LABORATORY / LIBRARY FACILITIES AT NIT- SILCHAR

A. Main Laboratory/Workshops available : Physics:-Condensed Matter Physics Research Laboratory; Physics Laboratory; Chemistry :- B.Tech.Lab.-1;Instrument Lab-1; Electronics:- Communication Engg. Lab; Communication Lab; Basic Electronics Lab; Microprocessor; DSP Lab & VLSL Lab; Data Structure lab, DBMS Lab Operating System lab; System Programming; Electrical:- Basic Electrical Engg. & Network Lab.; Electrical Machines Lab.; Control System Lab.; Power Electronics & Drives lab.; Electrical Measurement & Instrumentation Lab.; Micro-Processor Lab.; Personal Computer Lab.; Power System & Energy Lab.; Analog & Digital Electronics Lab.; Water resource Lab; structural Engg. Lab; Geotechnical Lab; Environmental Lab;Survey Lab; Concrete Lab;Mechanical:-CAD/CAM Lab;Machine Dynamics Lab;Instrumentation Lab; Manufacturing Engg. Lab.;Heat Transfer lab.;Automobiles Engg. Lab.;Material Science Lab.;Metrology lab.;Air Conditioning Lab.;Solar Energy Lab.; Computational Lab.;Audio Visual Lab.;

Apart from these, these is a full- fledged Workshop in the department which covers the following steps_

Machine shop; Welding shop; Cartpentry shop; Moulding shop; Balcksmith shop; Fitting shop.

B. Library facilities available: Central Library for the institute

C. Research facilities available: Central Computational facilities, Library facilities; Equipments: Physics:-High vacuum Coating Unit (HHV); 6514 Electrometer Keith-Electrometer (Keithley make);LCR Hitester (Hioki Model No. 3522-50);PerkinElmer Lamba 35 UV/VIS Spectrophotometer; Hall Measurement set-up; Impedance Analyzer (Solartron Model No. 1260 A) etc.; Electronics:- High end servers, workstations, Software; Civil:-Wind tunnel; Flumes; Shear test Apparatus; Mechnical:- The following new equipments are in the equipments are in the process of installation – Mechanical training package; Air flow test bench with accessories; Computer linked Refrigeration laboratory Units; Computer controlled Petrol Engine test rig.; Computer Controlled Diesel Engine Test rig.; Computer Controlled UTM; Various compression ratio Petrol Engine test rig.

D. Other major facilities available: Electrical: - A number of versatile software which can be used for simulation work. A number of very good under graduate and post graduate projects have already been taken up. It has procured lab-View. With this the department has already complete few on-line projects. It has generated facilities for recording transient and steady state responses of any system; Mechanical:-Fluent Fluid flow Software for numerical simulation analysis of various fluid flow cases; NISA 3D fluid flow package for finite clement analysis of fluid flows; Various mechatronics control softwares for teaching purposes such as value actuation controllers, rotary & linear slide actuation controllers,PID controllers software etc; CNC software on fanuc for CNC lathe operations.; RoboX simulation software; The department has got its individual photo copier machine; It has got Overhead and LCD projectors as important teaching aids.

E. Special strengths of the Institution: Young and qualified motivated teachers, Most of the faculty members are highly qualified; There is a mix experienced & young as well as dynamic teachers; The department has got well-trained supporting staffs; the department is producing outstanding results in the last few years having its students topped in the final year B. Tech examinations; all most hundred percent campus placements.

F. Unique areas of areas of research/innovations completed in last

3 years or currently in progress in the institution (Deptt.): Solid state gas sensor; Carrier transport in semi conducting thin firms; Liquid crystal; Research work in inorganic Chemistry in progress; SMDP-II, VLSI project of MCIT, Govt. of India; River scouring problem; Ground water and pollution management; Mechanical :- MODROB project on ‘Development & Modernization of Instrumentation lab- completed; Research on vertical axis wind turbines- in progress; Research on various robot configurations on their optimum path planning- in progress; Research on Gasifier- in progress.