Stay in Touch – Science and Technology Cell

Services we can offer

We can undertake projects in the following areas.

Agricultural/horticultural

Plant disease identification and recommendation of control methods
Scientific identification of plants
Post-harvest handling of fruits and vegetables
Machinery for drying of agricultural produce and other materials

Chemical

Chemical analysis (water, air quality, soil, metal, and food)
Separation, identification and determination of chemicals

Educational (Science related, A.L. and above)

Teacher training programs
Academic and professional course developments
Evaluation of academic programmes
Extension courses on science & technology
Statistical training programmes
Training programs in electronics &automation
Workshop practice in mechanical, wood and glass blowing
Educational testing services

Electrical/Electronics

Electronics instrumentation
Scientific instrument development
Electromagnetic field measurements and analysis
Automation technology
Lightning and transients protection

Environmental

Consultancy services on Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) & Initial Environmental Examinations (IEE)
Water/soil quality analysis (biological aspects)
Biodiversity assessments & monitoring
Testing of samples (food, building materials, etc) for radioactivity
Monitoring of environment for radiation
Selection of plants for landscaping

Financial and actuarial

Quantitative finance, financial optimization, risk management
Evaluation of insurance products and retirement plans

Industrial

Network optimization, problems related to “Traveling Salesman” problem and job scheduling algorithms
Analysis of genetically modified (GM) foods
Industrial automation
Electroplating
Corrosion prevention
Isolation & characterization of natural products

Medical/Pharmaceutical

Immunodiagnostics
Mathematical modeling in health science such as analyzing dynamics of infectious diseases
lidna -based disease diagnostics
Toxicological analysis
Bioactivity of natural and synthetic products
Amino acid and protein analysis, enzyme development and kinetics
Molecular cloning and gene expression
Recombinant protein expression
Organic synthesis
Molecular modeling
Analysis of herbal, pharmaceutical and other industrial products for anti-microbial activity
Design and analysis of epidemiological studies and clinical trials
Survival analysis

Microbial

Microbiological analysis

Statistical/Computational

Statistical consultancy Including planning, designing, conducting, sample surveys and analysis and report writing
Computational modeling & simulation

Collaborative research projects

Memorandum of understanding (MOU)

Industries are encouraged to request for collaborative development of new technologies. Such requests will be accepted depending on the infrastructure and the expertise available at the time. An MOU will be signed before the commencement of the project between the client and Cell.

Identifying intellectual property opportunities

The basic aim of the maintaining intellectual property policies is to promote the progress of science and technology, to assure that discoveries and inventions are used to benefit the public, to provide appropriate royalty revenues to the Cell and the inventor, and to support University research and education through the use of invention-related income.

The Cell will grant to the sponsor, the right to negotiate an exclusive or nonexclusive license, based upon the level of sponsor support. In the event of a technology transfer, a payment should be paid to the Cell in order to transfer the technology.

Payments

Payments are negotiable as both direct and indirect costs are involved in some of these projects. All projects will require an advance payment to commence the work. On successful completion of the project, the outcome will be handed over upon receipt of the full payment.

A technology transfer fee will be levied when transferring the technology. This will vary depending on the level of support obtained from the sponsor for the work done.

Consultancy

All Faculty of Science consultancy work can be handled through the “Cell”, which promotes the University’s consultancy capabilities to external parties.

The following outline is intended as a quick and easy guide when undertaking University consultancy. Consultancy is defined as the contracting of staff for a fixed short length of time, to carry out a task, other than research and development, specified by a client. Consultancy contracts differ from research contracts in that there is no academic output, such as publications in refereed journals. Lecturing and ad hoc interaction with media is excluded from these consultancy services.

Our alumni are important to us. They have been very helpful in the past to find industrial placements for our undergraduates. Hence their input and expert advice in building this industrial/community interaction is very valuable. We at “Cell” would be willing to listen to your ideas in strengthening the relationship between the university and industry.

We plan to upload in this website, batch-wise contact lists of alumni of the Faculty of Science. If there are volunteers from different batches to undertake this task please inform us. Any alumni who are willing to assist us in establishing links with “Cell” could provide the information in the excel sheet which could be downloaded from this site. Your assistance could be in various forms such as funding, establishing contacts, ideas etc.

IP Policy for the University

Template for University IP policy was approved by the 387th Faculty board meeting on March 31, 2015 and tabled at the 86th management committee meeting on June 18, 2015 and 498th council meeting August 13, 2015.

Proposed share of revenues from Net income is under discussion at the Council level