ACADEMIA-INDUSTRY INTERACTION

 

For enhancement of Academia-Industry Interaction, INAE has instituted the following two schemes.

 

(a)     AICTE-INAE DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSORSHIP SCHEME

(b)     INAE-AICTE DISTINGUISHED INDUSTRY PROFESSOR SCHEME

 

 

 

AICTE-INAE DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSORSHIP SCHEME

 

Preamble

 

            The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), founded in 1987 comprises a Fellowship of the most distinguished engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists of India and abroad from the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines. It is a peer body of engineering professionals with the aim to promote and advance the practice of engineering and technology, related science disciplines and their applications to problems of national importance. It also encourages inventions, scientific investigations, and research in pursuit of excellence in the field of engineering.

 

            Activities of the Academy include, research projects, pilot studies, technical education, fellowships, recognitions and awards and programmes on issues of technology policy and overall development for the benefit of the society and other benefactions.

 

It has long been felt that there is a need for active linkages between industry and engineering institutions which not only enrich the curriculum contents but also add another dimension to the existing systems of continuing education programmes, extension lectures and consultancy by faculty. Technology developed through academic and R&D institutions generally falls short of the needs of the industry for design and manufacture of new products and for engineering services to meet the demands of the customers and challenges of market competition. This gap can be narrowed down through a coordinated approach ensuring closer interactions among industry, R&D institutions and the academia, through institutionalized mechanisms. Active programmes should be established for regular visits of experts from industry to address students, academic and scientific staff and to spend a few days at campuses for participating in teaching or research.

 

            The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) launched a Distinguished Visiting Professorship (DVP) Scheme jointly with AICTE in 1999. The Scheme envisages promotion of industry-institute interaction by facilitating the dissemination of knowledge through the expertise of experienced and knowledgeable persons from industry to integrate their rich industrial experience with technical education. The Scheme has received very enthusiastic response from industry and engineering research institutions over the years.

 

            Thirteen Industry Experts were selected during the year 2000; eighteen each during the years 2001 and 2002; fourteen during the year 2003; ten during the year 2004; thirteen during the year 2005; fourteen during the year 2006 and fifteen during the year 2007 by a high level selection committee of experts from Academics, Industry and representatives from AICTE and CII.

 

Objectives

 

The Distinguished Visiting Professor under the Scheme will:

 

i)      deliver lectures on the state-of-art of Industry, industrial ambience and R&D needs of the industry to the students and faculty of technical institutions.

ii)     guide student projects/ theses of interest to industry.

 

iii)    help curriculum development, keeping in view, the changing industrial needs.

 

iv)    develop cooperative undergraduate and postgraduate programmes with industry having potential benefits to faculty, students and Industry.

v)     take up any other activities for the mutual benefit of engineering institutions and industry

 

The Distinguished Visiting Professor

 

i)      The Distinguished Visiting Professor will be an eminent scholar/expert in his/her field, working in an industry.

 

ii)     He/ she will visit the Institution at least twice in a Semester (each visit for two-three days).  He will be reimbursed air fare in Y-Class or actual fares if performed by Rail/Road to the Institutions. He would also be entitled to an honorarium of Rs. 3000/- per lecture day plus conveyance and incidental charges.

 

iii)    He will initiate student projects dealing with “real life” and “shop floor problems” in which he/ she is personally involved in the Industry and will provide guidance. He will also emphasize marketing, commercial as well as technical aspects of the project. The project guidance could be either at the host institution or at his industry under the joint supervision of the Distinguished Visiting Professor and a faculty of the host Institution.

 

iv)    He will interact with the academic staff and act as a catalyst towards an integrated approach in curriculum development with inputs from his industrial experience.

 

v)     He will provide written notes of his lectures delivered in the host Institution and give a short report summarizing his inputs and contributions to the DVP Scheme and suggestion for further strengthening the programme. INAE usually brings out a publication compiling the formal text of lectures delivered by the Distinguished Visiting Professors in the form of articles. The article(s) should preferably be an original state-of-the-art article, critical review or analysis of contemporary Research and Development. The Distinguished Visiting Professors are encouraged to publish in professional journals.

 

vi)    He will submit his feedback after each visit to INAE in the prescribed format regarding his visit to the host Institution.

 

vii)   The tenure of the Distinguished Visiting Professor shall be of two years which is further extendable.

 

The Responsibilities of the Institution

 

i)     The host Institution where a Distinguished Visiting Professor is associated will provide him with office and secretarial facilities for his working in the Institutions.

 

ii)    The host Institution will also provide him local hospitality including free Guest House accommodation where available or arrange suitable accommodation for him in a nearby Guest House and also provide him local conveyance.

 

iii)   The Institution will appoint a senior Professor as the Coordinator of the DVP programme to facilitate arrangements of lectures, supervision of projects, etc.

 

iv)   The Coordinator will submit a feedback in the prescribed format regarding benefits accrued to the host institution by the Distinguished Visiting Professor after each visit.

 

INAE will reimburse expenditure towards contingent/incidental expenses upto a limit of Rs.10,000/- per year to the Institution at the end of the year.

 

Proposals / Requests for Appointing a Distinguished Visiting Professor

 

i)    INAE will invite nominations from Industry, Institutions, and from Fellows of the Academy.

 

ii)   An Institution desirous of having the services of a Distinguished Visiting Professor, even if it is not able to send the nomination of an expert from industry, can apply to INAE giving full details of the Institution and the subject area in which it needs the expertise of an eminent person from industry.

 

iii)  INAE will identify a Distinguished Visiting Professor from industry and shall with the consent of the institution(s), appoint him to one or more institutions.

 

Proposal Format

 

            Proposals are invited from Industries and academic Institutions in the prescribed Proforma according to the following procedure:

 

            The Industry desirous of contributing to the scheme may depute experts in their respective fields and submit proposals in the Part- I of Proforma.

 

The Engineering Colleges/ institutions may submit their proposals for their specific requirement of Distinguished Visiting Professors in the Part II of the Proforma.

 

It is however more desirable that the industry and the institution submit a joint proposal after filling in Part I and Part II of the Proforma respectively.

 

Forwarding of Proposals

 

The proposals addressed to Prof Sneh Anand, FNAE, Project Coordinator, Steering Committee on AICTE-INAE Distinguished Visiting Professorship Scheme, Indian National Academy of Engineering, 6^th Floor, Vishwakarma Bhawan, IIT Campus, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, New Delhi 110 016 be forwarded by April 30, 2008

 

Please contact the following for any assistance

 

Project Coordinator        :           Tel:   011-26591039

Fax:  011-26862037

                                                E-mail: sneha@cbme.iitd.ernet.in

INAE Secretariat            :           Tel:  011-26582635

                                                Fax: 011-26856635;

                                    Website: htpp: //www.inae.org 

E-mail: inaehq@inae.org 

 

 

INDIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

Proposal for a Distinguished Visiting Professor

 

Part-I – Industry Collaborator

1.       Particulars of the Nominee

 

i.) Name :	ii) Designation :
iii) Date of birth:	iv) Major discipline :
		Specialization :
v) Name of the Industry:
vi) Address for Correspondence:
vii) Tel. No.	Fax

      Email:

 

2. Indicate the activities to be undertaken (Tick in the boxes below)

 

                        Lectures                               Student projects                           Post-graduate theses

 

                        Curriculum and laboratory development

 

                        Involving the Institution in unpackaging new technologies in the industry

 

                        Development of new programme(s) at undergraduate/postgraduate level

 

                        Any other (Please specify)………………………………………………..

 

3. Description of the activities proposed in (2) above upto 50 words for each activity.

 

4. Have you already contacted/been contacted by an academic Institution or university? 

   If contacted, name the Institution. Joint application will be preferred.

 

5. Career Synopsis of the Nominee:

 

a.       Educational Qualifications, Degrees obtained (the year, institution/ university)

 

b.       Industrial Experience

 

c.       Any specialized training in research/design/management/projects

 

6.         Has the industry a good Research & Development Unit? If so, in what area(s)?

 

7.         Has the industry a HRD/Training Division for in-house training to staff?

 

8.         Has the industry a campus recruitment programme? If so, give the list of institutions visited during the preceding three years.  

 

 

 

(Signature of Head of Dept. of Industry)                                                          (Signature of Nominee)

 

 

 

Part-II – The Institution Collaborator

 

 

1. Name of Institution :
i) Name of the Head of the Institution :
ii)  Address for correspondence:
iii) Tel. No.	Fax :
Email :
iv) Name of the Head of the concerned Department :
v) Address :
vi) Tel. No.	Fax :
Email :
vii) Subject/specialization in which the support is sought :
viii) Is the programme accredited by AICTE- National Board of Accreditation (NBA):
ix) Name of the Faculty Coordinator in the Department :
x) Address :
xi)Tel. No.	Fax :
Email :

 

 

2.       Particulars of the Institution

 

         i.      Year of establishment:

 

       ii.      Number of students graduating per year:

 

      iii.      Number of engineering disciplines:

 

      iv.      Present actual strength of permanent teaching faculty:

 

        v.      Average annual value of Sponsored Research project grants over the last 5 years (including those from   HRD, UGC etc., but excluding regular annual Plan and Non-Plan grants):

 

      vi.      Average annual value of Consultancy Projects over last five years:

 

     vii.      Has the Institution a Students Placement Division.  If yes, what is the percentage of students securing jobs through campus interviews over the last 5 years? 

 

 

3.       Describe the Industrial interaction sought  (Tick in the boxes below)       :

 

Lecture                                 Student Projects                                Post-graduate theses

 

Curriculum and Laboratory development

 

Development of a new programme at undergraduate or postgraduate level

 

                        Unpackaging new technologies in the Industry

 

                        Any other (please specify)………………………………………………….

 

 

4.       In what manner, the collaboration proposed in (3) above will the services of the Visiting Professor be useful?

 

5.       Have you already contacted/been contacted by any industry?  If contacted, name the Industry.  Joint application is preferred.

 

6.       Has the Department any special reason/claim/justification for initiating the proposed Visiting Professorship Programme ?

 

7.       In what way the Institute will assess the impact of Visiting Professor’s contribution?

 

8.       Indicate the facilities which will be made available to the Visiting Professor

 

(i)                   Infrastructure (Office space, Laboratory, Library, Communication etc.)

 

………………………………………………………………………………………

 

(ii)                 Secretarial assistance …………………………………………………….. ………..

 

(iii)                Accommodation ………………………………………………………………. …..

 

 

9.       Accreditation

 

1. The number of academic programmes run by the Institution ……………………. ……

 

2. The number of programmes accredited by NBA …………. …………. …………..

 

 

(Signature of the Head of the Institution)                                  (Signature & Designation of the Head

                                                                                                            of the Department) 

 

DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSORS AFFILIATED TO THE INSTITUTIONS

 

1	Mr. Shashi Kumar Chairman-cum-Managing Director Coal India Ltd, Kolkata (Underground and Open Cast Mining)		Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur, Howrah
2	Dr Debasis Chakraborty, Scientist F Directorate of Computational Dynamics Defence Research & Development Laboratory, Kanchanbagh PO Hyderabad (CFD, Aerodynamics, Combustion)		Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
3	Mr. D John Dy Director, (Retd) ISRO-HQ, Bangalore (RF and Microwave Systems, Satellite Communications)		Sona College of Technology, Salem
4	Dr S Mayadevi Scientist E-II National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (Chemical Reaction Engineering, advance Mass Transfer Separations, Hybrid processes, Catalytic reactions)		Government Engineering College, Trissur, Kerala
5	Dr SK Srivastava Director/Scientist F, Department of Information Technology , New Delhi (Computer Science, AI, Information Security)	(a)     (b)	Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida   Netaji Subas Institute of Technology, New Delhi
6	Dr P Banerjee  Scientist G Time & Frequency Section National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi (Digital Electronics, Communication Systems, Time & Frequency Activities and GPS System)