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About the Instrumentation and Control Department

Department Vision

To develop the department as a center of excellence in Instrumentation and Control Engineering.

Department Mission

1. To develop students with strong foundation of Instrumentation and Control Engineering.
2. To develop logical thinking ability, analytical skills, soft skills and create awareness about professional ethics.
3. To provide conducive environment to the students for higher studies and research.

Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)

1. To develop competent graduates sustainable in core domains such as Process Control, Automation and Health Care.
2. To develop ability, to think laterally and solve problems related to Instrumentation and Control Engineering considering safety, social and environmental factors.
3. To develop self-learning ability and build confidence in students to pursue higher education and successful careers at national and international level.
4. To develop students with professional ethics, effective communication skills, team spirit and social awareness.

Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs)

1. Apply  knowledge of Measurement and Control to identify, formulate and design solutions for problems in real life applications
2. Develop automation systems in various domains like Process Control, Environmental Engineering, and Healthcare and work successfully on multidisciplinary projects.

The Department of Instrumentation and Control is established in 1991. The department is offering an undergraduate program since 1991 and has started the post graduate program with specialization in Automation.The Instrumentation and Control is a core branch of Engineering, which deals with Measurement, Control and Automation. It is a highly interdisciplinary branch which covers other major fields of Electronics, Electrical, Embedded Design, Process Control, Mechatronics, Chemical Systems, Robotics. The curriculum of Instrumentation and Control Engineering involves measurement of various process parameters, design of instruments and their applications. Further, installation, commissioning and maintenance of Instrumentation systems are integral part of Instrumentation and Control Engineering. Instrumentation Engineers are the leaders for Automation and Control. Instrumentation and Control includes electronic, pneumatic, and hydraulic instrumentation systems along with automation tools like DCS, PLC, SCADA. These tools are integral part of process industries, refineries, petrochemical industries, building automation and many more. Health care is turning as an industry both at technology development and health care delivery system. Thus, Biomedical Instrumentation is also an important stream under Instrumentation.

Control, Computation and Analysis are essential aspects of any modern Instrumentation and Control system. Therefore, Digital Signal Processing, Embedded Systems, and Analytical Instrumentation are important areas for design and manufacturing of modern instruments and control systems. Growing requirement of control and computing has created a large space for “Research in Instrumentation”.Due to the multidisciplinary aspects an Instrumentation Engineer can choose a career in various core areas like Process Control, Automation, Embedded, Biomedical and IT as well.

The Instrumentation and Control Department at Cummins College of Engineering for Women is one of the best departments with its investment in equipment over Rs. 3.5 crores. The department has 3 multimedia classrooms, 2 tutorial rooms and 12 well equipped laboratories including Process and Biomedical Instrumentation, Emerson Automation laboratory, equipped with a high end DCS DeltaV system and the MEMS laboratory, equipped with softwares like Coventor, Intellesuite and Comsol, along with departmental library. Highly motivated faculty is the major strength of the department. Presently department has one Professor, two Associate Professors and 10 Assistant Professors out of which 8 have Doctoral Degree and 2 are pursuing PhD.

The Department has a strong collaboration with core industries. More than 70% of the Final Year projects are industry sponsored. The department has signed MoUs with Honeywell Automation India Limited, Emerson Engineering Exports Center and ifm engineering private limited. Forbes Marshall, a leading process industry, and Pathirakha Foundation offers award to the best project of the final year students.

Second Year and Third Year students undergo internship at reputed companies like Boeing, Cummins India Ltd, IFM engineering, Forbes Marshall, Emerson, Tetra Pak, etc. Every year around 80% students complete the industry internship. Few students from the department have successfully completed their international internship. After completion of industrial training, students get the opportunity to work on the final year project sponsored by the same industry. Some of the students also get pre-placement offer after the internship.

Industrial visits are arranged for SY, TY and Final year students to map the practical implementation of topics they study. Sessions and workshops by technical experts from industry are arranged on latest topics. The department run a ISA students chapter under which the various technical events are organized. Students participate in various National Level Technical Competitions like Robocon, Mitsubishi Electric Cup, Aeromodelling Design Competition.

Department has a good number of Patents filed/published by the staff, students and students along with their projects guides. Department also has 200+ research publications in national/international journals and conferences by students and staff.

All students are placed in core companies like Emerson, Honeywell, GE, Siemens, Thermax, Air Products, Tata Projects, Forbes, KPIT, Alfa Laval, Infosys, Cognizant Technologies, IBM, Wipro Technologies, GE, Aditya Birla are few of the recruiters.