India
IIT-Kgp set to make a global mark
- The Statesman
- 06 Nov 2014
Biswabrata Goswami
biswabrata@thestatesman.net
Kharagpur, 5 November
In a unique academic leadership programme, IIT Kharagpur will now invite professors and scholars from foreign universities besides offering joint PhDs with top international institutes to support students and scholars for international exposure.
This will not only boost exchange programs and research activities but will also help the institute to make its presence felt strongly across international academia.
Under the Shri Gopal Rajagarhia International Programme, which was launched today, at least ten professors from some of the world’s leading universities would come to the Kharagpur campus each year for few months.
Similarly, around 30 talented international scholars would be invited every year to conduct research activities at IIT, said the institute’s Director Partha Pratim Chakrabarti.
He said they are already in talks with leading universities from the US, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Under the joint PhD programme, students would be awarded with the doctorate by IIT-Kgp and an international university.
The institute’s distinguished alumnus Gopal Rajagarhia of the 1968 batch has donated Rs. 10 crore for funding the initiative.
“I was always keen to give it back to IIT. Its international ratings are poor because of low international exposure. With this program, we want the IIT to make its presence felt in the international arena so that its ranking improves as per our Vision 2020,” Mr Rajagarhia said.
At present around 200 PhDs are awarded by the IIT each year and hope to take it to 400. “We want around 25 per cent of PhDs to be joint PhDs. We will also be getting foreign students to study here for such joint PhDs,” said Mr Chakrabarti.
Recently, IIT, KGP has launched the unique International Summer and Winter Semester programmes wherein students and faculties from India and abroad are participating.
Besides student and faculty exchange, the institute has launched the M N Faruqui Innovation Centre (MNFIC) today in the presence of Shri Arjun Malhotra who made the seed funding for this centre. Several other alumni were present during this program.
Among several objectives, the Center will focus on supporting the creation and operation of an academic organisation within IIT Kharagpur in which students would be able to work in interdisciplinary groups to work towards novel and efficient solutions for well-known, substantial and contemporary technical challenges.
biswabrata@thestatesman.net
Kharagpur, 5 November
In a unique academic leadership programme, IIT Kharagpur will now invite professors and scholars from foreign universities besides offering joint PhDs with top international institutes to support students and scholars for international exposure.
This will not only boost exchange programs and research activities but will also help the institute to make its presence felt strongly across international academia.
Under the Shri Gopal Rajagarhia International Programme, which was launched today, at least ten professors from some of the world’s leading universities would come to the Kharagpur campus each year for few months.
Similarly, around 30 talented international scholars would be invited every year to conduct research activities at IIT, said the institute’s Director Partha Pratim Chakrabarti.
He said they are already in talks with leading universities from the US, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Under the joint PhD programme, students would be awarded with the doctorate by IIT-Kgp and an international university.
The institute’s distinguished alumnus Gopal Rajagarhia of the 1968 batch has donated Rs. 10 crore for funding the initiative.
“I was always keen to give it back to IIT. Its international ratings are poor because of low international exposure. With this program, we want the IIT to make its presence felt in the international arena so that its ranking improves as per our Vision 2020,” Mr Rajagarhia said.
At present around 200 PhDs are awarded by the IIT each year and hope to take it to 400. “We want around 25 per cent of PhDs to be joint PhDs. We will also be getting foreign students to study here for such joint PhDs,” said Mr Chakrabarti.
Recently, IIT, KGP has launched the unique International Summer and Winter Semester programmes wherein students and faculties from India and abroad are participating.
Besides student and faculty exchange, the institute has launched the M N Faruqui Innovation Centre (MNFIC) today in the presence of Shri Arjun Malhotra who made the seed funding for this centre. Several other alumni were present during this program.
Among several objectives, the Center will focus on supporting the creation and operation of an academic organisation within IIT Kharagpur in which students would be able to work in interdisciplinary groups to work towards novel and efficient solutions for well-known, substantial and contemporary technical challenges.
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