Industry Relations

Industry Academia Interaction '10

Industry Academia Interaction '10 was held on 3rd April 2010 at IIT Delhi.

Industry Academia Interaction '10

Industry Academia Interaction promotes student projects in collaboration with industries and is closely monitored by IRD, FITT and Dep. Director of IIT Delhi. A pilot test was run in 2009 and final implementation is in process. Over 50 industries, research labs and technical startups across several research areas have been indentified and invited for the meet.

We have classified industries on the basis of their domain of work (e.g. IT, Renewable Energy etc) so that the industry gets to directly interact with the interested students and faculties in that particular field. This time the meet will be held on 3rd April, 2010 (Saturday) from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

In the meeting:

         •    The industry will present the technical challenges or problems they are presently facing
         •    The experienced faculty will showcase their expertise in the specified field
         •    This will be followed by a discussion session among the interested students, the industry and the faculty on various possible solutions to the problems

The discussion is expected to conclude on a pragmatic problem statement which will be taken by the students as their academic project under the supervision of the interested faculty member in collaboration with the industry.
 

Who is organizing it?

FITT, IIT Delhi
IRD, IIT Delhi

Facilitated by Technocracy, IIT Delhi

When?

3rd April 2010 (Saturday)
10 AM - 3 PM
Departmental Committee Rooms (exact schedule to be uploaded soon)

What is Industry Academia Interaction?

IAI'10 is a platform to promote and coordinate research and development by students through student-industry interaction. It will provide opportunities to students to work upon diverse areas of business, technology and existing industrial and national problems as well as pursue their own ideas so as to become innovators.

Students - Who should attend?

All students who are interested in taking up their projects during the summers. The projects can be of following nature:

1. MTP & BTP

2. Summer Project & SURA (with the possibility of being continued as MINI-Ps on mutually agreeable terms)

3. Interns (tentative)

Benefits to Students

1. Doing projects with practical feasibility

2. Possible Stipend

3. Industrial Exposure, Expertise and Guidance

4. Concrete output in a limited time frame

Industries

Any industries - startups - TBIUs - research labs etc who find the idea interesting enough and want to be a part of this are welcome to drop a mail at either technocracy@student.iitd.ac.in or to Sankalp Dayal (sankalpdayal[at]gmail.com) or o'course to me (nishr88[at]gmail.com)

The benefits of industry are many:

1. Dedicated students from IIT Delhi working on the project for a mutually agreeable period of time

2. Expertise of professors of IIT Delhi

3. Resources of IIT Delhi in terms of its highly advanced labs for testing and developmental purposes

4. The project can act as a precursor to either job or intern

5. Interesting industry problems can be tackled by students with an analytical bent of mind

What will happen on 3rd April 2010?

1. Invited industries would come and discuss the projects they are working on/technical challenges which they are facing

2. Professor would present their expertise area

3. Students Professors and Industries would discuss if the challenge can be converted into project etc over the lunch.

4. Post lunch interested group of students, professors and industry persons would try to chalk out project details and if possible an MOU will be signed about commitments on the project.

Questions? Queries?