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Akshai AggarwalVice-Chancellor
Gujarat Technological UniversityDec 3, 2011 e-mail: [email protected]
Can India have 'World-class' Universities?:
The Experiment in Gujarat
Gujarat Technological Gujarat Technological University, AhmedabadUniversity, Ahmedabad
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CSI Annual Convention 2011, Ahmedabad: ICT for Higher Education Can India have a world class university
Dr. AK Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Tech University The story behind world’s cheapest personal computer, Aakash
Prof P K. Kalra, Director, IIT Rajasthan Quality Assurance of Multimedia Learning Materials
Mr. B S Bhatia, Former Director, DECU How National Knowledge Network will be useful to Educational
institutes and Government organization,Mr. R S Mani, Sr Tech Director, NIC
Education on Demand over “Live Video” – The Next Big Thing in Education?Mr Niru Mehta, CEO, AttendByVideo
Agenda Vision -- (slide 4) About GTU -- (slides 5-8) Present: Where are we and the world today? -- (slides 9-18) Road map of Collaborations:
Research Boards and Centers Doctoral Program Master’s Program
Successful Collaborations with SMEs through GTU Innovation Sankuls with SMEs through GTU Sectoral Innovation Councils with Businesses through GTU Skills Councils
Concluding Slides -- (slides 36-40)
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Vision
Vision: to make GTU a hub of research, technology and entrepreneurship
Gujarat is Number #1in growth rate. It has become well-known for excellent governance. Need to develop new innovative and
revolutionary way to emulate a similar success in education to make GTU a world class university
GTU to be a Leader in Learning Outcomes through use of technology, Faculty Development Programs and through a collaborative model
To create centers and institutes of excellence in basic and applied science, engineering, technology and management
All the colleges (except faculties of universities) imparting education in Engineering, Pharmacy, MBA and MCA of the state brought under one roof 2008: Started UG programs in Engineering and
Pharmacy: DE, D Pharm, BE and B Pharm 2009: Started PG programs: MBA (four electives
and five sectorial specialization areas), MCA, M.Pharm (five specializations), ME (twenty two specializations)
30th September, 2011: Ph.D. programs
GTU Act # 20 of 2007
GTU (http://www.gtu.ac.in)
495 affiliated colleges close to 95% of seats in the state in the
fields of Engineering, Computer Science, Architecture, MBA, and Pharmacy.
Quality of learning outcomes and the Quality of research work at GTU: will largely determine the health of education in this state in these disciplines.
Footprint of GTU becoming progressively larger2010: GTU enrolled 101,054 new students to its first year of study in various programs 7
Course Total Available Seats in Gujarat at first year
No. of seats with GTU
No. of seats with all the other Universities in Gujarat
Detailed break- up with other Universities
B.E. (93) 37,103 34,079 3,024 Nirma:600; DDIT(GIA):345; DDIT(SFI):249; MSU:510;ChU:660;GanU:660
B.Pharm (85) 6,878 6,728 150 Nirma:60; DDIT(GIA):60; MSU:30
D.E.(83) 43,195 41,865 1,330 Nirma:600; DDIT(GIA):40; MSU:690
D.Pharm (18) 840 840 - -
ME (30) 1,897 1,206 691 DDIT:162;MSU:385;ChU:72;GanU:72.
M.Phram (32) 1,875 1,546 329 MSU:72;ChU:36;GanU:110; SP: 30; SauU: 81.
MBA (114) 12,070 10,830 1,240 GU: 90; BhU: 60; DDIT: 60; AhU:120; ChU: 120; Kadi SV: 120; GanU: 240; MSU: 40; KU: 60; NGU: 60; SPU: 60; SauU: 90; VNSGU: 120
MCA (49) 4,900 3,960 940 GU: 30; BhU: 60; DDIT: 60; AhU: 60; ChU: 120; MSU: 20; KadiSV: 120; SPU: 100; SauU: 60; VNSGU: 60; NGU: 60; Nirma: 60
Number of Graduate Students 2010-11:
13,582 seats in the 2-year Master’s programs of ME, M Pharm and MBA and
3,960 seats in the 3-year program of MCA
Total No of seats in the Master’s program: 13,582x2 + 3,960x3 = 39,044
a total student population of 350,000 in all the undergraduate and postgraduate courses 2012-13: about 400,000 students Needed:
27,200 experienced and committed professors / against about 12,000 as of today
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Explosive Growth, Quality of Education & Project Work
“…….there is a significant opportunity for India to continue to grow at 9-10 per cent. But what will hold us back is education and lack of manpower.”
---- Mr. S. Gopalakrishnan,
CEO, Infosys Ltd, in NDTV’s ‘Walk the Talk’ interview
The Indian Express, Ahmedabad, dt. 10th August, 2010
“.. Practical experiments and projects lie at the heart of the relationship between meaning and understanding”.1
1 G. Doughty et al., ‘Experimentation: how it reinforces self-learning’, Innovative Methods in Engineering, Educ., 43 (1992), 264–269
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Creating top-ranked Universities Attempts by Other countries European countries: through increased and
more focused funding Saudi Arabia: by using petro-dollars Pakistan: by using Saudi money to send 4000
teachers for doctorates to Europe China, over the last 15 years : Systematic,
focused and most successful effort Effective use of sabbaticals in western countries Exploiting the universities of the whole of
the world Now moving towards joint research labs etc
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A World-class University
Attracting scholars who are global leaders in their fields. Internationalization of faculty and students Leader in academic research and teaching Creating an eco system for innovation - leveraging
academic and industrial research Fostering entrepreneurship through management
education One-stop hub for continuing learning programs
through regular as well as distance educationReference: Center for World-Class Universities ( CWCU )
at Shanghai Jiao Tong University's (SJTU) -a strategic research unit of the Chinese Ministry of Education (http://gse.sjtu.edu.cn/EN/centers.htm)
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SJTU: From QS rank 179 (2006) to 124 (2011)
From ARWU rank 450 (2003) to 201(2011)!Characteristics of a world-class university: a high concentration of talent, abundance of resources and autonomy in academic
investment autonomous governance in recruitment of students and
faculty, in learning systems and in assessment systems
carries out education and research in a wide range of disciplines and
makes great efforts to serve both national needs and international public good
Reference: Qi Wang, “Internationalisation of Higher Education and Building World-class universities in Mainland China: a Case of Shanghai Jiao Tong University”, www.aie.org.cn/link/Strand%203/Wang%20Qi%20(Whole%20Paper).docx as of June 30, 2010
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The Afro-Asian Perspective of 2011: Does India have world-class Universities?
QS Rank
Name of University Country Grade
22 U of HongKong China 87.04
25 U of Tokyo Japan 85.9
28 National U of Singapore Singapore
84.07
32 Kyoto U Japan 82.86
37 The Chinese U of Hong Kong China 79.5
40 The HongKong U of Science & Tech
China 79.09
42 Seoul National U South Korea
78.65
45 Osaka U Japan 77.55
46 Peking U China 77.44
47 Tsinghua U China 76.25
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The Afro-Asian Perspective of 2011: Does India have world-class Universities? ..2
QS Rank
Name of University Country Grade
57 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 72.71
58Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore 72.51
70= Tohoku University Japan 69.67
80= Nagoya University Japan 67.97
87 National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan 66.62
90 KAIST - Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech
South Korea65.96
91 Fudan University China 65.74
98 Pohang Univ of Science And Tech (POSTECH)
South Korea65.1
110 City University of Hong Kong China 62.04
120 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 59.36
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The Afro-Asian Perspective of 2011: Does India have world-class Universities? ..3
QS Rank
Name of University Country Grade
122 Kyushu University Japan 58.85
124 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 58.32
129 Yonsei University South Korea 57.28
139 Hokkaido University Japan 55.91
156 University of Cape Town South Africa 52.87
167 Universiti Malaya (UM) Malaysia 50.9
171 Chulalongkorn University Thailand 50.72
173 Tel Aviv University Israel 50.63
177 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
China50.13
185 Waseda University Japan 49.16
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The Afro-Asian Perspective of 2011: Does India have world-class Universities? ..4
QS Rank
Name of University Country Grade
186= Nanjing University China 49.05
186= University of Tsukuba Japan 49.05
188= Keio University Japan 49.03
188= University of Science and Technology of China
China49.03
190 Korea UniversitySouth Korea
49.02
191 Zhejiang University China 48.76
200 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia
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213= National Tsing Hua University Taiwan 45.34
217 University of Indonesia Indonesia 45.14
218= Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
India45.1
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The Afro-Asian Perspective of 2011: Does India have world-class Universities? …5 India’s Best by QS Ranking
Do we have world class Universities in India?
At rank 1, 100, 200 or say 500? 1985 : China and India were at the same (poor) level and
2011 : China has 5 Universities among the first 50 (and 7 more before 218).
Thailand, Malayasia, Saudi Arabia etc have all moved ahead of India. Wait for Pakistan and Bangladesh also to do so.
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Year 2009 2010 2011
IITB 163 187 225
IITD 181 202 218
Can we improve our ranking, when the whole of the world is racing ahead?
Are our students not intelligent enough? After going out, many of our graduates
have done well.
Are our faculty not competent enough? Many Indians are on the faculty of
prestigious institutions outside India.
Can Indians not be innovative enough?
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A Long & Rich History & Heritage:
• Invention of Zero and Decimal system/ trigonometry etc• Works, written at Takshshila Univ, more than 2,000 years
back, such as • Arthshastra (A book on political economy by Chanakya), • Charak Samhita (A book on surgery and medicine)
• Traditional Knowledge Systems in Medicine, Mathematics, Astronomy, Dance, Music, etc…
• Pioneering Universities like Nalanda and Takshshila,• Engineering Marvels such as the Iron Pillar in Delhi,
innovative architecture in temples and old buildings like Taj Mahal, Qutab Minar
• Home to one of the four ancient civilizations (Indus Valley Civilization) and Place of origin of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism
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Innovations of the modern age Agriculture Revolution, Milk Revolution, Telecom growth, ICT Exports, Space exploration, Atomic Energy,
Defense, Pharma etc. $2000 Tata Nano or the $2000 open-
heart surgery at Narayana Hrudayalaya
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Then?
Universities must use ICT effectively for better Learning Management Systems for removing exam orientation and bringing
back love of learning for networking with businesses, industries,
societal and governmental entities for becoming Agents of Change & Innovation for building research collaborations
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Moving towards a solution A Collaborative Movement Many efforts for retraining high government
officers through British and American Universities by GoI through IIM by GoG.
This may help the officers in higher positions learn two-way communication on an equal basis with the Universities.
Collaboration: Alternatively Universities may work with the society to bootstrap, without bothering about the officers.
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Millennium Goals:Research Boards
The Board for Rurban Technologies, consisting of GTU Institutions in rural areas and mofussil towns
Board for Environmental and Green technologies to study the areas of Recycling and Re-use of treated Sewage, Urban Air Pollution, Renewable Energy Technologies, Cleaner Production towards Sustainable Development etc Last Workshop: 30th September 2011 on ‘Smart Grids’
The Board for Mobile Computing and Wireless Technologies 20-24 June: Short Term Training Program on ‘Mobile
Application Development’ at VGEC Working for the Center for nano-technology
Applications
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working together
New Centers
Centers for studies in the areas of 1. Business Ethics and CSR2. Financial Services3. Governance Systems in businesses, industries,
universities, hospitals, mass transportation systems, NGOs and governments.
Center of Excellence for Technology Education & Policy
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Doctoral Program: Preparations 19th February 2011: One day workshop on "Selecting
Research Problem & Preparing Research Proposal for Ph.D. (Management)" at AMA Centre, Ahmedabad. The Program Director was Dr. Satendra Kumar, Chairman, PhD Research Centre, CKSVIM & Dr. Rajesh Khajuria, Director – CKSVIM.
9th -10th June 2011: An intensive Workshop on Research Methodology for its doctoral supervisors. The resource persons included the following.:
Dr. Virendrakumar C. Bhavsar, Professor, University of New Brunswick, Canada; Dr. B.D. Chaudhary, Professor and Director, MNNIT, Allahabad; Dr. Vithal Kamat, Principal, Institute of Computer and Communication Technology, Anand; Dr. Pradeep K. Sinha, Senior Director, C-DAC, Pune, MH
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Doctoral Program: Rolling out
711 applicants for its Doctoral program presentations from 335 candidates, out of 351
candidates, who cleared the entrance test. School Research Committees, along with 192
doctoral advisors at the University started the approval process for admission to GTU’s doctoral program through personal interviews
30th September 2011: Classes on Research Methodology started for doctoral students
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Post-graduate Teaching
ME Dissertation Review: A unique step to improve the quality of thesis;
Adjunct Professors and (Virtual) Co-Supervisors
Practice-oriented ME programs:
VLSI Design and Embedded Systems Mobile Computing and Wireless Technologies Cyber Security
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Successful Collaboration with partners from outside the University
Objective: Leadership in Learning Outcomes
Continuously up-dated curriculum in all the fields: Created or updated new syllabi for 1200
courses during the last few months. Introduction of Choice Based Credit System
(CBCS) – which makes it possible for a student to apply for credit for work done at other Universities Flexibility, as required by professionals in business/ industries
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INVITATION – to those with an interest in rigorous scientific work-Come & work at GTU for Master’s and Doctoral work.
MBA & Dip Engg Syllabi
MBA Program: Global MBA A meeting of all MBA/ MCA Directors held on 13 July 2010. First meeting of Syllabus Committee: 29th July 2010 National Workshop: 20th December 2010 Draft Syllabus presented: 7th June 2011 A New MBA program for the 21st century has been
developed.
Diploma Engineering Syllabus: 31 March 2011: The budget approved for conducting a survey of the industries to find out the needs of the industry and to prepare the syllabi accordingly
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Faculty Development Programs GTU probably has the largest in-service
Faculty Development Program in the world.
January 7-10, 2011, an Experiential Learning Workshop for 30 faculty members. Resource Persons for the Workshop: Professors Farrokh Mistree, Patricia Hardré, Amy Bradshaw and Zahed Siddique from University of Oklahoma.
Plans: to set up a National Center of Excellence for Engineering Education and Policy.
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Faculty Development Programs A number of programs on pedagogy with the
help of faculties from National Technical Teacher Training Institute, Bhopal.
A number of programs by taking the help of faculties from IITs and IIMs and other well-known professors have also been arranged.
Working to sign an MoU with WIPRO’s Mission 10x to conduct a program for the Directors of GTU institutions. WIPRO-Mission 10 X’s FDPs: Marwadi Complex at Rajkot on 27th June- 1st July 2011 and on July 4-8, 2011 at LDCE, Ahmedabad.
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Undergraduate Teaching
Moving towards the best of teaching by using our numbers
Providing best of teaching material to all the teachers We are preparing CDs for every subject. The CD will
contain power-point slides, laboratory work exercises, references etc. These will be provided to all the GTU Colleges.
These will be updated every year. Workshop and Lab work being given more importance:
Since July 2010, the marks for practical work increased from 10 to 50.
All Final Year projects from June 2011 will be anchored in the industry.
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Final Year Projects
Technology Education: Excellence in education determined by excellence in practical work in laboratories, workshops and businesses & industries
The Final year Project Considered as the capstone of technology
education Integrates the study of different subjects for
designing and developing a product Leads to a seamless transition from study at a
University to work in businesses & industries
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THE SCENARIO
Number of students”: about 100,000 GTU STUDENTS GRADUATE PER YEAR by 2012
Final Year Projects: 10 LAC HUMAN MONTHS/YEAR DEVOTED TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AS A PART OF THEIR CURRICULUM
As of now INDUSTRY ABSORPTION: The results of the project work
are rarely used by the industry. STUDENT TECHNO-ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Very few projects
are used to start a new venture. LACK OF STRONG KNOWLEDGE ECOSYSTEM
applying knowledge of Engg Design to Grass-root Innovations To convert ideas to socially useful technical solutions.
A New Paradigm for the Final Year Project
GTU wants every final year project to Solve some real problem of businesses &
industries or of the society Lead to a close inter-action with businesses
& industries or with the society by way of Identifying the problem Designing and developing the product Mentoring during the project Evaluation of the project
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TO BRING THE CULTURE OF INNOVATION TO BOTH THE INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA
GTU Innovation Council: Mission
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Feel the difference, Take a lead…
GTU IS CREATING THE FIRST INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM AT
UNIVERSITY LEVEL IN THE COUNTRY !!
GTU & Industry Leaders are working together.
A GTU Innovation Sankul A model for Collaboration Co-Chaired by the Principal of a GTU College and a prominent
industry leader Sankul Committee: With about 20 principals and an equal
number of industrialists as members More than 300 Udisha (Universal Development of Integrated
Skills through Higher Education) Clubs have been created. 25 Innovation Sankuls in Gujarat: consisting of All the Principals of GTU Colleges; More than 500 Industry
Leaders and about 40 industry associations The first meeting with industry leaders: 2nd August 2010 The first experiments: September 2010: in Rajkot area The first Shodh Yatra: 12th February at Naroda industrial estate
by VGEC students About 50,000 Pre-Final Year students went to the industry
during this summer.
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Scaling up Partnership
Ever single Chamber of Industry in Gujarat: associated with GTU
More than 500 industry leaders: Members of our Innovation Committees
Associations like GESIA, GICEA, IE etc are all associated with
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Appreciations
The Project has already won appreciation from the Division of Green Technology, National Research Foundation of Korea .
It has been widely appreciated by His Excellency Dr Maximus Ongkili, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister of Malaysia on 23rd Feb 2011.
This model has been presented at Munich Venture Summit in Germany and in Spain by Prof Anil Gupta.
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Appreciations …………………2
The delegation of Social Entrepreneurship department of Norwegian University of Science & Technology has liked the attempt of forging industry-academia association and has started using it for creating an environment for innovation.
Union HRD secretary Ms Vibha Puri Das has taken a note of this approach for possible scaling of this attempt across the technical education ecosystem of the country.
At a meeting of the VCs, organized by UGC at Delhi in March 22-23, 2011 a recommendation to organize clusters of industries and colleges was made to all the Universities.
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Sectoral Innovation CouncilsBring together Researchers and Developers, Faculty members from all over Gujarat, Professionals from the industry – associated with
IDPs, and Mentors from the entire world
to work jointly to successfully develop innovative products and
processes – (for the Final Year Projects) and to identify new but relevant research problems
for post-graduate students.
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Three Skills Councils GTU Council for Financial Services with 12 Sectoral
Panels GTU Council for Marketing with 7 Sectoral Panels GTU Council for HR & Organizational Structures with 8
Sectoral Panels
Each Sectoral Panel is co-chaired by a Director of an MBA College and a leading industry professional.
A Secoral Panel: works to define the skills and certifications required by a professional in its
area of interest; to help GTU develop a close and continuing inter-action with
professionals; to help students of Business Studies in obtaining placements for
immersion studies.
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Swami Vivekanand Contributor Program
To be implemented in 2012 from January 2012 – Dec 2012: 1000
teachers to be trained 100,000 students will go thorugh the
course in one year Gautam Adani: donated Rs 1.15 crores
for the program
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An Example of Collaboration
Beginning working in VLSI Design Started a Master’s program in VLSI
Design Plans to set up a 1,50,000 sq ft, Rs 38
crore lab in 2012-13 Beginning the journey towards ITRI-like
Lab Starting a doctoral program in 2012
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What can you do to help GTU?
GTU: A State University which leads from the front To be a leader in learning outcomes To provide the best of Continuing Education
through a mix of on-line, distance and on-site education
To help incubate technologists particularly in the fields of VLSI Design Embedded systems Mobile Computing and Wireless Technologies
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Required: -from working professionals-pro-active contribution to education
GTU is creating Networks and not Legal Entities jointly performing quality assurance in
studies, teaching and research: The challenge is to quantify for comparison, something that constantly changes operatively.
Requirements: Develop and continuously refine assessment
measures/evaluations Every faculty member and researcher-- to be
involved in projects in learning systems, research & consulting and
Create forums for an open exchange of experiences
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Conferences
25-26 September 2010: National conference on Business Ethics for Global Success for Indian Businesses: More than 300 students and faculty members participated.
13-14 May 2011: Research Fair in Engineering: Nearly 500 students and faculty members participated.
22-23 September 2011: Second National Conference on Business Ethics & Corporate Governance
25-26 Aug 2011: 1st GTU National Conference in Finance (GTUNCF 2011) - Theme: Opportunities in Financial Services in Gujarat
6-8 Jan 2012: International Conference on Dynamics of Global recession: Economic & Corporate Strategies for Survival & Growth
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Achievements so far..
At E- India 2009 (Hyderabad) Honoured as the ICT enabled University of the Year
2009 Won South Asia award –Manthan for GCET 2009
Conducted GCET- 2009, GCET-2010 and GCET-2011online successfully: without a single glitch across 12 cities, 24 centres and almost 2800 terminals in 4 + 4 days, three sessions per day (9 AM, 1 PM and 5 PM)
digitalLearning World Education Summit 2011 (New Delhi) Honoured with the Jury Award for the University with the best
Industry- University inter-action September-October: 21 patents filed by students and
faculty members GTU students studied at University of Alberta for 8 weeks
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Questions and Suggestions
Thank you
Gujarat Technological University