iit gandhinagar brochure

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Academic ProgrammesIIT Gandhinagar currently offers 4-year B. Tech. programmes in theChemical, Electrical and Mechanical engineering branches. Besides 200undergraduate students, as of January 2010 IITGN has admitted 14 PhDscholars in Engineering, Sciences and Humanities & Social Sciences.M.Tech programmes are also planned in Engineering and Sciences.

FacultyFaculty is the backbone of the Institute. IITGN is committed to recruit andretain outstanding faculty and provide them the facilities andenvironment conducive to their best performance in teaching andresearch. Faculty recruitment is being carried out on a continuous basis.Besides faculty with limited experience, a number of senior professorswith proven track record in teaching and research at older IITs have

joined the Institute. They are creating traditions of excellence in teaching,and are also mentoring younger colleagues. Regular faculty is encouraged

to strive for excellence and a number of incentives, including financial, areavailable to them.

Academic InfrastructureClassrooms and Meeting Rooms

provides opportunity to students and faculty to participate in importantactivities from long distance. A conference room is available for facultymeetings and short courses with the flexibility of changing seating

arrangement, and an annex for tea/refreshments. In view of theincreasing space requirement, a 1000 Sq.m temporary building is underconstruction. It will house office of the research scholars and theirresearch facilities, and the workshops and laboratories.

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May 2010

Inception and GrowthIIT Gandhinagar was formally inaugurated in August 2008 with itsfirst batch of undergraduate students in the chemical, electrical andmechanical engineering streams.

The Institute is currently operating from temporary premises at theVishwakarma Government Engineering College (VGEC),Chandkheda, Ahmedabad, approximately 10 km from AhmedabadAirport and 14 km from Ahmedabad Railway Station. Building ofthe permanent campus in Gandhinagar, about 15 km from currentlocation, is likely to begin soon.

IIT Gandhinagar presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create aworld-class institute in India. It is implementing a paradigm shift fromteaching school to teaching-research school. The Institute aspires to

produce graduates who are strong in fundamentals and possessexcellent leadership and communication skills. We are committed to

provide our faculty, staff and students the best ever opportunities for personal growth to help them to achieve their full potential. A public-

private-partnership model is envisaged wherein well-wishers,industries, and friends of the Institute may partner with the Institute inits quest for excellence.

Prof Sudhir K ain Director

In addition to well furnished andair-conditioned classrooms, theInstitute has a 180 capacityauditorium for large classes,

special events and generallectures. IITGN is also connectedto a number of Institutes ofnational importance throughvideo conferencing facilitated bythe National KnowledgeNetwork (NKN). This facility



Mathematics

D V Pai IIT Bombay, 1972 Functional Analysis,Approximation Theory

P K Parida IIT Kharagpur, 2008 Numerical Analysis,Mathematical Programming

V D Sharma* Banaras Hindu

University, 1972

PDE's and Nonlinear

WavesMechanical Engineering B D Agarwal Illinois Institute of

Technology, 1972Solid Mechanics andDesign, CompositeMaterials

MuraliDamodaran*

Cornell University, 1987 Aeronautics, FluidDynamics, ComputationalEngineering

VedanthKadambi*

Princeton, 1961 Turbomachinery and HeatTransfer

Dhiren Modi University of

Nottingham, 2008

Polymer Composites

VinodNarayanan

JNCASR, 2006 Fluid Mechanics

ManmohanPandey

IIT Kanpur, 1997 Nuclear Reactor ThermalHydraulics

N Ramakrishnan IIT Bombay, 1980 Manufacturing,Automation & CompositeMaterials

D P Roy Tech University Aachen,1976

Fluid Dynamics & FluidMachinery

G K Sharma Moscow Power EnggInstitute, 1974

Thermal Engineering

Philosophy

Jaison A Manjaly IIT Kharagpur, 2008 Metaphysics of Mind,Cognitive Science

Koshi Tharakan University ofHyderabad, 2002

Phenomenology andPhilosophy of SocialSciences

Physics

Ameeya A

Bhagwat

IIT Bombay, 2005 Theoretical Nuclear

Structure and ReactionPhysics

Pallavi P Ghalsasi IISc Bangalore, 2002 High Pressure Physics onNovel Materials

Kinnari Parekh Bhavnagar, 1999 Nanomagnetic Fluids

Physical MetallurgyS P Gupta* Polytechnic Inst of

Brooklyn, USA, 1972Physical Metellurgy

Psychology

B F Mathai* IIT Bombay, 1998 Humanistic Psychology,Personality, Cognitive

PsychologySociology

Deepthi Shanker ISEC Bangalore, 2005 Sociology of Science andTechnology

* Likely to join in July 2010, ** Likely to join in December 2010

Faculty List (As on May 1, 2010)Chemical Engineering

PhD Specialization

Sameer V Dalvi IIT Bombay, 2007 Particle Formation

Subhash

Deodhar**

Syracuse University,1975

Process Development &Troubleshooting

Kalyan Gayen IIT Bombay, 2007 Systems Biology &

Biochemical EngineeringChinmayGhoroi

IIT Bombay, 2007 Solid-solid reactions,Phase equilibrium

S L N Murthy University of Bradford,1971

Food Process Engineering

Nitin Padhiyar IIT Bombay, 2008 Process Optimization andControl

Supreet Saini* University of Illinois,Urbana Champaign,USA, 2010

Systems Biology

Mukta

Tripathy**

University of Illinois,

Urbana Champaign,USA, 2010

Soft Condensed Matter Theory

Chemistry

Iti Gupta IIT Bombay, 2005 Macrocyclic Receptors &Expanded Porphyrinoids

Sriram Kanvah IIT Bombay, 2001 Bio-organic Chemistry

Subrata Pal IISc Bangalore, 2008 Theoretical physical chemistry

Civil Engineering Sudhir K Jain Caltech, 1983 Earthquake Engineering,

Structural Dynamics

Computer Science and Engineering Bireswar Das IMSc, Chennai, 2010 Complexity Theory

Dhiren R Patel REC Surat, 2004 Information Security & WebEngineering

Economics

Basudeb Guha* University ofRochester, USA, 1995

Development Economics,International Trade, Food-security, Gender

Jayant Kanitkar* MBA Kellog School,USA, 1985

Finance, Quality Managementand Taxation

Abhijit Sarkar IIT Bombay, 2008 Money, Banking and Finance

Electrical Engineering Arup LChakraborty*

University ofStrathclyde, UK, 2010

Optical sensing & Photonics

Ragavan K IISc Bangalore, 2006 Transformer Diagnostics

Joycee M Mekie IIT Bombay, 2009 VLSI Design

K V V Murthy IIT Bombay, 1977 Electrical Network Theory

Naran Pindoriya* IIT Kanpur, 2009 Power system restructuring andoptimization

SurendraRanganath

University ofCalifornia, Davis, 1983

Digital Image and SignalProcessing

English

Sharmita Lahiri University of Houston,2008

Postcolonial Literature andComposition



Laboratories

Instructional laboratories in Chemistry, Physics, ChemicalEngineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineeringhave already been developed. New equipment for existing anddeveloping laboratories are being acquired on a priority basis.Research laboratories are being developed keeping in mind the

interests of faculty and PhD scholars with generous funding by theInstitute.

Computer related Facilities Excellent computer related facilities are available to the IITGNstudents, staff and faculty. High end LAN setup integrates thewhole IITGN into one unit. The Institute premises and the students’hostels are Wi Fi enabled so that personal laptops can be connected

to internet throughout the Institute. Over 40 PCs are available to thestudents in a common computer lab for programming and otherpurposes. Computer Lab is also used for teaching. All facultymembers and research scholars have been provided with individualPCs. Printing, scanning and photocopying facilities are extensivelyavailable on individual basis as well as for common use. Individualemail accounts have been provided to IITGN students, faculty andstaff, with the facility of sending email to common groups, forexample, sending home assignment to students in a course or tostudents in a particular branch and year. Important computational

softwares like Mathematica, PSCAD 4.2, etc. have been subscribedto.

LibraryExpansion of library facilities is keeping pace with the teaching andresearch needs of the students and faculty with liberal fundallocation by the Institute. Sufficient copies of text and referencebooks are procured for the courses offered. Other books of interestto student, staff and faculty are also readily acquired. Books can alsobe obtained on loan from IIT Bombay. Most of the reputed research

journals are now available on-line to the IITGN network users as theInstitute has subscribed to packages like ScienceDirect, JSTOR,Annual Reviews, ASME, IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL).Feasibility of subscribing to other journals is under review. Manypopular science journals, news magazines and Indian journals,

presently not available on-line, are received as print copies for easyaccess. The Institute hopes to build one of the best libraries in thearea to attract scholars from all over in different fields.

Guest House and Transport FacilitiesIITGN has fully furnished guest house facilities about 2 km from theInstitute premises. These are maintained by competent staff. Visitingfaculty members and many research scholars stay in the furnishedapartments for extended periods. A full time cook prepares mealsfor guests and others who wish to avail the facilities. Transportfacility is provided to all the visiting faculty and guests round theclock.

Campus Life

Students’ Hostel and Mess

Three new students’ hostels, funded by the Government of Gujarat,are being constructed within the VGEC complex. These hostels arelikely to be completed by July 2010. During the first two years of itsoperations, the Institute provided hostel to all the students in an

apartment complex across the street from the Institute. Commondining facilities have been created on the Institute premises for all students. Four meals (breakfast, lunch, afternoon snacks and dinner)are cooked on site by a leading caterer of Ahmedabad. A qualifiednutritionist oversees the quality of food with respect to its nutritionvalue and good taste.

Medical SupportA qualified medical practitioner (M.B.B.S., Diploma in Medicine,Fellow Infectious Disease, Italy) is available on the Institute premisesfor two hours every day to provide medical advice to students, staffand faculty. The doctor can also be consulted at her clinic as well asthe Life Care Hospital situated at nearby locations. These medicalfacilities are completely free to the students. All students are alsocovered under a medical insurance plan.



Student CounsellingIITGN has a full-time Counseling Psychologist and the students areencouraged to approach her and seek emotional and interpersonalsupport. She is also an expert in career counseling.

Be FriendsWe all go through the stress and strains of life. Being away fromhome and facing the pressures at IIT sometimes can be verydifficult. The competitive environment can lead to stress, loneliness,and alienation that may affect the emotional well being of thestudent. Students may also have to grapple with individualproblems that can make life at IIT even more difficult. At such times,the presence of another understanding and non judgmental humanbeing can offer succour and help to the troubled ones. Be-Friend is asupport system for IITGN students by the IITGN students. A Be-Friender is a student volunteer who provides emotional andinterpersonal support to other students. Currently there are sixteen

volunteers. Ms. Aditi Dighe is the student coordinator of Be-Friends.All the volunteers go through regular training programs andworkshops. They also organize various awareness programs forIITGN students. Student Events and Activities IITGN students are highly encouraged to participate in extra-curricular activities and extensive facilities are provided for thesame. BLITHCHRON, IIT Gandhinagar’s Annual Festival, was held

for the second consecutive year in January 2010. Cultural activitiesinclude a music club, Planet Sangeet, which arranges for instructionin vocal and instrumental music and organizes culturalfunctions/competitions periodically, a cinematic club, Cineflux, toscreen movies from around the world and celebrating festivities onRepublic & Independence Days, Gandhi Jayanti, Holi, Dassera, etc.The Robotics Club ROMPOTIKS has a vision of making robots tohelp in routine work as well as aid causes such as fire-safety,irrigation, plantations, etc. Despite their busy academic workschedule, the students find time to get involved in social work like

organizing blood donation camps and teaching underprivilegedchildren.

Sports

A host of sports facilities are available to the students on campusincluding badminton, table tennis, volleyball, cricket, basketball andfootball. A state-of-the-art Gymnasium with instructors is alsoavailable in the campus. Coaching for Lawn Tennis and Swimming isprovided at ONGC and Sports Authority of India, respectively. Aqualified full-time physical education instructor and several part-timecoaches have been appointed to train the students. Students organizeinter-departmental /individual sports tournaments. They activelyparticipate in Inter-IIT sports as well as in a number of local inter-collegiate events.

Summer InternshipsIITGN actively helps its students to obtain summer internship inindustry, research organizations and academic institutes within Indiaand abroad to get exposure to different environments. A strongcollaborative relationship has been developed with severalorganizations in U S, France and Singapore. IITGN is also providinginternships with its own faculty members to students from othereducational institutes.

IIT Gandhinagar InvitesOUTSTANDING FACULTY: The Institute is looking forward to recruit themost outstanding faculty at different levels in various disciplines. Bothshort-term visiting and long-term appointments are possible.

OUTSTANDING PHD STUDENTS: The Institute is committed to build astrong research culture and will consider PhD applications throughoutthe year.

FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS: The Institute is looking towards

individuals and organizations to make philanthropic contributions.Such contributions are extremely critical for attracting the best facultyand students and for providing them with the best opportunities.

Contact us:Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarVishwakarma Govt Engg College Complex Chandkheda,Visat-Gandhinagar Highway , Ahmedabad - 382424Phone: +91 - 79 - 2397 2574 Fax: +91 - 79 - 2397 2586, 2397 2622 Please visit us at www.iitgn.ac.in

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