputed institutions) are chosen for paper setting. The question paper comprises of 45 questions (30 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) with one mark each and 15 Numerical Answer Type (NAT) Questions with 2 marks each) covering the entire syllabus.
    • The candidates are issued offer letter for Research Assistantship with terms and conditions focussing on quality research work during the entire Ph.D period.
  • For research scholars who are receiving SIT Research Assistantship, review of progress of their Ph.D. research work is carried out by an internal panel every 6 months and research assistantship is continued based on satisfactory completion of the work.
  • Advisory Council

    The Research Advisory Council is reconstituted with the following composition for a period of two years w.e.f. 31-07-2020
    1. Principal, SIT, Tumakuru - Chairman.
    2. Dr. A Veeraraghavan, Professor, Department of Civil Engg., IIT Madras, Chennai - Member
    3. Dr. Ajit T Kalghatgi, Chairman & Managing Director (Retd.), Bharat Electronics Ltd. Bangalore - Member
    4. Dr. J. M. Mallikarjuna, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT Madras, Chennai - member
    5. Dr. B B Amberker, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engg., National Institute of Technology, Warangal - Member
    6. Dr. Gopal Naik, Professor & Chair, Economics and social sciences, IIM Bangalore - Member
    7. Dr. U.Chandrashekhar, Program Director AddWize in Wipro3D, Bangalore - Member.
    8. Dr. Mahadeva Prasanna, Dean (FW, R&D), Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dharwad, Karnataka, India - Member
    9. Dr. Lalit Kumar, Former Director, MTRDC, DRDO, Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Member
    10. Dr. N R Sunitha, Professor, Dept. of CSE, SIT, Tumkur - Co-ordinator

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