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Attn: Ms Meena Joshi Attn: Treasurer Assistant Registrar (External Relations) IIT Gandhinagar Foundation Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar 450 Melville Avenue Palaj, Gandhinagar 382355 Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA Gujarat, India Email: [email protected] Tel: +91 79 2395 2429 Fax: +91 79 2395 2032 Donate online: iitgn.org/donate Email: [email protected] All donations are 100% tax exempt from IRS in Donate online: donate.iitgn.ac.in the United States. (EIN 27 - 0721459)

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TEL: +91-79-3245-989 6 WWW.DONATE.IITGN.AC.IN PALAJ, GANDHINAGAR - 382355, INDIA IIT Gandhinagar needs your support to strengthen the institute’s work in recruiting and retaining talented faculty, promoting top-notch research and developing exciting graduate and undergraduate initiatives.

IIT GANDHINAGAR RELIES ON THE SUSTAINED GENEROSITY OF ITS FRIENDS FOR SUPPORT OF MANY OF ITS EXCITING AND INNOVATIVE INITIATIVES.

IITGN partners share our dream and vision of excellence. fostering a culture of free inquiry, innovation and The institute has developed a reputation for thinking excellence. We invite you to join us in this initial historic outside traditional disciplinary boundaries, experimenting phase in the life of the Institute and in its development reengineering engineering education with various facets of education and research and into a world-class university. IIT GANDHINAGAR STRIVES TO OFFER THE BEST UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE COUNTRY WITH UNMATCHED INNOVATIONS IN CURRICULUM. world class faculty IITGN places great emphasis on globalization and diversity. Almost a third of IITGN students have study IITGN BELIEVES THAT ITS ASPIRATIONS OF BECOMING A GLOBALLY REPUTED UNIVERSITY abroad or other overseas experience in the form of overseas educational or internship opportunities. REST ON RECRUITING AND RETAINING A WORLD CLASS FACULTY. IITGN’s innovative undergraduate curriculum — which won the World Education Award 2013 for innovation in engineering education at the World Education Summit — includes an intensive five week foundation Endowed faculty chairs and research fellowships have enabled the institute to recruit exceptional faculty from programme to nurture creativity, communication skills, ethics, teamwork, social engagement, etc. To promote the world’s finest institutions, such as California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue critical thinking and an appreciation of the interdisciplinary character of knowledge, students take almost 20% University, University of Cambridge, University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University, Texas Tech University, of their coursework in the liberal arts, nearly twice the proportion of most other Indian engineering institutions. University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Max Planck Gesselschaft, Carleton University, Harvard University, University of Warwick, etc.

The fellowships and chairs enable the institute to recruit and reward talent by offering top-up compensation of nearly 25 percent of the regular faculty salary. As a result, IIT Gandhinagar offers among the most partner with iit gandhinagar EVERY CONTRIBUTION, SMALL OR LARGE, AIDS OUR ENDEAVOUR TO PURSUE EXCELLENCE. attractive financial packages to new faculty in India. JOIN US ON OUR JOURNEY TO A WORLD CLASS INSTITUTION. Vibrant visiting faculty, guest scholars and industry academic associate programmes contribute to diversity UNRESTRICTED GIVING: Unrestricted gifts support innovations in our academic programs and enable us to seize and globalization of the curriculum. Dozens of guest academics from all over the world come to the IITGN emerging opportunities, seed new research, and support or reward exceptional performance. campus every year; at times almost 20 percent of its faculty is visiting faculty.

TARGETED GIVING: You can also target your giving to specific institutional initiatives, such as: • Endowed faculty chairs or research fellowships to recruit and retain the world’s leading faculty members; centres of excellence • Excellence awards to reward exceptional performance by faculty and staff; IITGN HAS CREATED SEVERAL CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE • Travel support for students and faculty to participate in conferences or conduct research; WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF INDIVIDUAL, CORPORATE AND PUBLIC SUPPORTERS. • Pioneer PhD scholars programme to support doctoral students; • Overseas research experience fund for PhD students and young faculty; A Design and Innovation Centre has been developed with a major grant from Ricoh Company. A Safety • Merit scholarships for undergraduate students. Centre at IITGN has been endowed by a substantial grant from Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. A Bioengineering Centre has been developed with a major grant from the Gujarat Government. The institute SPECIAL GIFTS: We also welcome special gifts in targeted focus areas, which often serve to jumpstart new is also developing a Centre for Archeological Sciences. programs and initiatives at the college. Contact: [email protected]