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- Significant growth in harnessing IISc research towards industrial products and processes
- Introduction of very innovative and flexible operational modes for collaboration between IISc and industries
- Initiation of umbrella R & D programmes with a large number of organizations, such as Nokia, General Motors, Honeywell
- Initiation of several program units for undertaking research activities in multiple facets of a single area
- Setting up of R & D centres
- With just one project to begin with in the year 1994 and a total financial outlay of Rs. 2.25 lakhs, the society has come a long way to generate approximately Rs. 800 million worth of research projects until March'2006.
- As many as 389 projects initiated by July'2006
- As many as 142 projects completed successfully by March'2006
- Helped IISc to procure around Rs. 140 million worth of assets
- Several patents have been filed from the work arising out of SID projects
- Work carried out of SID projects has resulted in impactful publications in leading journals
- Facilitating entrepreneurship by IISc faculty
- Facilitatiing nationally relevant programmes such as SUTRA
- Promoting Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY), a unique programme of Govt of India for encouraging talented young students
- Promoting Post-doctoral research through Department of Biotechnology, Government of India Initiative
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P&G IN PACT WITH IISc FOR MOLECULAR MODELING - May'2005
The US$ 51 billion Procter & Gamble has entered into a pact with Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, to foster collaboration in the area of Modeling for Chemical and Formulated Systems.
Dr. Shekhar Mitra, Vice President, Research & Development, Procter & Gamble, presented a cheque for $100,000 to Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, Former Director, IISc, Bangalore in connection with this. The pact will help enhance R&D capability development with IISc to work on areas of mutual interest.
Molecular modelling is a collection of techniques to model or mimic the behaviour of molecules. Molecular modeling has altered the way research is conducted. When results can be predicted before experiments are performed, experiments that have the highest probability of success can be chosen, potentially reducing the cost of research "P&G believes that Indias intellectual capital, technical and scientific expertise, and its world-class Centers of Excellence and Academic Institutions, create a unique potential to accelerate the Companys global innovation capability. We are looking to leverage the most inspired minds of India and the Indian Institute of Science is clearly top class," Dr. Arun Viswanath, who heads P&G Asia Connect & Develop, based in Bangalore, said in a release.
"The Department of Chemical Engineering at IISc has great potential in the area of molecular modeling for chemical and formulated systems. We believe that this donation will enhance the capability of IISc in further harnessing this potential for societal benefits at large," Dr. Shekhar Mitra, Vice President, Research & Development, Procter & Gamble said in the press release.
Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, FormerDirector of the Indian Institute of Science said "The Indian Institute of Science is a premier research institution in the country, devoted to postgraduate teaching at the highest level and conducting advanced research in all branches of Science and Engineering and likes to forge linkages with like minded organizations to further the cause of scientific research in the country and overseas. We look forward to developing the partnership with a global R&D powerhouse such as P&G in the year ahead."
Currently, Procter & Gamble sources products and services such as raw and packaging material, R&D, engineering and Information Technology from India.
BOEING - March2005
M/s. Boeing Company, USA has come with a proposal for a Strategic University Relationships with Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore considering IISc on equal footing with the Universities like CALTECH, STANFORD, CARNEGIE MELLON, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGY for this strategic relationship.
They are having discussions to have an agreement with SID/IISc for this collaboration. A preliminary meeting was held with the faculty of the Institute on 22nd March 2005. The Chief Executive, SID made a power point presentation on the capabilities of the Institute and the simplified procedures for establishing collaboration. The team from Boeing were very much impressed with the talent available at IISc. They are going to
sponsor projects to the extent of US$ 500,000/- per year for 5 years.
The technology areas they are interested are:
- Advanced materials technologies
- Metallic alloys, polymeric composite materials & materials for smart structures
- Advanced structural technologies
- Unitized, adaptive structures & integrated structural health monitoring
- Advanced manufacturing, joining & assembly technologies
- Modeling, simulation and testing for future aircraft including the Boeing 787.
Incubation Centre - December 2004
Received grant of Rs.80 lakhs from Ministry of Communications & IT (DIT) sanctioned on 26th December 2004
OBJECTIVES:
- Encourage the culture of entrepreneurship amongst students and faculty so as to create an intellectual property intensive entrepreneurship eco system within the Institute.
- Design and structure nesting environments having incubating infrastructure, networking opportunities, mentoring panels from Institute and industry to keep entrepreneurs focused on achieving long and short term goals.
- Offer entrepreneurship projects and courses related to Business Planning, Global Market Survey, Technology Assessment, Financial Management, Intellectual Property Negotiation, and Soft Skills.
- Interaction and networking with angel financiers, VCs, other financial institutions, industries, experts, mentors/coaches, entrepreneurship associations and Institute alumni.
- Evolve guidelines for entrepreneurship admission, phased monitoring and sustenance.
ENCOURAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN MULTI-DISPLINARY AREAS.
- Bio Informatics
- Medical Imaging
- Advanced manufacturing design
- Materials Research (Design of new materials)
- Microelectromechanical systems
- ASIC design for microelectronics and MEMS
- Drug design
IISc with its Research infrastructure and Ph.D and M.Tech students is ideally suited for such Multi-disciplinary research.
General Motors Establishes Collaborative Research Laboratory At Indian Institute Of Science September 2001
Ist Phase: September 2001
2nd Phase: April 2005
Focus on high performance automotive materials, robust manufacturing processes.
General Motors Corp. and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have created a collaborative laboratory here to research automotive structural materials and manufacturing processes, the world's No. 1 automaker and one of India's leading academic institutions announced today.
"GM's intent is to be the automotive industry leader in product innovation," said Dr. Alan I. Taub, Executive Director of Science at the GM Research & Development Center in Warren, Michigan. "Supplementing on-going work within General Motors in critical research areas by forming alliances with top academic institutions allows the exchange of technical knowledge to help accelerate the pace of innovation."
Taub said the materials research will focus primarily on lightweight materials, such as aluminum and magnesium, and the best methods for their fabrication. "This alliance has great potential to give GM a competitive advantage," he said. According to Taub, GM selected IISc because many of the faculty have research interests that are linked to the fundamental understanding of materials performance as influenced by composition and manufacturing, an area of great importance to GM.
"A major collaboration with such a forward-thinking company as General Motors will provide strong research opportunities for IISc's faculty members and students," said Prof. G. Mehta, Director of the Indian Institute of Science. He says that close interaction between scientists and researchers at GM and IISc will bring about scientific advances and technological progress.
The laboratory will develop math-based tools to understand the limits of material performance during fabrication and in the product, as influenced by the microstructure produced during manufacturing. "These math-based tools will speed up the development of new mass-efficient structural materials for automotive applications at low cost and lead to rapid process optimization," said Prof. Mehta.
The laboratory will be co-managed by Dr. Kathleen Taylor, Director of the GM Research and Development Center's Materials & Processes Laboratory and Prof. M. L. Munjal, Chairman of IISc's Division of Mechanical Sciences, where the laboratory will be located.
GM has committed $600,000 to the collaborative research at IISc for three years, but it could grow as promising new ideas are developed. As part of the collaboration, GM and IISc will exchange researchers through visits or sabbatical leaves.
Furthermore, with GM India's growing investment in the Indian auto industry, "establishment of the Lab is a clear manifestation of GM's commitment to the Indian market and region" said Mr. Aditya Vij, President & Managing Director of GM-India.
GM already has established similar laboratories in other fields at Brown University, The University of Michigan, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, and Jiaotong University in Shanghai, China.
General Motors (NYSE: GM), the world's largest vehicle manufacturer, designs, builds and markets cars and trucks worldwide. In 2001, GM earned $1.5 billion on sales of $177.3 billion, excluding special items. It employs about 362,000 people globally.
GM has been the world's automotive sales leader since 1931. In 2001, GM set industry sales records in the United States - its largest market - for total trucks and for sport utility vehicles. GM sold more than 1 million SUVs - a first for any automaker. GM also sold more full-size pickup trucks than any other manufacturer since 1978.
GM also operates one of the world's largest and most successful financial services companies, GMAC, which offers automotive, mortgage and business financing and insurance services to customers worldwide.
GM-India has its state-of-the-art facility in Gujarat and assembles its Opel models, the Astra, Corsa and Swing at its Halol facility.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
As a part of its ongoing mission to move inventions, science, tangible research outcomes and technologies generated in the campus closer to Society, Indian Institute of Science adopted the Faculty Entrepreneurship Program. Intellectual Property driven entrepreneurship by the Faculty of Indian Institute of Science was approved by its Council in March 2001. The program supports startup initiatives wherein one or more Faculty member participates by providing her or his Intellectual Property (not necessarily a patent, but knowledge sweat) to run the start up company. The program enables the Institutes Faculty to explore their Intellectual Property in a business proposition, provide support and employment to people, earn revenue and bring research closer to societys needs.
Department of Biotechnology - Post Doctoral Fellowships - December 2000
The Department of Biotechnology has introduced the aforesaid program. The Secretary, DBT requested Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore to co-ordinate and administer the implementation of the said programme. The Institute is successfully getting it done through the Society for Innovation and Development. The programme got started from December 2000 at a total project cost of Rs. 465.00 lakhs. The programme is intended only for Indian citizens. The purpose of the fellowship programme is to train scientists in frontier areas of research in Biotechnology at such institutions in India which are engaged in major biotechnological research activities.
SIR DORABJI TATA CENTRE for TROPICAL DISEASES: 26th May 2000
Sir Dorabji Tata, the elder son of the founder of the house of Tatas, Sir J. N. Tata, wanted to establish a National Indian School of Research in Tropical Medicine from 1913. He went about it in right earnest around 1920. At that time it appears from the notes of a conference held in Royal Society, London that a comprehensive institute with appropriate clinical faculty was envisaged. Nothing appears to have come out of this effort and even in the subsequent four decades. Dr. Salaskar, the famous pathologist of Mumbai pursued that the idea lingered on right up to the 1960's with little success.
FORMATION OF SDTC
An MoU was entered into on 23rd March, 1999 between Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the Society for Innovation and Development (SID) for a long term collaborative R & D programme called "Sir Dorabji Tata Centre for Research in Tropical Diseases" (SDTC). The Centre was inaugurated on 26th May 2000 by J.J. Bhabha of SDTT.
OBJECTIVES OF SDTC
- To carry out basic and applied research in the area of Tropical Diseases and other emerging health disorders with a view to developing methods of diagnosis, newer drugs and vaccines.
- To provide a support mechanism and facilities for interaction between scientists and clinicians and others interested in carrying out R & D and allied activities for the alleviation of Tropical Diseases.
- To provide and create facilities for R & D and training for clinicians and scientists in the area of Tropical Diseases.
- To interact with industry through SID to develop products and processes for the alleviation of Tropical Diseases.
KISHORE VAIGYANIK PROTSAHAN YOJANA - March1999 (16th March-1999)
The "Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana" is a programme initiated by the Government of India to encourage students of Basic Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to take up research careers in these areas. The aim of the programme is to identify and encourage talented students with aptitude for research. This programme strives to assist the students to realise their potential and to ensure that the best scientific talent is tapped for research and development in the country. Generous scholarships will be provided (up to the pre-Ph.D. level) to the selected students. In addition, summer programmes in prestigious research and educational institutions in the country will be organized and preferential access to libraries, laboratories, museums etc. will be provided.
Funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, the programme is administered by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, through the Society for Innovation and Development (IISc Campus). Selections for Basic Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Streams will be carried out by IISc, IIT Bombay and ICMR (New Delhi), respectively. There are special groups or committees set up at IISc, IIT and ICMR which do the screening of applications, conduct interviews at various centres, make the final selection and attend to follow-up matters. In this matter ICMR functions in association with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi (AIIMS) and the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (PGIMER).
Altech - June 1998
AIM OF ALTECH:
To develop knowledge of aluminium as a design material and to educate the students and engineers in the application of this knowledge in the forming of optimal product designs, also considering the needs of and cultures of Indian Society
The cooperation program:
Exchange of faculty members: Faculty members of IISc are invited to stay at NTNU for a shorter or longer period, in order to study the materials and methods available at NTNU/HAL. They may also give lectures at NTNU. Faculty members/ scientists of NTNU will visit IISc, where they may give lectures, and work together with the staff of IISc. This activity may also include joint development of new courses, programmes and case studies at the Masters as well as Doctoral level.
Exchange of students: Selected students from IISc and NTNU may visit their counterpart institutions viz., NTNU/IISc respectively, for agreed periods of time as a part of their normal academic programmes at their respective institutions. This would involve mostly research and developmental activity where also the cultural aspect of the product design may be brought in. Necessary concurrence of the academic bodies of the institutions shall however be obtained prior to the initiation of the particular activity.
Funded by
Hydro Aluminium, Norway
Participants:
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc)
Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Trondheim, Norway (NTNU)
Sutra 1997
The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, one of the leading science institutes in India (and in the World), has always been interested in using its immense knowledge base to help alleviate the miseries of the less privileged in the country. Since a majority of the poor people in India lives in the villages, this was obviously the place to start the work. The project on sustainable transformation of rural areas (SuTRA) is one such project, which was started in the year 1997 and is actively supported by the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Science.
SuTRA is implementing a holistic rural development package for the Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Government of Karnataka. The package aims to provide simple technological solutions for rural development. It has worked in areas like the improvement of biogas generators, biomass gasifiers, and water conservation. The group has also developed low cost technologies for vegetable and fruit preservation and for cultivation and production of high yielding varieties of medicinal plants. SuTRA has also amassed considerable experience in developing community linkages through self-help groups and is now engaged in training such groups in means to generate additional income and achieve sustainable development.
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