IIT Foundation Approved Projects, 2004-2006

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The IIT Foundation Board of Directors has approved the following programs for funding:

1. Unrestricted Fund

These funds would be used for any or all of the approved IIT Foundation programs at the discretion of IIT Foundation Board of Directors.

2. Student Scholarships

Attract the best students to IIT Kharagpur. We believe that high student quality is critical to IIT Kharagpurs continued success. IIT Foundation Board has currently approved funding of graduate research assistant scholarships that will attract the best B.Tech. students in India to join its Advanced VLSI Lab ("AVLSI") program. This will provide B.Tech. students a chance to pursue 3-year research at this lab. The lab offers world class VLSI design, manufacturing and testing capabilities. A large number of the students have graduated from this program and have joined MIT, Princeton and companies such as TI, National Semiconductor.

The IIT Foundation AVLSI Lab team is led by Dr. Sudipta Bhawmik, Program Executive (Senior Engineer, Agere Systems) and includes Dr. Prith Banerjee (Dean, University of Illinois, Chicago), Dr. Bijoy Chatterjee (Director, National Semiconductor), Dr. Purnendu Chatterjee (Chairman, Chatterjee Group), Shail Kumar (President, IIT Foundation), Dr. Ram Mohan (Sr. Engineer, Intel), Arjun Malhotra (Chairman & CEO, Headstrong), Dr. Suhas Patil (Chairman-emeritus, Cirrus Logic). IIT faculty team includes Dr. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti (Dean, Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC) and Professor-in-charge, AVLSI Lab), and Dr. Amit Patra (Associate Professor-in-charge, AVLSI Lab).

3. Visiting Faculty Program

Attract the top-tier faculty from around the world to visit, teach and conduct research at IIT Kharagpur. We believe that visiting faculty deliver a fresh perspective, and expose students and faculty to new course materials and way of thinking. All our past engagement in visiting faculty has delivered raving feedback from students and faculty. IIT Foundation Board has decided to institutionalize this program. The visits could be for 3-5 days, one month or even a semester. Currently the Alumni Advisory Council, that is driving the Visiting Faculty program, is piloting this program in Computer Science, Electronics and Electrical Communications, and Electrical Engineering departments. Once the processes have been streamlined this program will be expanded to include all departments.

The IIT Foundation Alumni Advisory Council that is overseeing the Visiting Faculty program is led by Dr. Anjan Bose, Chairman (Dean, Washington State University) and Dr. Sunil Gaitonde, Program Executive (Chairman, Sarvega). The team also includes Dr. Prith Banerjee (Dean, University of Illinois, Chicago), Dr. Parvati Dev (Associate Dean Learning Technologies, Stanford Medical School), Dr. Pradeep Khosla (Dean, Carnegie Mellon University), and Shail Kumar (President, IIT Foundation). IIT faculty team includes Dr. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, Computer Science (Dean, SRIC and Professor-in-charge, AVLSI Lab), Dr. Saswat Chakrabarti, Electronics and Electrical Communications, and Dr. Amit Patra, Electrical Engineering (Associate Professor-in-charge, AVLSI Lab).

4. Quality of Student Life Program

Improve the quality of student life at IIT Kharagpur. We believe that current and future students deserve better facilities. The program is currently on the drawing boards and gathering momentum. The ideas include focus on improved and cleaner Hall Kitchens, bathrooms, common room, etc. on one hand to building a state-of-the-art health and recreation center for all the students on the other. The IIT Foundation Executive Committee and Dean of Alumni Affairs are working on this to develop a prioritized list of projects. If you have any suggestions please write to info@iitfoundation.org .

5. Endowment Fund

The principal from the Endowment Fund will be preserved, and only the interest from this fund will be spent on the various programs.

6. Nina Saxena Memorial Fund

In February of 2006, the Board of Governors of IIT Kharagpur approved The Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award, a first-of-it's-kind, India-wide award to encourage and promote technical innovation. The award also commemorates the spirit and memory of it's alumna Dr. Nina Saxena, B.Tech (Hons.), ECE 1992 who passed away tragically in 2005.

This award, to be conferred every year at the IIT Foundation Day, is made possible by contributions from IIT Kharagpur Alumni to remember Dr. Saxena's desire and drive for technical excellence, during her short but illustrious life.

The first award is to be conferred at the IIT Foundation Day, August 18th, 2007.

The award will be open to all Technologists who are Indian Citizens.

This award will be made to the technologist, for the best application of technological practices or a technological breakthrough. The best technical innovation shall be decided based on the following dimensions and in the following order of importance:

a) Innovation above and beyond well known results

b) Novel Application of a well known result

c) Societal improvement

d) Benefit to India

e) Application of Technology to underdeveloped areas and causes

A distinguished committee will be formed every year by IIT Kharagpur chaired by the Director, to decide the award. The nominations have to be sent to IIT Kharagpur and the committee will make its decision based on the nominations.

Additional details of nomination process will be announced soon. For more details, please visit http://fund.ninasaxena.com.

7. IIT Kharagpur -- UC Berkeley Collaboration

Donations to this fund will be applied towards IIT Kharagpur -- UC Berkeley Collaboration.