Centre of Excellence for Electronics Cooling (CoEEC), SPOKE
About the Centre
Thermal management of electronic equipment is going to be a major issue with the spiral use of devices/data centres. It’s going to be a billion-dollar industry dedicated to solving thermal issues in data centres etc. The Center of Excellence for Electronics Cooling (CoEEC), SPOKE is the initiative to build a common platform for the industry and academicians to work together by exchanging technical knowledge and experiences.
Goal of CoEEC
The Centre aims to train students in thermal management in such a way that they excel with the skills required to work in the industry. Students are trained in the area of developing thermal management solutions to address the cooling challenges of electronic components both computationally and experimentally in the labs within academia and in industry.
Key people of the Centre
Dr Arghya Chakravarty
Department of EEE
Co-Coordinator
Co-Coordinator
Dr Goutam Rana
Department of ECE
Co-Coordinator
Co-Coordinator
Members
Dr Surfarazhussain S. Halkarni
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Dr Lakshmi Sirisha Maganti
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Dr Swagata Samanta
Department of EEE
Dr Pradyut Kumar Sanki
Department of EEE
Dr Tousif Khan N
Department of EEE
Dr Ainal Hoque Gazi
Dept. of Civil Engineering
Dr Vijayakrishna Rowthu
Department of Mathematics
Dr Tapan Kumar Hota
Department of Mathematics
Objectives of COE
The objectives of the CoEEC have been constructed in such a way that the students, whoever gets trained in the centre, will acquire the knowledge to work directly with industry. The Center’s activities will be divided into four major objectives, namely:
- Education and Training
- Research and Innovation
- Product Development and Consultancy Services
- Conducting Workshops
The Centre is to be established in collaboration with INTEL R&D.
Primarily, students will be trained thoroughly in the required theoretical subjects with the help of the teachings of the faculty team of the centre.
Later they get trained by industry experts. The training includes theoretical, computational, and practical expertise in the area of electronic cooling.
After the in-house training, students will get a chance to work directly with INTEL labs and will execute the real-time problems on Electronic Cooling as a part of their project/internships.
More about the Centre
- To train the students, both software and hardware labs will be established in collaboration with INTEL R&D.
- The centre also facilitates the outsider engineers and faculty with the required training and workshops to excel in both computational and experimental skills, which are required for developing cooling systems for electronic devices.
- The centre also focuses on research and development using the facilities established under the centre.
- The centre will actively participate in executing real-time projects from industry.
Scope and Functions of the Centre
- To impart direct training to the students of all Engineering and Sciences streams in the area of Electronics Cooling.
- The capstone programme will be offered as the primary thrust under COE.
The capstone programme
The objective of this programme is to impart direct training to students of all the departments by making this a mandatory course at the undergraduate level for Mechanical/Electrical/Electronics students and as an elective for other engineering disciplines.
- The capstone programme will serve as a differentiating factor for SRM since this would be the first time a practising scientist (Dr Prabhakar) from the industry would teach an entire course running for a whole semester.
- This will eventually create employment opportunities for students with high salary packages in the growing Electronics industry.
MoU signed with Intel R&D
- After the successful establishment of Phase-1 of the COE, there will be an MoU signed with Intel R&D Corporation, India
- Phase-2 (R&D Experimental facility) of the COE will be established with the help of an expert (Dr Prabhakar Subrahmanyam, Intel USA) from industry.
MTech in Thermal Engineering
- In order to cater to the needs of the Electronics Cooling industry, which has huge demand and shortage of skilled manpower in India, SRM University-AP has started the course of MTech in Thermal Engineering (with a specialisation in Electronics Cooling programme).
A coordinator will be identified from each engineering discipline and will work towards the fulfilment of the objectives of the COE. This team of faculty and students will truly represent a centre which is interdisciplinary in nature, catering to the needs of the Electronics Cooling industry.
Facilities at the Centre
Phase 1 of CoE
- Provides 30 high-end workstations with ANSYS research licenses, where users can perform simulations of electronic cooling.
- The Sim lab is going to be established in X311, X lab.
Phase 2 of CoE
- An experimental lab setup. List of equipment for phase 2 is yet to be finalised