Aim

1. To create research awareness amongst our faculty members and students.

2. To facilitate mutual cooperation between researchers for interdisciplinary research.

3. To establish a forward and backward linkage among different sectors like Industry, R&D organizations, foreign universities and apex bodies.

4. To work towards developing MIT / MAE / MITCOE as internationally recognized R&D centres.

Objectives

1. To organize various events like national and international conferences, workshops on research methodology and patents, symposia, guest lectures in order to achieve the prestated aim of enhancing the research awareness.

2. To have faster collaboration and interaction with researchers working on disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.

3. To encourage every faculty member for research proposal writing and to participate in R&D activities leading to Doctoral degree.

R&D Activities

1. Organizing guest lectures delivered by eminent researchers from industry and academia. (At least once in a month)

2. Deputing faculty members for higher studies and collaborative research to National and International institutes.

3. Extending opportunities to final year students doing their projects to participate in various projects funded and sponsored by the various apex bodies and organizations like UGC, CSIR, ICSSR, DRDO and UOP.

4. Our faculty members are actively involved in various R&D activities like writing research proposals for submission to UOP, DST, AICTE, IBM, DBT, UGC etc, publishing research papers in peer reviewed research journals, presenting research papers in National and International Conferences, delivering talks in Workshops and Conferences, organizing National Conferences, STTP's and Workshops for faculty.

5. Organizing Paper presentation contest for students at national level.

6. Organizing various extra and co-curricular activities for students and faculty members from time to time.

7. Many faculty members have collaboration and MOU with national and international R & D organizations and industry.

Facilities and Incentives

1. Incentives in the form of increments are given to faculty members actively involved in research.

2. Meritorious researchers are given some relaxation in their teaching workload.

3. Institute is also distributing seed money to faculty for their R&D projects to start their research work in the initial phase.

4. Giving partial financial assistance to students, based on the merit of the proposal submitted for obtaining funded projects.

Achievements

Forty research projects are in operation at MIT, sponsored by various funding agencies. Four of the faculty members of MIT are recognized as guides for PhD in their respective subjects by the University of Pune . A few students are working under their supervision. A Research Center of Pune University in Geology is functioning in Petroleum department of MIT. Several of faculty members in MIT / MAE / MITCOE have contributed research papers in international and national level journals and conferences.

LIST OF BCUD, UNIVERSITY PUNE SANCTIONED RESEARCH PROJECTS

SANCTION YEAR 2007-2008

SANCTION YEAR 2008-2009

SANCTION YEAR 2009-2010

MIT Pune has secured total sanctions of Rs. 44,00,000/- from BCUD for research projects.