Department of Physics

Vision:

We shall enable our students to understand and appreciate the laws and principles of Physics that govern the universe. Our students shall extend this understanding to the society for creation of rational and scientific spirit amongst the people.

Mission:

  • Mission 1: To inculcate in the students the skill of deep observation, critical thinking and the capacity for innovative problem solving.
  • Mission 2: To enable our students to relate the laws and the principles of Physics in exploring and explaining the world and encourage them for generation of new ideas, explanations and innovations.
  • Mission 3: To emerge as a leading department known for excellence in teaching and research in Physics.

About the department:

The Department of Physics was established in 2006, the year of inception of the Institute. The Department started with two young faculty members under the guidance of a retired Professor of Physics from a reputed Government Engineering College of the state. Since its inception, the Department has been providing the Engineering Physics courses to all branches running B.Tech program. The Department has a well equipped Laboratory for B.Tech Physics courses. Excellence in teaching has been the hallmark of the Department ever since its inception. Members of the Department actively participate in organizing National Science Day at the Institute every year and a host of other extra-curricular activities. Talks are organised from time to time where eminent Physicists are invited to deliver lectures on important topics in order to keep the students abreast of current developments. The Department boasts of a well stocked Library of books for B.Tech Physics and undergraduate Physics courses. The Department started B.Sc. Physics (Honours) course from the session 2020-2021 under Assam Science and Technology University.

The department of Physics comes under the School of Natural Sciences of Girijananda Chowdhury University and offers BSc programs in Physics as per FYUP, NEP-2020. Under this program, a student can gather knowledge in Physics with multidisciplinary approach. The program also facilitates a student to choose elective courses from various options, viz theoretical to experimental domains according to their interest.

At present the Department has two faculty members, all of them being Ph. D. degree holders and a Lab Instructor, an MSc in Electronics. All of them are well experienced with long teaching experience. The areas of research of the faculty members are Nanomaterials (theoretical and experimental).The Department has been credited with two sponsored research projects funded by AICTE (under RPS scheme) and MHRD (under TEQIP III programme), respectively, both projects having the Dr. Ajanta Deka as Principal  Investigator. Funds allotted in these projects have been utilised to create Computational facilities with a  Zeon Workstation and Molecular Modelling software for carrying out research work in the field of Material Science.