EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES @IIST

Vinay K Dadhwal

Director, IIST

NRSC User Interaction Meet - 2018Jan 18, 2018 at HICC, Hyderabad

EO & Geospatial Education

• Expanding use of space observations & geospatial technologies calls for stepped up efforts in relevant education (training, degrees, capacity building)

• ISRO/DOS supplements the formal education sector and role of various private entities in this area.

• ISRO/DOS Institutions for Education –– Indian Institute of Remote Sensing

(IIRS)

– Indian Institute of Space Science& Technology (IIST)

State RS Centre

RCs

Other DOS/ISRO Centres

IIRS

NRSC & RCs

SAC

IIST

Capacity Building 2016-17: Overall Summary

• Individual CB: Education, training, employment and Mentoring ….. for future Professionals

• Structured Training Programs (in-house)

• Train the Trainers (School, UG teachers)

• Tailor-made Training Programs

• Active Learning & Offline Outreach Programs

• Interactive Workshops

Targeted CB Programs:

Research Outreach

Capacity Building&

ProfessionalExcellence

Masters,PG Diploma,Certificate &Tailor-made

Courses

Research Projects

EDUSAT-DLP,Support to

External Students & Researchers, etc.

Training & Education

ResearchProjects

Source: A. Senthil Kumar, 2017

Building @ IIRS, DehradunCapacity

o Professionals trained in IIRS: 10, 614

o M. Tech. students: 263 and M.Sc. Students:180 (since 2002)

o Tailor Made Courses: 3,695 and Certificate 2,869

o Distance Learning (EDUSAT based Program): >35,000 from 550 Institutes/

Colleges/Govt / Individuals.

Achievement (till March 2017)

Training Programmes on RS&GIS

• PGD, Certificate (Sponsored by ITEC, MEA)

• Course for Univ. Faculty (NNRMS Sponsored)

• Decision Makers Course (4 days)

• User -Specific /Tailor made courses(1-8 weeks)

• CSSTEAP Programmes (IIRS, SAC, PRL & ISAC)

Educational Programmes

• M.Tech. in RS & GIS (24 months)

Affiliated to Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

• M.Sc. in Geo-informatics (18 months) • As Joint Educational Program with ITC (Twente University

IIST : Background

• DOS registered a Society on 3rd January 2007, under Travancore-

Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration

Act 1955 (XII of 1955)

• UGC awarded IIST the status of Deemed-to-be-University in 2008

• IIST started functioning at an alternate campus in the premises of

VSSC on 14 September 2007

• Institute shifted to its permanent Campus at Valiamala on August

15, 2010

• Initial UG admissions (2007-08, 156 students ) were made from

extended list of IIT-JEE

IIST - Outcome Summary

2017 Cumulative

Enrolment - UG 140 1582

Enrolment - PG 83 465

Enrolment - PhD 27 220

Awarded BTech 151 921

Awarded MTech* 83 290

Awarded PhD 11 38

BTech

Placement

(ISRO)

101 775

MTech* - Includes Master of Science

External Review/Ranking/Assessment

YEAR AGENCY FINDING Remarks

2012 UGC (5 yr) Excellent-Adequate Placement, - On various

parameters of UGC criteria

2016 NIRF 8th National Rank as

University

Single category permitted,

smaller participation

2017 NIRF 28th as Engineering

35th as University

56th as Overall

Larger sample (includes

pharmacy, management etc),

multiple category ranking

2017 UGC (II 5

yrly)

- 29-31 Jan 2018 Chair Prof S P Pandey

IIST Valiamala Infrastructure - Status

1. Aerospace Block

2. Physical sciences block

3. Avionics Blocks

4. Inter-disciplinary Block

5. Administrative Block

6. Students Activity Centre

7. Hostel Blocks

8. Library Building

9. Utilities in Plot - I

10. Convocation cum

Seminar complex

11. Housing

12. Other Services including

CMD, Transport, Medical

etc

13. Common Services

including bank post office

etc

Faculty

1

4

7

42

32

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3

3

4

2

Outstanding Prof

Sr. Professor

Professor

Assoc Prof

Assist Prof

Reader

Adjunct Professor

Reader(*C)

Visiting Faculty (*C)

DST Inspire Faculty

Faculty by Designation

25

23

9

14

5

11

12

Aerospace Engg

Avionics

Chemistry

Earth & Space Sci.

Humanities

Mathematics

Physics

Faculty by Department

As on, March 2017

Faculty : 99

Avg Age: 40.5 years

UG ADMISSION EVOLUTION

YEAR Program Procedure Applicants

2007 B(AV, AE), D(PS)* IIT JEE

2008 B(AV, AE, PS) IIT JEE

2009 -do- IIT JEE

2010 -do- ISAT

2011 -do- ISAT

2012 -do- ISAT

2013 -do- JEE(M)+CBSE

2014 -do- * JEE(M)+CBSE

2015 B(AV, AE), D(EP) JEE(M)+CBSE

2016 B(AV, AE), D(EP) JEE(M)+CBSE

2017 B(AV, AE), D(EP) JEE(Adv)

Post-Graduate Program

Aerospace Engg. Thermal & Propulsion Engg (2012)

Aerodynamics & Flight Mechanics (2012)

Structures & Design (2013)

Avionics RF & Microwave Engg (2012)

Digital Signal Processing (2012)

Control Systems (2013)

VLSI & Microsystems (2013)

Power Electronics (2016)

Chemistry Material Science & Technology (2013)Chemical Systems (2010-2012

Earth & Space

Science

Earth System Science (2013)

Geoinformatics (2013)

MS- Astronomy & Astrophysics (2013)

Mathematics Machine Learning & Computing (2013)Soft Computing & Machine Learning (2010-12)

Physics Optical Engg (2012)

Solid State Technology (2013)

Engg : Engineering

26

14 15

0

10

20

2010 2012 2013 2016

PG Programs

PG Programs

ISRO/DOS Linkages

UG Students Provided Assistance ship – Sign a bond

Absorption in ISRO (Total – 775 till 2017)

PG/ MTech Improving Staff Qualification

(Full time residential)

PhD Part-time PhD (Only for ISRO-DOS Permanent

Staff) (10 High Value) +

IIST-ISRO Research

Projects

On-demand, Joint Review Teams, Funded entirely

through IIST (48 Proj.)

ASTDC Office with Chief Research Scientist,

Coordinates/Reviews IIST-ISRO Projects

Training/Workshops Need-based

ISRO Projects (Part of team for New Project on Electric Propulsion

with LPSC) (2017)

(Status : Sep 2017)

Research in IIST

1. No. Peer-reviewed journal publications

2. Patent Applications (12)

3. Products/Processes of interest to ISRO

4. Absorbing global outcomes through International

Collaborations

Capability -- Capacity --- (Hard Work ? !) --- Outcome Metrics

(Researchers..Budget)

PhD Program

• Admitted : 204

• Completed : 33 (Full time: 26; Part time 7)

• On Rolls: 148 (Full time: 114; Part time 34)

• Discontinued: 23 (Full time: 20; Part time 3)

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PhD Program

Discontinued Awarded Completed On Rolls

Admitted Completed On Rolls

Selected PhD Topics in Remote SensingD. Gyaneshwar FPGA based real-time classification of hyperspectral

image stream

ongoing

Sudhanshu sekhar Hyperspectral target detection under complex

environments

ongoing

Manohar Kumar Sparse computation based spectral Unmixing of

hyperspectral images

ongoing

Reji Ground and airborne laser scanning for 3D modelling of

agricultural crop fields

ongoing

Malavika Objet based fusion of terrestrial LiDAR and hyperspectral

imagery

ongoing

Arthi aishwarya Urban expansion modelling using cellular automata. ongoing

Dhanya pankar Algorithmsd for automatic registration of 3D point cloud

and

2016

Bharath bhushan Dynamic ensemble algorithms for hyperspectral image

classification

2014

Arun prasad Mangrove species classification using hyperspectral data 2016

Ramiya A M 3D Semantic labelling of urban LiDAR point cloud and

multispectral data

2016

Refereed Journal Publications

020406080

100120140160

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Dept & Year – wise Journal Publications

AE

AV

Chem

ESS

Maths

Phy

Hum.

AE17% AV

12%

Chem27%

ESS12%

Hum7%

Math10%

Phy15%

717

(10 Year Total Publications)

IIST-ISRO Projects : a sample

• Intrinsically conducting polyimide composites with CNT or graphene

with good optical properties. (with VSSC)

• Flexible Wiping Substrate for SERS detection of explosives.(with VSSC)

• Development of carbon foam – CMC sandwich composites. (with VSSC)

• Comprehensive stationary plasma thruster diagnostics instrumentation.

(with LPSC)

• Design and Development of High Performance Hydrogen Sensor (with

IPRC)

• Development of Novel N2O4 scrubber system. (with IPRC)

• Design and development of a Ka band antenna system to be used for

Cartosat 3 data reception. (with NRSC)

• Design and development of two ASICS. (with SCL)

• Surface engineering techniques for improving the life performance of

ball bearings in ISRO spacecraft mechanisms. (with IISU)

International Collaborations

YEAR ORGANISATION SCOPE REMARKS

2017 Univ Cambridge Space Telescope for future Includes ISRO Centers

2017 Max Planck Partner Research Group Funded by Max Planck

2017 Univ Colorado/

LASP

Student Satellite - INSPIRE Multi-Univ, UNOOSA,

Ground Reception @ IIST

2017 DOS-CalTech Topper Avionics for MS

CalTech AAReST Multiple cubesats Being Finalised

Scientific Outreach Activities

Aerospace Jointly with Scientific Societies @

Avionics Jointly with IEEE & others @

Chemistry National Conference on Material

Science & Technology

ESS GeoConnect

IIST Astronomy & Astrophysics School

Physics Jointly with Scientific Societies @

Mathematics Young Talent Nurture

Humanities Clubs at IIST for socially relevant

(Orphanage & Tribal villages)

@: Opportunity based activity once 2/3 years

Automatic point cloud registration(Dhanya Pankaj , PhD 2016)

• IIST Remote Sensing Laboratory

Drone flying for experimental cropplots in Bangalore

Integrated Feed Design (S X Ka) with NRSC

Predicted view of complete Integrated SystemIntegrated Feed design flow

Work Ahead

Few round of optimizations considering design tolerance analysis and finalization of the design

Fabrication and characterization for impedance and radiation characteristics

Installation in the existing parabolic reflector (7.5 mtr) in NRSC Hyderabad.

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