Electrical Engineering

IIT Palakkad has signed an agreement with the Indian Institute of Technology Indore on 28 February 2023. With this agreement, the parties agree to conduct a collaborative research project titled "Development of an affordable wearable IoT-GPS enabled intelligent vital signs monitor for smart health monitoring services" for addressing the major design, development and deployment issues by considering the improvement of diagnostic accuracy and reliability, false alarm reduction, affordability, and battery lifetime. The project is being funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and is being executed by Prof. Ram Bilas Pachori, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Indore and Dr. M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Palakkad.

A Memorandum of Understanding between Government Engineering College (GEC), Wayanad and IIT Palakkad was signed on January 17, 2023 at Nila Campus. It was formalised to facilitate and promote academic collaboration, research and development projects in Science, Technology and Engineering, joint organisation of conferences, workshops and seminars, and student internships between both the Institutions. The MoU was signed by Dr Santhakumar Mohan, Dean, Industry Collaboration and Sponsored Research, IIT-PKD and Dr Anitha VS, Principal, GEC Wayanad, in the presence of Dr Sovan Lal Das, Dean, Academics. Dr Vijay Muralidharan is the faculty-in-charge for this MoU between IIT Palakkad and GEC, Wayanad.