About Centre for Advanced Mechanical Engineering Research:

The Center for Advanced Mechanical Engineering Research (CAMER) is a community of

scholars focused on understanding and augmenting engineering design innovation practice and
education. We are dedicated to facilitating individual creativity, understanding the team design
process, and developing advanced tools and methods that promote superior design and
manufacturing of products. We develop concepts and technical solutions for design thinking,
concurrent engineering, distributed collaborative design, and design knowledge re-use.
In India, mechanical engineering technology has accounted for nearly half of the total technology
imported. In terms of products, nearly one third of the value of total imports is for mechanical
engineering equipment. In order to develop indigenously mechanical engineering technology for
the industries so that R&D can play a key role in self-reliance.
The centre for research mandate is to serve industry and develop mechanical engineering
technology so that India’s dependence on foreign collaboration is substantially reduced in
strategic and economy sectors. Besides, the institute is facilitating innovations and inventions for
establishing the claims of Indian talent in international fields where Indian products shall
complete.
The department's aim is to help produce academic and industry leaders. We believe that
because of our unique and forward-thinking approach to research incorporating these five
academic themes, as well as our emphasis on human-centered design and sustainability, our
graduates are widely sought after.

Objectives of the Research Programme:

• To make the Institute a center for research in various disciplines of Engineering
Technology.
• The students of the second and third year level will be assigned meaningful projects from
industry for doing their dissertation work as a summer training in their respective courses.
• Visiting and Adjunct Professors from the industry will be invited for specific periods to
lecture and demonstrate on real world problems in their specific areas of interest. These
lectures and demonstrations will be useful supplements to regular courses being
conducted at the Institute.
• Teaching staff will be deputed to the industry for short period during vacation time to first
hand experience on industrial plants and processes. The experience will naturally
enhance the teaching capability of the faculty in their subjects of specialization.
• The Institute shall provide adequate test and laboratory facilities for corporate
establishments and industries in the areas of materials testing, standards and calibration.
This is one of the basic aims of any Engineering College to serve the community around
in an effective manner.
 • To develop a pool of consultants and experts from the faculty who will have the skills and
capacity to offer advice and consultancy to small scale and medium scale industries.
• To provide the continuing education facilities, in particular, to the faculty of the Institute in
achieving quality improvement and in general, to the students of the Institute and the
interested public.

Thrust area of Research:

The Department's faculty investigate a broad range of research in about a dozen thrust
areas. Some of the specific areas include Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing, Rapid
Prototyping, Robotics and Controls, Turbomachinery and Combustion Systems, IC Engines,
Multi-Phase flow, Nano-mechanics, Tribology, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics.
Much of the research is conducted within the department, but many projects are carried out in
collaboration with other departments and centers on campus, as well as with other R&D
institutions and national laboratories in the country and abroad. The faculty, students and staff
author more than 100 research publications annually in leading national and international journals
and conferences. Several of the faculty are fellow of various national academies in science and
engineering, and have received recognition in the form of national and international awards.
The Mechanical Engineering Faculty are continuing to explore new areas of research and
develope new courses. Some of the areas in which the department faculty have ventured into are
MEMS, Electronic Cooling, Micro and Macro-mechanics.
The Department is well equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories and infrastructural facilities in
these areas.
1. Robotics and Mechatronics
2. Energy and process plant
• Heat power engineering
• Process plant and pressure testing
3. Machine design and manufacturing technology
• Machine design and drafting
• Manufacturing technologies
• Foundry and casting
4. Rapid prototyping and tooling
• 3D scanning
• Solid modeling
• Rapid prototyping and tooling
5. Life enhancement studies
• NDT and metallurgy
In addition to the above, the department is focusing on the following areas.
1. Tool wear
• Cryogenically treated tools, composite materials modeling / analysis and optimization
2. Design of tooling
• Spring back and bend force, bend force of composite sheets
• Forging of composite billets, tool compensation
3. Manufacturing systems
• Layout design,
• supply chain management,
• scheduling and optimization
4. Thermal engineering
• Alternative fuels
• Newer energy

• Heat recovery

• Auto design
5. Design of components
• Finite element analysis

• vibration analysis
6. Inter-disciplinary research
Mechatronics, avionics and robotics

Five Benefits of starting research centre:

1. Knowledge and Technology Transfer

Give direct input into the kinds of research that will be This exchange can help faculty and students focus their
most useful to your industry. research on real-world problems.

Attend Events at Annual meetings, conferences, seminars and other functions are held, depending on the program.
Stanford. These functions provide a forum for knowledge and technology transfer.

2. Project Based Learning Courses

Participate in Project Based Center for Design Research Affiliates Program: teams of graduate students, typically
courses for a unique with 1-5 years of industrial experience, work with corporate liaisons to develop novel
opportunity to discover new products or in-house manufacturing processes. Many awards and patents have resulted
ideas and see students in from the course. Naturally many course alumni go on to work for the companies who
action. sponsor projects in the course.

Design Industrial Affiliates Teaching Program: offers the opportunity to participate in

several courses. While the group has varied research interests from bio-design to
manufacturing technology the overarching philosophy of the Design Group combines
an emphasis on creativity, technical innovation and design process management. They
 are driven by a concern for human values and the needs of society.

3. Faculty and Student Interaction

Participation in the Affiliates Program results in many fruitful long-term relationships result that
Get to know faculty
benefit both the company and the faculty or student. Companies often interact informally with
and students on a
faculty and students on a one-to-one basis outside of the formal Affiliate Program context to
personal level.
exchange and explore ideas and solutions.

4. Facilitated Recruiting

Some Centers and Affiliate programs offer a formal facilitated recruiting program to their
Access to the best
members. In instances where the program doesn’t offer a formal recruiting program industry
future employees in
members still get to know the students by attending meetings, reading their research reports and
the world!
from the free flow of discussion and ideas.

5. Research Industrial Fellow

Some programs allow industry to send a research industrial fellow who comes to work jointly on a
Provide an
research project with a Stanford faculty member. This benefit is often dependent on the company’s
employee with an
membership level. This is an immersive experience. The visiting fellows work closely with a
immersive
faculty member on their research project, have daily interaction with graduate students and can
experience.
audit Stanford courses.