Faculty Research Promotion Policy
Introduction
KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology is committed to the pursuit of excellence in research and aiming to lead the national agenda across the spectrum of science and technology. We assure all the core and inter disciplinary areas in research by approving the highest norms and standards. The policy outlines the principles and procedures that should be taken into account while planning and conducting research
People
| Chair Person | Principal |
| Secretary | Head / CFRD |
| Research Advisory Board | ANNEX -I |
| Ethics Committee | ANNEX -II |
| Members | Department R&D coordinators (ANNEX – III) |
| Core Team | Members of CFRD (ANNEX – IV) |
Professional guidance and legislation
The institute expects all researchers including faculty and students to observe the standards of research practice set out in guidelines published by scientific and learned societies, and other relevant professional bodies. All researchers should be aware of the legal requirements, which regulate their work noting particularly health and safety legislation and data protection. The Institute shall approve research consultancy, wherein a staff member or Department provides research expertise or skills in an honorary capacity or in return for remuneration from an external funding agency, conforming to its Consultancy Policy.
Guidelines
Faculty pursuing Ph.D
All the faculty members should join their Ph.D., degree within two years of joining this institution
In supervisor selection, the preference will be given to institute research centre/supervisor
On-Duty will be provided as per the guidelines of HR policy exclusively for doing Ph.D. related works
Research supervision
The Institute promotes the faculty members to take up research and guideship supervisors. The supervisors are expected to create an environment by guiding the researchers locally as well as researchers for other institutions
Process for submission of proposals and articles
The research proposals will be scrutinized by research committee. After the approval of scrutiny committee, the proposals will be submitted to the funding agencies
Submission of reports
After completing the research project and consultancy work, the Principal Investigators (PIs) will submit a copy of work completion to the Centre For Research and Development (CFRD) office
A copy of published article needs to be presented to the CFRD office
Publication procedure
To maintain the quality of publication before submission to editorial office, all the articles should be checked thoroughly for grammar using Grammarly software and the plagiarism using iThenticate software. The similarly score should be lesser than 15 percentage
The affiliation should be in the standard format. Example "Department of Computer Science and Engineering KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore – 641 407, India. The short form and/or abbreviation of affiliations will not be counted for appraisals. Science and Humanities department should use “Department of Science and Humanities” only.
The journals must be chosen based on the work area. Irrelevant Scope or non-peer reviewed journals will not be counted for performance appraisals. All articles should be published either in Scopus/WoS indexed journals
Guidelines
KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology will propose standards for responsible and ethical conduct in research at the Institute. All researchers are expected to observe the following aspects in their research activity
Demonstrate integrity and professionalism, fairness, equity and intellectual honesty
Appropriate credit to be provided to all members involved in the particular research work for their respective research contributions
Record and publish methods and results such that they are open to scrutiny and discussion
Conduct peer review responsibly and also not interfere during the peer review process
Effectively and transparently by manage conflicts of interest
Prevent and check plagiarism to ensure academic integrity, originality and innovation
An ethical committee approved by the Principal, shall be formed in order to implement the guidelines, ensure strict adherence and initiate suitable disciplinary action, in case of default or dishonesty
The institute currently conforms to the plagiarism policy guidelines or the AICTE (Circular No. AlCTE /P&AP /Misc./2017 dated 30.11.2017) and UGC | Circular No. F.1- 18/2010(CPP-11) dated 06.08.2018
The institute shall take seriously all issues of misconduct and shall ensure that the procedure for the inquiry, investigation and adjudication of any misconduct are well defined and just for all parties involved
Incentives
Motivate the researchers to publish in a peer reviewed journals, take up consultancy work, get research grants, write books and articles for which incentives shall be provided to the faculty as per the HR policy guidelines.
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