Advanced Technology
Development Centre (ATDC) established in July 1998, is an interdisciplinary
research Centre carrying out investigations in emerging areas that typically
involve researchers from multiple disciplines and niche academic programmes at
the postgraduate level. At present the Centre caters five major thrust areas
electrical, physical, biological, mechanical and chemical sciences by
coordinating some of the activities of common nature scattered over various
Departments and bring them under a common programme for setting up a Centre of
Excellence. The aim of this Centre is to achieve excellence in R&D using
latest technology at the global level and produce trained professional manpower
for the industry. In addition to many of the core engineering and science
departments several state-of-the-art research units of the Institute carry out
research under the academic umbrella of ATDC. These include the Advanced VLSI
Design Laboratory, MEMS Design & Processing Laboratory, Micro science
Laboratory, Advanced Laboratory for Plant Genetic Engineering, Communication Empowerment
Laboratory, Kalpana Chawla Space Technology Cell, Centre for Theoretical
Studies, Microfluidics Laboratory, GM CRL on ECS, P.K. Sinha Centre for
Bio-Energy, Centre for Railway Research, etc. A large number of
interdisciplinary research projects are carried out under ATDC. Although Ph.D.
/MS programmes are the major academic activity of ATDC, the Centre has started
M.Tech. Programme on Embedded Control and Systems (ECS) in 2011. Faculty
members and researchers from various Departments take part in implementing the
programmes undertaken in ATDC.
