Testing and Trajectory Analysis of DFDR (Deployable Flight Data Recorder Unit)

• The biological importance of nitric oxide (NO) is well established. It plays key roles as a signaling molecule in a number of mammalian physiological and pathophysiological processes.

Gas Turbine Engine Combustion Characterization by Using Fixed Laser Energy Source

• Ignition of fuel-air mixture in a gas turbine engine is quite important and critical for better performance of engine; particularly, in high altitude aerospace applications. Generally, spark plug/glow plugs are being used which have several shortcomings.
  
  

Design and Fabrication of autonomous flapping wing unmanned air vechile for survillance and aerial photography

• Flapping wing micro/mini air vehicle research is an ongoing activity of the Unsteady Aerodynamics Laboratory of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur. Prof. Debopam Das and his students have developed a design methodology for building flapping wing MAV with the support from ‘National Programme of Micro-air-vehicle (NPMICAV)’ of AR&DB and DST.

Numerical characterization of strut-ramp injector for supersonic combustion using Large Eddy Simulation (LES)

• The primary aim of this project is to investigate the flow and mixing characteristic in strut-ramp injector configuration in oncoming supersonic flow using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) methodology.

Establishment of New Generation Technologies for Cell Separation and High Throughput Screening Using Macroporous Polymeric Matrices

• This is a TATA INNOVATION award project from DBT. The project is awarded in recognition of the outstanding work intranslational research. The objectives of the project are to develop new technology for the separation of stem cells and other cell types of medical importance.
  
  

Deciphering The Bmp Signaling Network In Developing Bone: An Interdisciplinary Approach Combining Bioinformatic Data Mining Tools Along With Molecular Genetic and Developmental Biology Strategies

• Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) are secrete signaling molecules that dictate bone formation. There is evidence suggesting that loss of BMPs may lead to osteoporosis. Thus BMP signaling is a possible therapeutic target for osteoporosis.

Deciphering The Bmp Signaling Network In Developing Bone: An Interdisciplinary Approach Combining Bioinformatic Data Mining Tools Along With Molecular Genetic and Developmental Biology Strategies

• Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) are secrete signaling molecules that dictate bone formation. There is evidence suggesting that loss of BMPs may lead to osteoporosis. Thus BMP signaling is a possible therapeutic target for osteoporosis. The project aims to characterize the molecular network acting downstream of BMP signaling to promote bone formation.
  
  

Molecular and Biochemical Characterization of Sachharomyces Cerevisiae Actin Related Proctein 8 (ARP8)

• The eukaryotic genome is packaged into nucleosomes, in which the DNA is wrapped around histone octamers and forms higher order chromatin. Alteration of chromatin structure is essential for DNA transaction processes like replication, transcription, recombination and repair.

Investigate Potential Mechanism involved in AGTR1 Mediated Oncogenic Effects:A Pharmaceutical Intervention for Treatment of AGTR1 Positive Breast Cancer

• The use of biomarkers, such as estrogen receptor (ER) and HER2, for breast cancer treatment selection are well established; yet even with these markers; there are deficiencies in the methodologies due to numerous subtypes within these groups that may affect their application.
  
   

Role of SPINK1 in cancer progression: Regulatory Mechanisms and Therapeutic Target Potential

• The prevalence of SPINK1 outlier expression or ETS genetic rearrangement status among prostate cancer (PCa) patients is largely unknown in India. This project proposes to characterize the full spectrum of the PCa specific driver aberrations in a large cohort of Indian prostate cancer specimens, with specific focus on estimating the prevalence of SPINK1 over-expression.
  
  

Developing Standards for Airborne LiDAR Data Acquisition

• Airborne LiDAR is an industry standard technique to collect dense and accurate three dimensional data of terrain and the features on it. Being still a new technology, currently there are no standards available in India for acquisition and processing of LiDAR data.
  
  

Study into Cracking of Deck Slab and Girders of Flyovers at Dholpuron Nh3 and Development of Strengthening Scheme

• The two flyover structures of Dholpur-Morena section of NH-3 located at Dholpur developed inclined shear cracking in their prestressed girders at both ends in addition to deck slab cracking.
  
  

Road Construction using Recycled Aggregates

• Natural resources used for road construction are depleting. Consequently, the haulage cost for acquiring good quality stone aggregates is increasing. The environmental costs of quarrying are also substantial.
  
  

A study on Seismic Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction using Laminar Container

• The main objective of this research is to design and construct a medium-size laminar container with limited shear capacity for experimentally investigating the nonlinear behavior of rocking shallow foundation and its effect on the inelastic response of the structural members during an earthquake event.
  
  

Paleo-Seiemic and Paleo-Tsunami Investigations along South-Middle Andaman & Car Nicobar Islands towards Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard Assessment of A&N Islands

• Tsunami word has been known since decades in Japanese literature (tsunami – the harbour wave). It is well established from various studies that such giant waves are generated by sudden disturbance of sea water column particularly by large magnitude subduction or seafloor earthquakes, submarine landslides, underwater volcanic eruption etc.

National Facility for Application of Science & Technology in Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management (CRM).

• The objective of the MHRD funded project is to set up a National facility in the area of application of science and technology in archaeology and Cultural Resources Management (CRM).

Science and Technology of Water Harvesting and Management in the Medieval Fort of Kalinjar in Central India

• The project aims at understanding the science and technology of water harvesting and management in medieval forts of Central India.
  
  

Dynamic Response of Foundation Components through Full-scale Field Tests

• The objective of this research is to carry out field tests on full-scale foundations to understand the behavior of rocking shallow foundations under seismic loading. An eccentric mass shaker will be procured for this purpose.
  
  

Ground Response Analysis of Soils from North India Considering Soil Strain

• One of the most important and most commonly encountered problems in geotechnical earthquake engineering is the evaluation of ground response. Ground response analysis is used to predict site natural periods, assess ground motion amplification, provides ground motions for development of design response spectra, evaluate potential for liquefaction, and to determine the forces induced due to an earthquake which can lead to instability of earth and earth slopes.
  
  

Non-Gassing Electrode Materials for Electro-Osmotic Pumping Based Subcutaneous Drug Delivery System

• Miniature pumps are the core of programmable drug delivery systems. Of the known miniature pumps, electro-osmotic pumps are arguably the simplest of all pumps, having no moving parts.
  
  

Development of Flexible Pressure Sensors

• Low cost, large area, ultra-sensitive, flexible sensors are important for variety of engineering.

Carbon Nanofibres Dispersed PVA-Based Microchannels: Synthesis, Fabrication and Application to Separation Processes

• Presently, a DST-sponsored project on the laser-mediated fabrication of poly vinyl alcohol (PVA)-based microchannels is underway. The polymeric film is in-situ dispersed with the transition metals- (Fe/Ni/Ag/Cu-) grown carbon nanofibers (CNFs.
  
  

Biosensors for Multi-Analyte Disease Detection

• Early detection of cancer is needed for effective remedial measures. A vast segment of our country’s population does not have easy access to diagnostic centers due to prohibitive costs and location issues, adding to the burden of the disease.
  
  

Development Of Metal Monolith Catalysts for Steam Reforming Of Methane

• Steam reforming of methane on supported nickel catalyst pellets in fixed bed reactors is a well-established commercial process for producing CO and H2 but suffers from the disadvantage of poor catalyst utilization and heat transfer limitations.
  
  

Effect of Iron in Supported & Unsupported Nickel-Iron & Cobalt-Iron Bimetallic Catalysts

• Supported nickel and cobalt systems are important catalysts used for several industrial processes. Promotion of these catalysts will give rise to more efficient reactions. One such promoter is iron.
  
  

Featured Research Chemistry

Synthesis of Carba-aminosugars, and aza- and imnosugars as glycosidic inhibitors starting from readily available sugar derivatives and L-ascorbic acid

• The main objective in this proposal is to develop new synthetic approaches towards some known and some unknown designed glycosidase (enzyme) inhibitors which are mostly heterocyclic, and some are carbocyclic molecules with well defined stereochemistry of various substituents.
  
  

Nitric Oxide Delivery to Biological Targets from Transition Metal Nitrosyl Complexes

• The biological importance of nitric oxide (NO) is well established. It plays key roles as a signaling molecule in a number of mammalian physiological and pathophysiological processes.
  
  

Metal Catalyzed Decarbonylative Coupling Reactions and their Applications to Organic Synthesis

• In recent years, metal-catalyzed coupling reactions demonstrated tremendous potential in organic synthetic applications both in laboratory and industrial scale preparations.
  
  

Macrobicyclic Cryptands as Platforms for Attachment of Donor and Acceptor Groups: Photo-Induced Energy and Charge Transfer

• In systems containing more than one type of fluorophores substantial energy/charge transfer can take place depending upon the nature of the fluorophores.
  
  

Featured Research Computer Science and Engineering

Satellite Sterro Triplet Image Matching for Digital Elevation Model Generation

• The aim of this project is to develop a suitable triplet image matching technique for high resolution satellite stereo imagery towards digital elevation model generation.
  
  

Heterogeneous Advanced Cache and Memory Architectures for Emerging Applications and Systems

• Traditional microprocessor caches are designed with static random access memory (SRAM) technology. However, growing such caches in capacity leads to high chip area overhead.
  
  

Intelligent Tutor project

• The project is aiming to develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems to assist in teaching large classrooms. This includes software for problem solving, hint generation, new problem generation, and automated grading.
  
  

Improving Coverage of Test- Suites via Automatic Test-Case Generation

• Program testing is a fundamental chore in the development of any software system. An expert testing team, using relevant domain knowledge of the system being built, would design a set of test-cases aimed at ascertaining certain degree of confidence in the product.
  
  

Featured Research Electrical Engineering

33KV Substation Design and Estimation Cost

• The aim of this project is to provide the consultancy service to Doctor Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar (MP) for substation design, feeder up to 11 kV and estimation of cost.
  
  

Experimental Characterization and Numerical Modeling of Charge Transport in Synthetic Polymers Used for Electrical Insulation under Low and High Applied Voltages

• Injection and accumulation of space charge into the volume of high voltage polymeric dielectrics plays a significant role in driving aging mechanisms.
  
  

MUSIC-Group Delay based Source Localization and Tracking over Spherical Arrays

• Conventional methods for source localization requires large number of sensors for resolving closely spaced sources. Also, it gives many spurious Direction of Arrival (DOA) peaks which makes decision of DOA candidate peak difficult.
  
  

Shape-Based Fluorescence Optical Tomography for Grading of Dysplasia in Cervical Cancer Progression

• Tumor detection in various parts of the body by optical tomographic methods is often a limited data problem with only back-scattered light available for analysis of the subsurface.
  
  

Linearity Improvement of High Current Hall Effect Current Sensors

• Electrohms, a Bangalore-based company is the only Indian manufacturer of Hall-effect based closed-loop sensors, the market of which is dominated by Swiss and other European players.
  
  

Planar High Gain Antennas Based on Electromagnetic Band Gap Concept

• This is an Indo-Australian joint partnership project. The main aim of this project is to develop a novel, versatile class of low-profile (thin) high-gain antennas with steerable antenna beams, for current and emerging microwave (MW) and millimeter-wave (MMW) wireless communication systems.
  
  

Microwave Imaging and Remote Sensing of Concealed Objects

• This project mainly focuses on the development of a viable prototype system for the imaging of concealed objects using microwaves.
  
  

Featured Research Humanities & Social Sciences

SandHISangrahalay Museum of Scientific Study of Indian Knowledge Systems

• The SandHISangrahalay is envisaged as an interactive platform for displaying the finest intellectual achievements of the Indian mind in the field of science and technology as expressed and manifested in its material culture.
  
  

A Study on the Interaction Between Formal And Informal Institutions and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship

• This study focuses on legal barriers that prevent new small and medium entrepreneurs to enter the market and create jobs. In the context of developing countries informal dispute resolution mechanisms thrive parallely, and often come in the way of, formal court system.
  
  

Project on Frugal Innovation in Design and Technology

• Despite the hurdles of low literacy, poor infrastructure, lack of access to mainstream markets and the hegemony of the manufacturing giants, small pockets of designers and innovators have survived at the grassroots level.
  
  

Featured Research Industrial and Management Engineering

Cross Border Electricity Trade in South Asia: Prospects for Regional Cooperation

• South Asian nations continue to witness poor electricity access and power shortages amidst sufficient hydro-electric resources in the region. Cross border electricity trade between India-Nepal and India-Bhutan, and more recently India-Bangladesh highlight the growing cooperation in cross-border electricity trade.

Establishment of a Multidisciplinary Innovation Lab

• As the product life cycles are getting shorter and companies face intense pressure to be first in the market, this facility is expected to reduce the time to market and increase the profitability of start-ups.
  
  

Decision Support System to Enhance Safety of Railway Track Workers

• Ever since creation of rail transportation, inspection of railway tracks has been a hazardous job due to lack of appropriate warning systems for approaching trains. The project aims to exploit advances in various technologies like wireless, communication networks, sensors and information management to develop a fail-safe robust decision support system to enhance safety of track workers and bring global benefits to tune of $1 billion.
  
  

Featured Research Mathematics

Efficient and Accurate Algorithms for Acoustic and Electromagnetic Scattering from Inhomogeneous Scatters in Two and Three Dimensions

• The project proposes development of efficient, accurate and rapidly-convergent algorithms for the simulation of scattering of acoustic and electromagnetic fields within and around structures that consist of complex combinations of penetrable structures and possess complex geometrical characteristics.
  
  

Featured Research Mechanical Engineering

Use of Mode Localization for Quieter Panels of Superstructure in A Stealth Ship

• Flat plates/laminates are widely used in construction of various parts of superstructure of a stealth ship to scatter electromagnetic waves as shown in Fig. 1 (a). These flat structures have very low stiffness leading to enhanced vibration, fatigue failure and noisy habitat in the battle ship.
  
  

Development of a General Purpose CFD solver over a Hybrid Unstructured Grid

• The project is a BRNS-funded multi-institute initiative for the development of robust, general-purpose CFD-software for solving the mass, momentum and scalar transport Equations at the continuum scale.
  
  

Design and Development of a Pipe-line Health Monitoring Robot based on Smart Sensor Embedded Rotating Probes and an Efficient Data Communication

• Due to corrosive environment, pipes used for transportation often get damaged. Defects caused by corrosion and cracking may cause serious accidents like leakage, fire and blasts. It also reduces the life of the transportation system substantially. The project aims at developing a pipe health monitoring system based on smart sensor based rotating probes which can be transported inside pipes of variable diameters with the help of a conduit crawler robot.
  
  

Shapes, Stability and Dynamics of Granular Minor Planets

• Objects such as asteroids and planetary satellites are called minor planets. Ongoing research suggests that these objects may not be solid, but, rather, be made of sand or pieces of rock that stay together because of self gravity.
  
  

CO2 Sequestration in Marine Hydrate Sediments with Simultaneous CH4 Recovery

• Sequestration of CO2 in geologic formations is a technologically and financially viable option for controlling CO2 concentration in ambient atmosphere.
  
  

SAE Formula Racing Car- designed & BUILT BY Students of IIT Kanpur

• The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) club of IITK participated in the 9th edition of the formula SAE 2013event Ricardo Paletti Circuit- Varano de’ Melegari (PR) Italy, during 13th-16th September.
  
  

Analysis of Human Gait and Design of A Leg Exoskeleton For Rehabilitation

• The aim of this project is to develop a leg exoskeleton robot. The exoskeleton can be worn on the legs and would provide power and load sharing capacity during walk/exercise.
  
  
  

Deep Sea Pressure Test Facility

• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited has a division located in Korwa, UP which is engaged in design and development of flight data recorders. These devices have to survive extreme pressures for prolonged periods of time, in case they fall in deep oceanic waters.
  
  

Featured Research Materials Science & Engineering

Oxidation of Graphite and Protective Coatings: Multi Length Scale Abridgment

• The project “Oxidation of Graphite and Protective Coatings: Multi Length Scale Abridgment” funded by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences aims to evaluate the oxidation behavior of graphite (ASTM 7542 grades) at high temperatures (upto 1200 0C) and attempt the protection methods (via plasma spraying of SiC/ZrB2/Al2O3 nanocomposite coating).

Investigations into Compositionally Modulated Magnetoelectric Gallium Ferrite for Sensor and Transducer Applications

• This project aims at exploring Gallium ferrite which is a known piezoelectric and ferrimagnetic material. The recent work demonstrated that the material also possesses significant magnetoelectric coupling as well as nanoscale ferroelectricity at or above room temperature making it a technologically important material, especially for applications related to sensors and transducers.
  
  

Investigations into Coherent to Semicoherent Transition of Precipitates in Nanoscale Systems

• Coherent precipitates on growth can become semi-coherent by the formation of interfacial misfit dislocation loops (beyond the critical size r*). In the current investigation the growth of a coherent precipitate and a dislocation loop is simulated by finite element method (FEM).
  
  

Investigation of Solute Interdiffusion in Aluminum Alloys

• Aluminum alloys are the most attractive materials in the automobile industry today due to their low cost and high strength-to-weight ratio. Significant light weighting has already been achieved by use of Al-alloys in automobiles.
  
  

Development of Higher Conductive Co-doped Sc2O3-ZrO2 Based Electrolyte for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

• The aim of the project is to project is to rationally design materials with higher oxygen ion conductivity for the electrolyte application in solid oxide fuel cells.
  
  

Featured Research Physics

STABLE Superhydrophobic Coating on Steel Surfaces for Corrosion Prevention and Water Drag Reduction

• Steel is one of the most commonly used material now a days in every aspect of human life and corrosion is the most important issue associated with it. Corrosion is mainly due to water or moisture coming into contact with steel surfaces.
  
  

Diagnosis of Cancer Using Fluorescence lifetime Imaging

• The investigation of optical techniques for the study of biomedical systems is a rapidly developing field that has seen a dramatic expansion in recent years. This project deals with development and evaluation of an all-optical method using combined Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) and static auto-fluorescence spectroscopic measurement for the diagnosis of cancer.
  
  

Interaction of Pulse Modulated Electromagnetic Waves with plasmas: Electron Energy Distribution, Waves and Non-linear phenomena

• Wave plasma interaction has been widely investigated especially with plasmas that are in steady state, inhomogeneous and nonmagnetic in nature. Its impact include generation of high-energy electron bunches in large amplitude electron plasma wave based plasma accelerator, excitation of temporal plasma-wave echoes in the ion wave regime and self-generation of magnetic fields.
  
  

Metamaterials and Designer Plasmonic Structures for Controlling Emission and Absorption of Light

• The interaction of atoms and molecules depends on the electromagnetic environment in which the atom or molecule is placed and not only on the atomic/molecular structure.