Funded Projects

The lab has been involved in externally funded research projects worth over ₹2.17 crore, supported by leading national and international funding agencies, including the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India; IMPRINT-2; Swedish Research Council (SRC); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK; and industry partners. The funded projects span areas such as sustainable engineering, product design and cognition, collaborative knowledge building, green technologies, and societal challenges related to stubble burning. The lab has also contributed to a major international collaborative research project with an overall consortium funding of approximately £1 million, involving IIT Ropar, IIM Lucknow, and the University of Cambridge, UK.

List of Projects

1. Stubble Burning: Health Impacts and Social Perception – An Explorative Study for Prevention

Duration: 2020–2022
Funding Agency: Swedish Research Council (SRC)
Funding Amount: SEK 746,000 (approximately INR 63 lakh)
Collaborating Organizations: IIT Ropar and Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Project Team: Dr. Samaresh Bardha, Dr. Parwinder Singh and Dr. Prabir Sarkar, IIT Ropar; Foreign PI: Prof. Koustuv Dalal, Professor of Public Health Economics, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

2. Micro Green Roofing

Duration: 2019–2022
Funding Agencies: IMPRINT-2, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, and ELT India
Funding Amount: Approximately INR 75 lakh (INR 58 lakh from MHRD and INR 17 lakh from ELT India)
Collaborating Organizations: IIT Ropar, IIT Kharagpur and ELT India
Role: Principal Investigator
Co-Principal Investigators: Dr. Putul Haldar, IIT Ropar, and Dr. Chirodeep Bakli, IIT Kharagpur.

3. Big Data Analysis: A Key to Understand the Dynamics of Collaborative Knowledge Building

Duration: 2017–2020
Funding Agency: Cognitive Science Research Initiative (CSRI), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India
Funding Amount: INR 14,40,600 (approximately USD 22,142)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sudarsan Iyenger.

4. Study of Aesthetics in Product Design Using Eye-Tracking Equipment from a Cognitive View

Duration: 2016–2019
Funding Agency: Cognitive Science Research Initiative (CSRI), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India
Funding Amount: INR 16.26 lakh (approximately USD 24,440)
Role: Principal Investigator

5. Engineering Driven Sustainable Supply Network Design

Duration: 2014–2017
Funding Agencies: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK
Collaborating Institutions: IIT Ropar, IIM Lucknow and University of Cambridge, UK
Total Project Funding: Approximately £1 million (approximately USD 1.52 million)
IIT Ropar Share: INR 48 lakh
Role: Co-Investigator
Project Team: Prof. Jag Srai, University of Cambridge; Prof. Harpreet Singh, IIT Ropar; Dr. Ekta Singla; and Dr. Prabir Sarkar.