Er. Perumal Manimekalai College of Engineering AutonomousAccredited by NAAC with 'A' Grade Approved by AICTE, New DelhiAffiliated to Anna University, Chennai

01 Research

Research & Development

Research at PMC Tech is one organised effort. An advisory council of academics, scientists and industry leaders guides it, a Research and Development Cell runs it, and eight centres carry the work from a question to a paper, a product, a patent or a partnership.

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The record

As the Research and Development Cell reported them, 2025

Publications
1,015
Citations
5,090
h-index
36
Doctorates
14 awarded 16 in progress
Patents
30 published 5 granted
Funded projects
19 completed ₹246.24 lakh 6 ongoing ₹119.50 lakh
Centres of excellence
4 running

Research themes

What we work on

Research here gathers around a handful of themes — each with a centre of excellence working on it, or one proposed.

How it is organised

One cell, eight centres

The Principal chairs the council, the Dean of Research and Development leads the Cell, and a coordinator runs each of its eight centres — grouped here by the part each plays as an idea travels.

  1. Research Advisory Council

    13 members: the management, and people from universities, national laboratories and industry.

    Who sits on the council
    Dr. A. Senthil Kumar
    Principal, PMC Tech — Chairperson
    Dr. S. Jaisankar
    Dean, Research and Development — Convener

    The management

    • Shri P. Kumar Chairman, PMC Tech
    • Smt. P. Mallar Secretary, PMC Tech
    • Prof. N. Sudhakaran Director, PMC Tech Group of Institutions

    Universities

    • Dr. V. Balasubramanian Director, CEMAJOR, Annamalai University, Chidambaram
    • Dr. T. Senthilkumar Regional Director, Anna University BIT Campus, Tiruchirappalli
    • Dr. S. Sriram Kumar Professor and Head, Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Tiruchirappalli

    National laboratories

    • Shri Shri Krishna Joint Director, Scientist-E, C-DAC, Bengaluru
    • Dr. S. Dhanalakshmi Additional Director, Scientist-G, CVRDE, DRDO, Avadi
    • Shri R. P. Thangavelu Former Chief Scientist, CSIR, Bengaluru

    Industry

    • Smt. Santha Kumari AGM (Plant and Laboratory), BHEL, Tiruchirappalli
    • Shri S. Ravichandran DGM, Ashok Leyland, Hosur

  2. Chairs the council

    Principal

    Dr. A. Senthil Kumar

  3. Leads the Cell

    Dean, Research and Development

    Dr. S. Jaisankar

    Internal Research Monitoring Committee Reviews the centres’ work with the Dean and the coordinators.

  1. Discover

    Doctorates, papers and funded projects

    • Centre for Academic Research

      Doctoral research, seed money for faculty projects, and papers from students’ work.

      Coordinator Dr. T. Balamurugan Associate Professor, Mechanical

    • Centre for Sponsored Research

      Projects funded by government agencies, and the proposals that win them.

      Coordinator Dr. A. Gnanasaravanan Professor, EEE

  2. Build

    Laboratories to train, build and test in

    • Centre of Excellence

      The four centres of excellence: robotics, manufacturing, renewable energy and electric vehicles.

      Coordinator Dr. K. T. Senthilkumar Associate Professor, AI & Data Science

  3. Connect

    Work with and for industry

  4. Launch

    Ideas protected, built on and taken to market

    • Centre for Patents and Technology Transfer

      Help to file, protect and transfer an invention.

      Coordinator Dr. P. Selvi Associate Professor, Chemistry

    • Centre for Innovation

      Students’ ideas, from the first competition to a working prototype.

      Coordinator Mr. T. Mahesh Jayapal Associate Director, Innovations; Assistant Professor, Mechanical

    • Centre for Incubation

      A place and support for a venture while it forms.

      Coordinator Dr. V. Senthilkumar Associate Professor, ECE

    • Centre for Entrepreneur Development

      Growing the entrepreneurs who will run those ventures.

      Coordinator Mrs. C. Suganthi Assistant Professor, MBA

How research is done

Academic and sponsored research

Two of the Cell’s centres carry the research itself: one grows the doctorates and papers, the other wins the projects that fund the work.

Centre for Academic Research

Academic research

An approved research centre in Electrical and Electronics Engineering; centres in Mechanical and ECE are proposed
EEE
Scholars enrolled for a PhD through the centre
6
Student projects turned into journal papers — 26 undergraduate, 58 postgraduate
84
Books and book chapters
148

Seed money for new work

The institution funds faculty research of its own: ₹1.83 lakh for six projects in the first phase, with a second phase of ₹10 lakh for 20 projects in preparation. ₹15,000 has come from the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology, and a full-time research scholarship is being set up.

In conversation

Research, presented

PMC Tech has held an international conference, and its departments hold national ones — where its researchers present their work and hear others’.

International conference

ICRTSEM

International Conference on Recent Trends in Science, Engineering and Management

27–28 April 2023

National conferences

2025

  1. Multidisciplinary Trends on AI Technologies (MDTIAT’25)

    Computer Science and Engineering 17 April 2025

  2. Computing and Information Systems

    Information Technology 24 March 2025

2024

  1. Innovations in Scientific Computing and Optimization Techniques

    Computer Science and Engineering 30 April 2024

  2. Emerging Trends in Renewable Energy, Power Quality and Optimization Techniques

    Electrical and Electronics Engineering 26 April 2024

  3. Rising Phenomenon

    Artificial Intelligence and Data Science 25 April 2024

  4. Computing and Information Systems

    Information Technology 18 April 2024

  5. Emerging Trends in Mechatronics System

    Mechatronics Engineering 17 April 2024

The evidence

A record you can check

Each year’s research, innovation and extension work is reported to NAAC in the institution’s Annual Quality Assurance Report, and the evidence filed is published. Each department lists its own faculty’s papers on its page.

Filed with NAAC — Criterion III: Research, Innovations and Extension

Swipe the table sideways to see every year.

2023–242022–232021–22
3.1 Resource mobilisation for research
3.2 Innovation ecosystem
3.3 Research publications and awards
3.4 Extension activities
3.5 Collaboration

The full NAAC library

Faculty papers, department by department

Take part

Where you come in

Research here is not only for the doctorate. There is a way in at every stage.

Students at work at the benches of a PMC Tech laboratory
At work in a PMC Tech laboratory

  • Students

    • Turn a project into a paper — 84 student projects have been published
    • Bring an idea to the IDEA Lab, Techkathon and Tech Expo
    From idea to venture

  • Research scholars

    • Doctoral research at the approved research centre in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    • A full-time research scholarship, now being set up
    Ask about a PhD

  • Faculty

    • Seed money to start a project, and help to win a sponsored one
    • Patent filing charges borne by the IPR cell
    Patents and IPR

  • Industry

    • Consultancy, from construction to e-mobility and IoT
    • Training at the centres of excellence, and sponsored research
    Work with the centres

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Where the work goes next

From the laboratories the research is built in, to the ventures and the community it reaches.