Centre For Studies

The Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Centre was founded in the year 1985 and is known to be one of the pioneering institutions of eastern India to empower individuals to challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original innovative ideas. The Centre functions under the Faculty Council of Engineering & Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. We host a wide array of courses and certifications and do provide placement assistance and career planning tools to help students get the most from their education in the emerging areas that it embraces. The Courses are carefully structured and oriented to build not only a strong theoretical foundation but also hands-on training of real-life scenarios faced in the work environment. In a nutshell, the CAD center offers skill development, research, and capacity building in emerging technologies like CAD / STAAD, Geoinformatics, Remote Sensing, Multimedia & Animation, Computer Programming, and Digital Security with a positive learning experience. Under the guidance of renowned administrators, directors, and faculties, our research and training services in 2020 marked its 35 years of excellence. We are driven to dig deeper to design comprehensive courses with updated industry-relevant curriculum, high-end infrastructure with fully-equipped laboratories to ensure that our students get job-ready for lucrative and satisfying careers with technological advancement. A large group of certified professionals, academicians, entrepreneurs, researchers, and students from CAD Centre are now at key positions at various esteemed organizations all around the globe.

Department of Sanskrit JU was upgraded from DSA to this prestigious Centre for Advanced Study in 2005 (Phase I) for 5 years (with Prof. Bijoya Goswami as Coordinator and Prof. Lalita Sengupta as Joint Coordinator). The 5-year second phase was received w.e.f.2013 (with Prof. Debarchana Sarkar as Coordinator and Prof. Tapan Sankar Bhattacharyya as Joint Coordinator ). The Centre could not take up any activities during 2013-14 owing to considerable delay in release of funds from UGC. In both phases it organized national seminars, workshops, invited several eminent national and international scholars as Visiting Fellows, undertook several individual and joint projects.

The Centre for Ambedkar Studies has a twin purpose: to examine the life, works and thought of Babasaheb Ambedkar; and, from that starting-point, to study and document the state of the dalits and other depressed and deprived sections of the nation. This study relates to both social practice and social theory, and is directed towards affirmative action. The ultimate aim is to sensitise the community as regards questions of social justice.

The Canadian Studies Program, which began in 2000 at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, subsequently developed into a Centre for Canadian Studies in 2007. The Centre, housed in the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, is one of the nodal points related to research and study in Canadian Studies in India in general and in the Eastern Zone in particular.

Centre for Counselling Services and Studies in Self Development is one of the centers of Jadavpur University. For the last two decades, it has been providing counseling services to the students, faculty members, non-teaching staff, and their families. It has also conducted training courses on Life Skills Training, Interpersonal Conflict Management, Stress Management, and Psychological Counselling. The center has also organized a number of training workshops, seminars, awareness programs, UGC-sponsored short-term courses, etc. at regular intervals.

The genesis of the Centre for Disaster Preparedness & Management India is facing a lot of threats on disasters in global conditions. Though there are some mechanisms in place for combating disasters in our country both at the Centre & State levels, criticism is often voiced that this system does not effectively face the challenges posed by the disasters in the current era of technological advancement. At present, there is a paradigm shift in disaster management, from crisis management to disaster preparedness. Therefore, there is a need to critically examine our disaster management structures/system in terms of disaster preparedness, and suggest measures to reduce the impact of disaster and make it more effective. India needs huge manpower, having technical expertise, in the management of disasters, certainly in terms of preparedness. As of date, few institutions in the country have introduced courses on disaster management; however, University Grants Commission (UGC) has approached all the Universities/Institutions for the institutionalization of Disaster Management, vide their letter no F 14-5/2007/Pt-1/CPP-II, dated February 04, 2008, and F 14-5/2007(CPP-II), dated October 30, 2009. Also to cater the services to the Disaster Management professionals, it is very much urgent to start a course, which will be offered for servicing Society and Industries of the country. Establishment at Jadavpur university, Vide Resolution No. 12(a); dated 10/08/2017 of the Executive Council, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032, India.

he Centre for European Studies was set up in 1997 and is housed in the Department of History, Jadavpur University. It is not a European History Centre but rather a European Studies Centre which integrates all social science streams working on European issues. The Centre is a research and resource centre addressing all levels from undergraduate students to admin1istrators and lay persons as well as scholars interested in Europe. Unlike other Centres for European Studies across the world, its slant is not merely towards hardcore social sciences such as Political Science and Economics, but also towards media studies, philosophy, literature and history.

It has now become imperative to bring this area centre-stage and stake the claim of Jadavpur University in the use and practice of this revolutionary technique in the social sciences. It is envisaged that the use of experimental methods in economics and other social sciences will form a major component of the changing scenario in future. This is reflected in the widespread use of this technique in the developed countries and the proliferation of papers in high-impact international journals using this method.

The Centre for Human Settlement Planning involves itself in research, outreach, advocacy and dissemination of knowledge in all allied areas of spatial and physical planning. It follows the principles of sustainable, resilient and inclusive planning approaches in addressing the current challenges to human habitation.

The Department of Sanskrit earned the recognition of Centre for Indology in 1997. The Center started in 2005 with Prof. Nandita Bandyopadhyay as Coordinator and Prof. Sarbani Ganguli and Debarchana Sarkar as Joint Coordinators. Prof. Debarchana Sarkar was nominated Coordinator and Prof. Sarbani Ganguli Joint Coordinator in 2009. Prof Tapan Sankar Bhattacharyya, present Coordinator, took up responsibility in 2017.

Centre for Marxian Studies (CMS), a unique institution of its kind in South Asia, was established in 1998 on the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto. The inaugural seminar focused on the Manifesto was addressed by Sumit Sarkar, Utsa Patnaik and Sobhanlal Datta Gupta and chaired by the late Gautam Chattopadhyay. Professor Debesh Chakraborty (Department of Economics) was the founding Coordinator. Since then the Centre has attempted to bring together a broad range of academics interested in Marxian analysis and hold discussions on Marxism and contemporary intellectual and social issues from a Marxian perspective.

Centre for Mathematical Biology and Ecology (CMBE), established by Jadavpur University in 1997, is an interdisciplinary center for studying common issues of mathematical and biological sciences to understand complex natural phenomena through mathematical modeling. The vision is to be a leading national and international leader in collaborative multidisciplinary research.

Brief Profile of the Centre: A project was granted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (then Ministry of Education and Culture), Government of India, during the 6th Plan period for setting up a Centre for Microprocessor Application for Traning, Education and Research.

Centre for Plasma Studies in Jadavpur University (JU), was established in1994, to promote and co-ordinate research activities in Plasma Science and Technology. Considering wide applicability of Plasma Science in the area of nonlinear & complex phenomena in different branches of Science and Technology, Centre for Plasma Studies is organizing National and International Seminar, Workshop and Training Program in each year. Also the centre has established National and International collaboration with the Scientists of premier Institution of India and Abroad.

Aims and purposes of the Centre: The Centre for Refugee Studies aims to influence public policy on vital issues related to human displacement. It has therefore endeavoured to involve various strata of society, including media, government departments and NGOs, in its programmes and activities. It is attempting to develop teaching modules and its programmes are interdisciplinary, covering the entire field of the social sciences.

(Funded by Dept. of Science & Technology and Biotechnology & Dept. of Higher Education Govt. of West Bengal) FT&BE Building, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032(India)

Year of Establishment: 2006 The Centre for Studies in African Literatures and Cultures is attached to the faculty of Arts, housed in the Department of Comparative Literature. The Centre helps the Department of Comparative Literature run an optional course in Literatures of Africa in the third and fourth semesters of the MA programme in Comparative Literature.

The Centre for Surface Science was set up in the Department of Chemistry in the year 1992.

The Centre wishes to promote respect and cooperation through increased knowledge of what religions are and do, their principles and values as well as the living practices of their adherents. The aim is to study religion as both a belief system and a social institution. In this field, professionals describe, compare, interpret and explain religion on historically based facts and cross - cultural perspectives. The Centre wishes to help the students to get to know other cultures and religions.

The Centre for Translation of Indian Literatures is dedicated to (a) the building of an archive of Indian literatures in translation, (b) imparting translation training, and (c) promoting the study of Indian literatures in translation, and (d) exploring the convergences between Indian indigenous literatures and other indigenous and marginalised literatures and cultures of the world.

The Centre for Victorian Studies was set up in 2010 with the objective of making it a meeting place for fruitful research in the area. The Centre has collaborated with the ‘Victorian Studies Centre’ of the University of Leicester (UK) whose members have expressed a keen interest to work with the faculty of Jadavpur University. The Centre has an interdisciplinary approach to research and has worked in collaboration with the sister departments of the Arts Faculty of Jadavpur University, like Comparative Literature, History and Bengali. We hope to make it function as a nodal centre for all researchers/college teachers working in the area in other Colleges and Universities of West Bengal as well.

The Condensed Matter Physics Research Centre was set up in 1990 to carry out advanced research in this area under the aegis of the Department of Physics.

The IC Design and Fabrication Centre is interdisciplinary in character with an emphasis on VLSI design, microelectronics and semiconductor devices. Its main objectives are:

• Research and development in the field of semiconductor materials, devices and systems, integrated circuits and VLSI design.
• Technical manpower development in this area.
• Participation with the industry in the design and development of industry-related products.
• Providing facilities for design, testing and characterization of semiconductor devices, materials and systems.
• Interaction with other educational and scientific institutions for undertaking interdisciplinary activities for embedded systems and IoT.

During its long and glorious history, IMPACT Centre is a result of upgradation from IMPACT Project - SSS . IMPACT Project - SSS was a pilot project on manpower development in Electronics and Computers, with initial assistance from the World Bank, The Swiss Development Cooperation & Govt. of India, aims at improving the quality of Under-graduate and Diploma level Education to meet the needs of the Industry.

A systematic of scientific investigations into the perception and production of music, requires multidisciplinary approach, involving Physics ,Music therapy, Computer Science, Phonetics, Physiology, Psychology, Musicology, to name a few. Even if one puts aside aesthetic appreciation, the task is formidable.

Welding Technology Centre (WTC) at Jadavpur University , Kolkata, was formed to strengthen the understanding and co-operation in promoting the development of Welding / Joining Technology.