NIST WINS 1 CRORE RESEARCH GRANT FROM DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

In a first-of-its-kind among any private engineering college in the State of Orissa, the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, has sanctioned a sum of Rs. 1.00 Crore to the Berhampur-based National Institute of Science & Technology. The funds granted by the DST under the FIST program will be utilized for setting up ultra-modern laboratories in the area of VLSI Design & Testing and in Microwave Communications. The DST grant is the largest received by NIST whose previous grants totaled about Rs. 25 lacs in the last two years. The Director of the Institute, Prof Sangram Mudali, attributed the success of the DST grant to the efforts of its faculty who include 4 Boyscast scholars, 2 Fullbright scholars, 2 Young Scientists and 25 Post Graduate fellowships. He congratulated Dr. Ajit K Panda and Dr. Amalendu Patnaik who have won the DST grant. This grant is  a fitting statement of the rapid development of the Institute especially when it is celebrating its “10 Glorious Years”. The new laboratories will be totally utilized for research by M.Tech students and scientists of Orissa. In the area of VLSI design, NIST is an acknowledged leader with more than 150 students graduating in VLSI in the summer courses. Such a research grant will also be useful for industry to carry out their testing and prototype work at NIST.