<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">The SPMS from its modest beginning in 1960s has now evolved into one of the most vibrant and dynamic academic units of Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology. Today it stands as one of the leading schools in the country, well-known for its excellence in teaching and research. Sustaining the achieved success in the academic and research pursuits has been the driving force among the faculty, students and the support staff. The SPMS is the receiver of the DST-FIST grant, both stages-I &amp;II. SPMS regularly fetches R&amp;D projects from the leading funding agencies, e.g., DST, SERB, UGC, CSIR, AICTE, DAE, DRDO, BRNS, MeitY, MHRD. The ongoing R&amp;D projects worth ~4 crores suitably complements the last five years&rsquo; completed projects worth ~5 crores. The scholars of the school bagged prestigious award and fellowships that includes Fulbright fellowship, Commonwealth fellowship, Kothari fellowship, Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research fellowship etc. Number of research publications by SPMS faculty members is ~4000 (SCI journals). Besides academic research labs, the school has sixteen dedicated research labs on diverse field of physical science and interdisciplinary topics.</span></p>
