Though WCAS is not a research oriented Higher Educational Institution, still it endeavors to pursue some of its research activities for its researchers. To accomplish this, a new Research and Development Cell was started in the year 2015. The main aim of the Research & Development Cell is to facilitate researcher for conducting research. This includes providing encouragement to the researcher so that quality research can be conducted. The faculty members not possessing Doctorate Degree are encouraged to complete their PhD. Research scholars are advised to submit good research projects to “The Research Council” (TRC) of Oman in order to get funds for their research. WCAS Research and Development Cell supports research collaboration with other HEIs in and outside Oman. WCAS also provides support to its faculties by providing seed capital money for conducting internal projects.

WCAS also has mechanism to support to its faculties for possible collaborative research work with the parent university (BIT, Mesra). Possible areas identified are as follows: Agriculture & Plant Biotechnology, Biosensor & Nano – Biotechnology, Algai Biotechnology, Down Stream Processing, Biofuel Production, Food Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Industrial Biotechnology, Biomedical Instrumentation, Microbial Resources, Bioprocess Engendering, Microbial Transformation, Bioresources and Bioprocessing, Medicinal Plants, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Soft & Evolutionary Computing, Bio Informatics, Pattern Recognition, Digital Image Processing, Medical imaging, Computer Vision, Automated Mineral Characterization, Parallel Computing, High Performance Computing, Grid Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Electric Drives (DC and AC drives of various Groups), Power electronics and drives for process control and automation, Power electronics and drives for traction applications, Hybrid electronics and drives for traction applications, Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Fault tolerances drives, Advance charging systems, Integration of Solar source to Grid, Smart Grid, Power System Protection, Reliability analysis, DSP applications in power systems, Integration of Renewable sources to Grid, Micro Grid, Power System Deregulation, Power System Analysis, Modeling and control of linear and non – linear systems, DSP based advanced control system, System identification and optimization techniques, Optimal control system, Robotics, Image and signal processing, MMI (Man Machine Interface)

Some of the areas in which WCAS Management faculties are involved in research are as follows:

• Leadership and Organizational effectiveness
• Finance Corporations with respect to lending and collection of loans
• Service quality
• Work life balance
• Problems and Prospect of IT Industry
• Barriers to Career Advancement for Women
• Micro finance through co-operative societies
• Consumer satisfaction
• Retail store
• Tourism services

Some of the areas in which WCAS Engineering faculties are involved in research are as follows:

• Thiol Proteinase Inhibitor
• Calotropis Gigantea
• Diosmin
• Networks
• Decision support systems
• Meta Search Engines
• Software Project Management
• Plasma turbulence
• ANN Models
• Multi-Structured Broadband

FDP, Training and Workshops at WCAS:

• Faculty Development Program on Data Science Using R for Engineering faculties was organized on 30/1/18 to1/2/18.
• Workshop on the topic “How to publish research paper in top quality Journals was organized on 20th Feb 2017.
• Faculty Development Program was organized on SPSS & SEM was organized from 10-14 Sep 2017.
• National workshop on "Learning business from Case study and research" was organized on 3rd May 2017.
• International workshop on Relationship marketing and its challenges was organized on 21-22 Feb 2017.
• Workshop on "Research Methodology and SPSS" was organized on 18-19 Jan, 2017.
• Workshop on Research Methodology and SPSS was conducted on 18-19 Sep 2016.
• Faculty Development Program (FDP) on PSPP was organized on May 2016.
• International Conclave on Innovations in Engineering and Management (ICIEM) was organized on Feb 24-25, 2016.
• Two weeks Faculty Development Program on Research methodology and Innovative teaching methods was organized from 30th August to 10th Sep 2015.
• Workshop on Research Methodology and SPSS was organized on Aug 15-16, 2015.
• Three days of Training program on Labview, cDAQ and Elvisboard was organized for Engineering faculties from 1st – 4th Dec 2014.

Sponsorship for conducting International Conclave

Omani Rial 10,000.000 was granted by The Research Council (TRC) Oman for conducting International Conclave on Innovations in Engineering and Management (ICIEM) in Feb 2016. Participants from eleven countries presented sixty eight research papers in sixteen different sessions.

Topics in which WCAS Faculties were provided seed capital money are as follows:

• Screening of Sea Water for Isolation of Potential Phytoplankton for Mass Cultivation
• Biological Waste Management of paper & animal fat
• S.M.E.’s in Oman: Issues and challenges”
• Academic student’s performance prediction Model: An Oman case study
• A study for investigating student selection process of higher education institute and suggesting measures for improving student strength at WCAS