The Heber Analytical Instrumentation Facility (HAIF) has been established at Bishop Heber College to strengthen the quality of research in advanced as well as applied field of sciences. Bishop Heber College students and researchers, as well as those from other academic institutions and businesses, can conduct cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that is significant on a national and international level because to the centre's powerful analytical equipment. The centre provides facilities for fabrication work, material testing, characterisation, new device fabrication, etc., to help R&D labs, industrial R&D, MSME, Incubators and Start-ups, etc. The college has also received several grants from UGC, DST SERB, DBT, DST FIST and MOFPI New Delhi to augment the facilities of the Science Departments and the common instrumentation centre. In the previous five years, the HAIF centre has served about 2500 students from our college, including scholars, UG and PG students, and 3500 students/scholars from other Universities and colleges, who have used its services for consultancy, instrumental analysis, and corporate level training. Due to this support, our professors and students' publication output has increased over the previous five years in Web of Sciences and Scopus.
HAIF aspires to become a state of the art instrumentation centre by acquiring the sophisticated analytical instruments to serve in cutting edge areas of science and technology.
Mission
The centre is equipped with the following instruments procured under the support of different funding agencies:
The equipments, specimens, chemicals and contingencies are purchased by purchase committee comprising of the Principal Dr. D. Paul Dhayabaran, Bursar Dr. Isaiah, Advisors Dr. V.Violet Dhayabaran, Coordinator Department of Biotechnology, and Dr. V.Anand Gideon, Head Department of Botany, and the Coordinator Dr.K.Vijayalakshmi Assistant Professor Department of Physics, as per the requirements of the teaching departments of the college. The college administration purchases them by calling quotations from the reputed companies. The teaching staff from life sciences, physical and chemical sciences departments are taught and trained about the use and maintenance of equipments and they also take the responsibilities of periodic up-gradations of the resources. The instrument facilities are maintained by technical support staff of the Instrumentation centre Dr. G. Solaraj and Mr. R. Manoji. The support staff keeps a record of all the equipments. Every year, accounts are audited and stock is verified. A team of employees and sweepers is in charge of maintaining the lab's cleanliness. The authority has periodically organised various training, internship, and other workshop, seminar, and demonstration programmes for both staff and students of the college and other nearby institutions in order to improve the instrumentation centre. The college authorities also have a significant financial impact on the college's faculty and students by extending the characterisation facilities for 50% of the sample's initial cost.
The facilities created in the centre have helped the researchers of Bishop Heber College to publish more number of papers in the reputed journals.
Centre Coordinator
Advisor
Advisor
Dr.Vijayalakshmi K
Centre Coordinator, Asst.Professor ,Department of Physics
Bishop Heber College (Autonomous)
Tiruchirappalli – 620 017
Email:haif@bhc.edu.in
