Centre for Academic Studies and Research (CASR) established in the year 2018 is a Centre of Excellence, which aims at providing high quality solutions to the problems in core Engineering and Engineering Education through research, development and extension activities.

This centre is facilitating the various Departments / courses in core engineering and engineering education masters and research programmes with the objectives.

The centre conducts PhD Research programmes in affiliation with University of Madras and Anna University; Post Graduate Programme ME Infrastructure Engineering and Management has been approved and offered from the academic year 2019-20, two more Post Graduate programmes are proposed to start from the academic year 2020-2021.

University of Madras

Anna University

Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering : ME (Infrastructure Engineering and Management) from 2019-2020

Centre for Educational Media Technology(CEMT): ME (Elearning Technologies)

Electronics & Communication Engineering: M.Tech., ECE (Industry Integrated)

Full-time Research fellowship offered to eligible PhD scholars based on the Terms and Conditions for the FTRF Scheme; Post Graduate students are also eligible for the scholarship from the MHRD based on their GATE score.