Research at RVCE 2026 — CollegeAndFees

**By Sakshi Sonal** RVCE''s research footprint spans 20+ named Centres of Excellence, 95 academic sub-pages across all 16 departments, an in-house peer-reviewed open-access journal (RVJSTEAM), and a 118-named-MoU institute-wide industry partnership ledger. ## Patents and Publications (department highlights) - **ECE department** (per ECE Research page, Jan 2025): 20 patents — 12 granted, 7 published, 2 filed. 35 PhD guides. 37 PhDs awarded. 26 PhD scholars pursuing. 900+ Scopus documents, 3,100+ Scopus citations, 6,000+ Google citations. 550 international journals + 500 international conferences as venues. - **Physics department:** 6 granted + 4 published patents. 13 PhD faculty including 3 postdocs. - **MCA department:** 49 PhD scholars under 11 supervisors. 11 PhDs awarded. Rs 3.23 crore active projects. - **Chemical Engineering:** 10 PhD faculty + 2 pursuing. VTU research centre since 2002. 4 M.Sc (Engg) + 9 PhDs awarded. ## Centres of Excellence — Industry-funded, named partner ### Mechanical - **RV-MG Electric Vehicle Technology CoE** — Rs 30 Lakh institutional + Rs 30 Lakh MG ZS EV + Transmission Unit. Reports ~Rs 17 Lakh annual revenue from training, internships, certification. - **RV-Mercedes Benz Centre for Automotive Mechatronics** — runs the ADAM (Advanced Diploma in Automotive Mechatronics) Course - **RV-Toyota CoE** — engine and powertrain research - **CHIMERA Electric Formula Student Team** (since 2006, with FSAE Hybrid USA Fan Favourite 2014) ### CSE / AI&ML - **CISSS** — Centre for Information Security Studies - **CCVR** — Centre for Cloud and Virtualisation Research - **RVCE-BOSTON AI CoE** — joint with Boston (USA) - **Visual Computing Centre of Competence** ### ECE - **CoE-MFC** — Materials Fabrication and Characterization - **CASSM** — Centre for Advanced Studies in Smart Materials - **CAV** — Centre for Antennas and Vision - **ICAS** — Centre for Imaging, Computing and Astronomy Studies - **Vision Astra in EV Academy CoC** ### EEE - **e-Mobility CoE** with Greaves Cotton (est. 2020) - **Smart Vidyut CoC** (est. 2023; ARCADES/VKES/BESCOM/ENERFRA/MEI; SDG7-aligned) - 5 named skill-development programmes: Suryamitra (MNRE+NISE), Solar Skill (KREDL), I-Rise 2020 (GIZ/RENAC Germany), VARUNMITRA (NISE solar water pump), JAL URJA MITRA (HRED IIT Roorkee + MNRE) ### Civil - **3S Infrastructure CoE** (Safe, Sustainable, Smart) — HUDCO chair on sustainable/low-cost construction since 2006 (Structural) and 2009 (Highway) ### Chemical - **Centre for Hydrogen and Green Technology** (est. 2021) ### EIE - **CSTA** — Sensor Tech Applications - **CHTR** — Health Care Technology Research (cross-listed with EIE) ### ISE - **Women in Cloud Insider Circle CoE** (with USA partner; first-of-its-kind socio-technical team at RVCE) ### MCA - **Extended Reality CoE for Education + Research** - **CISCO-RVCE IoT Centre** ### Aerospace - Supersonic + Subsonic wind tunnels - 250 kN UTM - Exclusive Crawford Bomb testing facility - Boeing India-backed elective on Product Design and Development ### IEM - **CoE in Logistics & Supply Chain Management** - **Centre for Supply Chain & Logistics Research** ## Industry MoUs — Institute-wide Per the **Dean R&D Master MoU PDF (December 2025)** parsed in v2 harvest: **118 named institute-wide industry MoUs** across all 16 departments. The collaboration hub at [rvce.edu.in/collaboration-and-networking](https://rvce.edu.in/collaboration-and-networking) headlines "200+ MoUs" with 12 explicit named institutional partners: ISRO, CSIR-NAL, Boeing, Airbus, Textron, Wipro, Cisco, Dover, Skylark Drones, Indian Navy, Genser Aerospace, Aeroquest. Notable institute-wide partnerships: - **ISRO** — Aerospace research, RVSAT-1 launch, GLEX 2025 abstracts (dhRuVa team), Indian satellite collaboration - **CSIR-NAL** — Aerospace research collaboration - **Boeing** — Boeing IIT Madras Aerospace Research Lab, Boeing India recruitment - **Airbus** — Aerospace research and recruitment - **Mercedes-Benz** — ADAM Course, RV-Mercedes Benz CoE - **Toyota** — RV-Toyota CoE - **MG Motor** — RV-MG EV Tech CoE - **Microsoft** — Industry sponsored AI/ML labs, ISE partnership - **IBM** — Industry sponsored labs (ISE), MCA Watson Lab - **Cisco** — CISCO-RVCE IoT Centre (MCA); 5G partnership (ETE) - **Nokia** — Tektronix + Nokia partnership for M.Tech Digital Communication Engineering - **Texas Instruments** — ECE Innovation Lab and recruitment ## RVJSTEAM Journal **RV Journal of Science Technology Engineering Arts and Management** — biannual peer-reviewed open-access journal published by RVCE since 2020. Engineering Sciences + Management focus. Notable topics: IoT energy monitoring, biomedical waste management, vibration monitoring. Open archive 2020-2025. ## Funding & Sponsored Research - **Sponsored research amount:** Rs 17.5 crore (institutional total, per NIRF 2025 submission) - **Funding agencies:** DRDO, AICTE, MNRE, KREDL, GIZ Germany, ISRO, CSIR-NAL, NIC, Indian Air Force, Bosch, MG Motor - **HUDCO chair** at Civil Engineering on sustainable/low-cost construction - **Texas Instruments** + Tektronix + Nokia M.Tech DCE partnerships - **Boeing IIT Madras Aerospace Research Lab** — top-decile Aerospace students ## NIRF 2025 Innovation Submission RVCE also submitted to the **NIRF Innovation 2025** ranking (IR-I-C-1269). The Innovation ranking captures patent activity, sponsored research, commercialisation of research, and entrepreneurship spawned from the campus. Per the v3 harvest, RVCE''s submission is documented at /uploads/2026/03/. ## Research-Centric Student Teams 20 innovative student teams operate as research and product-development labs: - **Team Antariksh** — RVSAT-1 launched aboard PSLV-C60 (30 Dec 2024) — India''s first undergraduate-built microbiological CubeSat - **dhRuVa Astrophysics Club** — 3 abstracts accepted at GLEX 2025 (co-hosted ISRO + IAF); 6-inch telescope; Solar Radio Telescope built from scratch - **Project Jatayu** — Autonomous UAV; SUAS (AUVSI) 2012-2019 participation (3rd in 2012, 18/54 globally in 2016, top 30 in 2019) - **Team KRUSHI** — Agricultural tech; **patent filed (2017/410/32708)** Aerial Lift Platform for Areca Nut Harvesting; **patent granted** Hybrid Tractor System (>20% diesel savings) - **Anoraniya** (Quantum Tech Club) — BB84 Quantum Key Distribution, MEMS gyroscope, KDP crystal growth Last verified 16 May 2026.

Research & Industry Partnerships — RVCE