IIT Bhubaneswar plans several specialised schools that will be made with corporate partnerships
July 27th, 2010
Following is an excerpt from a report in sify.com.
… The schools proposed to be set up by the fledgling IIT include the School of Metallurgical and Minerals Engineering; School of Ocean and Environmental Sciences & Climate Change; School of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and the School of Design and Creative Arts. An academic advisory committee has already been constituted and it will soon submit a detailed project report to the Union ministry of human resource development on the establishment of such schools.
"These specialised schools, which will run with corporate partnerships with our strong focus on climate change research, are what we feel will differentiate IIT-Bhubaneswar from the other IITs in the country," says Madhusudhan Chakraborty, director of IIT-BBS. He adds that the time-frame for setting up these schools and the expenditure involved would be known only after the submission of the detailed project report.
IIT-BBS is in talks with some corporate houses with the objective of running the proposed schools in sync with industry requirements. It has already entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the MGM Group for the establishment of a Chair Professor of eminence at the School of Metallurgical and Minerals Engineering. …
Meanwhile, IIT-BBS has started PhD programmes from the academic session 2009-10 with the focus areas for research being climate change, alternative energy, manufacturing and mineral development.
It is offering a seed funding of Rs 5 lakh to each of the faculty members to boost research. "The seed funding is expected to give a big boost to research at IIT-Bhubaneswar. The institute has also started consultancy in a small way", says Chakraborty.
IIT-BBS … has 45 full-time faculty members besides visiting faculty. …
Chakraborty hopes to have a pool of 2,500 students and 250 faculty members. In the next 15 years, he expects a student intake of 10,000 and faculty strength of 1,000. IIT-BBS also expects to receive a funding of Rs 60 crore from the Government in the current financial year.
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1. pabitra kumar barad | July 27th, 2010 at 9:32 am
Along with these proposed schools the IIT must start school of electronic and communication engg.The IIT_BBSR should also starts MTech and MBA programme.because the IIT hyderabad hag started MTech programme since last year.There are some complain about the appointment of some position in iit bbsr and Bengali biased appointment The director should keep an eye on this. because in non technical positions the local should get preference and other technical position through all india open recruitment. It should not be Bengalcentric.
2. SM | July 27th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
These are nice initiatives…Hope IIT BBS does not follow the footsteps of its mentor IIT.
Read this:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/IIT-Kharagpur-kept-aside-illegal-quota-for-staff/H1-Article1-578158.aspx
Its unfortunate that IIT BBS director’s name surfaces in such activities…
3. stingidea | July 27th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
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