Transcript PoWER Promotion of Work

PoWER
Promotion of
Work-Experience & Research
http://www.iitk.ac.in/dord/power/
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PoWER is a platform involving Students, Faculty, Alumni
and External Agencies to promote student endeavor in
creating technology having global impact with
sustenance.
Students
Alumni
Faculty
Outside
agencies
What is PoWER ?
...an integration
Technical
Support
Financial
Support
Mentorship
Infrastructure
(Industrial/Social
Problems/ Work
Experience Opportunities)
students
Players
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Students
Faculty
Alumni
Outside
agencies
(Cost Effective/
Innovative solutions/
skill-building)
Nucleolus
Work: Administrative head of
PoWER
Members: Dean R&D, IRDC
Convener, SIIC
Coordinator, Representative
Alumni Association,
Student Coordinators
Assessment Wing
Work: Assessment, Policy
design, mentorship
Teams: KoMent (Council
of Mentors), KoRep
(Council of
Representatives)
Members: Faculty,
Alumni, Students and
Technical individuals
Corporate Wing
Work: Corporate
Management Teams:
Alumni Interaction,
Industry Relation,
Resource Generation
Dissemination Wing
Work: Dissemination of
Information, Public
Relation, Feedback
generation
Teams: Web team,
Publication team
Skill building
Opportunities
Supporting
ideas
Interest based
convergence
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A program to promote interdisciplinary
student research
An annual fund of INR 1-2 crores for student
projects (the amount can be augmented if
required)
Currently major projects that are supported
are: Nanosatellite, Lunar Rover, Glucoband,
Abhyast (multi-purpose automatic vehicle)
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Students
• More opportunities and exposure
• Value addition
• Getting financial incentives and accreditation
Faculty
• Development of relationships with students, fostering
trust and team work.
• Quality and quantity of students participating in your area
of interest increases
• Satisfaction
Alumni
• Opportunity of growing and /or getting attached to an
interface involved in strong networking between
resourceful bright past and present students of IIT.
Outside
Agencies
• Finding Innovative and Cost Effective Solution
• Developing Highly Skilled Technical Workforce
• Involvement Of Energetic Young Minds
Astronomy
Biomedical
Engineering
Political Economy
Development
Models
Observatory for
amateur
astronomy
(Astronomy
Club)
Sustainable
Community Solutions
Automatic airquality
monitoring
system
Zero water
community
Glucoband
Zero waste
community
Investment
University
Green House
Initiative
Artificial Intelligence
Energy
ICT
Pre-emptive security
systems
Catch the
vapors
Local
information
Kiosk (for any
city or
organization,
starting with
Commonwealth
Games 2010
Immersive 3D
audio- visual
near-real time
realization
system
IITK Search
Engine
UAV
Energy from
thermo
acoustics
Orange Rinds: a
modular and
secure web
framework
Sound source
localization
system
NERD
Notes on
Engineering
Research &
Development
Quarterly Student
Magazine
Language that can be
understood by people from
any department
Lunar Rover
Prototype for
rover to be
sent with Chandrayan-2
Partnership with Vikram
Sarabhai Space Centre
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A program to bring
alumni
and
students
working
together,
meanwhile
students
getting mentorship and
work-experience/ research
opportunities.
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Alumni
Mentorship
Program
Faculty
PoWER
Students
External
Assistance
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Alumni
start-up
Individual
alumnus
•Work-experience projects
•Research projects
•Student ideas
Opportunities
Alumni
enterprise
Alumni
organizati
on
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CRUX: Most important part of the idea/process/algorithm/
device or any endeavor.
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CRUX-1
CRUX-2
• Student propose, defend
and solve
• Help: faculty, alumni,
outside agency
• A first year student
proposed catching on
vapors
• Alumni/outside agency
propose a problem
• Student: propose, defend
and solve
• Help: faculty, alumni,
outside agency
• Our IITD team is working
on a problem offered by
bread making company,
Harvest Gold.
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Real-world Linkage
Activism, Critical thinking, Innovation, Outreach
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* Industry-Academia Interaction: Industry-academia meets at Kanpur
and NCR
* Policy Perspectives: Conferences on innovation, Investment University
* Local innovation ecosystems: Interaction with MSMEDI, textile,
chemical, apparel and garment sector industries of Kanpur; interaction
with Kanpur Development Authority, Water and Pollution Boards and
different local bodies
* Appropriate Technology
* Synergy between IITs and other colleges: Workshop on ICT attended by
more than 20 colleges from the country
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Innovation and Technology Management
Area
Representative
* Each area of research/interest will be having an area representative;
one will be a student and another Alumni
* Around 175 areas identified for alumni-student interaction
KoMent: Council of Mentors: Council of all project mentors, faculty
supervisors and area representatives
Intellectual Property
* Patents, Design, Copyright, Semiconductor Layouts and Design
 Technology Management
* Product Identification, Technology Status report, Technology Cycle,
Technology standards, accreditation, calibration & Testing, TechnologyCompetition, Legal issues, Trade-Secrets.
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Innovation
Database (ID): Database of students, faculty, alumni,
researchers and external agencies.
* Mapping: 1 to 1 mapping of alumni and students as per their
interest/expertise/choice
 Technical
Counseling
* Thesis/Project Counselling
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Activism, Co-existence, Experimentation
* Environment, habitat, energy, society, education, inclusive
growth, nutrition, transparency, security, infrastructure
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Managed by Office of DRPG, Alumni Association and
Alumni Interaction Team PoWER
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 Resource
Generation and Management
* PoWER generates resources through Projects, IP, sponsorships, Institute
Grants
* Challenges and resources provided by alumni, outside agencies
* Donations from Alumni
* Managed by Office of Dean, Research and Development
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Become Area Representative of your area of interest/expertise
PoWER Ambassador: Brand Ambassador of PoWER
Creator of engagements for students in some ideas that you want to work
upon/implement
Assessment of project ideas brought by students or offered by any external
agency.
Support some student ideas technically and monetarily. Joint cracking of cruxes
Mentor policy design, innovation and technology management
Fostering national as well as global network
Technical Counseling and Networking
Preparing your juniors for 21st Century Challenges
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Positive Experiences
* Finding fruitful reasons to come back to institute again and again
* Diverse engagements with Alma Mater
* Finding potential partners for any venture/collaborative research
* Feeling good after pre-equipping young for current and future challenges
* Direct relations with students which will drag back to academic years at
IITK
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Challenges
* Finding time
* Patient nurturing this idea in beginning years without much expectations
* Coping up with the expectations of family, profession, students, faculty,
academics, deliverables etc.
* Channelization of resources and especially convincing their current
organization
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* A B-Tech Project by 3 alumni being developed as a full-fledged project
supported the institute.
* Designing a tourist information system for Commonwealth Games 2010
with an IITK start-up Geokno Pvt. Ltd.
* Designing the outer model of two devices with Simplifix Automations,
an IITK alumni start-up.
* Designing the outer model of a device with Cenogen Pvt. Ltd. An IITK
alumni start-up.
* An autonomous group of students GE3 (Group for Environment and
Energy Engineering) is working with an IITK alumnus Virendra Kothari
on energy and environmental issues.
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Alumni Mentorship Program is in the design phase and will
take some time to establish
Active participation from alumni is requested
Alumni are requested to contribute only 5 days a year for
this, preferably in the campus, spending your time with
students, in any part of the year.
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PoWER, IITK
Views and queries invited at:
[email protected]
http://www.iitk.ac.in/dord/power/