Center For Multidisciplinary Research

The motive of the Multidisciplinary research is to raise the national and international profile of the humanities at MGM University, and to encourage research at all levels among faculty – from the youngest to the most senior members. It also sought to address the need for a Faculty-wide body to coordinate the promotion and development of research in science, engineering, humanities, and health.

Multidisciplinary Research,

• Provide an over-arching structure for research activities in all departments ;
• Help develop strategic thinking on research in the Interdisciplinary areas at MGM University by supporting National and International Research Priorities;
• Work with national and international experts to encourage and support the Faculty’s research excellence;
• Raise the public profile of cross-disciplinary research at the University within the wider scholarly community and beyond;
• Promote research activities among interdisciplinary faculties, with due regard to their particular needs;
• Help consolidate existing research activities in the health sector and humanities together;
• Initiate new research activities and research domains;
• Encourage and support interdisciplinary research within the Faculty and between Faculties;
• Advice on and encourage the pursuit of outside funding for interdisciplinary research

The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) may sound scary to some, but it has been used for decades and its applications are far more common than we might think. AI assists in every area of our lives, whether we’re trying to get driving directions, or start a new business. It also proved its presence in other aspects such as Email Communications, social media, Web searching, Stores and services, Offline experiences etc. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (ML) are helping businesses achieve key goals, obtain actionable insights, drive critical decisions, and create exciting, new, and innovative products and services. Artificial intelligence makes it easier for users to locate and communicate with friends and business associates.

Through this cluster we will generate a long future, having a strong and successful line of research in the field of AIML. This includes research on the foundations of AIML as well as its applications. On the theoretical part, some of the currently active areas of research include multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, and deep learning. On the applied part, most active research projects will lead this to the applications of AIML techniques to health, biomedical, educational, and geographical data.

As we can see that the use of artificial intelligence is common in every aspect of business. Every company, today, is an IT company in one way or another. That’s why we need to move forward with the market and get this technology on its way as best as possible.

In the real world today, engineering and science cannot be separated. Scientific knowledge promotes engineering design. Many scientific advances would not be possible without technological tools developed by design engineers.

The engineering design is a process that utilizes the series of steps to come up with a feasible solution. It offers to understand the various approaches, processes and systems to address human needs by creating tangible products to meet the growing demands/needs of the industry & society.

Design engineering cluster will work on the fundamental concepts like Design Ethnography, Design Research, Ergonomics, Design Process, Strength of Materials, History of Design, Green Design, Sustainable Design, and System Design. It helps to recognize the impact of technology on individuals, groups and organizations. It strives towards creating an excellent enlightening environment with a strong multidisciplinary research background to a very specific focus on product design and functional design, with the domain expertise.

The main focus is to make a global centre of excellence in engineering design by promoting Innovation, Knowledge, Creation, and Entrepreneurship.

Mechatronics is the combination of mechanical, telecommunication, and computer engineering, frequently using microcontrollers. It creates especially simpler smarter system. Mechatronics deals with robotics, control systems and electro-mechanical systems. It is used in manufacturing, health care, space exploration, industrial, medical and smart robots, drones, designing control systems and in tools that make our lives easier on a day-to-day basis.

The term industry 4.0 refers to the combination of several major innovations in digital technologies these include advanced robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, 3D technology. Smartphones are the recent gazettes which are competent enough and dominating all the existing technologies with the advance features, increased portability and compatibility.

All this could possible due to new trends and revolutions in the sensor technology. It plays an important role in healthcare sector, Automatic patient monitoring system, for the detection of the diseases and Robotic surgery. It is observed due to advancement of the sensor technology human efforts are reduce in complicated surgeries and considerable increase the precision and accuracy in the surgery is seen.

This knowledge is peculated well through the process of education and the research students are now working on the burning problems in heart disease detection techniques.

Students are working on real time monitoring of heart diseases; some new sensors will be introduced in coming years with higher accuracy and non-invasive mechanism to detect the secretion of different biomarker enzymes in the heart due to damage of muscles. The scientists are working since long back to find the better techniques for the analysis of troponin-T and Troponin-I. The advancement in the sensor technology bridged the gap between the Detection of heart disease and the further treatment. Hence this sensor technology proved at the top for the challenges in adverse situations. Thus, in future various sensors as per the need of time can be design for the well-being of the humans.

This is an interdisciplinary cluster formed under MGM University with experts from Engineering and Applied Science. This cluster caters the research in the field of Energy, Environment and allied areas of research pertaining to the need of society.

The cluster has research areas like design, development, and applications of solar dryer, solar distillation units, solar cookers, photovoltaic power system, solar water heaters, greenhouses for agriculture, smart sensors for energy saving, weather data analysis, non-contact thermal imaging analysis, Iontophoresis

The interest in mental health & well-being has grown exponentially in the last few decades.

1) Mental, neurological, and substance abuse disorders make up 10% of the global health burden of disease and 30% of the non-fatal disease burden.
2) Around 1 in 5 of the world's children and adolescents suffer from mental disorders.
3) Depression, stress, anxiety, burn-out are one of the leading causes of disability affecting 300+ million people across the world.
4) People with severe mental disorders die 10 to 20 years earlier than the general population.

With the above-mentioned factual figures, there should be a thrust by all the countries to address this mental health issue on priority. In contrast, less than half of 139 countries only have mental health policies and plans aligned with human rights conventions. This clearly indicates that mental health issues can be considered as the submerged part of the ice. Further, the stress and mental health impact in this COVID 19 pandemic situation is attaining a new peak cutting across all the sections of the community.

Hence, there should be a radical focus shift in addressing these mental issues and promoting mental wellness by implementing policies based on the outcome of scientific researches and studies. The mental health & wellness research can be multidisciplinary cross-pollination of research experts in neuroscience, psychiatry, sociology, psychology, community health, economics, including traditional and complementary medicine like yoga, naturopathy and meditation.

The Public Health domain aims for high quality interdisciplinary research. It will provide a platform for researchers to access various aspects of the research model to be fulfilled. It will ensure success by providing a holistic approach and teamwork of professionals across all branches like medical, paramedical, biomedical, engineering, technological support, etc. It will strive to pave ways to open new outlooks towards research and for providing the necessary support for its fulfilment.

The cluster of Behavioral sciences explore the cognitive processes within organisms and the behavioral interactions between organisms in the natural world. The researchers involved in behavioral science are known as Behavioral scientists. Behavioral scientists conduct research that is informed by their knowledge of economics, psychology, sociology, and management studies, and run experimental studies to generate insights of human behavior and decision-making.

In recent years behavioral insights have captured the attention of governments, business leaders, and academics as it is said that nature of the problem is multifactorial and we need to implement apply behavioral science to solve real-world problems The goal of the behavioral and social sciences is to better understand human behaviors and apply this understanding to improving the quality of life for people. Because so many behaviors have an impact on health, social and behavioral sciences are an important component of studying individual and group health.
Future Plan

Behavioral science attracted massive interest in the last decade; therefore, the obvious priority is to focus more on new tactics for integrating behavioral science into the standard way that organizations do things. Embracing this priority raises an interesting concept note and opportunities which can provide a different lens on changing systems. The futuristic research explicit the link between the research and its relevance to health promotion or management of disease processes.

The goal is not only to advance particular areas of science and specific scientific projects, but also to create new areas of interdisciplinary research, and the roadmap to initiate such activity.

Social Sciences include all the subjects and disciplines dealing with problems, principles and knowledge regarding society, social groups, social behaviour, social life, social institutions and social systems.

For academic purposes social sciences means all the disciplines or faculties of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts including Sociology, Anthropology, Ethnology, Stratification, Gender Studies, Economics, Political Science, Education, Public Administration, Human Development, Agricultural Development, Industrial Development, Entrepreneurship, Society & Environment, Energy & Ecology, Population Studies, Demography, Banking, Insurance, Financial Institutions, International Trade, International Affairs, International Organisation, Globalization, Liberalisation, Privatisation, Labour Studies, Formal Sector Employment, Informal Sector activities, Wages, Livelihood, Illiteracy, Housing, Languages, Social Change, Management, Commerce, Marketing, Human Resources Department, Development Sciences, Psychology, Criminology, Public Policies, Governance, History, Culture, Religion, Geography, Social Work, Legal System, Law, Constitution, Human rights, Consumer rights, Gender Studies, Economic Growth, Development Schemes, Development Planning, Natural Resources, Sustainable Development, Inclusive Development, Equity & Social Justice, Inequality, Poverty, Unemployment, Rural Development, Urban Development, Fiscal Policies, Monetary Policies, Discrimination, Deprivation, Displacement, Migration, Segregation, Backwardness and Special Provisions and so on.

The cluster of social sciences is trans-disciplinary in nature which mainly covers economic, political, sociological, educational, cultural, developmental, environmental, behavioural aspects of social life with focus on EQUITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

The research areas include problems, phenomena, issues, subjects, facts, information, characteristics, attributes, descriptions, observations, analysis, values, principles, laws, theories, concepts, merits, demerits, life styles, aims, objectives, progress, backwardness, provisions, developments, change, punishments, instincts, inspirations, motivations, frustration, nature, calamities, structure, culture, etc. of any social unit, group, segment or the whole society living in any territory having impact on Equity, Social Justice & Sustainable Development.

Hospitality itself is industry includes different branches like lodging, hotels, restaurants, bar, catering, event planning, service agency's etc. Few other branches of travel and tourism includes aviation, airport services, individual and group touring agencies, cruise ships, water sports, adventure tour, jungle safari, which serves the leisure need of people at various stages of life.

This industry serves the basic need as well as esteem need of various economic groups and as service base industry it required continuous improvement in service delivery. Which call for skilled human resources, production techniques, SOP, information technology, data monitoring, advertising, marketing and value-added customer service which call for ongoing research and implementation.

As hospitality changing it face in every sector, we must need to work on new ideas is the need of changing environment of hospitality field.Hospitality itself is industry includes different branches like lodging, hotels, restaurants, bar, catering, event planning, service agency's etc. Few other branches of travel and tourism includes aviation, airport services, individual and group touring agencies, cruise ships, water sports, adventure tour, jungle safari, which serves the leisure need of people at various stages of life.

This industry serves the basic need as well as esteem need of various economic groups and as service base industry it required continuous improvement in service delivery. Which call for skilled human resources, production techniques, SOP, information technology, data monitoring, advertising, marketing and value-added customer service which call for ongoing research and implementation. As hospitality changing it face in every sector, we must need to work on new ideas is the need of changing environment of hospitality field.