envisioning iit bombay students’ perspective: krishna ramkumar 20 august 2011
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Envisioning IIT Bombay
Students’ perspective: Krishna Ramkumar
20 August 2011
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The Problem: Exhausted student base with diverse interests
• Pursuing anything other than science in school considered inferior
- Few explore real interests
• Demand-supply mismatch in quality higher education institutions
• IIT degree key to a better future- Better jobs in industry- Prestige in society
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Student population is
• Exhausted from the highly competitive JEE
• A group of high-achievers with diverse interests
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3 large changes required to make the IIT education more relevant to the students
Interaction with Industry &
Government
Continuous Academic Reform
Focus on Innovation &
Entrepreneurship
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Interaction with Industry and Government
• Engage with industry stalwarts to identify key challenges and breakthrough research topics
• Intern with companies to work on these problems and build practical problem-solving skills
• Work on government projects to gain an appreciation for grass-root challenges
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Focus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Take on a leadership role by defining key innovation themes
• Spend significant time trying to solve these problems and broadening knowledge
• Build an ecosystem to foster innovation and entrepreneurship
- Identify professors to push the agenda- Invite VC funds and ex-entrepreneurs to run
competitions & associated mentoring programs- Encourage recruitment by serial entrepreneurs
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Faculty
Students
Institute
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Continuous Academic Reform
• Allow students to take more courses from other departments
• Review process of branch allotment
• Move the focus from textbook to practical learning
• Inculcate mental framework for scientific enquiry
• Design more courses at the interface of disciplines• Encourage collaboration on research projects
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Academic flexibility
Well-rounded course
structure
Inter-disciplinary academics
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In the long term, should IITs move to a university structure?
• Is the need of the hour a purely technical institute?
• Or, with an intake of bright students with varied interests, should the IITs create tangible avenues to explore these diverse interests?
• Should we create strong engineering, medical, social science and business schools that work in close collaboration with each other?
While this will need a complete overhaul of the system, it might be the only way for the IIT brand to deliver