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Gujarat Technological University,
Ahmedabad
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Can India have 'World-class' Universities?:
The Experiment in Gujarat
Dec 3, 2011
Akshai Aggarwal
Vice-Chancellor
Gujarat Technological University
e-mail: [email protected]
CSI Annual Convention 2011, Ahmedabad:
ICT for Higher Education
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Can India have a world class university
Dr. AK Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Tech University
The story behind world’s cheapest personal computer, Aakash
Prof P K. Kalra, Director, IIT Rajasthan
Quality Assurance of Multimedia Learning Materials
Mr. B S Bhatia, Former Director, DECU
How National Knowledge Network will be useful to
Educational institutes and Government organization,
Mr. R S Mani, Sr Tech Director, NIC
Education on Demand over “Live Video” – The Next Big Thing
in Education?
Mr Niru Mehta, CEO, AttendByVideo
Agenda
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Vision -- (slide 4)
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About GTU -- (slides 5-8)
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Present: Where are we and the world today? -- (slides 9-18)
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Road map of Collaborations:
 Research Boards and Centers
 Doctoral Program
 Master’s Program
Successful Collaborations
 with SMEs through GTU Innovation Sankuls
 with SMEs through GTU Sectoral Innovation Councils
 with Businesses through GTU Skills Councils
Concluding Slides -- (slides 36-40)
Vision
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Vision: to make GTU a hub of research,
technology and entrepreneurship
Gujarat is Number #1in growth rate. It has become
well-known for excellent governance.
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Need to develop new innovative and revolutionary way
to emulate a similar success in education to make GTU a
world class university
GTU to be a Leader in Learning Outcomes through
use of technology, Faculty Development Programs
and through a collaborative model
GTU Act # 20 of 2007
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To create centers and institutes of excellence in basic and
applied science, engineering, technology and management
All the colleges (except faculties of universities) imparting
education in Engineering, Pharmacy, MBA and MCA of the state
brought under one roof
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2008: Started UG programs in Engineering and
Pharmacy: DE, D Pharm, BE and B Pharm
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2009: Started PG programs: MBA (four electives and
five sectorial specialization areas), MCA, M.Pharm (five
specializations), ME (twenty two specializations)
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30th September, 2011: Ph.D. programs
GTU
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(http://www.gtu.ac.in)
495 affiliated colleges
close to 95% of seats in the state in the fields of
Engineering, Computer Science, Architecture, MBA, and
Pharmacy.
Quality of learning outcomes and the Quality of research
work at GTU: will largely determine the health of
education in this state in these disciplines.
Footprint of GTU becoming progressively larger
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2010: GTU enrolled 101,054 new students to its first year of
study in various programs
Course
B.E. (93)
Total Available
Seats in Gujarat
at first year
No. of seats No. of seats with all
Detailed breakwith GTU
the other Universities up with other
in Gujarat
Universities
37,103
34,079
3,024
6,878
6,728
150
43,195
41,865
1,330
840
1,897
1,875
840
1,206
1,546
691
329
MBA (114)
12,070
10,830
1,240
MCA (49)
4,900
3,960
940
B.Pharm (85)
D.E.(83)
D.Pharm (18)
ME (30)
M.Phram (32)
Nirma:600; DDIT(GIA):345;
DDIT(SFI):249;
MSU:510;ChU:660;GanU:660
Nirma:60; DDIT(GIA):60;
MSU:30
Nirma:600; DDIT(GIA):40;
MSU:690
DDIT:162;MSU:385;ChU:72;
GanU:72.
MSU:72;ChU:36;GanU:110;
SP: 30; SauU: 81.
GU: 90; BhU: 60; DDIT: 60;
AhU:120; ChU: 120; Kadi SV:
120; GanU: 240; MSU: 40;
KU: 60; NGU: 60; SPU: 60;
SauU: 90; VNSGU: 120
GU: 30; BhU: 60; DDIT: 60;
AhU: 60; ChU: 120; MSU: 20;
KadiSV: 120; SPU: 100;
SauU: 60; VNSGU: 60; NGU:
60; Nirma: 60
Number of Graduate Students
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2010-11:
 13,582
seats in the 2-year Master’s programs of ME, M
Pharm and MBA and
 3,960 seats in the 3-year program of MCA
Total No of seats in the Master’s program: 13,582x2
+ 3,960x3 = 39,044
 a total student population of 350,000 in all the
undergraduate and postgraduate courses
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2012-13: about 400,000 students  Needed: 27,200
experienced and committed professors / against about 12,000
as of today
Explosive Growth, Quality of Education & Project Work
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“…….there is a significant opportunity for India to
continue to grow at 9-10 per cent. But what will hold us
back is education and lack of manpower.”
---- Mr. S. Gopalakrishnan,
CEO, Infosys Ltd,
in NDTV’s ‘Walk the Talk’ interview
The Indian Express, Ahmedabad, dt. 10th August, 2010
“.. Practical experiments and projects lie at the heart of the
relationship between meaning and understanding”.1
1 G.
Doughty et al., ‘Experimentation: how it reinforces self-learning’, Innovative
Methods in Engineering, Educ., 43 (1992), 264–269
Creating top-ranked Universities
Attempts by Other countries
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European countries: through increased and more
focused funding
Saudi Arabia: by using petro-dollars
Pakistan: by using Saudi money to send 4000 teachers for
doctorates to Europe
China, over the last 15 years : Systematic, focused
and most successful effort
 Effective
use of sabbaticals in western countries
 Exploiting the universities of the whole of the world
 Now moving towards joint research labs etc
A World-class University
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Attracting scholars who are global leaders in their fields.
Internationalization of faculty and students
Leader in academic research and teaching
Creating an eco system for innovation - leveraging academic
and industrial research
Fostering entrepreneurship through management education
One-stop hub for continuing learning programs through
regular as well as distance education
Reference: Center for World-Class Universities ( CWCU )
at Shanghai Jiao Tong University's (SJTU) -a strategic research unit of the
Chinese Ministry of Education (http://gse.sjtu.edu.cn/EN/centers.htm)
SJTU: From QS rank 179 (2006) to 124 (2011)
From ARWU rank 450 (2003) to 201(2011)!
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Characteristics of a world-class university:
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a high concentration of talent,
abundance of resources and autonomy in academic investment
autonomous governance in recruitment of students and faculty,
in learning systems and in assessment systems
carries out education and research in a wide range of
disciplines and
makes great efforts to serve both national needs and
international public good
Reference: Qi Wang, “Internationalisation of Higher Education and Building World-class
universities in Mainland China: a Case of Shanghai Jiao Tong University”,
www.aie.org.cn/link/Strand%203/Wang%20Qi%20(Whole%20Paper).docx as
of June 30, 2010
The Afro-Asian Perspective of 2011:
Does India have world-class Universities?
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QS Rank Name of University
Country
Grade
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U of HongKong
China
87.04
25
U of Tokyo
Japan
85.9
28
National U of Singapore
Singapore
84.07
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Kyoto U
Japan
82.86
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The Chinese U of Hong Kong
China
79.5
40
The HongKong U of Science & Tech
China
79.09
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Seoul National U
South Korea 78.65
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Osaka U
Japan
77.55
46
Peking U
China
77.44
47
Tsinghua U
China
76.25
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Does India have world-class Universities? ..2
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QS Rank
Name of University
Country
Grade
57
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan
72.71
58
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore
72.51
70=
Tohoku University
Japan
69.67
80=
Nagoya University
Japan
67.97
87
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Taiwan
66.62
90
KAIST - Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech
South Korea
65.96
91
Fudan University
China
65.74
98
Pohang Univ of Science And Tech (POSTECH)
South Korea
65.1
110
City University of Hong Kong
China
62.04
120
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel
59.36
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QS Rank
Name of University
Country
Grade
122
Kyushu University
Japan
58.85
124
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China
58.32
129
Yonsei University
South Korea
57.28
139
Hokkaido University
Japan
55.91
156
University of Cape Town
South Africa
52.87
167
Universiti Malaya (UM)
Malaysia
50.9
171
Chulalongkorn University
Thailand
50.72
173
Tel Aviv University
Israel
50.63
177
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
China
50.13
185
Waseda University
Japan
49.16
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QS Rank
Name of University
Country
Grade
186=
Nanjing University
China
49.05
186=
University of Tsukuba
Japan
49.05
188=
Keio University
Japan
49.03
188=
University of Science and Technology of China
China
49.03
190
Korea University
South Korea
49.02
191
Zhejiang University
China
48.76
200
King Saud University
Saudi Arabia 47.14
213=
National Tsing Hua University
Taiwan
45.34
217
University of Indonesia
Indonesia
45.14
218=
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
India
45.1
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India’s Best by QS Ranking
Year
2009
2010
2011
IITB
163
187
225
IITD
181
202
218
Do we have world class Universities in India?
At rank 1, 100, 200 or say 500?
1985 : China and India were at the same (poor) level and
2011 : China has 5 Universities among the first 50 (and 7
more before 218).
Thailand, Malayasia, Saudi Arabia etc have all moved ahead
of India. Wait for Pakistan and Bangladesh also to do so.
Can we improve our ranking,
when the whole of the world is racing ahead?
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Are our students not intelligent enough?
After going out, many of our graduates have done
well.
Are our faculty not competent enough?
Many Indians are on the faculty of prestigious
institutions outside India.
Can Indians not be innovative enough?
A Long & Rich History & Heritage:
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Invention of Zero and Decimal system/ trigonometry etc
Works, written at Takshshila Univ, more than 2,000 years
back, such as
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Arthshastra (A book on political economy by Chanakya),
Charak Samhita (A book on surgery and medicine)
Traditional Knowledge Systems in Medicine, Mathematics,
Astronomy, Dance, Music, etc…
Pioneering Universities like Nalanda and Takshshila,
Engineering Marvels such as the Iron Pillar in Delhi,
innovative architecture in temples and old buildings like Taj
Mahal, Qutab Minar
Home to one of the four ancient civilizations (Indus Valley
Civilization) and Place of origin of Hinduism, Buddhism and
Innovations of the modern age
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Agriculture Revolution,
 Milk Revolution,
 Telecom growth,
 ICT Exports,
 Space exploration, Atomic Energy, Defense,
Pharma etc.
 $2000 Tata Nano or the $2000 open-heart
surgery at Narayana Hrudayalaya
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Then?
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Universities must use ICT effectively
 for better Learning Management Systems
 for removing exam orientation and bringing back
love of learning
 for networking with businesses, industries, societal
and governmental entities
 for becoming Agents of Change & Innovation
 for building research collaborations
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Moving towards a solution
A Collaborative Movement
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Many efforts for retraining high government officers
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British and American Universities by GoI
 through IIM by GoG.
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This may help the officers in higher positions learn
two-way communication on an equal basis with the
Universities.
Collaboration: Alternatively Universities may work
with the society to bootstrap, without bothering
about the officers.
Millennium Goals:
Research Boards
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working
together
The Board for Rurban Technologies, consisting of GTU
Institutions in rural areas and mofussil towns
 Board for Environmental and Green technologies to study
the areas of Recycling and Re-use of treated Sewage,
Urban Air Pollution, Renewable Energy Technologies,
Cleaner Production towards Sustainable Development etc
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The Board for Mobile Computing and Wireless Technologies
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Last Workshop: 30th September 2011 on ‘Smart Grids’
20-24 June: Short Term Training Program on ‘Mobile Application
Development’ at VGEC
Working for the Center for nano-technology Applications
New Centers
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Centers for studies in the areas of
1. Business Ethics and CSR
2. Financial Services
3. Governance Systems in businesses, industries, universities,
hospitals, mass transportation systems, NGOs and
governments.
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Center of Excellence for Technology Education &
Policy
Doctoral Program: Preparations
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19th February 2011: One day workshop on "Selecting
Research Problem & Preparing Research Proposal for Ph.D.
(Management)" at AMA Centre, Ahmedabad. The Program
Director was Dr. Satendra Kumar, Chairman, PhD Research
Centre, CKSVIM & Dr. Rajesh Khajuria, Director – CKSVIM.
9th -10th June 2011: An intensive Workshop on Research
Methodology for its doctoral supervisors. The resource persons
included the following.:
Dr. Virendrakumar C. Bhavsar, Professor, University of New
Brunswick, Canada; Dr. B.D. Chaudhary, Professor and Director,
MNNIT, Allahabad; Dr. Vithal Kamat, Principal, Institute of
Computer and Communication Technology, Anand; Dr. Pradeep
K. Sinha, Senior Director, C-DAC, Pune, MH
Doctoral Program: Rolling out
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711 applicants for its Doctoral program
presentations from 335 candidates, out of 351
candidates, who cleared the entrance test.
School Research Committees, along with 192
doctoral advisors at the University started the
approval process for admission to GTU’s doctoral
program through personal interviews
30th September 2011: Classes on Research
Methodology started for doctoral students
Post-graduate Teaching
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ME Dissertation Review: A unique step to
improve the quality of thesis;
 Adjunct Professors and (Virtual) Co-Supervisors
 Practice-oriented ME programs:
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Successful Collaboration with
partners from outside the University
 VLSI
Design and Embedded Systems
 Mobile Computing and Wireless Technologies
 Cyber Security
Objective: Leadership in Learning Outcomes
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Continuously up-dated curriculum in all the fields:
 Created or updated new syllabi for 1200 courses during
the last few months.
Introduction of Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) – which
makes it possible for a student to apply for credit for work
done at other Universities  Flexibility, as required
by professionals in business/ industries
INVITATION – to those with an interest in rigorous scientific workCome & work at GTU for Master’s and Doctoral work.
MBA & Dip Engg Syllabi
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MBA Program: Global MBA
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A meeting of all MBA/ MCA Directors held on 13 July 2010.
First meeting of Syllabus Committee: 29th July 2010
National Workshop: 20th December 2010
Draft Syllabus presented: 7th June 2011
A New MBA program for the 21st century has been developed.
Diploma Engineering Syllabus: 31 March 2011: The
budget approved for conducting a survey of the
industries to find out the needs of the industry and
to prepare the syllabi accordingly
Faculty Development Programs
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GTU probably has the largest in-service Faculty
Development Program in the world.
January 7-10, 2011, an Experiential Learning
Workshop for 30 faculty members. Resource Persons
for the Workshop: Professors Farrokh Mistree,
Patricia Hardré, Amy Bradshaw and Zahed Siddique
from University of Oklahoma.
Plans: to set up a National Center of Excellence for
Engineering Education and Policy.
Faculty Development Programs
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A number of programs on pedagogy with the help
of faculties from National Technical Teacher
Training Institute, Bhopal.
A number of programs by taking the help of
faculties from IITs and IIMs and other well-known
professors have also been arranged.
Working to sign an MoU with WIPRO’s Mission 10x
to conduct a program for the Directors of GTU
institutions. WIPRO-Mission 10 X’s FDPs: Marwadi
Complex at Rajkot on 27th June- 1st July 2011 and
on July 4-8, 2011 at LDCE, Ahmedabad.
Undergraduate Teaching
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Moving towards the best of teaching by using our numbers
Providing best of teaching material to all the teachers
 We are preparing CDs for every subject. The CD will
contain power-point slides, laboratory work exercises,
references etc. These will be provided to all the GTU
Colleges.
 These will be updated every year.
Workshop and Lab work being given more importance:
 Since July 2010, the marks for practical work increased
from 10 to 50.
 All Final Year projects from June 2011 will be anchored
in the industry.
Final Year Projects
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Technology Education: Excellence in education
determined by excellence in practical work in
laboratories, workshops and businesses & industries
The Final year Project
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as the capstone of technology education
 Integrates the study of different subjects for designing
and developing a product
 Leads to a seamless transition from study at a University
to work in businesses & industries
THE SCENARIO
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Number of students”: about 100,000 GTU STUDENTS
GRADUATE PER YEAR by 2012
Final Year Projects: 10 LAC HUMAN MONTHS/YEAR
DEVOTED TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AS A PART OF THEIR
CURRICULUM
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INDUSTRY ABSORPTION: The results of the project work are
rarely used by the industry.
STUDENT TECHNO-ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Very few projects are
used to start a new venture.
LACK OF STRONG KNOWLEDGE ECOSYSTEM
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applying knowledge of Engg Design to Grass-root Innovations
To convert ideas to socially useful technical solutions.
A New Paradigm
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Final Year Project
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GTU wants every final year project to
 Solve
some real problem of businesses & industries or
of the society
 Lead to a close inter-action with businesses & industries
or with the society by way of
 Identifying
the problem
 Designing and developing the product
 Mentoring during the project
 Evaluation of the project
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GTU Innovation Council:
Mission
TO BRING THE CULTURE OF
INNOVATION TO BOTH THE
INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA
Feel the difference, Take a lead…
GTU IS CREATING THE FIRST
INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM AT
UNIVERSITY LEVEL IN THE COUNTRY !!
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GTU & Industry Leaders are
working together.
A GTU Innovation Sankul
A model for Collaboration
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Co-Chaired by the Principal of a GTU College and a prominent industry
leader
Sankul Committee: With about 20 principals and an equal number of
industrialists as members
More than 300 Udisha (Universal Development of Integrated Skills through
Higher Education) Clubs have been created.
25 Innovation Sankuls in Gujarat: consisting of
 All the Principals of GTU Colleges; More than 500 Industry
Leaders and about 40 industry associations
 The first meeting with industry leaders: 2nd August 2010
 The first experiments: September 2010: in Rajkot area
 The first Shodh Yatra: 12th February at Naroda industrial estate
by VGEC students
About 50,000 Pre-Final Year students went to the industry during this
summer.
Scaling up Partnership
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Ever single Chamber of Industry in Gujarat:
associated with GTU
More than 500 industry leaders: Members of our
Innovation Committees
Associations like GESIA, GICEA, IE etc are all
associated with
Appreciations
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The Project has already won appreciation from
the Division of Green Technology, National
Research Foundation of Korea .
It has been widely appreciated by His Excellency
Dr Maximus Ongkili, Science, Technology and
Innovation Minister of Malaysia on 23rd Feb
2011.
This model has been presented at Munich Venture
Summit in Germany and in Spain by Prof Anil
Gupta.
Appreciations …………………2
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The delegation of Social Entrepreneurship department of
Norwegian University of Science & Technology has liked
the attempt of forging industry-academia association and
has started using it for creating an environment for
innovation.
Union HRD secretary Ms Vibha Puri Das has taken a note of
this approach for possible scaling of this attempt across the
technical education ecosystem of the country.
At a meeting of the VCs, organized by UGC at Delhi in March
22-23, 2011 a recommendation to organize clusters of
industries and colleges was made to all the Universities.
Sectoral Innovation Councils
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Bring together
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Researchers and Developers,
Faculty members from all over Gujarat,
Professionals from the industry – associated with IDPs, and
Mentors from the entire world
to work jointly
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to successfully develop innovative products and processes –
(for the Final Year Projects) and
to identify new but relevant research problems for postgraduate students.
Three Skills Councils
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GTU Council for Financial Services with 12 Sectoral Panels
 GTU Council for Marketing with 7 Sectoral Panels
 GTU Council for HR & Organizational Structures with 8
Sectoral Panels
Each Sectoral Panel is co-chaired by a Director of an MBA
College and a leading industry professional.
A Secoral Panel: works
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to define the skills and certifications required by a professional in its area
of interest;
to help GTU develop a close and continuing inter-action with professionals;
to help students of Business Studies in obtaining placements for immersion
studies.
Swami Vivekanand Contributor Program
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An Example of
Collaboration
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To be implemented in 2012
from January 2012 – Dec 2012: 1000 teachers to
be trained
100,000 students will go thorugh the course in one
year
Gautam Adani: donated Rs 1.15 crores for the
program
Beginning working in VLSI Design
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Started a Master’s program in VLSI Design
Plans to set up a 1,50,000 sq ft, Rs 38 crore lab in
2012-13
Beginning the journey towards ITRI-like Lab
Starting a doctoral program in 2012
What can you do to help GTU?
GTU: A State University
which leads from the front
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To be a leader in learning outcomes
To provide the best of Continuing Education through a mix of
on-line, distance and on-site education
To help incubate technologists particularly in the fields of
 VLSI Design
 Embedded systems
 Mobile Computing and Wireless Technologies
Required: -from working professionalspro-active contribution to education
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GTU is creating
Networks and not Legal Entities
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jointly performing quality assurance in studies,
teaching and research: The challenge is to quantify
for comparison, something that constantly changes
operatively.
Requirements:
Develop and continuously refine assessment
measures/evaluations
 Every faculty member and researcher-- to be involved in
projects in learning systems, research & consulting and
 Create forums for an open exchange of experiences
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Conferences
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25-26 September 2010: National conference on Business Ethics for
Global Success for Indian Businesses: More than 300 students and
faculty members participated.
13-14 May 2011: Research Fair in Engineering: Nearly 500 students
and faculty members participated.
22-23 September 2011: Second National Conference on Business Ethics
& Corporate Governance
25-26 Aug 2011: 1st GTU National Conference in Finance (GTUNCF
2011) - Theme: Opportunities in Financial Services in Gujarat
 6-8
Jan 2012: International Conference on
Dynamics of Global recession: Economic &
Corporate Strategies for Survival & Growth
Achievements so far..
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At E- India 2009 (Hyderabad)
 Honoured as the ICT enabled University of the Year 2009
 Won South Asia award –Manthan for GCET 2009
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digitalLearning World Education Summit 2011 (New Delhi)
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Conducted GCET- 2009, GCET-2010 and GCET-2011online
successfully: without a single glitch across 12 cities, 24 centres
and almost 2800 terminals in 4 + 4 days, three sessions per day
(9 AM, 1 PM and 5 PM)
Honoured with the Jury Award for the University with the best
Industry- University inter-action
September-October: 21 patents filed by students and faculty
members
GTU students studied at University of Alberta for 8 weeks
Questions and Suggestions
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Thank you
Gujarat Technological University