Golden Jubilee Growth Fund

a. Various donors: Rs. 8.5 crores


With your support, our “Next 15” will be our best yet, both in terms of fund-raising, and in institutional high-rise. Here are some specific objectives that can be supported by building a sizable corpus, and deploying annual returns in a targeted manner:

   Societal Impact:

   • Achieve technology breakthroughs that have momentous consequences for the nation
   • Deploy R & D interventions in water, energy, environment, healthcare, housing, transport and education to benefit society
   • Target scale and sustainability when developing solutions for India’s “Grand Challenges”
   • Ensure full dissemination of achievements to address perception/ reputation gaps

   Research Centres of Excellence:

   • Identify and nurture selected CoEs with potential to be among the world’s best in their domain, and able to attract funding from various sources
   • Recruit high-quality faculty, including foreigners, to achieve diversity in thought
   • Promote internationalization with institutional tie-up’s, faculty collaborations and student mobility
   • Ensure commercial realization via IP protection and technology transfer

   Teaching/Training:

   • High degree of flexibility in undergraduate curriculum, large number of interdisciplinary Masters’ programs as part of a dual-degree
   • Market-driven online M.Tech. programs and certification courses
   • Induction of foreign students into M.Tech. programs
   • Use of Teaching/ Learning Centre to improve pedagogy and learning outcomes

   Academic Research:

   • Upgrade path from Masters’ programs to Ph.D.
   • Induction of foreign students into M.S. and Ph.D. programs with scholarships on offer
   • Strong postdoctoral research programs with good career prospects
   • Central Instrument Facility to avoid logjams in sample analysis

   Industry Relations:

   • Leverage Research Park fully to maximize connectivity of R & D Centres to IIT Madras faculty
   • Formation of industry Consortia to achieve scale in shared research
   • IP Office that handles Tech Transfer and commercialization aspects, including marketing
   • Induction of Professors of Practice to strengthen interface to industry

   Innovation & Entrepreneurship:

   • Enable larger fraction of students and faculty to pursue innovation & entrepreneurship
   • Provide connectivity to external incubators and innovation hubs
   • Involve large number of alumni as mentors and investors
   • Provide necessary on-campus infrastructure to coordinate innovation/ entrepreneurship-related activities

   Infrastructure:

   • Achieve a clean and modern ambience, preserving biodiversity and greenery
   • Build some iconic structures on campus that will enhance visitor experience
   • Provide sufficient accommodations on campus for faculty, students and Staff
   • Enable state-of-the-art facilities for classrooms and Research Centres

   Human Resources:

   • Recruit foreign faculty to enhance international character
   • Leverage Visiting Chairs and Adjunct Faculty to nucleate new areas of research
   • Provide incentives for junior, mid-level and senior faculty to continue to excel
   • Provide growth opportunities for non-academic Staff

   Internationalization:

   • Develop joint degree (Ph.D. & Masters’) programs with top 100 Universities in the world
   • Leverage membership in global University consortia to promote student and faculty exchanges
   • Offer summer/ winter research internships to foreign students
   • Participate strongly in GoI programs such as GIAN, VAJRA; develop Institute’s own programs modelled on these

   Alumni Relations/ Fund-Raising:

   • Establish tax-exempt Foundations in various geographies to facilitate donations
   • Target industry for CSR funds and Naming Rights, Foundations for sponsorships
   • Identify high-net-worth alumni, cultivate them for large contributions
   • Grow the alumni network through social media

   Perception:

   • Targeted publicizing of breakthrough technologies with deep social impact
   • Lecture tours for “star” faculty and Ph.D. scholars, and hosting of luminaries and opinion-makers on campus
   • Departmental Advisory Committees with substantial foreign participation
   • Annual Workshops on campus and abroad to disseminate latest achievements

With regards....
Prof. R. Nagarajan
Department of Chemical Engineering
Dean, International & Alumni Relations
IIT Madras

e-mail: deaniar@iitm.ac.in
Phone: +91 9444008390