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MANAGING UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY INTERACTIONS

CASE STUDY ON

INDIAN INS’l’I’I’UTE OF TECHNOLOGY,

DELHI

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

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MANAGING UNIVERSITY -

INDUSTRY INTERACTIONS

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION Chapter I Institutional Framework

Chapter II Evaluation of Research Activity

Chapter III Organisation for

Technology Transfer

Chapter IV System of Technology Transfer

Chapter V Institutional Development

and Achievement

Chapter VI Accumulated Results after

some years of Operation

Chapter VII Concluding Remarks

APPENDICES Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV

Appendix V

Brief Notes on Departments

and Centres of IIT, Delhi

Ongoing International

sponsored projects

List of Video Programmes

developed at IIT, Delhi

List of IPR Cases processed

during the year 1997-98

Technology Development

Mission projects at Delhi

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FOREWORD University-Industry-Science Partnership programme - UNISPAR was

launched in 1993 with the following goals: (i) adaptation of university

engineering education to industrial needs, (ii) continuing engineering

education, (iii) university-industry joint R&D and (iv) setting up university co-

operation mechanisms.

UNESCO New Delhi Office has developed a concept paper on

“Strategies for a University-industry Co-operative programme in Science,

Technology and Engineering in India during 1996 based on the request from

Government of India. As a follow up UNESCO New Delhi Office initiated a

pilot study of UNISPAR from six universities of South India in collaboration

with National Institute of Research ond Social Action (NIRSA) Hyderabad.

Three round table meetings were organized to formulate a joint proposal

by six universities in the filed of UNISPAR. In one of the meeting the premier

institutes in India on UNISPAR such as Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi),

Indian Institute of Science and Birla Institute of Technology and Science

presented their case studies (success stories) on UNISPAR.

For the benefit of other Indian universities, as well as other institutes of

higher learning in the region UNESCO New Delhi Office took an initiative to

bring out the successes stories of Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) and

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in book form. It is hoped that the

experience and achievements of these two institutions will be of immense help

to other universities, institutes and industries who have engaged in the

University-Industry Partnership activity.

In brining out this report, Prof. D. Swaminadhan, President, NIRSA have

played a key role and he deserves all appreciation. I would like to acknowledge

DIrector, Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) N ew Delhi and Director, Indian

Institute of Science, Bangalore for their co-operation. Also I would like to

thank UNESCO New Delhi Office staffs Dr. R. Jayakumar and Ms. Anu Dhillon

for their help in compiling and editing this report in the final form.

Prof. Moegiadi Dlrector & UNESCO Representative to

Bhutan, India, Maldives and 51 Lanka

03-03-2000 New Delhi


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INTRODUCTION The first four of Indian Institutes of Technology were conceived in the

1950s to bolster the efforts of a newly independent nation to lndustriolize

rapidly and enhance the nation’s capability to train manpower of international

calibre and excellence in the area of Science and Technology The IIT at

Delhi came into being in the early 1960s. In the lost four and half decades,

the five IlTs at Kharagpur, Kanpur, Bombay, Chennai and Delhi have on the

whole fulfilled these oblectives, and the sixth IIT has now come up in Guwahoti.

The IIT trained engineers and technologists have proved their mettle, not only

in India but also in the world at large and their world class competence has

been very well established. From the very beginning development of interactive

relationship with industry has been given considerable importance in all the

IITs, especially in IIT Delhi, even though the primary thrust was towards ensuring

its credentials as a world class academic institution, at par with other

internationally renowned universities.

In the current environment of free globalised market, the need to engage

in partnership mode with the external world, particularly the industry, has

acquired a great deal of relevance, and IIT Delhi has responded to this

challenge. In the next millennium, the demand on the tlTs will be more

imposing and their roles will have to be more focussed in participating in the

rapid industrial growth momentum of the country In IIT Delhi, all out efforts

are being made to break down the wall between the academia and the

industry in a very conscious manner. In this report, an attempt has been

made to trace the history of this transformotion, and to give a brief narration

of the initiatives that have been taken by the IIT Delhi in the last few years.


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CHAPTER-I Institutional Framework

1.1 PREAMBLE Since its inception in 1960, IIT Delhi has grown steadily both in size

and in the scope of its activities. Although the basic structure of organisation,

functions and powers of the Institute are laid down in the Institutes of

Technology Act 1961 & Statutes framed thereunder, a large number of rules,

regulations, ordinances etc. have been formulated for regulating the day to

day working of the Institute. A number of policy decisions have also been

taken keeping in view the expanded activities and future needs of the Institute.

During more than three decades of its functioning, the Institute has

also developed a number of conventions and practices. The organisational

setup of the Institute has also been suitably expanded and developed.

1.2 HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTE The concept of the IlTs was first introduced as a result of a report

submitted (in the year 1945) by Shri N.M.Sircar, the then member of Education

in Viceroy’s Executive Council. Following his recommendations, the first

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) was established at Kharagpur in 1950.

In his report, Shri Sircar had also recommended that such Institutes should

be started in different parts of the country. The Government having accepted

the recommendations of the Sircar Committee decided to establish more

Institutes of Technology with the assistance of countries who were prepared

to help. The first offer came from the U.S.S.R. who agreed to collaborate in

the establishment of an Institute through UNESCO at Bombay. This was

followed by the Institute of Technology at Madras and Kanpur with

collaboration from West Germany and U.S.A. respectively.

Evaluation of Establishment of an IIT in Delhi During the Second Five Year Plan, (1956-61) it was considered

necessary to develop the Delhi Polytechnic to provide training to technical manpower and thereby contribute towards the expansion of technical education facilities in the country. In January 1957, the Institution was

inaugurated under a comprehensive scheme, which envisaged, inter alia,

the transfer of University degree courses to a separate college of Engineering

and Technology to be established later. This scheme was accepted in principle

by the Government of India. Later, a high powered committee was appointed

by the Government to suggest the manner of implementation of the

development plan and prepare estimates of costs for different stages. The

committee decided that a separate College of Engineering should be

established at Delhi as soon as possible and the Polytechnic developed for

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Diploma and Certificate courses in a wide range of subjects. The All India

Council forTechnical Education had also recommended that an Engineering

College be started in Delhi.

In pursuance of the aforesaid recommendations, the degree courses in

Architecture were transferred to the School of Planning and Architecture. As

regards the other degree courses, the Government of India negotiated with

the British Government a collaboration for setting up an Institute of

Technology at Delhi. The British Government agreed in principle to such a

collaboration, but were inclined initially to make a modest start. It was

therefore agreed that a College of Engineering should be established at

Delhi with their assistance. This College would be one of the Regional Colleges

that the Government had decided to set up in various parts of the country. A

trust called the Delhi Engineering College Trust was established with the help

of the U.K. Government and the Federation of British Industries in London.

Later H.R.H. Prince Philps, the Duke of Edinburgh, during his visit to India,

laid the foundation stone of the College at Hauz Khas on January 27, 1959.

The College of Engineering & Technology was registered as a Society

on 1 4’h June 1960 under the Socities Registration Act No. XXI of 1860

(Registration No. S1663 of 1960-61). The first admissions were made in

1961 and the College was formally inaugurated on 1 71h of August 1961 by

Prof. Humayun Kabir, Minister of Scientific Research & Cultural Affairs. The

college was affiliated to the University of Delhi.

The College of Engineering & Technology established in 1961 was

later declared an Institution of National Importance under the “Institute of

Technology (Amendment) Act 1963” and was renamed “Indian Institute of

Technology Delhi”. It was then accorded the status of a University with

powers to decide its own academic policy, to conduct its own examinations,

and to award its own degrees.

Incorporation of the Institutes According to Section 4 of the Act, each of the Institutes of Technology

shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal

and shall, by its name, sue and be sued. The body corporate constituting

each of the Institutes, shall consist of a Chairman, a Director and other

members of the Board. IIT Delhi is an autonomous statutory organisation

functioning in terms of the Institutes of Tec%ology Act, 1961 amended vide

the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 1961 amended vide the Institutes

of Technology (Amendment) Act, 1963 and the Statutes framed thereunder.

Responsibility for the general superintendence, direction and control of the

affairs of the Institute is vested in the Board of Governors. The Board of

Governors functions through its standing committees - Finance Committee,

Building & Works C ommittee and such other adhoc committees which are

constituted from time to time to consider specific issues. The control and


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general regulation for the maintenance of standards of instrunctions, education

and examination in the Institute vests in the Senate. The Senate is responsible

for formulation of the academic policies and designing of curricula, the courses

of studies and the system of examination. The Senate functions through its

Standing Boards/Committees and sub-committees constituted by it to look

into specific matters.

1.3 Objectives of the Institute At the time of its establishment, the primary objective of IIT Delhi as laid

down by the Government of India were:-

a) to offer instructions in Applied Sciences and Engineering at a level comparable to the very best anywhere in the world.

b) To provide adequate facilities to post-graduate studies and research to meet the needs of specialised research workers and teachers in the country.

Subsequently in 1970, on the basis of review of its working the following additional

objectives were assigned to it by the visitor of the Institute:

i) to provide leadership in curriculum planning, laboratory development ond

examination system;

ii) to develop programmes for faculty development both for its own staff and for

teachers of other engineering colleges;

iii) to develop close collaboration with industry through exchange of personnel

and to undertake consultancy projects;

iv) to develop strong collaboration links with other academic and research institutions

in the country.

Subsequently, a number of other objectives got identified for the Institute. These

include:

+ Anticipating the technological needs for India and to plan and

prepare to cater to them;

+ developing continuing education programmes;

+ preparing instructional resource material in the conventional as well as the audio-visual, the video and the computer-based modes;

+ catering to the development of a culture for maintenance and

conservation.

1.4 Visitor In terms of section 9 of the Institute of Technology Act,

The President of India shall be the Visitor of every Institute.

The Visitor may appoint one or more persons to review the work and progress

of ony Institute and to hold inquiries into the affairs thereof and to report thereon

in such monner as the Visitor may direct.

Upon receipt of any report, the Visitor may take such action and issue such


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directions as he considers necessary in respect of any of the matters dealt with

in the report and the Institute shall be bound to comply with such directions.

Prior opproval by the Visitor is also needed in certain cases as provided under the

Statutes.

1.5IlTCouncil The IIT Council is the apex body established by Government of India

to coordinate the activities of all the IITs. The Minister of Human Resources

Development (HRD) is the Chairman of the Council. The Chairmen and

Directors of all IlTs and the Indian Institute of Science are ex-officio members.

Secretaries of the Central Govt. Ministries of Finance, HRD and Science &

Technology, Head of All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) are

also in the IIT Council. A few members are nominated by the Visitor from

amongst those having special knowledge or practical experience in respect

of education, industry, science or technology. Three members are from the

Members of Parliament, two elected by Lok Sabha and one by Raiya Sabha,.

1.6 Authorities of the Institute The powers of the Institute are exercised through the various authorities

of the Institute. According to Section 10 of the Act, the following shall be the

authorities of the Institute.

o) A Board of Governors;

b) A Senate; and

c) Such other authorities as may be declared by the Statutes to be the outhonties

of the Institute. Paras 5 and 6 of the Statutes declare the following as authorities

of the Institute within the meaning of Section 10 of the Act:

4 Finance Committee

ii) Building & Works Committee

1.6.1 Board of Governors The Board of Gavernon is responsible for the general superintendence,

direction and control of the affairs of the Institute. The Chairman is nominated

by Visitor. Director is an ex-officio member. One member each is nominated

by the State Governments within the zone in which the Institute is located,

from amongst the technologists or industrialists of repute. Four members

are nominated by IIT Council hoving special knowledge and practical

experience in respect of education, engineering or science. Two members

are professors of the Institute nominated by the Senate.

1.6.2 Director The Director of the Institute is appointed by the IIT Council with the

prior approval of the Visitor.

The Director is the principal academic and executive officer of the

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Institute and is responsible for the proper administration of the Institute and

for the imparting of instruction and maintenance of discipline therein. He is

assisted in his day to day work by Deputy Directors, Registrar and other officers

of the Institute.

1.6.3 Deputy Directors The Dy. Director assists the Director in academic and administrative

work and in mointaining liaison with other institutions of higher learning and

research and also with industrial undertakings and other employers. The

Institute has a Deputy Director (Faculty) and a Deputy Director (Admn.)

1.6.4 Registrar The appointment, function and powers of the Registrar are given under

Section 19 of the Institute of Technology Act. He is the custodian of records,

the common seal and the funds of the Institute. He is the secretary to the

Board of Governors and other statutory bodies.

1.6.5 Deans Deans are appointed by the Director in specific areas of academic and

general administration to assist the Director, from amongst the Professors in

the Institute. The existing Deanships are in the following areas :

1. Undergraduate Studies

2. Post-graduate Studies and Research

3. Industrial Research & Development

4. Students Affairs

5. Alumni Affairs and International programmes

1.6.6 Head of Departments/Centres In terms of Statute 20, Heads of Departments/Centres are appointed by

the Director from amongst the Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant

Professors.

1.6.7. Following is the list of Departments and Centres functioning at the

Institute and the academic programmes offered:

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DEPARTMENTS

+ Applied Mechanics-

+ Biochemical Engg

&Biotechnology

+ Chemical Engineering

+ Chemistry

+ Civil Engineering

l Computer Science &

Engrneering

+ Electrical Engtneering

+ Humanities & Social Sciences

+ Management Studies

+ Mathematics

+ Mechanic01 Engineering

+ Physics

+ Textile Technology

CENTRES

Centre for Applied Research in

Electronics

Centre for Atmospheric

Sciences

Centre for Biomedical

Engineering

Centre for Energy Studies

lndustiral Tribology, Machine

Dynamics & Maintenance

Engineering Centre

Instrument Desrgn &

Development Centre

Centre for Polymer Science

& Engineering

Centre for Rural Development

Technology

The difference between Departments and Centres is that the Centres

were established far focussing an scientific and industrial research on specific

technology areas, which are by nature inter-disciplinary.

The Institute offers a wide range of academic Programmes at undergruate

and postgraduate levels:

Under Graduate Programmes Four-year Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Programmes :

+ Chemical Engineering

+ Civil Engineering

+ Computer Science & Engineering

+ Electrical Engineering

+ Production & Industrial Engineering

+ Mechanical Engineering

+ Textile Technology

FIVE-YEAR INTEGRATED PROGRAMMES + Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology

+ Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Mathematics & Computing.

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POST GRADUATE PROGRAMMES 4 Applred Mechanics

4 Desrgn Engineering

4 Process Engineering & Design

4 Modern Methods of Chemrcal Analysts

4 Building Science & Construction Management

4 Envtronmental Engineering

4 Rock Mechanics

4 Soil Mechanrcs & Foundation Engrneering

4 Structural Engineering

4 Water Resources Engineering

4 Computer Science & Engineering

4 Communication & Radar Engineering

4 Computer Technology

4 Control Engineering & Instrumentation

4 Integrated Electronics & Circuits

4 Power Electronics, ElectrIcal Machines & Drives

4 Power Systems

4 Design of Mechanical Equipment

4 Industrial Engineering

4 Production Engineering

4 Thermal Engineering

4 Applied Optics

4 Solid State Materials

4 Fibre Science & Technology

4 Textile Engineering

InterdisciDlinarv M.Tech. and Research Proerammes + M.S. (Research) Programme

4 Master of Design (M.Des.)

+ Master of Business & Administration (M.B.A.)

+ Master of Science (M.Sc. - Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics)

+ Computer Applications M.Tech. Programme

+ Energy Studies M.Tech. Programme

+ Industrial Tribology & Maintenance Engg. M.Tech. Programme

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+ Instrument Technology M.Tech. Programme

+ Opto-Electronics & Optical Communication M.Tech. Programme

+ Polymer Science & Technology M.Tech. Programme

+ Applted Systems Research Programme

+ Entrepreneurship Development Research Programme

1.67 The admission to the undergraduate and postgraduate courses are

effected through selection via annual Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and

Graduate Aptitude Test Examination (GATE) respectively, held on an all India

basis for all the six IlTs and a few other premier academic institutions in the

country More than 100,000 candidates appear every year for JEE, from

which only the top 2500 are selected.

The Institute offers admission to foreign nationals also, whether residing

in India or abroad, to various postgraduate and research programmes through

following channels :

+ Self-financing students

+ Cultural Exchange Fellowship Programme (Govt. of India)

+ Memoranda of Understanding

In IIT Delhi, there are at the present time around 550 members of

academic faculty members in its different departments and centres.

1.68 The Institute also has a scheme of having honorary visiting professors/

faculty both from the industry and R&D organisations which provides

opportunity to the students to have exposure with the working professionals.

At present, professors/faculty includes stalwarts like Shri Vinay Bharat Ram,

Chairman of DCM Group of Companies, Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, Director-

General, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Prof. VS. Ramamurthy,

Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Dr. Ashok Parthasarthy,

Secretary, Ministry of Rural Employment and Shri A. Ramakrishna, President,

L&T Construction Group.

1.7 Resources The economic environment is quite liberal and open. Apart from the

grant from Central Government the Institute raises its funds by way of

collaborative programmes with national and international agencies, industry- partnership in research and consultancy activities, sponsored research

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from Govt. & non-govt. financial institutions. The main source of funds is

from Ministry of HRD, Ministry of SC. &Technology and some other ministries.

The nominal amounts of funds is also realised from tuition fee paid by each

student.

Due to very generous support from Government of India and, in the

formative years from United Kingdom and others, the IIT Delhi has a

commendable infrastructure. The annual budgetary support from the

Government is however, on a downward slope for a number of years and in

real terms this reduction has now become quite serious. All efforts have

been made to generate more and more resources through more sponsored

research, problem solving industrial consultancies and continuing education

programmes for industry without affecting, of course the academic

programmes. The revenue through tuition fee is very nominal. The fee has

been raised from Rs.2000 per annum in the year 1996 to Rs. 15,000/- in

1997 and to Rs.20,000/- for 1998; but it still represents less than 15% of

the per capita cost of education in the Institute.

Support from Industry and Alumni The industry and the alumni of the Institute have extended significant

support to the Institute for its academic and research programmes by way of

instituting chairs in various fields at the Institute. This involves one-time

contribution of Rs.3 million to the Corpus Fund of the Institute. As of date

fifteen chairs have been established at the Institute. A special chair has been

created by Microsoft who have contributed US$ 250,000 (approximately

Rs.9 million) which will also support research activities.

Industrial support has been received in recent years for a number of

M.Tech. programmes, one in VLSI Design Tool and Technology which is fully

sponsored by industries, such as, Philips Semiconductors, Analog Devices

and Texos Instruments, one in Construction Technology and Management

which is fully sponsored by M/s.Larsen & Toubro, and another in Electrical

Power Systems by the public sector giant National Thermal Power Corporation

(NTPC).

IBM Limited has established a Solutions Research Centre in collaboration

with IIT Delhi. This is first of its kind in India, third outside USA and eighth

IBM Research Centre at an academic institution. Over the next 5 years IBM

plans to invest US$ 25 million to establish the Centre and have committed

US$ 10 million as a grant to IIT Delhi. In addition, several other laboratories

have been established with the help of multinational industry, namely, (1)

INTEL Technology Lab at a cost of Rs.4.5 million; (2) Microsoft Advance

Technology Lab with a donation of 100 licences worth Rs.4 million; (3) VLSI

Design Lab worth Rs. 10 million donated by Philips Semiconductors

Corporation; and (4) High Performance Computer Equipment worth Rs.8

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A collaboration agreement has been reached between Applied

Materials, USA and IIT Delhi on Integrated Circuits and Thin Film Technology.

As part of this, Applied Materials has donated a facility used in VLSI fabrication

process worth approximately US$2.5 million (Rs. 100 million). ITC Education

Trust has given a donation of Rs.2 crores (20 million) towards establishment

of Business School which will require a total of Rs.200 million. Appeals for

contribution towards this objective have been made to IITD alumni and

industry at large.

The Institute, in its 25 years of existence, has produced more than

6000 alumni, many of whom have achieved pinnacle of success in their

profession. A number of the alumni of the Institute have already made

significant contribution towards a corpus fund for development activities of

the Institute. The alumni contribution as of date has exceeded Rs.20 million.

This includes contribution towards three chairs and a contribution of the

1972 8.Tech. batch of Electrical Engineering who have donated Rs.5 million

for the construction of 60 hostel rooms.

IIT Delhi lays strong emphasis on sponsored research and collaborative

research funded by international agencies and strong industrial interaction.

Funded research to the extent of almost Rs.10 to 15 crore per year is

undertaken by the faculty of the Institute. Major research activities have

been undertaken in subjects of national importance such as atmospheric

and ocean studies, industrial textiles, biotechnology, flyash management,

optical communication, transportation, microprocessor applications, signal

processing, condition, monitoring, artificial intelligence and robotics etc.

In addition to the infrastructure created through the sponsored research,

for the first time in its history, the Institute recently took o loan of Rs.900 lacs

from the World Bank (through ICICI).

Some of the above have been discussed in some more details later in

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CHAPTER-II

EVALUATION OF ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH ACTIVITY

[The strength and weaknesses of the Institute and reforms instituted to

encourage University-Industry participation]

2.1 Academic Policy of the Institute The IITD aims to provide, by means of its faculty and facilities, an

academic atmosphere conducive to the full development of the mind. The

aim of the Institute is to promote the highest standards of education; it attempts

to do this by providing a balanced and broad-based curriculum which gives

every opportunity for the development of the student’s potentialities.

The undergraduate curriculum is based on a sound understanding of

the physical sciences, a practical acquaintance with workshop techniques,

and necessary exposure to social sciences given in the first two years. Of the

three final years of the five year course devoted to engineering sciences, the

last gives some opportunity for study in depth of a chosen field as well as

wide choice of electives. All students also undertake industrial training. In

all courses, the emphasis is not only on the understanding of relevant principles

and their application to given situations, but also on the development of a

critical and creative imagination, intellectual curiosity and a mental

adaptability equal to the rapidly changing situation. In this context, the

programme of humanities and social sciences, which continues throughout

the five years, gives further opportunity for the development of these skills. In

addition to contributing to the breadth and depth of the students’ education,

it aims to acquaint the student with his role in the social sciences.

At the postgraduate level, courses are designed to provide specialised

depth courses in specific areas as well as rigorous training in research

methodology and design. Postgraduate course work also aims to provide

for the special study of recent advances in a particular field of knowledge. It

is the policy of the Institute that, while fundamental research must necessarily

be furthered, the maior emphasis should be directed to problems which

have an immediate bearing on industrial development. A very active research

programme is currently in progress in the Institute and, as with the development

of both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, collaboration with industry

is actively encouraged.

Outside the classrooms, through a variety of extra-curricular activities,

sports, indoor games and clubs, facilities are provided for a further growth

and development of student’s personality and initiative. By participating in

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make necessary adtustments to fit in and contribute to the student community

ond to recognize therr social responsibilities within it, as well as in society at

large.

2.2 Faculty The Institute’s strength is its 550 faculty members having expertise in

their specific areas, the combination of which covers almost every area of

science, engineering and technology. Faculty are the pillars of an academic

institution. The Institute has an outstanding faculty with several national and

international recognitions and laurels. Over the years ten faculty members

hove been honoured with the prestigious Bhatnagar Award, nine have been

bestowed with awards such as Hari Om Ashram Perit Award and M.N. Saha

Award. Many are fellows of the National Science Academy and Indian

National Academy of Engineering. Many have been awarded Academy

Young Scientist medal and National Research & Development Corporation’s

Invention Promotion Awards.

The faculty have published hundreds of technical papers in leading

national and international iournals and conference proceedings and authored

many books.

2.3 Departments/Centres The Institute has 13 departments and 10 centres and each department

a.nd centre is well equipped with required expertise by way of faculty and

required facilities. The main strength of each department and centre in the

area of science, engineering and technology has been briefly described in

Appendix-l.

2.4 Library The Institute has strong Central Library with collection of 279,383

volumes covering all disciplines of science, engineering, technology,

humanities and social sciences. Membership is open to all faculty members,

bona fide students and research scholars of the Institute, members of the

Alumni Association and industrial establishments admitted as corporate

members. The Library subscribes to about 1,000 iournals on various

disciplines and has built up a collectian of more than 66,000 back volumes.

The various Departments/centres have specialised libraries for purposes of

ready reference.

2.5 Collaboration with the outside In pursuit of excellence in our activities, namely, academic programmes

leading to Bachelor’s and Master’s degree, and sponsored research and

consultancy, interaction with others such as Government institutions,

sponsoring agencies, user Ministries and above all, industry is of utmost

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The Institute places great importance to close interaction with industry

and also the R&D organisations. In order to increase the Institute-Industry participation, the institute ensures that the teaching programmes and the

curricula meet the changing needs of the industry. Institute invites senior personnel from industries, as expert members of the committees, which get

changes in curricula as well as new academic programmes. Institute also

interacts with industries to provide real-life exposure of the industrial world

to its students through a vacation training programme. Under this

programm, B.Tech. students are encouraged to choose “major project” in

their final year in consultation with the industry. They are allowed to do a

part of this project work in industry, which supports this project by way of

making available the facilities of the industry, and providing some assistance

in instrumentation, fabrication etc. Similarly, the M.Tech. students are also

encouraged for similar arrangements for their “malor project work”. Institute

also encourages industry sponsored academic programmes to achieve

enhanced industrial participation in the engineering education. The students

in these industry sponsored Master’s programmes do their projects which

are of interest to the sponsor either in the sponsoring company or at the

Institute or in combination of industry and Institute. Further, Institute invites

senior Managers from industry to deliver lectures for about 14 hours in a

semester, as a part of one-credit course for the B.Tech. students. The purpose

is to give an overview to the students as to what is happening in the Indian

industry and also create an awareness among them with regard to work

opportunities in the Indian industry. It has also a programme for industrial

secondment of faculty with a built-in-provision of incentives as well as for

the appointment of adjunct faculty from the industry. Institute also has a

scheme of having honorary visiting professors/faculty both from the industry

and R&D organisations. Institute encourages establishment of industry

sponsored/donated research laboraties/centres to foster joint research

projects with Institute and other IlTs and top educational institutes in India

and of industry supported academic departments. The Institute also

encourges the external registration of Engineers and :Scientists from Industry

for higher degree programmes. Under this programme, the candidates are

expected to work on topcs of relevance to their industry and also of interest

to the Institute’s faculty under joint guidance from their industry and institute.

The Training and Placement Unit of the Institute invites industries to appoint

graduate, postgraduate and doctorate students through campus interviews.

Further, Institute also encourages sponsored and collaborative research funded by the international agencies and strong industrial

interactions. Funded research to the extent of almost Rs. 10 to 15 crores per

year is undertaken by the faculty of the Institute. The faculty of the Institute

maintains strong industrial links by undertaking consultancy assignments.

This includes lobs of varied nature like troubleshooting, product and process


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development and design checks. In addition to these activities, short-term industry specific training programmes are also run by the faculty members.

# The faculty members are encouraged to take up industrial consultancy

assignments, sponsored and collaborative research programmes and HRD

programmes by way of administrative freedom and share in the earnings.

The faculty members are also encouraged to transfer their technologies to

industry and they share maior part of the royalty/technology transfer fee.

2.6 International Collaborative ProgrammedMOUs The Institute is actively involved in collaborative programmes

internationally and nationally in order to remain at the forefront on the scientific

and technological developments and to share its experience with them. At

present, a large number of collaborative research projects are in operation

with the institutions in U.K., France, USA, Norway, Japan, Germany, Sweden

and Austria. Some of the facets of these collaborations include students and

faculty exchange, joint research and fellowships for training at the doctoral

and post-doctoral level.

In order to have close cooperation in the field of teaching and research

the Institute has signed the following Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with foreign universities, research institutes and industrial organisations:

Australia Australian National University, Canberra for Scientific Colloborotion

Bangkok Institute of Technology, Bangkok for exchange of faculty, students and academic information

Egypt

France

Benha Higher Institute of Technology for collaborat

Universti Pierre Et Morie Curie, Paris for mutual scientific relations

and cooperation

Germany

Ecolo Des Mines De Nantes, France for cooperation to estoblish

academic & scientific exchange and collaboration

INSA (Leyons) for student exchange programme.

Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany for faculty and student

exchange programme.

Fachhochschule Dusseldorf, Germany for scientific cooperation

Japon

University of Technology, Esslingen, Germany for exchange of

professors, researchers, students, academic information etc.

German Exchange Service (DAAD) for exchange of faculty.

Asian Development Bank, Japan Scholarship Progromme.

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan for cooperation in the fields

of teaching & research.

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Malaysia

Nepal

Netherlands

Singapore

Spain

Sweden

Sydney

USA

Shinshu University, Japan to conduct exchange and cooperation

in the field of Textiles.

Agricultural Research Advisory/Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia for

Collaboration

Tribhuvan University, Nepal for collaboration.

Philips Semiconductors, Netherlands for creation of choirin the

areo of Microelectronics & VLSI Design Tools 8. Technology at IIT

Delhi

Eindhoven University of Technology for collaboration

National University of Singapore for academic cooperation.

Universitat Autonoma De Barcelona, Spain for collaborative

research.

Kungal, Teknisko Hogskolan, Stockholm Sverige (Sweden) for

academic exchange programme.

University of Technology, Sydney for cooperation.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA for

(a) Student exchange programme; and (b) faculty exchange

programme.

New Jersy Institute of Tech., USA for faculty and student exchange

in education and research.

Ohio State University, USA for scientific and cultural exchange.

North Carolina State University, USA for cooperation inEducation

and Research.

Cranfield University, School of Industrial & Manufacturing Science

for collaboration in the area of Quality Management.

Qualcomm Incorporated, USA for the purpose of instituting

scholarship to M.Tech. students.

Environment System Research Institute Inc. for providing GIS

consultancy and services.

Agreement with University of New Orleans for academic and

scientific exchange.

A list of ongoing international sponsored projects is placed at Appendix-II.

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2.7 Distance Learning through Video Programmes The Educational Technology Services Centre (ETSC), IIT Delhi has been

actively engaged in developing media-based education material for higher

engineering education. The video programmes/video courses are

disseminated throughout the country and obroad at nominal price.

Three types of programmes ore being developed :

Semi-designed video modules :

Video modules consist of 3-6 lectures specifically designed for industrial use.

Single Concept Video Programmes :

The programmes are conceived, designed and produced by some of the top

most professionals - internationally renowned faculty, media specialists and

education technologists. All titles ore reviewed by independent review teams

before release.

Complete Video Courses:

The courses are delivered by renowned faculty in a state-of-the-art video

classroom. The lectures are recorded ‘on-line’ to capture the live, spontoneous

atmosphere of classroom teaching.

list of the programmes is at Appendix-III.

2.8 INDUSTRY-INSTITUTE INTERACTION The need for a close interaction between academia and industry has

been very widely discussed and unanimously acclaimed. In the Indian context,

Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) is one of the earliest to promote and have

institutional mechanism for working with industry. Over the last 20 years or

so, all the five IlTs have well laid out mechanisms and procedures for such

interaction. This interaction has grown very substantially during the last 3-5

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CHAPTER - III

ORGANISATION FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER [Process and formation of separate unit to look after technology transfer

matters]

3.1 Introduction The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is one of the premier

Technological Institutions where Technical education and advanced research

have been pursued side by side from its very inception more than three decades

ago. Phenominal R&D efforts are spent in this Institute, partly as curriculum

requirements of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral courses, some

to meet the goals of R&D projects sponsored by Government Departments,

institutions and industry and the remaining to fulfil the needs of the problem

solving consultancy assignments undertaken from industry clients. Being

primarily an academic Institute, the emphasis and tenor in most of its R&D

activities have been naturally in generation of “knowledge” and exploration

of the “unknown”. Majority of the research projects pursued at the Institute

are likely to belong to first three of the six steps of “market place path” which

are the following:

i) Conceptual analysis ond development;

ii) Laborotory or bench scale experiments;

iii) Pilot plant/prototype trials;

iv) Upscaled demonstration;

v) Commercial test marketing; and

vi) Finally full scale production.

Nevertheless, a good number of R&D output of the Institute have been

picked up by Industry in the past, some directly without much alteration and

some after considerable joint upscaling effort. It is, however, believed that a

number of R&D successes that have commercial potentials fail to reach the

“market place” due to lack of information and any institution effort/mechanism

to carry the information to “market place”.

3.2 Industrial Research & Development Unit To fulfil one of the additional obiectives, assigned to the Institute by the

Visitor on the basis of IITD Review Committee Report of 1970, Industrial

Research & Development Unit (IRD) was set up in the year 1975 to coordinate

the activities of sponsored research and industrial consultancy and to strive to provide the best possible service to the industry and academia. The assigned

functions of the IRD Unit include assisting and monitoring of:

i) Sponsored Research Projects;

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ii) Consultoncy iobs;

iii) Patents and Transfer of know-how;

iv) Foreign collaboration with Universities and/or Research Institutions;

v) Collaboroton with Institutions and Industry in India;

vi) Operation of scheme of Summer Undergraduate Research Awore (SURA);

vii) Operation of Innovation Award Scheme (IAS)

IRD is responsible for providing total administrative support and guidance

in respect to contract negotiations, patent applications, management of

research and development funds, purchase of project equipment etc.

3.3 Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FI’IT) In 1985, the Government of India constituted an expert committee under

the chairmanship of Professor Nayadumma to make a review of the working

of the IITs. This Committee submitted its report in 1986 and one of its foremost

recommendation was that the IlTs should intensify and enhance linkage with

industry at large, in order to improve the capability of the Institutes to address

R&D and technology needs for the country’s development as well as to make

the curriculum of the various courses more relevant and contemporar/. The

IIT Delhi was the first Institute that set up an autonomous, non-profit making Society to look after transfer of technologies from the Institute to Industry and

to actively develop close interaction with industries, in pursuance of the

recommendations of this Committee. Foundation for Innovation and

Technology Transfer (FITT). FITT was established as a registered Society on

91h of July, 1992 with corpus fund of Rs. 1 .62 crores from Ministry of Human

Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India. FITT, as an institution, is

administratively and financially independent of the Institute and functions OS

marketing arm of the Institute. FITT is presently recognised as Scientific &

Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO) by Department of Science and

Technology (DST), Govt. of India.

FITT was set-up with a view to achieving a quantum jump in the level of

collaboration with industry and other user organisations on programmes and

projects of mutual interest. The basic objective of FITT is to facilitate transfer

of technologies developed at the institute to the industry, to promote joint

development of technologies between the Institute and the Industry and to

market the intellectual capability of the institute, by providing on the one

hand an interface, whereby it becomes possible to transfer the benefits of the

R&D done at the Institute to industry, and on the other hand by providing

industry with a channel to utilise the expertise and facilities at the institute for

technological solutions/development and continuing education. In short,

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collaborate and cooperate with the Institute in a partnership mode. Through these, the Foundation is also expected to facilitate additional resource

generation in the Institute, and maintain technological relevance in the

Industrial development of the nation. incidentally, many technological

universities in the developed countries, such as USA, UK, Norway, Germany,

Italy, Australia and Japan, have similar organisations c~ffiliated to the parent

organisations, either as a Foundation or even as a University-owned Company,

which have been generally quite successful and effective. FITT is the first

organisation of its kind in an Indian institute of learning.

The management of FITT is vested with a full-time Managing Director, The policy guidelines for operations are provided, and overall control exercised

by the FITT Governing Council. The Governing Council of FITT consists of

15 members which includes representatives from industry, Industry Associations

and nominees of the Institute Senate and Board of Governors. In addition,

there is one nominee of the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The

Director of the Institute is the ex-officio Chairman of the FITT Governing

Council, and the Dean, IRD of the Institute is also an ex-officio member, The

Managing Director is the ex-officio Member-Secretary The tenure of all

members of the FITT Governing Council (except ex-officio members) is of

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CHAPTER-IV

SYSTEMOFTECHNOLOGYTRANASFER FORMATION OF THE SYSTEM FOR TECHNOLOGY

TRANSFER (Details of the procedures and activities undertaken by Technology

Transfer Unit)

4.1 Introduction Being committed to excellence in research and education, free exchange

and quick dissemination of knowledge is accepted as a guiding philosophy

of the Institute. However, because of emphasis on technology which

distinguishes the Institute from many others, the activities related to distribution,

ownership and commercial aspects are inseparable from mere intellectual

pursuit and the scope of operation needs to be defined. Technology

Development and Technology Transfer are quite complex issues. The inter-

relationships of these with respect to the commitment of the Institute in the

pursuit of both generic knowledge and application needs have to be properly

balanced. In the cutting edge of technology, application grows from new

concepts. It has to be recognised that ownership right merely lays down

terms and conditions for processing and accessing the information from the

owner but never isolates the principle of the right of society to the information

on intellectual property created at the institute through scholarly pursuits.

On the other hand, new concepts thrive in synergic ambience. Ownership,

control, collaboration and distribution provide the chain links between

“concept validation” and “application in the real world/market”. Distribution

and dissemination of information must not be held back beyond the minimum

period necessary to protect the right of parties involved as the Scientific

Community and the Society at large have the right on the knowledge/

intellectual property created at the Institute.

IIT Delhi being an academic institute dedicated to excellence in teaching

and research, its activities centre around students, researchers and faculty

and are based on knowledge and intellectual exercises. Traditionally, pursuit

of “knowledge for the sake of knowledge” has bee’n the guiding motivation

all over the world. The age old perceptions are, however, changing in view

of the pervasiveness of technology in all walks of life. This in turn calls for

new modes in knowledge acquisition, distribution and dissemination in

academic institutions as they no longer can rest in static isolation but have to

be tuned to the need and spirit of time. The outputs of research and

development programmes, whether sponsored by public funding (i.e. by Govt.

departments or organisations) or on assignment from industry, private or

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public sector, can often prove to be the pre-cursors of great commercial

value. In IIT Delhi, therefore, mechanisms are now in place to facilitate

transfer of technology, occasionally for direct applications, but more often

for further tuning and up-gradation, to industry and toin hands with them in

collaboration and joint ventures.

4.2 TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER THROUGH IRD AND FIIT

Intellect& Property Rights (IPR) Policy As mentioned earlier, IIT Delhi has two institutional organisations in IRD

and FITT for facilitating execution of research and technology development

programme by the faculty and scientific staff of the Institute’s departments

and centres. While some of these projects are financed out of the internal

institute budget, a large majority is sponsored by departments and

organisations of the Government. In recent years quite a few projects have

also come up with industry sponsorship, often with interactive involvement.

In many of these R&D programmes, novel technologies get developed that

have potential of commercial application. The intellectual property rights for

the newly developed technologies or other tangible outputs (such as software,

designs or reports) may belong to the Institute, or rnore often to both the

sponsorer (govt. organisation or industry) and the Institute jointly, and the first

step in a prospective technology transfer process is to protect such rights

through filing of IPR protection application to the appropriate authority.

All inventions, know-how, design, equipment or software developed by

the members of Institute academic community while working at the Institute

are technically the property of the Institute and are required to be registered

with IRD before they are made available for commercialiation. They are then

formally assigned to FITT authorising it to negotiate on IIT(D behalf to

transfer to a potential client (an industry or a user organisation) for

commercialisation. Parallelly, FITT is also empowered to process for IPR

protection. A Standing IPR Committee has been constituted in the institute,

the permanent members of the committee are the heads of FITT and the IRD

as well as one executive each from these organisations, having expertise in

IPR issues. The heads of the department or centre where the work has been

carried out and upto two other experts in the relevant technology area are

also inducted into IPR Committee. The IPR Committee examines individual

applications of IPR protection proposed by a faculty member of the Institute

for the technology/know-how/design/software developed, from a number of

angles, some of which are

4 patentability of the invention

ii) the stage of development

iii) potentital for commercial exploitation

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iv) claims of ownership vis-a-vrs sponsor agencies if any

4 execluslvity or non-exclusivrty of licensing, etc.

In the last financial year 1997-98, a large number (44) of IPR applications from the

faculty of the IIT Delhi has been processed by FITT. A list of these applications

IS given rn Appendix IV.

Technology Transfer Modalities FITT has been recognised also as the Technology Transfer organisation

of the Institute. A technology developed in the Institute can be transferred to

an external agency by FITT in any of the following optional modes:

a) It can be transferred directly to an industry client who takes it on ‘as is where is’

bosrs. The basis of poyment of the technology transfer fees in such a case will

normally be lumpsum, or lumpsum plus a royalty premium as a percentage of

the sales realisation due to the product/process in question for an agreed period

of time in years.

b) FITT may appoint a competent external agency and authorise them to market

the technology on behalf of FITT and IIT Delhi in accordance with a mutually

accepted agreement.

c) FITT may enter into a collaborative agreement with an industry or CI commercial

R&D organisation with a view to upgrading, upscaling or modifying the

technology as developed in the Institute, prior to its commercial exploitation.

d) FITT may olso provide assistance to an entrepreneur who would like to exploit

the technology, by way of partially funding development loons or participating

in the equity, thus acting as a catalyst for venture capitol financing.

The net revenue earned from the Technology Transfer (i.e. money

received/realised from the client minus taxes and other expenses) are shared

between the faculty (inventor), the Institute and FITT Unless specifically agreed

to, all technology transfers are normally done on a non-exclusive basis.

FITT is also mandated to facilitate and assist the Institute in other

Technology transfer activities, such as conducting market surveys, patent

search, obtaining clearance/approvals that may be required from statutory

agencies, providing legal assistance, negotiating contracts with clients etc.

In the above activities, FITT may also engage external consultants or technology

transfer organisations.

In the event of successful upgradation or upscaling of a technology in

collaboration with an industry, prior to its commercial application, as difined

under ( c ) above, the know-how so developed are to be released to the

collaboration partner on concessional terms. There can also be sharing of

IPR with the partner organisation, so that if the know-how gets licensed to a

third party, the technology transfer,fees are shared as per terms and conditions

agreed in advance. When FITT participates in equity funding or loan in the

entrepreneurship development, under the mode (d), the entrepreneur is obliged


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to buy back the equity or return the loan or the expenditure incurred according

to a prior agreement on repayment, when the technology transfer culminates

into a profitable and successful venture. A second agreement may also be

entered into on the question of royalty/premium to be paid by the successful

entrepreneur to FITT subsequently. In the event the development so undertaken

is proven to have not succeeded, FITT may write off its own share of expenditure

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CHAPTER-V

INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACHIEVEMENT

(Innovative features, goals and successes. Process of evolution of the

idea to the obtaining of concrete results)

5.1 GENERAL The level and extent of interactions between the industry and Institute

had been growing during the last few years. In pursuit of excellence in the

activities of the Institute which includes academic programmes, research,

consultancy and continuing education, interaction with other institutions and

industry is of utmost importance. Several measures have, therefore, been

taken in the past to promote the interaction to a level that it is mutually

beneficial to all concerned. Some of the areas which required special attention

were identified to be as follows:

+ Lack of adequate communication between industry and institutes, thereby leading to an inadequate appreciation of each other’s needs and constraints.

+ Lack of interface to translate R&D outputs into commercial products and process.

+ Difference In work ethos and perceptions regording time frames and cost of

R&D between the industry and the academics.

+ In adequote guidance by industry to the institute regarding the real strategic

and relevant needs for channelising the academic R&D towards commercial/

technological solutions, and

+ Bureaucratic constraints in the form of rules, regulation, procedures etc. under

which the Institute has to operate

5.2 Initiatives taken by the Institute

5.2.1 Industrial Research & Development Unit (IRD) The IIT Delhi, since its inception in the year 1961, has been making

special efforts to reach out to the needs of industry through sponsored and

joint research, problem solving consultancy, testing and technology transfer.

IITD has also created a large infrastructure covering a wide range of expertise

and facilities including a big library. Realising the need for effective interaction,

as early as the year 1973, an Industrial Research & Development Unit was

created to coordinate the activities of sponsored research and industrial

consultancy and to strive to provide the best possible service to industry and

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5.2.2 Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) The question of industry-institute interaction was further reviewed in

mid- 1980s and on the advice of the Ministry of Human Resource Development,

a series of meetings were held with industry representatives followed by a

joint workshop in 1989 to find ways and means to further intensify the level of

interaction with industry. Consequently, as a part of its campaign for intensive

industry-institute interaction, IITD set up the Foundation for Innovation and

Technology Transfer (FITT) with a view to achieving quantum jump in level of

collaboration and interaction with industry and other user organisations on

programmes/projects of mutual interest.

5.2.3 IPR Policy It is well recognised that any research output or development of

technology followed by its utilisation and/or transfer is faced by a threat of

unauthorised copying and use. IIT Delhi has formulated its IPR Policy giving

detailed procedure for disclosure, scrutiny, process, and registration of Patents,

Copyrights, Designs etc. Faculty, researchers and students are encouraged

to avail of the facility created at IIT Delhi with the active involvement of FITT.

Help is provided in helping to identify the patentability and novelty, conduct

patent research, and interpret the technical information of Patents to help the

ongoing R&D, and Technology Development Programmes, prepare Patent

specifications including techno-legal drawings covering techno-legal aspects.

Major thrust has been given to creating awareness on IPR among the faculty.

In the last couple of years, a number of awareness seminars have been

organised in IIT Delhi on the subject of IPR. In particular, the one-day workshop

on IPR held in September, 1997 was attended by more than 400 members of

faculty and students.

5.2.4 Proactive Approach One of the constraints in promoting Institute-Industry interaction was

found to be the lack of communication/understanding leading to an

inadequate appreciation of each others needs and constraints. A campaign

and drive was initiated during the last few years and a few steps taken to

bring industry-institute closer:

(i) Institute-Industry Meet As a first step, in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) an

Institute-Industry Meet was organised at IIT Delhi on the 1 Olh December, 1994

to focus on the need for closer Institute-Industry Partnership for Competence

Build-up. The meeting was attended by aver hundred and twenty five participants

from industry, Public Sector Undertakings, Venture Capital and Financial

Institutions. An equal number of faculty members from IIT Delhi and other IITs,

RECs and Research organisations participated in day long deliberations which

included six parallel technical sessions and open house. A poster exhibition


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was also organised. Subsequently, joint seminars/workshops hove been

organised in specific oreos for enchancing closer interaction.

(ii) R&D and Industry Meet for Technology Commercialisation :

Under the joint collaboration of IITD ond TIFAC (DST) o two doy “Industry-R&D

Meet on Technology Commerciolisotion” wos orgonised at IIT Delhi on the 22”d

and 23’d August, 1997 Day one wos devoted to Chemlcols ond Allred Products

and the doy two to Biotechnology. Both the days hod three sessions. The two

fold objectrve of the Meet wos to moke Industry owore of future trends In

technology and help them to keep obreost of the technology changes ond to

provide o plotform to scientists to present to the industry research work reody for

commerctolisotion In oil 15 technologies were presented In the technlcol sessions

which included 6 technologies from IIT Delhi ond 9 from other rnstrtutlons etc

Representotrves from Industry mode thetr presentations on their R&D requirements

ond expectations from the institutes. In 011 oround 200 experts from various

R&D orgonisotions, Technology Institutes, Flnonclol lnstttutions and Industry

participated in this Meet

(iii) Interaction with Industry/Industry Associations : Director IITD, MD FITT and senior faculty hove token special step to reach out

ond meet industry representotives ond industry ossociotion ond addressed venous

seminars/conferences to highlight the expertise ond facilities ovoiloble at IIT

Delhi and the willingness of the faculty to porticipote In thetr technology

development effort. Meetings were olso held with industry stolworts inviting

them to colloborote in ocodemic progrommes, development of physlcol

infrastructure ond to visit IIT Delhi.

(iv) Interactive Academic Programmes with Industry: Industry stalwarts from Indian ond multinotionol componies hove been visiting

the Institute ond o number of colloborotive progrommes hove been initiated.

These include sponsorship of M.Tech. Progromme in Micro-electronics and VLSI

Design by Phillip Semiconductors of Hollond, who hove olso donoted o choir

ond o fully equipped VLSI laboratory, equipment ond softwore support from

INTEL and Hewlett Packard of USA, Student Fellowships from Samsung Electronics

of Korea, ABB India, GE Plastic and Kirloskar Electric Compony, 15 choir

professorships hove olso been donated. An IBM Solution Research Centre has

been established at IIT Delhi. These are only o few exomples.

(v) Exh.ihitions :

Another step taken by the Institute is to publicise its copabilities to industry by

participation in industry and Engineering exhibitions viz. WISITEX, IETF, IMPACT,

Technology Summit etc.

(vi) FITI’ FORUM A quarterly newsletter of IITDelhi/FIll is published regulorly and circulated free

of cost to over two thousand five hundred industry/ organisations etc. The

bulletin contain latest information on the activities of IIT Delhi and the consultoncy

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and HRD programmes token up. It olsa carries features on Deportments/Centres

of IIT Delhi.

5.2.5 Simplification of Procedures : IIT Delhi has made special efforts to simplify its procedures and

delegation of powers in order to make these industry friendly. The project

coordinators have been delegated additional administrative and financial

powers and procedures have been streamlined to cut down all avoidable

delay in processing of purchase etc. for industrial projects.

5.2.6 Encouragement to faculty : Some steps have been taken at the Institute to encourage Faculty and

Researchers to take up industrial projects. Besides simplification of procedures

and enhanced delegation of powers, the upper limit of earnings from industry

related activities, e.g. cansultancies etc. during a financial year has been

removed. In addition, a Professional Development Fund has been created

out of the savings effected in consultancy etc. which are accumulated in the

Fund in the name of concerned faculty. The money available in the Fund

can be utilised by the faculty member for his own professional development

e.g. purchase of books, attending seminars/conferences, acquiring personal

computer and other equipment for office use.

5.2.7 Modes of Interaction with Industry Interaction with industn/ can take a number of forms, in which the faculty

members of the Institute participate. These include:

+ Problem solving consultoncy

+ Specialised S&T activities and use of infrastructure

+ Continuing Education/Technology update HRD Programmes

+ Contract Research

+ Joint Technology Development and Technology Transfer Programmes

+ Sponsored R&D Progrommes

+ Feasibility Studies

5.3 Support from industry and Alumni The industry and Alumni of the Institute have extended significant support

to the institute for its academic and research programmes, the details about a few of which is given in the following paragraphs :

Bill Gates’ Initiative for Education and Research in India

In March, 1997 India hqsted a two day visit by Mr. Bill Gates. His first stop at Delhi, was to address the faculty and students of IIT Delhi and other


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professionals from industry and Government on the directions in which

computing and communications is progressing. The Seminar was jointly

hosted by IIT Delhi and Microsoft (India).

During the seminar, Mr. Gates announced a series of initiatives that

Microsoft plans to pursue in respect of promoting education and research in

the area of computing. Therein, he announced Microsoft’s plan to support

the development of University Advanced Technology Laboratories (UATL) at

five premier institutions in India, including IIT Delhi. As part of this programme,

the institutions would have access to free software licenses of a large number

of software titles that cover operating systems, back-end servers, software

development tools and productivity tools. Other than the software, UATL

programme will provide opportunities to faculty and selected students to

train themselves in the effective use of Microsoft software and technologies.

The most significant element of the UATL programme, however, is offered by

Microsoft to provide the source code for their Windows NT software. This

shall enable students and faculty to become thoroughly familiar with the

internal details of the software and to develop newer technologies consistent

with Windows NT.

Chair Professorships The Institute has been soliciting support of industry, distinguished alumni

members and other agencies for creating of some 100 Chair Professorships

by the year 2000. A one-time contribution of Rs.20 lokhs to the corpus fund

was earmarked for the first ten Chairs, and Rs.30 lakhs thereofter. In 1995

96, seven Chair Professorships, were instituted, four from industry Modi

Rubber, Philips, Siel, Usha (India), and three through direct funding support

of IITD Alumni, namely Dr. Jai Gupta, Sri. Rajot Gupta and Sri Naren Gupta.

During 1996-97, IITD has received Chair Professorships from Modi

Foundation and Dalmio Foundation, contributing Rs.20 lakhs each, and

from India Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) and Reliance

Industries Ltd., contributing Rs.30 lakhs each. During 1997-98 contribution

came from M/s. Microsoft and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC).

Actions have been initiated to identify outstanding professional, from academia

and industry, from within and outside India, for these positions.

Microsoft Chair Professorship at IIT Delhi On 41h September, 1997 Microsoft and IIT Delhi announced Microsoft

Chair Professorship in Software engineering and Information Systems, under

which Microsoft will provide funding of US $250,000 to IIT Delhi to undertake

research in areas of mutual interest. This is the first Chair Professorship that

Microsoft had funded outside the US. It will be used to facilitate a senior

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The Chair Professorship is an additional educational initiative from

Microsoft to.contribute to higher education in India, following the University

Advanced Technology Labs (UATL) programme which was launched by Mr.

Bill Gates during his visit to India in March. It will allow IIT Delhi to hire an

outstanding researcher in the Department of Computer Science and building

around him a reserch team with existing faculty and students. The Chair

Professorship will fund the IIT Delhi’s research in areas such as software

engineering, information systems, graphics, operating systems, networking

and olgorithms.

Alumni Contribution Apart from sponsoring some of the Chair Professorships, IIT Delhi alumni,

many of whom have become highly successful professionals in their own

fields, have been taking great interest in intensifying interaction with the Alma

Mater, and extending support in raising resources. Several of them in Delhi

are participating in our academic programmes. They have also helped in

establishing and strengthening links with their own organisations. Under the

aegis of the IIT Delhi Foundation in United States, they have organised several

meetings in USA. IIT Delhi Alumni Chapters have been established in New

York, Chicago, Washington D.C., Bay area (California), Texas, Seattle, Boston

and London and other places. They have intensified resource generation.

The total contribution form alumni so far is Rs.2.50 crores.

Multi-disciplinary M.Tech. Programmes For the first time in the history of the Institute, a fully industry sponsored

multi-disciplinary M.Tech. Programme (in Micro-electronics and VLSI design)

has been launched.

Several industry organisations, namely Philips Semiconductors Limited,

Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, SGS Thomson and Temic Usha, contributed

to the tune of Rs.2.6 lokhs per student in this course. Philips Semiconductors

also granted an additional Rs.1 .6 crores for setting up a fully equipped VLSI

Lab in the Institute.

M/s. Larsen & Toubro Construction Group hove come forward this year

to sponsor the second fully supported Masters Programme on Construction

Technology and Management. Several other industry organisations have

also come up with M.Tech. fellowship grants to the Institute. These include

M/s. Kirloskor Electric, Somsung Industries, ABB Ltd., and Arcus and

Qualcomm.

IBM Solution Research Centre India at IITD Tata IBM Limited has set up the IBM Solution Research Centre India

(SRC India) in collaboration with IIT Delhi. SRC India will be a centre of

excellence with key focus on the development of advanced solutions, tools .


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and applications in the areas of Supply Chain Management and Distribution,

Enterprise Solutions, Applications Development Tools and Weather Forecasting

Solutions. In addition, this centre will showcase IBM’s complete range of

products, applications and solutions.

SRC India is only the eighth IBM Research Laboratory of its kind in the

w 50 scientists will be engaged in Research Projects at SRC India. Over the

next five years IBM will be investing $ 25 million for the establishment of this

Centre. As part of its mission, the Centre will foster joint research projects

with IlTs and top educational institutions. Towards this, IBM will invest $ 10

million in grants.

The opening of IBM Solutions Research Centre India was formally

announced on Tuesday, July 22, 1997 at 4.30 p.m. in the Seminar Hall of

IIT Delhi. Prof.Y.K.Alagh, Hon’ble Minister of State for Power and Science &

Technology, Govt. of India, was the Chief Guest.

ITC Education Trust ITC Education Trust has offered a donation of Rs.2 crores to the proposed

Business School at IIT Delhi. This is the first contribution towards the Rs.20

crores that IITD needs for establishing a world-class Business School in IIT

Delhi campus.

Intel Lab at IIT Delhi At the Computer Science and Engineering Department in the Institute a

new Intel Technology Laboratory was inaugurated in March, 1997. The lab

boasts of some of the state-of-the-art workstation and multi-processor servers,

which was provided by the Intel Corporation as an equipment grant under

the programme to support education and research.

Texas Instruments M/s. Texas Instruments, Bangalore, has recently donated Digital Signal

Processing (DSP) solutions (both) hardware as well as software worth Rs.20

lacs to the Department of Electrical Engg. The DSP systems will be used

mainly for the Power Electronics applications research ond in the

Undergraduate teaching particularly in Electronics Communications etc. The

Texas Instrument’s interaction with IIT Delhi may also extend to Bio-medical,

Robotics and Image processing technology areas in future. In 1997 the two

fully industry supported M.Tech. programmes: one in Microelectronics and

VLSI Design sponsored by several industries and another M.Tech. programme

in Construction Technology and Management sponsored by Larsen & Toubro

wherein the sponsoring industries have paid the total cost of education.

During 1998, a similar arrangement, an M.Tech. programme in Power

Generation Technology, sponsored by the National Thermal Power

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Corporation has been started. NTPC will send 100 Engineers for the

programme over o 4-year period. Another very successful programme which

has been organised for the last two years is a bridge course in computer

technology whereby over o period of 9 months, jointly with Industry (IIS

Infotech) 50 graduates in EnggJpostgroduates in Science are trained on a

self-financing basis.

The very motor development during 1998 has been the signing of

Research Collaboration with Applied Materials of ‘USA, in the area of

Integrated Circuit and Thin Film Technology. Applied Materials Inc., USA is

the world’s largest supplier of wafer fabrication systern and services to the

world-wide leading industry and have 40% of world market. Their motor

customers are Intel, Motorola, Texas Instruments, NEC, Toshiba and Samsung.

4s a part of the agreement with CSC Asia Pacific, they have donated 100

copies of Helix Software. The other motor contribution is Parametric of the

art software Pro-engineer. These donations are expected to significantly

modernise the curriculum. Another MoU has been signed with BAAN to set

up a Unit of Excellence in Enterprise Applications for a total grant in aid

worth Rs.50 lakhs for software and educational training material operational

in the Department of Management Studies. A donation of 6 nodes of RS

6000 computers worth Rs.8 million has been given by IBM.

To summarise, over the last three-and-a-half years support has been

from industry and alumni to the tune of Rs.20 crores. To further augment the

infrastructure, the Institute was successful in securing Rs.9 crores soft loan

from ICICI under its Technology Institutions Programme of the World Bank.

The funds have been received and fully utilised for setting up (a) Environmental

Testing Facilities, (b) an Eco-textile Testing Laboratory, (c) an Energy Audit/

Management Centre, (d) a Technology Business Incubation Centre and (e) a

Fibre Optic, local area network with 1350 terminals and 2 MBPS connectivity

to VSNL as compared to only 28 KBS that was available before. This has

made the infrastructure at par with the best available in similar institutions.

Now all the faculty, research scholars and students have internet access, and

by the end of this year all the hostels in the Institutes are also likely ta be

extended the networking facilities.

5.4 Consultancy and Sponsored Research There has been a manifold increase in the value of consultancy projects

and sponsored research undertaken at the Institute. The value of sponsored

reserch has gone up from Rs.723 lakhs in 1993-94 to Rs. 1854 lakhs in the

year 1997-98. Similarly, the value of consultancies has gone up from

Rs.lO6.80 lakhs in the year 1993-94 to Rs.458.09 lakhs in 1997-98 with

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5.5 Continuing Education/Technology Update HRD Programmes

It has been brought out in several international foro that the new

technological revolution has imposed a heavy demand for continued

upgradation of th e skills and expertise of technical manpower which cannot

possibly be met by formal traditional pre-employment education. Continuing

Education and Human Resource Development programmes for upgrading/

updating the skills of the existing workforce has, therefore, assumed significant

importance. IIT Delhi has taken up several such programmes, a few of them

sponsored by industries at IIT Delhi and a few organised on customized basis

at industry premises. Other programmes are participation based and self

financed. A very successful programme which has now been running for the

third year is a bridge course in Software Technology whereby over a period of

9 months, 50 graduates in Engineering/postgradautes in Science are trained

on self-financing basis to become software professionals. For all the three

years, CI renowned software industry, M/s. IIS Infotech, has been the industry

partner with FITT for this course.

5.6 Joint Technology Development Programmes

The Institute takes up joint technology development programmes in

association with industry. The most important are the Technology Development Mission Programmes taken up at IlTs and IISc. All the five IlTs

and the IISc, Bangalore have come together to take up technology

development and transfer as a mission in seven generic areas as approved

by Ministry of Human Resource Development. Before starting a project, the

outcome of each project has been planned jointly with industry, in terms of

specific and usable deliverables. There is a commitment to deliver a product,

design or o process. The industry remains partnered through the project in

order to ensure a close interface. The seven generic areas approved are:

1. Food Processing ond Engineering (FPE)

2. Integrated Design and Competitive Monufocturing (IDCM)

3. Photonic Devices and Technology (PDT)

4. Energy Efficient Technologies 8 Devices (EETD)

5. Communications, Networking and Intelligent Communication (CNIC)

6. New Materials (NM)

7. Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (GEB)

IIT Delhi is participating in these projects in the area of Photonic Devices,

Energy Efficient Technologies, New Materials and Biotechnology with a total

budget of Rs.8.00 crores, the industry contribution being over Rs.2 crores.

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The industry partners include C-DOT, OPTEL Communications, HMG

Industries, G.E. Plastics, LML, Crompton Greaves, Either Group of Industries,

Maruti Udyog, WIPRO lnfotech and Modipon Fibres. These projects have

achieved considerable amount of success. The details of the projects

undertaken at IIT Delhi are given at ADDendix-V.

Following three projects have been taken up in association with M/s.

DuPont Central Reserch & Development :

- Analysis of Mechanical Behaviour of Layered Moterials (Phase-l)

- Biodegradable Thermoplastics in Streptamyces

- Modelling and Optimisotion of (Biopolymers) Poly-B-Hydroxybutyrte (PHB) Production using streptamyces.

Another project on Design and Development of High Frequency MODEM

has been taken up in association with DRDO.

Joint projects have also been taken up under the Home Grown

Technology Scheme of TIFAC, the more recent being “Development of Jute-

Coir Materials” in association with M/s. Aspinwall Geotech Limited.

5.7 Technology and Business Incubation Centre (TBIC)

Under the overall umbrella of the ICICI supported programme, there is

a plan to organise a Technology and Business Incubation Centre (TBIC) in

the Institute. The objective of the TBIC is to provide limited modular space to

new entrepreneurs or technology based organisations for setting up an office

or a laboratory/workstation within the campus with a view to promoting

interaction with and technology/expertise resourcing from the faculty of the

Department/Centres of the Institute and to incubating novel technology/

business ideas (such as product development, product innovation, phototyping,

pilot-experimentation simulation, software testing etc.) The space will be

given on a monthly lease or on lease for a number of years after it will have

to vacated and new entrepreneurs accommodated. No regular commercial

or trading activity will be carried out in TBIC. The modular space ranging

from 400 Sq.ft to 700 Sq.ft. floor area will be unfurnished but will be complete

with primary infrastructural facilities like normal electricity and power

connections, telephone lines, internet connectivity UPS etc. The TBIC is

expected to be operational within next one year.

5.8 Technology Transfer With the efforts made at IIT Delhi there has been a breakthrough in

Technology Transfer/lPR activities. The following technologies have recently

been transferred to industry :

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Client’s Name M/s. Bhushan & Bhushon, New Delhi

M/S. Haryona Stote Electronics Dev.

M/s. Accurate Meters Pvt. Ltd., Naida

M/S. UP Hill Electronics Ltd.Lucknow

M/s. Amar Enterprises, Bulandshahar

M/s. Hi-Light Electronics, Pauri Garhwal

M/s. Vynitics Peripherals Pvt.

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M/s. U.P HiI Electronics Ltd., Lucknow

M/s. Paper Products Ltd.,

Mumbai

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Generators, Bombay

M/s. Accurate Meters Ltd., Noida

M/s. Vacuum Instruments Co.New Delhi

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CHAPTER-VI ACCUMULATED RESULTS AFTER SOME YEARS OF OPERATION 6.1 The results of the efforts mode and initiatives taken at the Institute toward

enhancement of Industry-Institute interaction have been mentioned in detail in

the previous chapter. These are briefly indicated as follows :

6.2 The institute places great importance to close interaction with industry ond R&D

organisations. In order ta ensure that the teaching programmes and the curricula

meet the changing needs of the industry, senior personnel from industry are

involved as expert members of committees which vet changes in curricula as

well as new academic programmes. It also interacts with industry to provide

real life exposure ta industrial world ta its students through a vacation troining

programme. It has also a programme for industrial secondment of faculty with

a built-in provision of incentives OS well as appointment of adjunct faculty from

industry in addition to a scheme of having honorary visiting prafessors/focuIty.

6.3 More than fifteen ongoing international sponsored progrommes are at present

being pursued.

6.4 Industry and alumni have extended significant support ta the Institute by

sponsoring 15 chairs, supporting four’ M.Tech. programmes, setting up

laboratories etc. ond a contribution of about Rs.2.5 crores from Alumni.

6.5 Sponsored research and industrial consultoncy has grown significantly in the

recent past as is evident from the two charts :

‘6.6 The institute took a soft loan from World Bank (through ICICI) under its Technology

Institution Progromme to strengthen its facilities in sorne of the emerging areos

of technology. Extensive facilities hove been set up in the fallowing :

- Analytical Testing for air ond water problems.

- Facility for Textile Testing

- Electric01 Energy Audit/canservotion and Demand Side

Manogement

Network Infrastructure and Technology Incubation Centre

- CAD/CAE facility

6.7 There has been a breakthrough in Technology Transfer/lPR activity. 44

applications for IPR have been processed during the last one and a holf years

OS ogoinst less than 30 during earlier 20 years or so. A number of technologies

have been transferred to industry and others for a royalty receipt of about

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CHAPTER-VII

CONCLUDING REMARKS There are a number of lessons that can be learnt from this Case Study

on IIT Delhi and its growing connectivity with industry” The first and foremost

factor has been the leadership’s focus on the need to develop closer links

between the academia and the external world at large (primarily the industry),

who represents the end-user of the “product” the Institute develop, namely its

graduate students and output of the technological research carried out by

members of the academic faculty. IIT Delhi has always been fortunate to

have at its helm Directors who are not only men of unquestioned academic

and professional credentials but also those who have been leaders of men,

capable of inspiring his faculty colleagues as well as the students to take up

newer challenges, be it in the academic spheres or in generating resources

through fruitful interactions with the external world. One should, however,

also note that this additional stress has never been at the expense-of the total

commitment of the Institute on retaining and enhancing the academic

excellence, and no dilution has taken place in teaching and basic research.

Indeed, with enhanced partnership contacts with industry, the academic

curricula are thought to have gained significantly in relevance and

contemporariness.

The response of the faculty and scientific members of the academic

staff in this new initiative has also been very positive. In the last five years, the

number of faculty members taking up externally funded research projects

and industrial consultancy activities have risen from merely 10% earlier to

nearly 30% of their total strength in the Institute. One must admire the

resourcefulness of many of the faculty members. Their continuous and pro-

active interaction with the potential partners have resulted in useful

programmes, many of which relate to state-of-the-art technology.

The Government policy environment of economic liberalisation and

globalisation has also played a decisive role in the increased industry-academic

interfacing. In the current scenario, industrial development is being perceived

more and more as a sector outside the purview of the Government, and

resources of the state are bound to get committed to other priority areas like

primary and secondary education, health and infrastructure. Higher technical

education, in particular, is likely to bear the brunt of the gradually reducing

direct budgetary allocation from the Government. In these circumstances,

the autonomous academic institutes for technical education and research

such as the IlTs have no other option but to look towards the end-users in the

economy (that is business and industry) for raising additional resources, in

order to maintain and enhance their standards of excellence. Business and

industry in India, however, like in many other developing countries, had until


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recently thrived in a ‘protected’ environment, did not invest much in indigenous

technology development and research, and had little or no direct interaction

with the academic institutions. With the opening up of Indian economy, the

Indian industry are showing definite signs of renewed interest in technological

innovation, R&D, and academic and technical training of its personnel. When

IIT Delhi declared opening of its portals to the external world, the response

from the Indian industn/ has generally been good, in the form of investment

in research, academic chairs, innovative consultancies and greater

involvement in academic programmes. The Institute have also found a great

deal of eagerness on the part of many international industry organisations

and multi-national companies to extend their hands of partnership.

One other source the Institute has endeavored to tap is the army of its

ex-students, many of whom have been enormously successful in their

profession both in India and abroad. In the last few years, there has been

growing awareness among the alumni of the Institute that they can significantly

contribute to the growth of their alma mater, in resource generation and in

maintaining its technological leadership. Many of them have made generous

individual contribution, in cash or in kind, and also helped influencing the

industry group or the organisation they belong, to collaborate with the Institute.

One, however, believes that only a fraction of the potential in these respects

have been achieved.

Finally, a major contributor to the increased industry connectivity of the

IIT Delhi has been the aggressive marketing and promotional campaigns

launched to disseminate information, and acquaint the potential industry

clients about the world class expertise and infrastructural facilities existing in

the Institute. The Director of the Institute and his senior faculty colleagues

have been squeezing out time from their busy academic schedules to address

industry meets, to regularly participate in national and international

conferences and to develop personal relationship with leaders in industry,

government and other agencies, and to spread the message of benefits of

close industry-academia interaction. The Foundation for Innovation and

Technology Transfer (FITT), the autonomous interface organisation of the

Institute, has played a very major role in marketing of IIT Delhi. FITT has

also been providing a friendly and facilitating platform for the faculty and the

industry experts to execute projects. Flexibility in approach and simplified

procedures adopted in Fill go well with the principles of academic freedom

and focus preferred by the professors and research scientists. In addition to

extending administrative and commercial services to the faculty consultants,

FITT’s foray into IPR services has given a boost to the academic members of

the Institute to undertake complex technical development and transfer projects

with industry, without jeopardising safeguards on their rights of ownership of

intellectual properties.

In conclusion, it must be said that the game of industry-academic

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interaction calls for teamwork, understanding and collaboration amongst all.

the protagonists in a win-win mode. On one side, there has to be enough

challenges and incentives for the academic community to be lured away

from solving neat academic problems to addressing complex industry issues.

On the other, the industry and business also have to be convinced and

persuaded about the talents, ability and perseverance of the ‘outside experts’

in delivering meaningful outputs. While the need to be self-reliant on

indigenous technological resources in this age of global competition is a

very strong reason for industry ta work with the academia, the academic

institutes have no other option but to look towards the industry for sustenance.

The continuing desire to excel, a facilitative and professional environment,

and the leadership thrust are the three ingredients for success in this game.

The Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) have shown to have all these in

varying degrees. This may be the one reason why this Institute has been

recently identified as the second best technological institute in Asia by the

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Appendix -1

BRIEF NOTES ON

DEPMTMENTS AND CENTRES OF IIT DELHI

A. DEPARTMENTS 1. Department of Applied Mechanics

The Department of Applied Mechanics is one of the basic departments

of the Institute concerned with the teaching and research in engineering

mechanics, materials science and product design. The departmental activities

can be broadly classified under the headings of Solid Mechanics, Fluid

Mechanics, Materials Science, and Design Engineering. The Department

also contributes significantly towards the R&D and consultancy activties of

the Institute.

2. Department of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology The Department with 16 faculty members runs a five-year integrated

M.Tech. programme besides offering opportunities for doctoral and post-

doctoral research.

It has activities in following five major areas : Bioprocess and Enzyme

Engineering; Bioseparation and Down-stream Processing; Environmental

Biotechnology; Biosensors and Bioprocess Automation; Metabolic Regulation

and Molecular Biology.

The consultancy and sponsored proejcts worth Rs.17.42 lacs and

Rs. 160.1 1 lakhs respectively, are being currently handled by the Department.

3. Chemical Engineering The Department of Chemical Engineering consisting of 17 faculty

members offers B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in the field of Chemical

Engineering. In addition to the infrastructural facilities and instruments, pilot

plant sized equipment is available in the following areas: Rotary Dryer; Reaction

Vessels including Autoclaves, Large Capacity Blowers and Compressors;

Combustors; Pyrolysis Systems, Packed Bed Absorption Columns, Circulating

Fluidized Beds etc.

The Department maintains close liaison with a large number of chemical

industries and design organisations. Consultancy projects worth Rs.8 lacs

are being currently handled by the Department in one year. Projects sponsored


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by DNES, Centre for High Technology, ICICI in the areas of Biomass, Petroleum

Refining and Envirnmental Engineering respectively, are being taken up by

the Department.

4. Department of Chemistry The Department of Chemistry with 22 faculty members has expertise in

applied and fundamental research in five maior disciplines : Physical,

Organics, Inorganic, Analytical, Polymer and Biochemistry. It runs academic

programmes at the level of M.Sc. and M.Tech., and offers Chemistry courses

to the undergraduate students of the Institute. It undertakes consultancy

projects and offers advice and assistance in the development of chemical/

biochemical industries.

The sponsored projects worth Rs.45 lacs and consultancy about Rs.6

lacs have been sanctioned to the faculty members of the department during

1996-97.

5. Department of Civil Engineering One of the primary engineering departments of the Institute, the

Department of Civil Engineering has a faculty of 33 members. It offers B.Tech.,

M.Tech. and Ph.D. degree programmes. Doctoral and post-doctoral research

is offered in the following areas : Engineering Geology; Environmental

Engineering; Rock Mechanics; Soil Engineering; Marine Geotechnology;

Structural Engineering; Surveying & Remote Sensing; Transportation

Engineering; Water Resources Engineering; Building Science & Construction

Management; Offshore Structures

The Department maintains close liaison with a number of private and

public sector organisations. Currently, consultancy and sponsored projects

worth Rs.39.89 lacs and Rs.144.14 lacs respectively, are being handled by

the Department.

6. Department of Computer Science & Engineering The Department of Computer Science & Engineering undertakes projects

in computer software and hardware to contribute towards the future needs of

the country. Its research interests can be classified as : Theoretical Computer

Science, Computer Networks, Parallel Computing, Artificial intellgence and

Computational Vision, CAD of Digital Systems. The Department also offers

programmes leading to the award of B.Tech., M.Tech., M.S. (Research), and

Ph.D. degrees.

Research projects sponsored by DRDO, AICTE, DST, DOE, BARC are

currently in progress. Additionally, leading computer and software companies

such as Intel, Microsoft, Phillips, SUN and Oracle have contributed to the

development of new laboratories in the department.

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7. Department of Electrical Engineering The Department consists of thirty eight faculty members. It offers

instruction at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level, aiming at providing

a firm background in the basic areas of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

It undertakes research and consultancy projects in several specialized areas,

including Communication, Computer Technology, Control Systems, Integrated

Electronics & Circuits, Power Systems, Power Electronics, Machines and Drives.

Consultancy projects worth Rs. 189 Iacs, and sponsored projects of

Rs. 163 lacs are currently being handled by this Department.

8. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Interdisciplinary in orientation, the Department offers courses in five

disciplines : Economics, Literature and Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology

and Sociology. Debates in ethics, cultural anthropology, critical theory,

cognition, ideology, development and environmentalism, organisational

behaviour, the history of science and technology and, indeed, the nature of

theory itself, are crucial within such a Departmet. The 15 faculty members of

the Department teach on both undergraduate and graduate programmes.

In addition to a Language Laboratory, the Department also has a Behavioural

and Cognitive Science Laboratory. Projects within the Department have been

funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Katha Foundation,

Indian National Science Academy, Indian Council of Social Science Research,

University Grants Commission, Ministry of Welfare, Ministry of Human

Resource Development etc.

9. Department of Management Studies The Department consists of a core set of faculty members in the general

and functional areas of Management from Strategic Management to Marketing

Management. The main objective of the Department is to provide the

manpower for Indian Engineering industry.

THIS rNvoLvEs: a) Making o better Engineer or a good Engineer by providing him management

inpujts to his education.

b) To enable the necessary manpower skill formation for various managerial

positions of the Indian industry.

From the academic year 1997-98, Department is launching two MBA

programmes (full-time focussing on “Management Systems” and part-time

on “Technology Management”).

Additionally, the Department helps in continuous updating of the quality

of management in the industry, Government and Education Sectors. It provides

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Department also houses Dalmia Research Programme on Management in

Asia. The faculty serve on the Board of various institutions and have the

impressive client list. Currently, consultancy and sponsored projects worth

Rs.4.37 lacs and Rs.86.52 lacs, respectively, are being handled by the

Deportment.

10 Department of Mathematics The Department of Mathematics consisting of 18 factulty members offers

courses at undergraduate ond postgraduate levels. It runs a five-year

Integrated M.Tech. programme in Mathematics and Computing and M.Sc.

(Mathematics) Course. Its faculty actively participates in the interdisciplinary

M.Tech. programme in Computer Applications, besides offering opportunities

for doctoral research. The faculty toins industrial research ond consultoncy

teams of the Institute faculty to mutually solve engineering problems involving

high mathematical contents.

11 Department of Mechanical Engineering One of the basic engineering departments of the Institute, the Department

of Mechanical Engineering has a faculty of 46 members. It offers regular

B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. Programmes tailored to provide sound basic

knowledge in Mechanical Engineering. It has close contact with industries

like BHEL, I.R., Escorts Ltd., Kirloskar Pneumatics, Eichers, Maruti and other

government organisations

The Deportment has been actively engaged in research in the following

areas : Thermal Engineering, Design Engineering, Industrial and Production

Engineering.

The consultancy and sponsored projects worth Rs.27.15 lacs and

Rs. 192.54 lacs, respectively, are being currently handled by the Department.

12 Department of Physics The Department consisting of 42 faculty members provides basic Physics

education to the undergraduate students of the Institute. In addition, it offers

one M.Sc. and three M.Tech. courses in Solid State Materials and Applied

Optics. The Department also runs an interdisciplinary M.Tech. Programme

in Optoelectronics and Optical Communication in collaboration with Electrical

Engineering Department. The Department is also involved in applied and

theoretic01 research. Its main R&D groups are : Condensed Matter Physics,

Optics & Optoelectronics; Plasma Science & Technology.

The consultancy and sponsored proejcts worth Rs.4.21 lacs and

Rs.550.23 lacs respectively are being currently handled by the Department.


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13 Department of Textile Technology The Department consisting of 17 faculty members including one Joint

Professor provides opportunities for research work with extensive facilities

and expertise available in every branch of Textile Technology. The four maior

academic groups in the department are : Fibre Science and Technology;

Spinning; Weaving and Knitting; Chemical Processing. It offers training at

undergraduate as well as postgraduate level. It has maior projects on the

development of carbon fibres, silk processing and jute geotextiles, new

polymeric materials.

The consultancy and sponsored projects worth Rs.22.04 lacs and

Rs.250.59 lacs, respectively, are being currently handled by the Department.

A research project on development of high tenacity acrylic fibres as

precursor for carbon fibres with a funding of Rs.80.53 lacs from DST and

ARDB has mode substantial progress in the Department. Optimisation of

thermo-oxidative stabilization and carbonisation parameters of acrylic

precursor fibres made in the laboratory is being made so as to produce

carbon fibres of 3.5 GPA tensile strength.

B. CENTRES 1. Centre for Applied Research in Electronics

The Centre consisting of 10 faculty members and 1 visiting faculty has

some of the best computing and laboratory facilities backed by qualified staff

to carry out projects in the high technology areas of Electronics. It has three

R&D groups, viz., Signal Processing, Micro-electronics, Microwave and

Millimetre Waves.

The Centre has projects from DRDO, DOE, AICTE, DST, MHRD, ISRO,

R&D laboratories and industries. Consultancy and sponsored projects

including Mission Projects worth Rs. 13.4 lacs and Rs.322 lacs, respectively,

are currently being handled by the Centre.

The faculty of the Centre are also engaged in teaching of postgradaute

courses for the M.Tech. Programme in Communication and Radar Engineering.

A fully industry/R&D Labs sponsored M.Tech. Programme, in VLSI Design

and Technology, has been initiated jointly with Electrical Engineering and

Computer Science and Engineering Department.

The Centre’s faculty has very good interaction with national R&D

establishments. Two of its faculty are on leave to work in advanced technology.

2. Centre for Atmospheric Sciences The Centre has multi-disciplinary team of highly qualified meteorologists,

oceanographers, Physicists, applied mathematicians working in the research

areas of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. It offers several courses to pre-


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Ph.D. students and plans to introduce an M.Tech. programme in the near

future. It has faculty of 17 members.

The consultancy/sponsored projects worth about Rs.260 lacs are being

currently handled by the Centre.

3. Centre for Biomedical Engineering The Centre for Biomedical Engineering has 11 faculty members. It

offers Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering. This programme is jointly

supported by IIT Delhi, and All lndio Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

wherein facu!ty of both these institutes is involved. The Centre’s R&D areas

are Medical Electronics, Rehabilitation Engineering, Bio-materials, Accident

Safety Research, Bioengineering in Reproductive Medicine.

The consultancy and sponsored projects worth Rs. 17 lacs and Rs. 136

lacs, respectively, are being currently handled by the Centre.

4. Computer Services Centre Computer Services Centre is designed to meeting computing

requirements of the R&D activities of the Institute and of the consultancy

projects. It has high degree of expertise in designing and developing both

application and system software requirements of the government, public and

private sectors.

5. Educational Services and Technology Centre The Centre has been created to improve the quality of education by

employing modern concepts of education technology. The Centre has various

audio-visual facilities like studio, video, cameras, editing facilities, personal

computers and slide making equipment.

The consultancy protects worth Rs. 10 lacs are being handled by the

Centre.

6. Centre for Energy Studies The Centre consisting of 29 faculty members offers M.Tech. and Ph.D.

programmes in the field of Energy. The R&D groups of the Centre are : Solar

Energy; Fuel Technology; Non-Conventional Fuels and I.C. Engines; Electrical

Energy Systems; Energy Conservation; Plasma Science and Technology.

The consultancy and sponsored projects worth Rs. 16.18 lacs ond

Rs.255.47 lacs, respectively, are being currently handled by the Centre.

7. Industrial Tribology, Machine Dynamics % Maintenance Engineering Centre The Centre with a faculty of 15 members bridges the gap between IIT

and industry in the field of Friction and Wear Studies, Lubrication, Lubricants,


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Wear Control, Maintenance Engineering, Non-destructive Testing, Reliability, Availability and Maintenance Engineering, Failure Analysis and Design Aspects, Vibration and Noise Engineering, Performance Evaluation and Filteration and Pneumatic Conveying. The Centre has modern facilities for experimental, analytical and development research activities. Research facilities are available in the following areas : Tribology, Maintenance Engineering and Machine Dynamics.

The cansultancy and sponsored projects worth Rs.50 lacs are being currently handled by the Centre.

8. Instrument Design % Development Centre The Centre, Interdisciplinary in nature, has been created to design and

develop scientific and industrial instruments. The faculty of this Centre, numbering 14, is engaged in sponsored projects/industrial consultancy and teaching in several interdisciplinary postgraduate courses of the Institute.

The Centre has professional expertise in the following disciplines : Electronics & Electrical; Optics; Mechanical; Industrial Design.

The consultancy and sponsored projects worth Rs.15 lacs and Rs.75 lacs, respectively, are being currently handled by the Centre.

9. Centre for Polymer Science & Engineering The activities of the Centre for Polymer Science & Engineering are to

undertake goal-oriented sponsored research, consulfancy projects and technical know-how tmnsfer. The Centre has eight faculty members, including two Honorary Visiting Faculty members.

The maior areas of activities include : Polymer Blends and Composites; Particulate and Fibre Modified Plastics; Wood-substitute Plastics; High Temperature Polymers; Liquid Crystalline Polymers; Flame Retardant Plastics; Computer Aided Modelling; Acrylic Fibres and Precursor of Carbon Fibre.

The consultancy and sponsored projects worth Rs.2.50 lacs and Rs. 1 17.00 lacs, respectively, are being currently handled by the Centre.

10. Centre for Rural Development % Technology The Centre works on all technological aspects relevant to rural

development. Its faculty numbering 8 is drawn from three streams: Engineering, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. -The Centre has done extensive work under various projects and consultancies reloted to rural development. Currently, consultancy and sponsored projects worth Rs. 1 lac and Rs.50 lacs, respectively, are being handled by the Centre.


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Appendix -II

ONGOING INTERNATIONAL SPONSORED PROJECTS

Title Proiect

UNESCO Chair Project in

Energy Engineering

Atmospheric and Ocean Modelling

in reloton to Asian Summer Monsoon

Port I: Atmospheric Modelling

(Indo-US collaborative Project)

Acid Rain Potential in Asia

Atmospheric and Ocean Modelling

in relotion to Asion Summer Monsoon

Port Il:Oceon Modelling (Indo-US

Collaborative Project)

Optical and Electron

Effects in Semiconductor Nanostructures

R&D in Nonlinear lntegroted

Optical Devices

SDonsorina Aaenq

UNESCO

Office of Naval

Research, USA

UNDP-WB

Office of Naval

Research, USA

European Commission

Indo-French Centre

For the Promotion of

Advanced Research

Europeon Commission Acoustic Chorocterizotion of Under-sea

Sediments To initiate

Commercial Application

M.Tech. Progromme in

VLSI: Design Tools and Technology

Studies of Organic ond Inorganic

Thin Films: Self Assembled Monoloyer

Templates or Metol Oxide Film Processing

(Indo-Israel Programme of S&T Cooperation

Implementation of a Four-User

Fibre Optic LAN Based on CDMA

Study of the Tronsmission of

Proteins through Porous Membrane and

the Fouling of the Membrone

Communication and lnstrumentotion

Networks In the lndion Civil lnfrostructure

Solid Waste Management through

Philips Semiconductors

Netherlonds

Dept. of SC. & Tech.

ETH Switzerland ond

ICTP Italy

Indo-French Centre for

the Promotion of

Advanced Research

Univ. of Strathclyde

U.K.

UNICEF

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Vermiculture

Study of the Air-Sea Interaction

Processes over India Seas during

South-West and North-East Monsoons

Effect of Realistic Eurasian Snow

Cover on Indian Summer Monsoon;

Numerical Experiments with

Regional Model

Office of Naval

Research, USA

National Science

Foundation, USA

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Appendix - III

LIST OF VIDEO PROGRAMMES DEVELOPED AT IIT DELHI

A. Semi Designed Video Modules : S.No. Title of the Programme

1 Image Enhancement

2 Image Processing in Frequency Domain

3 Detection of Lines & Circles in Digital Images

4 Image Compression

5 Recovering Shapes from a Single Image

6 Motion Estimation in Digital Images

7 Depth Estimation from a Pair of Stereo lmoges

8 Synchronous Machines

9 DC Machines

10 Technical Presentations

B. Single Concept Video Programmes : 1. Civil Engineering

i) Atterberg’s Limits

ii) Dewatering by Well Points

iii)Trioxial Shear Test

2. Educational Technology

i) Video Script Writing

ii) Video Power

iii)Video Teleteaching

iv) Overhead Projection

v) Soy it with Slides

3. Electrical Engineering

i) Electrical Machines Part-l

ii) Electrical Machines Part-II

4. General Engineering & Sciences

i) New Trends in Energy Savings

in Building

ii) Mechanics : An Insight

iii)Flow Visuolusation

5. Humanities & Social Sciences

i) Dynamics of English Speech

ii) Modern Technology-The Untold Story

Faculty

Prof. K.K. Biswas

Prof.K.K. Biswas

Prof. K.K. Biswas

Pr0f.K.K. Biswas

Prof. K.K. Biswas

Prof. K. K. Biswas

Pr0f.K.K. Biswas

Prof.S.S. Murthy

Prof.S.S. Murthy

Dr. Veena Kumar

Authors

Prof. SK. Gulhati

Dr. Manot Dutta

Pr0f.S.K. Gulhati

Prof.K.L. Kumar

Prof. K.L. Kumar

Prof. K.L. Kumar

Prof.K.L. Kumar

Prof. K.L. Kumor

Pr0f.S.S. Murthy

Prof.S.S. Murthy

Prof.N.K.Bansal

& Prof. G. Minke

Prof. K.L. Kumar

Prof.K.L. Kumar

DrVeena Kumar

Prof.f?L. Dhar


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6. Mechanical Engineering

i) Sand Casting

ii) Transverse Cold Rolling

7. Textile Technology

i) Air-jet Texturing

ii) Textile Screen Printing

iii) Dyeing & Printing with

Reactive Dyes

iv) Dyeing & Printing of

of Silk with Reactive Dyes

v) Vat Dyeing

vi) Colourotion with AZOICS

vii)Banned Dyes and Chemicals

8. Other Topics

(i) Rood Safety in India

(iii) Zero Defect Quality

C. Complete Video Courses : 1. Computer Science & Engineering

S.No. Name of the Course

1 Computer Architecture

2 Data Structures

3 Micro Computers: Design and Applications

4 Anolysis and Design of Algorithms

5 Database Management Systems

6 Computer Graphics

7 Programming Lanuguages

8 Computer Networks

Dr. R. Sagar

Prof. B.L. Juneia &

Dr. B. Kopur

Prof. V.K. Kothari &

Prof. Kushal Sen

Prof. M.L. Guiroioni &

Prof. Kushal Sen

Prof.M.L. Gulratani &

Prof. Kushol Sen

Pr0f.M.L. Gulraioni &

Prof. Kushal Sen

Prof. M.L.Gulrotani &

Prof. Kushol Sen

Prof. M.L.Gulraiani &

Prof. Kushol Sen

Prof. M.L.Gulratoni &

Prof. Kushol Sen

Prof. Dinesh Mohan

Philips B. Crossby.

Faculty

Prof. Anshul Kumar

Prof. B.B. Madan

Prof. Anshul Kumar

Prof. S.N. Maheswari

Dr. S.K. Gupta

Prof. K.K.Biswas

Dr. Arun Kumar

Prof. B.N.Jain

2. Electrical Engineering


1 Digitol Communication

2 Signols & Systems

3 Introduction to Electronic Circuits

4 Control Engineering

5 Circuit Theory

6 Telematics

7 Analog Electronic Circuits

8 Engineering Electromognetics

Faculty

Prof. Surendra Prasad

Prof. S.C. Dutto Roy

Prof. S.C. Dutta Roy

Prof. M.Gopal

Prof. S.C. Dutta Roy

Faculty from 5 IlTs & IlSc Bangalore

Prof. S.C. Dutto Roy

Dr. Sheel Adityo


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3. Civil Engineering


1 Environment01 Pullution

2 Water Management

4. Mechanical Engineering

S.No. Nome of the Course

1 Manufacturing Process

2 Computer Aided Design

5. Textile Technology


1 Textile Finishing

2 Textile Printing

3 Pre-Treatment of Textiles

4 Introduction to Dyeing of Textiles

6. Chemical Engineering


1 Polymer Processing

7. Industrial Design


1 Perspectives on Industrial Design Research

8. Physics


1 Quantum Mechanics

9. lndion Philosophy


1 The Message of the Upanishods

2 The Messoge of the Bhagavod Gita

3 The Message of Sri Aurobindo

D. Visual Reporting of R&D/ConsuItoncy Projects

Faculty

Dr. Mukesh Khore

Dr. A.K. Gosain

Faculty

Prof. R.S. Pormar

Dr. A.Chawlo

Faculty

Prof. Kushal Sen

Prof. R.B.Chavan

Prof. M.L. Gulratani

Prof. M.L. Gulratani

Faculty

Prof. Ashok Misro

Faculty

Prof. Bruce Archer

Dr. L.K. DOS

Faculty

Prof. A.K. Ghatok

Faculty

Dr. Koran Singh

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Appendix-IV

LIST OF IPR CASES PROCESSED DURING THE YEAR 1997-98

S.No. Title

PATENTS ACCEPTED:

1 A Single Phase Alternating Current

Generator

2. Injectable Reversible Contraceptive

Formulation for Males (This has also

been potented in USA, Molaysia, China

and Bongladesh)

PATENTS APPLIED FOR :

3. A Novel packing for medical devices,

like Copper-T etc.

4 Form Fill Continuous medical

packaging scaling machine

5. Peelable Heat Seal for Thermoplastic

Films withoutSurface preporotion

6. Improved Injectable Reversible

Contraceptive Formulation For Moles,

and Method of Preporation & Use Thereof.

7. A Device for Restoration of Male Fertility

8. Non-lnvosive Anorectal Manometer

9. Thermoelectric Cooler

10. An Improved Process for Discharge

Printing

1 1. A Process for Improving the

Dyeability of Acrylic Fiber

12. Hingeless Foldable and Unfoldable

, Device and Mechanism Thereof

13. Flat Antenna to Transmit and to

Receive Circularly Polarised Signals

14. A Gun Diode Oscillator in Suspended

Stripline Configuration With Evanescent

Mode Waveguide Termination

15. An Online PC operated Goniophotometer

16. An improved process for preparation of

17.

Ultra High Molecular Weight Poly

(oxyethyleneoxyterphthaloyl) ond Products Thereof

DESIGNS REGISTERED:

Printed Antenna (One design in class-3)

Inventor(s)

Prof.S.S.Murthy, E.E.

Prof. S.K.Guha. CBME

Prof.S.K.Guha, CBME

Prof. S.K.Guha, CBME

Prof. S.K. Guho, CBME





Prof. R.B. Chovan, T.T.

DcBhuvonesh Gupto and

Prof.A.K.Mukertee, T.T.

Dr. Atul Bhasker, M.E.

Prof.Sheel Adityo, E.E.

Prof. Bharathi Bhot and

Prof. S.K.Koul, CARE

Prof. N.K. Bansol, CES

Dr. U.S. Agarwal, CE

Prof.Sheel Adiya, E.E.

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18. A Packing for Medical Device for

Cappter-T etc. (three designs in class-3)

DESIGNS APPLIED FOR:

19. A Packing for Medical Device for

Copper-T etc. (one design in class-3)

20. A packing for Medical Device for

Tubal Ring etc. (one design in class-3)

2 1 A Packing for Medical Device for

Surgical gloves etc. (one design in class-3)

22.. A Pocking for Medical Device for

Syringe etc. (one design in class-3)

COPYRIGHTS ACCEPTED:

23. Computer Programme far Design of

Reinforced Concrete Column Section

of any Shape

24. Analysis & Some Design Aspects of o

Novel Deployment System for Space

Structural Applications

25. Finline CAD (DOS Version 1.1)

26. Finline CAD (Window Version I. 1)

COPYRIGHTS APPLIED FOR:

27. A Technique to Identify the Diagnostic

Check Points using Fault Simulation

28. Design of Diagnostic Signature

Comparison Register (DSCR)

29. A Technique for Testing and Fault

Diagnosis Based on Diagnostic Check

30. An Integrated Solution for

Built-in Self Test

31. A Scheme for Diagnosis of Integrated

Circuits with Built-in Self-Test &

Self Check.

32. A Deriver for Control of Online Prof. N.K. Bansal, CES

Operation of PC Operated

Goniophotometer

(Software in MATIAB language)

33. A Deriver for Control of Online Prof. N.K.Bansal, CES

Operotion of PC Operated Goniophotometer

(Software in TURBO C+ + language)

34. Dynamic Analysis of Dual rotor System Prof. K. Gupta, ITMMEC

with an lntershoft Squeeze Film Damper

35. Circuit Design of Single Phase 2:wire, Dr.A.K. Mukeriee, CES

Static Watt-Hour Meter with Liquid






Prof. SK. Guha, CBME

Prof.S.N.Sinha, CE

Dr. Atul Bhasker, ME

ProfS.K.Koul, CARE

Prof. Bharothi Bhat

Prof. SK. Koul, CARE

Prof. Anshul Kumar, CSE




Prof. Anshul Kumor, CSE


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Crystal Display.

36. Circuit Design of Single Phase 4-wire,

Static, Watt-Hour Meter with

Electra-mechanical Display.

37. Circuit Design of Single Phase 2-wire,

Static, Watt-Hour Meter with

Electra-Mechanical Display

38. Computational and Experimental

Investigations on the Design, Development

and Testing of a Voriable Valve Timing

Mechanism for a Single Cylinder

Spark Ignition Engine.

Dr. A.K.Mukertee, CES

Dr. A.K.Mukeriee, CES

Prof. M.K.G. Bobu, CES

39. Suspended Substrate Transmission

Line CAD (Softwore Prof. S.K.Koul and

In Fortron & Turbo-C language)

40. CAD of Suspended Stripline Low

Pass Filter (Software in Prof. SK. Koul,

ond Fortron & Turbo-C longuages)

4 1. Development of DSP Bosed Controller

for Active Power Filter

Prof.BharothiBhot, CARE

Prof.BharothiBhot, CARE

42. Performonce Evaluation of

Active Power Filter

43. Real Time Knowledge Bosed

Supervisory Control of AC Drives

44. Swollen State Polymerisation &

Solution Spinning of Poly Ethylene

terphtholote.

Prof. C.M. Bhotia, EE

Prof. CM. Bhatio, EE

Prof. C.M. Bhatio, EE

Dr. U.S.Agarwal, CE


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TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT MISSION PROJECTS AT I-IT DELHI

Area Title of the Project

NM Development of Binden

Using High Pressure

Reaction

NM Prototyping and

Development of Thermo-

Formed Products Bowed

on Poly- Corbonote and/

or Other Engineering

Plastic Products

PDT Design ond Fobricotion

of lntegroted Optic

Power Splittters/Combines

PDT Development of

integroted Optic Power

Splitters/.Combiners

PDT Fibre Optic Components

Devices And Sensors

PDT Real Time Optical

Processing and

Development of

(i) Liquid Clystol tight

Valve-spotiol tight

Modulotor And

(ii) Photo Refractive

Correlotor for

Machine Vission

PDT Reol Time Fibre

Optic Loco1

Area Network

NM Advanced Ceramics

GEB Production ond

Application of Enzymes

in process industries

EEDT Efficient Tech&logy

for Surface N’itriding

of Automobile ond

Other Machine ports

Principle Investigator/

Prof. I.K. Veno, CPSE

Prof. Ashok Mishro, CPSE

Dr. A.K. Ghosh, CPSE

Dr. Devi Choddho, EE

Dr. Sheel Adityo, EE

Dr. Sudhir Chondro, CARE

Dr. Ami Chond, CARE

Prof. A.K. Ghotok, Physics

Prof. B.H Pol, Physics

Prof. Koran Singh, Physics

Prof. T.C. Goel, Physcis

Prof. Vmod Chondro, E.E.

Prof. T. C. Gal, Phpirc

Prof. Subhosh Chond, DBEB

Prof. R.P Dohiyo, CES

Colloboroting industry

HMG Industries Ltd.

GE Plastics lndlo Ltd.

Gllrgoon

C-DOT, New Delhi

C-DOT, New Delhi

Optel Communication,

Bhopol

DRDO, New Delhi

Optel Comunicotion,

Bhopol

DOE

HMG Industries Ltd.,

Bomboy

SIMCO Udyog ltd.,

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INDUSTRV INTERACTIONS

EEDT Development of

Engine Systems For

Rurol Applications Using

Renewable Goseous Fuels

EEDT Design Modifications

to improve Fuel

Economy ond Emmissions

of 0 Convention01

Two Wheeler Two

Stroke Spork Ignition Engine

NM Development of

Polyester/EPOXY Hybrid

Resins for

Powder Coatings

NM Development of

New Fibre ond

Film Grade Polymeric

Materials

PDT Development of on

Optaelectgronic

Fibre Inspection System

for Identification,

Storage and Anallysir

Of Fabric Defect Informations

EEDT Eco-friendly Hybrid

Vehicles

NM Designing New Materials

Prof. R. P Gour, M.E.



Prof. R.R. Gour, M.E.

Prof. Veeno Choodhury,

CPSE

Prof. I. K. Vermo, CPSE

Dr. Ashwini K. Agorwal, TT

Prof. Pushpo Batat, Tl

Dr. B. K. Behro, TT

Prof. E K. Hori, TT

Prof. R. Arakioswomy,

IDDC

Sh. B.K. Chakmvorthy, Me.

Prof. Ashok Mishm, CPSE

Moruti Udyog ltd.,

Gurgoon

LML Ltd., Konpur

IOC Ltd., Foridobod

HMG Industries Ltd.

Bomboy

Modipon Fibers Co.,

Modinogor

Prolific Engineers

Noida

Crompton Greaves

Wipro infotech Group

Apple Divisan, Delhi

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LIST OF TECHNOLOGIES TRANSFERRED TO INDUSTRY

S.No. Technologies

01. Microelectronic

Education Kit

02. Fibre Optics

Educotionol Kit

03. AC Static Wott Hour

Meter Gloss 1 8 2

04. Solor Photovoltoic

Lantern

05.

06.

07.

08.

09.

Power Electronics lab.

Experiment01 Module

A 2 PIN 12 V CFL Bosed

Solar Lantern

Pockaging Materiol

for Sterile Medical

Device

Self Excited Single Phase

Induction Genemtors

3 Phose Meter Class I

10. Optical Film Thickness

Monitor

11. Design of Super

Criciticol

12. Process for

Manufacture of Pofyaniline

and Product Thereof

13. Vaccine Comer

14. Vaccine Carrier-cum-

Portable freeze

15. Blood-Bag Storage Unit

Inventor’s Name

Praf.A.B. Bhattacharya

CARE

Prof. A.K. Ghotok, Physics

Prof. A.K. Muketjee, CES

Prof. A.K. Mukerjee, CES

Prof. CM. Bhotio

E.E.

Prof. A.K. Mukerjee, CES

Prof. SK. Guho, CBME

Prof. S.S. Murthy, E.E.

Prof. A.K. Mukertee, CES

Prof. A.K. Muketjee, CES

Prof. R.C. Maheshwari,

RDAT

Prof. I.K. Vano, CPSE

ltd., Noida

Prof. S. K. Guha, CBME

Prof. S. K. Guho, CBME


Client Nome

M/s. Bhushon 8 Bhushon,

New Delhi

M/s. Horyono State Electronics

Dev. Corpn., Ambolo Cantt

M/s. Accurate Meters Pvtltd.,

Noido

M/s. UP Hill Electronics ltd.

lucknow

M/s. Amor Enterprises,

Bulandshohor

M/s. Hi-light Electronics,

Pouri Gorhwal

M/s. Vynitics Periphemls Pvt.

ltd., New Delhi

M/s. UP Hill Electronics Ltd.,

lucknow

M/s. Paper Products Ltd.,

Mumboi

M/s. Crompton -5 Greaves ltd.,

Bomboy

M/s. Accurate Meters ltd.,

Noido

M/s. Vacuum Instruments Co.,

New Delhi

M/r. Pmkshey Aromatic Pd. Ltd.,

M/s. Intotherm Polymers Pvt.

M/s. UMC Monufocturing Pvt.

ltd., New Delhi


Ltd., New Delhi

M/s. UMC Manufacturing Pvt.

Ltd., New Delhi

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, DELHI.

16. Water Cooler

17. Deep Freeze

18. Process for

of Penicillin-

G Acylose Enzyme

19. Automatic Gloss

Tronsmission

Measurement Device



Dr. Vikmm Sohoi 8

Prof. Subhosh Chond,

DBEB

Dr. S. Mukheriee,

Mech. Engg.


ltd., New Delhi

M/s. UMC Manufacturing Pvt.

Ltd., New Delhi

M/s. Sudmon lobs. Ltd.,Production

New Delhi

M/s. Research Instrumentation,

New Delhi

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