One of the world’s best research and development centres, established for accomplishing and exploring innovation in Science and Technology at the university environment.
About 220 faculty members are with PhD qualifications and International research centre established (some major equipment -Scanning Electron Microscope EVO18 (CARL ZEISS), Energy Dispersive X-ray-Spectrometer Quantax 200 with X Flash® 6130, X-ray diffractometer D8 Advance ECO, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer IR Tracer 100, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer AA 7000) by the institute plays a vital role in promoting the research culture among the faculty members and students in the campus which resulted more than 40 sponsored research projects worth of 14.5 Crore are ongoing from the Funding agencies such as DST, ICMR, DRDO, MSME, ATAL and four international research projects in collaboration with Poland, Norway, Malaysia and Thailand and more than 2500 research findings of our faculty members and students are published in the Scopus indexed journals.
This impacted the strong track record of Kalasalingam in terms of research collaborations, funding, publications and patents and the constant existence of Kalasalingam in the top lists of SIR (SCIMAGO Institutions Ranking). It has been in the history of Kalasalingam to be recognised and awarded with a unique centre of excellence since the year 2000 – TIFAC CORE sponsored Network engineering, Centre for Advanced Research in Discrete Mathematics (n-CARDMATH) Funded by DST, International Collaborative Project with the Cracow University of Technology for Sustainable Materials, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand for 3D printed flexible optical fibres using biodegradable PHBV/ Graphene Nanocomposites for Biophotonics applications, Resilient and optimal micro energy-grid (ROME), Universiti Teknologi Petronas Biological Treatment of Hazardous Sludge from Petroleum Refinery Industry shows the involvement of Kalasalingam in developing Science & Technology and Nation Building.
