Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO) is a national instrumentation

Instrumentation

Instrumentation is defined as the art and science of measurement and control of process variables within a production, or manufacturing area....

 research laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of the Government of India

Government of India

The Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...

. CSIO is situated at Sector 30, Chandigarh (India).

Overview

CSIO was established in October 1959 as a laboratory which works on the research, design, and development of scientific and industrial instruments. It was originally located in New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

, and then moved to Chandigarh

Chandigarh

Chandigarh is a union territory of India that serves as the capital of two states, Haryana and Punjab. The name Chandigarh translates as "The Fort of Chandi". The name is from an ancient temple called Chandi Mandir, devoted to the Hindu goddess Chandi, in the city...

 in 1962. The first Director was Piara Singh Gill

Piara Singh Gill

Piara Singh Gill was an Indian nuclear physicist who was a pioneer in cosmic ray nuclear physics and worked on the American Manhattan project. He was the first Director of Central Scientific Instruments Organisation of India. He was research fellow of Chicago University...

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CSIO is one of the constituent laboratories of the CSIR, a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional apex industrial research and development

Research and development

The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...

 (R&D) organization.

Major R&D projects (on-going)

• Head Up Display
  Head-Up Display
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   (HUD) for the LCA
  HAL Tejas
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   and HJT
• Low Vision Aids – Plastic Aspheric Lenses
  Aspheric lens
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• Medical Imaging and Computational Instrumentation
• Geo-Scientific Instruments Division
• Fiber Optic Sensors
• Bio-Medical Instrumentation

Indo Swiss Training Centre

To help with the growing demand of well trained instrument technologists, the Indo Swiss Training Centre, (ISTC) was inaugurated in December 1963 by then prime minister Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru with the co-operation of Swiss Foundation for Technical Assistance in Zurich

Zürich

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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Courses

• Two year Post Graduate Research Programme in Engineering (PGRPE)in 'Advanced Instrumentation Engineering'.
• Four years Advanced Diploma in 'Die and Mould Technology'
• Four years Advanced Diploma in Mechatronics and Industrial Automation
• Three years diploma in Instrument Technology