Annual Report 2015-2016 (April 1, 2015 - March 31, 2016)
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Annual Report 2015-2016 (April 1, 2015 - March 31, 2016) www.iitd.ac.in 1 Our Vision “ To contribute to India and the World through excellence in scientific and technical education and research; to serve as a valuable resource for industry and society; “ and remain a source of pride for all Indians. 2 www.iitd.ac.in Contents 1. DIRECTOR’S REPORT 5 2. ABOUT US 10 3. ACADEMIC UNITS AT IIT DELHI 13 4. CURRENT DEGREE PROGRAMMES 14 5. PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS 17-74 • Performance Statistics 18 • Admissions 20 • Academic Performance 28 • Internship & Placement 34 • Staff Training Programmes 37 • Scholarships, Assistantships and Awards 39 • Infrastructure Development 46 • New Initiatives 58 • The Year in Perspective 65 6. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 75-86 • Academic & Sponsored Research 76 • Research Projects and Consultancy 77 • Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) 84 7. EVENTS 87-103 • Convocation 88 • Conferences / Workshops / Seminars / Lectures 90 • Interaction with Alumni 97 • Distinguished Visitors 99 8. FACULTY 104-112 • Faculty Awards / Recognitions 105 • Faculty in Position 109 • New Appointments, Retirements etc. 112 9. STUDENT ACTIVITIES 113-120 • Students Affairs Council (SAC) and its five Boards 114 • National Service Scheme (NSS) 119 • National Cadet Corps (NCC) 119 • Student Counselling Service (SCS) 120 • Student-teacher Interaction Committee (STIC) 120 10. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 121-123 • Relaxations to SC / ST / OBC / PD Students and Staff 122 • Scholarships and Financial Assistance 122 • Prepatory Course 122 • Concessions Allowed to Staff 123 • Summer Research Fellowship Programme 123 • Commitments in Sustainability 123 • Environment 123 • Community 123 11. ALUMNI CONTRIBUTION 124 12. FINANCIALS 125-127 APPENDICES 128-132 1. Senate 128 2. Administrative and other Staff 130 3. Other Committees 132 www.iitd.ac.in 3 Director’s Report IIT Delhi is pleased to release its Annual Report for the resources. With the support from the Government of India, year 2015-2016 and I am delighted to share with you the industry and the alumni, IIT Delhi has been able to create an highlights of our major activities, achievements, initiatives excellent infrastructure. While the Government has supported and future plans. us with generous funding for which we are grateful, our alumni have extended significant support to the institute. At the outset, it is a great pleasure and privilege for me to share that two Indian universities have got place in the top Our faculty is one of the finest in the country and is recognized 200 this year in QS Worldwide University Rankings, with IIT internationally for their quality of research, teaching and Delhi at a global rank of 179 and Asian rank of 42. It is also curriculum development. They also contribute greatly for an honor for IIT Delhi to be ranked No. 1 institution in India in the development of the nation by being associated with a the area of Engineering and Technology (globally ranked 44 in large number of decision making bodies, providing crucial this category based on faculty quality) and No. 2 in the areas guidance and advice on policy matters and technical issues. of natural sciences and social science & management. Subject Many faculty members received honours/awards and were wise, IIT Delhi figures out between 51-100 globally in Computer elected fellows of several professional national/international Science & information Systems, Chemical Engineering, Civil & bodies during the year 2015-16. Structural Engineering, Electrical & Electronics Engineering and During the period, international bibliographic databases have Mechanical Engineering. Department of Management Studies indexed around 1661 research articles published by faculty is in the top 100-150 slot. members and researchers of the institute in international IIT Delhi has also been ranked by various other agencies as journals including 1328 articles indexed in Scopus and 1022 follows: No. 1 in Outlook’s annual ranking amongst India’s top articles indexed in Web of Science, an international indexing 100 Engineering Institutions, No. 1 in the Country in Centre and citation database in Science, Technology and Social for World University Rankings (CWUR) and No. 341 among Sciences. The faculty members have also presented a similar the 25,000+ degree granting Institutions of higher education number of papers in national and international conferences. worldwide, No. 1 amongst engineering institution in India Besides, they have also published many books and conducted by EDU-RAND 2015 rankings, No. 13 as per BRICS QS ranking several continuing education programmes. for the year 2015-16, among top 100 in a world by Round The Booklet on “Report of the External Peer Review Panel” University Ranking (RUR) 2015. has been submitted to the IIT Council by the Institute. The Over the years, quietly but surely, we have built a strong same has also been uploaded on the Internal web of the research tradition, which can be seen by the impressive Institute. As per recommendations of the External Peer statistics in terms of various research indicators. Specially, we Review Committee, Vision Document of the Institute for next have continuously improved on our credentials in research as 10 years is being finalized. evidenced by way of publications and citations and Ph.Ds per Mechanism to setup Bio-design facility as part of Inter- faculty. In the last convocation of the Institute, 221 scholars Institutional Bio-design centre supported by DBT has been received their Ph.D. degrees. Our target of continuously completed. The facility is being setup as part of Centre for Bio- searching for and significantly increasing the intake of quality medical Engineering. The final proposal has been submitted candidates into our Ph.D. programmes is on the right course to DBT. Proposal of MOU for setting up Joint Advanced and we have grown to a significant level in this direction over Technology Centre (JATS) at IIT Delhi jointly with DRDO is the past few years. under process. IIT Delhi is committed to provide excellent human resource IIT Delhi is the Mentor Institute for setting up of IIT Jammu. to meet national needs and global expectations. It is a unique Professor-in-charge has been appointed for facilitating the institution and a dream destination for those who wish to be mentoring role in setting up of IIT Jammu. Suitable site has leaders in science, technology and management. IIT Delhi is been selected to setup the campus. IIT Jammu will start internationally recognized for delivering excellent education functioning from the next semester i.e. starting July, 2016. at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, while The following committees have recently been set up to endeavoring to become a great research institution. facilitate smooth functioning of IIT Jammu: (i) IIT Jammu While excellence has many parameters, setting up of state- Monitoring Committee (IIT JMC), (ii) IIT Jammu Curriculum of-the-art teaching and research infrastructure does require and Research Committee. www.iitd.ac.in 5 Director’s Report A new state of the art lecture theater (LT) Complex is now in The Institute provides seed research funding to the new operation on the campus. With a total built up area of around faculty upon joining the Institute to the tune of Rs. 10.00 400 thousand sq. ft., it has 2 lecture halls of 500 capacity, 3 lakhs. It has been revised now to Rs. 20 Lakhs with additional with 300 capacity and a large number of smaller class rooms. matching grant of upto Rs. 30 lakhs. During the year, the Up to 4600 students can be accommodated in the complex Institute sanctioned the New Faculty Research Grant of a total at any time. It is built by CPWD with a total outlay of about of Rs. 246 lakhs to 21 faculty members out of the total funds of 163 crores. Construction of Engineering Blocks B and C, one Rs. 500 lakhs earmarked for this purpose. more girls and boys hostel, faculty housing and a Science Park During the year under report, 135 Sponsored Research Projects are expected to start soon. Construction of block VII is also with a total funding of Rs. 72.10 crores and 360 consultancy expected to be taken up in this year. jobs with a total value of Rs. 28.69 crores were undertaken. Efforts have been initiated to make Campus and Offices 33 collaborative projects/consultancies with international Smart. A comprehensive report has been prepared and phase funding were also undertaken during the period. wise projects have been identified. A Steering Committee for Many research activities have taken place at the Institute execution and monitoring of progress has been setup. during the period. A one Petaflop high performance computing (HPC) facility has • Applied Mechanics Department has established active been setup which is now operational. research collaboration with AIIMS Delhi for various projects in Orthopaedics (IIT Delhi Ph.D. and M.Tech, AIIMS MS), and The construction of Innovative Education Centre is in full Cardiology (Indo-US Grant). swing at IIT Delhi extension campus at Sonepat, Haryana. Apart from providing a convention centre capable of housing • Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology conferences and training programmes, it would also support has made significant advances in production of incubation. It also includes a residential facility for participants, therapeutically active proteins in Pichia pastoris through faculty and in-residence young entrepreneurs. institute funded High impact research project. Through genetic as well as innovative process and control strategies, IIT Delhi was assigned the responsibility to host the prestigious large quantities (g/L) of Granulocyte colony Stimulating India International Science Festival (IISF) 2015, which was Factor are being produced in P. pastoris, a yeast expression held from 4th to 8th December 2015. The event was co- system. Similarly, advances have been made in expression organized by and the Ministry of Science & Technology and and secretion of Human Serum Albumin, another Earth Sciences, Govt.