Panimalar Engineering College seed grant is a funding initiative that has been fostered to encourage faculty to pursue competitive research in current happening areas of national and international importance. Research is the navigator of the flagship of knowledge which delivers a new energy, fabricates state-of-the-art facilities, encourages publications and promotes innovation amongst faculty members.

OBJECTIVES

• To encourage the faculty members to propagate their innovative ideas through Seed Proposals, which can be further translated in to major research projects and submitted to the external agencies for funding.

• • To promote inter-faculty collaboration in emerging areas.

• • To promote generation of Intellectual Property rights (IPR) and Product/Process development as per to the new impending technologies.

SCOPE

• Faculty members having a Ph.D. degree or pursuing Ph.D. are eligible to apply as Principal Investigator (PI) for the Seed Money Grant.

• The PI at the time of submission of application shall not have a running project funded by the seed-funding scheme in which he or she is the PI.

• At any time, a PI can submit only one application. However, he/she can be a Co- Investigator in more than one proposal.

• The provision of seed money grant is for a maximum period of two years. In case of any delay in the projects, it is expected from PIs/Co-PI to take the extension of the project from Research Co-ordinator accordingly.

• Normally, a grant up to Rs.2 Lakhs may be rewarded based on the merit of the proposal and decision of the Dean Research. However, there should be no such ceiling for cutting edge research & development work based on its necessity and availability of funds.

• The PI of the project can associate a team of UG/PG students and he/she is responsible for the conduct of the research in accordance with the institute research policy.

• The PI should submit a progress report every six months in the prescribed format for evaluation by the committee and in case, if it is found that adequate progress is not made, further funding will not be released.

• The PI should submit a completion of project report, statement of expenditure and utilization certificate on the completion of the project.

• In case PI leaves the institute before the completion of project, a Co-Investigator from will assume responsibility as PI.

• Research Co-ordinator should review and monitor the progress of the sanctioned project periodically and submit the report to the management.

• After completion of the seed project, the final report must be prepared as per the prescribed format and submitted to the office of Research Co-ordinator for record purpose.

Additionally

• If sanctioned, the applicant should be able to carry out the project on their own and not outsource it.

• All research done on Seed-Money project will be carried out within the premises, and faculty and students should obtain prior permission from the Head of the Institution to work outside the premises.

• The proposal should be based on the applicant's own original ideas, and should not be based on work or assignments given to others or mandated for students.

• While researchers are encouraged to extend the project to their Ph.D., they should not take their Ph.D. as a part of it for the seed-money project.

• It is advisable to show your proposals to research and development team and get critical feedback for novelty, quality, relevance, ethical considerations, impressive and formal presentation before submission.

SEED MONEY GRANT

2022-23

S.No	Name of the Faculty	Designation	Dept	Title	Sanctioned Amount	Status Ongoing/Completed
1	Dr. R.Josphine leela	Professor	Computer Science and Engineering	A machine Learning based approach for prediction and Interpretation from soil spectral data	Rs.2,00,000	Completed
2	Dr. B. Karthikeyan	Professor	Information Technology	Gnana Sakthi – An Ai Based Effective Communication Tool For Disable	Rs.2,00,000	Completed
3	Dr.D.Karunkuzhali Dr. K.Ramadevi	Professor	Information Technology	Scheduled Irrigation Management system employing AI based multiple sensor data fusion approach	Rs.2,00,000	Completed
4	Mr. M. Arun	Assistant Professor	Electronics and Communication Engineering	Navigation Robot	Rs.2,00,000	Completed
5	Dr J.Navarajan	Assistant Professor	Electronics and Electronics Engineering	Emotional intelligence robot	Rs.2,00,000	Completed
6	Dr.N.Manojkumar	Professor	Electronics and Electronics Engineering	Development of an Electric Four-Wheeler for Sustainable Transportation	Rs.1,00,000	Completed
7	Dr.S.Selvi Dr.S.Deepa	Professor & HOD, Professor	Electronics and Communication Engineering	Solar Tree-Powered LED Banner for Sustainable Campus Events	Rs.1,00,000	Completed
8	Dr.R.Murugan	Professor	Mechanical Engineering	Effect of cyclic loading on FRP Composite	Rs.1,50,000	Completed
9	Dr.I.John Solomon	Assistant Professor	Mechanical Engineering	Vehicle overload management system	Rs.1,00,000	Completed
10	Dr.M.Puviyarasan	Professor	Mechanical Engineering	Effect of process parameters on friction stir processed materials	Rs.1,35,000	Completed
11	Dr.K.Jayashree	Professor	AI & DS	3D Printer	Rs.52,500	Completed

2023-24

S.No	Name of the Faculty	Designation	Dept	Title	Sanctioned Amount	Status Ongoing/Completed
1	Dr. S.Balaji Dr. P.J.Sathishkumar	Professor Professor	Computer Science and Engineering	An electrochemical sensor integrated with an Internet of Things-based Lab and Machine Learning approach to provide a rapid diagnosis method for COVID-19.	Rs.2,00,000	Sanctioned - Ongoing
2	Dr. Kavitha Subramani	Professor	Computer Science and Engineering	Secured Text-Based Emotion Classification Using Machine Learning With NLP	Rs.2,00,000	Completed
3	Dr. K.Sridharan Dr. B.Bhuvaneswari Dr. M.Sumithra	Professor Professor Professor	Information Technology	Smart wearables for cancer prevention	Rs.2,00,000	Completed
4	Dr. Hariprasath Manoharan Dr. S. Rajakumar	Associate Professor Professor	Electronics and Communication Engineering	Autonomous Cleaning Drones	Rs.1,65,000	Completed
5	Dr. M. Prem Kumar	Professor	Electronics and Communication Engineering	Painting Drones	Rs.2,00,000	Completed
6	Dr. S.Deepa Dr.S.Selvi	Professor Professor	Electrical and Electronics Engineering	Autonomous E-vehicle	Rs.2,00,000	Completed
7	Dr.G.Senthilkumar	Professor	Mechanical Engineering	Friction welding-parameter optimization	Rs.1,25,000	Completed
8	Dr. M.Puviyarasan	Professor	Mechanical Engineering	Automatic flow arrester	Rs.1,15,000	Completed
9	Dr. K.Jayashree Mrs. R. Vidhya Muthulakshmi	Professor Assistant Professor	Artificial Intelligence and Data Science	Road Safety with Smart Signal Technology	Rs.2,01,000	Completed
10	Dr.S.Chakaravarthi Dr.C.Bharanidharan	Professor Assoc. Professor	Artificial Intelligence and Data Science	SQL Injection Attack Detection Using Machine Learning	Rs.1,95,000	Completed
11	Dr. A.Venkatesan Dr. K.Pradeesswari	Associate Professor Assistant Professor	Physics	Investigation on the electrochemical performance of heteroatoms (N, S, B and P) - rGO influenced 2D hierarchical nano structured mixed metal oxides (M, N, O) for hybrid super capacitors applications	Rs.2,00,000	Completed
12	Dr. A.Anbarasapandian	Associate Professor	Computer Science and Business Systems	AI-Driven Crop Monitoring in Agriculture	Rs.1,25,000	Completed

2024-25

S.No	Name of the Faculty	Designation	Dept	Title	Sanctioned Amount	Status Ongoing/Completed
1	Dr. M.S.Vinmathi Dr V. Sathiya	Professor	Computer Science and Engineering	Intelligence Sport Analytics: A Deep Learning Based Multimodal Framework for real time shot classification and performance optimization	Rs.2,00,000	Ongoing
2	Dr. M.Dilli Babu Mrs. S.Mary Rexcy Asha	Associate Professor Associate Professor	Information Technology	IoT based climate monitoring system for smart agriculture	Rs.1,00,000	Ongoing
3	Dr. M.S.Maharajan Mrs.S.Swathi	Associate Professor Assistant Professor	Artificial Intelligence and Data Science	Secure Communication Channel Using End-to-End Encryption	Rs.2,05,000	Ongoing
4	Dr.R.Murugan	Professor	Mechanical Engineering	Analysis of machining parameters for EN24 material in CNC vertical machining center	Rs.1,00,000	Completed