INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OFFICE

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OFFICE

• A PRESENTATION BY
• IRO

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Rationale of IRO

• Quality higher education
• International understanding
• Academic growth through intercultural education

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Team IRO

• Dr. Avichal Kapur Director
• Prof. Pravin Dakhole Dy. Director
• Prof. Manali Kshirsagar Dy. Director
• Prof. Gayathri Band Asstt. Director
• Prof. Praveen Dongre Asstt. Director

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Our US Universities/Industry Associations

• Arizona State University (MoU)
• University of California, Los Angles
• INTEL Incorporation
• Michigan State University(Draft sent)
• Lawrence Tech University (MoU)
• University of Massachusetts, Lowell (MoU)
• Northern Illinois University (MoU)
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Purdue University(MoU)
• University of Southern California

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Individual Responsibility

• Prof. Pravin Dakhole Dy. Director
• pravin_dakhole_at_yahoo.com
• Arizona State University(ASU)
• University of California (UCLA)
• INTEL Incorporation

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Individual Responsibility

• Prof. Manali Kshirsagar Dy. Director
• manali_kshirsagar_at_yahoo.com
• Michigan State University(MSU)
• Lawrence Technological University(LTU)
• University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Individual Responsibility

• Prof. Gayathri Band Asst. Director
• aries_gayathri_at_yahoo.com
• gayathriswapnil_at_gmail.com
• Northern Illinois University(NIU)
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Individual Responsibility

• Prof. Praveen Dongre Asst. Director
• praveen.dongre_at_gmail.com
• Purdue University
• University of Southern California(USC)

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Our objectives

• Student exchange between MGI US counterpart
• Summer Student Program at MGI US counterpart
• Faculty exchange between the college of
  engineering and the college of management at both
  ends

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Our objectives

• Faculty development programs
• Joint delivery of professional development
  programs(Continuing education)
• Collaborative research activities

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Our objectives

• Collaborative consultancy
• Joint collaborations in programs leading to
  awards or grants from the University or external
  agencies
• Development of teaching and learning strategies
  and materials

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Our objectives

• Academic curriculum and program of study
  development
• Development of dual degrees, certificates, 41,
  32 programs, 22 twinning programs etc.
• Any other academic activity with mutual consent

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Arizona State University

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ASU

• Department of Civil and Environmental
  Engineering (cee.fulton.asu.edu)
• BS in general civil engineering
• BS in civil engineering with emphasis on
  environmental engineering
• BS in civil engineering with emphasis on
  Construction engineering
• Graduate Certificate program in Sustainable
  Technology and Management
• MS Graduate studies in (thesis and non-thesis)
• structures,
• geotechniques,
• water resources,
• transportation material and pavements,
• transportation systems,
• environmental engineering for water and air
  quality and
• construction engineering

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ASU

• Major research areas
• Sustainable Urban engineering, emphasis on arid
  regions
• Environmental Biotechnology
• Civil engineering Material developments
• Water conservations

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ASU

• Ongoing Projects
• Project Co-funded by British Petroleum and
  Science Foundation Arizona Effort to Grow Algae
  in the desert and extract the lipids to generate
  biofuel for the use of conventional engines
• Evaluating the environmental fate of
  nanoparticals/nanosilver in commercial products
• Recycling, refurbishment, resale and safe
  disposal of old computers, cell phones,
  televisions and other technology
• Transportation modeling / transportation safety /
  travel behavior
• Congestion, air pollution
• 2007-08 research expenditures - 5.36 Million

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ASU

• Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
  Engineering (mae. fulton.asu.edu)
• BS in Aerospace Engineering
• BS in Mechanical Engineering
• MS Graduate studies in (thesis and non-thesis)
• Aerospace Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Aerospace Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

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ASU

• Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
  Engineering (mae. fulton.asu.edu)
• Three research centers
• Adaptive materials
• Atmospheric and Oceanic flows
• Structural health monitoring

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ASU

• Laboratories
• CAD/CAM
• Combustion
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Engineering design creativity and automation
  research
• Fuel cell
• Manufacturing
• Mechanical testing
• Micro/nano fluidics
• Multi-scale structures and sensors
• Thermo-fluids
• Space system
• Vibrations

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ASU

• Partnership with local industries includes,
  Boeing, Honeywell, Intel, Lockheed Martine,
  Motorola, Raytheon etc.
• Ongoing Projects
• Nuclear reactor and pressure fluctuations
• Tsunami prevention
• Adaptive, Intelligent, Materials and Systems
  (AIMS)
• Smart materials
• Solid structure mechanics,
• computational mechanics
• Optimization
• Piezoelectric energy harvesting systems
• 2007-08 research expenditures - 5.27 Million

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ASU

• School of Computing and Informatics (sci.asu.edu)
• BS in Computer Science
• BS in engineering in Computer System Engineering
• MS Graduate studies in
• Biomedical Informatics (thesis)
• Computer Science (thesis and non-thesis)
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Biomedical Informatics
• Computer Science

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ASU

• School of Computing and Informatics (sci.asu.edu)
• Research areas
• Integration of computer and information sciences
  with other academic desciplines such as biology,
  geography, anthropology, public health, urban
  planning, mathematics
• Research Laboratories
• Partnership for research in Spatial Modeling
  (PRISM)
• Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUBiC)
• Center for Health Information and Research (CHIR)
• Consortium for Embedded System (CES)
• 2007-08 research expenditures - 5.93 Million

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ASU

• School of Computing and Informatics (sci.asu.edu)
• Dept offers concentration program in software
  engineering and information assurance. These
  programs are designed in consultation with the
  industries and certifying agencies.
• After completion of these courses student may go
  for certification. Information assurance course
  is designed with Homeland security services.
• YCCE may work on similar course contents

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ASU

• Department of Electrical Engineering
  (ee.fulton.asu.edu)
• BS in Electrical Engineering
• Signal Processing and Communications
• Control Systems
• Electronics and Mixed Signal Circuits esign
• Electromagnetics, Antennas and Microwave Circuits
• Electrical Power and Energy Systems
• Solid-state Electronics
• Arts, Media and Engineering

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ASU

• Department of Electrical Engineering
  (ee.fulton.asu.edu)
• MS Graduate studies in
• Master of Business Administration / Master of
  Science in Electrical engineering (NON thesis
  online program)
• Master of Science in Electrical engineering
  (thesis and non-thesis)
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Electrical Engineering

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ASU

• Department of Electrical Engineering
  (ee.fulton.asu.edu)
• Research organizations
• Sensors, Signals and information processing
  Center
• Power System Engineering research center
• Wireless Integrated Nanotechnology
• Nanoelectronics

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ASU

• Department of Electrical Engineering
  (ee.fulton.asu.edu)
• Research areas
• Energy production and distribution
• Health care technology and delivery
• Communication technologies
• Information management
• National global security
• 2007-08 research expenditures - 20.22 Million

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ASU

• Department of Electrical Engineering
  (ee.fulton.asu.edu)
• In Electrical dept. ASU agreed to consider the
  proposal of co-guide from ASU for the projects of
  M.Tech / Ph D. students at YCCE.
• Prof. Ravi Boparra, ASU faculty is consultant to
  National Grid of India, YCCE Electrical dept. may
  explore possible collaboration for consultancy as
  India representative.

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ASU

• Department of Electrical Engineering
  (ee.fulton.asu.edu)
• Global Capstone Design Programme at ASU, The
  design programme is especially meant for aircraft
  design, where in team members from various
  disciplines design an aircraft, they are guided
  during the one semester course.
• Team members from Singapore, Mexico and the USA
  participate in the programme. Overseas students
  are guided through videoconferencing and emails.
  Possibility of including MGI students in this
  project will be explored.

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ASU

• Points on MOU
• MGI and ASU will explore the program proposal 41
  and 32 programs
• ASU will inform MGI about the visit of its
  engineering faculty members to India. This will
  enable MGI to send official invitations to the
  relevant faculty members thereby requesting them
  to offer guest lectures at MGI.
• ASU faculty might be invited to co-chair /
  co-guide Ph.D. thesis guided by MGI faculty
  members.
• ASU Entrepreneurship Programs Director might
  advice MGI in their entrepreneurship programs.
• MGI faculty will apply to engineering master and
  Ph.D. programs at ASU. ASU and MGI will discuss
  the model to support this programme and will be
  detailed in the scope document.

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ASU

• Points on MOU
• ASU and MGI will plan knowledge exchange
  progrmmes at ASU for the engineering faculty
  members. MGI faculty members will visit ASU for
  one or two weeks during summer or times of year
  that are convenient. MGI faculty members will
  interact with the respective counterpart and will
  be exposed to ASUs labs and research
  capabilities.
• MGI students will apply to engineering master and
  Ph.D. programs at ASU as international students.
  ASU and MGI will discuss the model to support
  this program and will be detailed in scope
  document.
• MGI and ASU will plan study programs at ASU for
  the MGI engineering students. Programs will be of
  one to two weeks at convenient times for both the
  institutions.

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University of California, LA

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UCLA

• Civil engineering Department
• Known for the research work in Structural
  engineering.
• Mesh less finite element method is one area in
  which the department has excelled.

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UCLA

• Research laboratories in this department are
• Experimental Structural Mechanics Lab.,
• Large Scale Structure Test Facility,
• Soil Mechanics lab.,
• Building Earthquake Instrumentation Lab.,
• Network for Earthquake Engineering
  Simulation-Field Testing and Monitoring of
  Structural Performance,
• Water Quality Instrumentation Laboratories,
• Water Quality Research laboratories,
• Environmental Microbiology Lab.,
• Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
  lab., Membrane Science Technology Lab.

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UCLA

• Highlighting achievements of UCLA in
• developing internet and
• developments related to Aerospace
• Possible collaborations
• Students of MGI can carryout special projects in
  UCLA labs during summer.
• Lectures of eminent faculty members from UCLA can
  be arranged at MGI through videoconferencing.
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INTEL INCORPORATION

• To start INTEL Laboratory at YCCE
• To conduct specialized courses for INTEL

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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, LANSING
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MSU

• Well executed, high quality Capstone Projects
  coordinated by an experienced, reputed faculty
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• Student Management Team for making
  suggestions/quality inputs/feedback
• Use of Clickers for instant answers/feedback
• Nine months salary to faculty to promote research
  
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MSU

• Some highly specialized labs at MSU
• Composite Material and Structures Center (CMSC)
• Engine Research Lab (ERC)
• Fraunhofer USA Center for Coatings and Laser
• Advanced Microsystems and Circuits lab
• Experimental Fluid Dynamics Lab 

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Lawrence Technological University, Southfield,
Michigan

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LTU

• Innovative Magazine
• Lear Entrepreneurial Center
• The Lear Entrepreneurial Center (LEC) is
  administered by the College of Engineering at
  Lawrence Technological University. The
  entrepreneurial program at LTU consists of
  courses, conferences, and internships designed to
  provide entrepreneurship education in which
  inquiry, creativity, and innovation are the norm,
  and theory and practice go hand-in-hand.

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LTU

• Alternative and Renewable Energy efforts
• Lawrence Tech Center for Sustainability
• Engineering Advising Center (on day and evening
  basis)

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LTU

• FACULTY EXCHANGE
• The two universities will exchange faculty in the
  areas of Engineering, Computer Science and
  Management.
• LTU faculty will travel to MGI for one semester
  to teach classes related to their expertise and
  vice versa.

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LTU

• Faculty Professional Development
• At the request of MGI/LTU, faculty from LTU/MGI
  will deliver faculty professional development
  workshops similar to workshops developed and
  delivered at LTU/MGI for faculty.

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LTU

• Faculty Professional Development
• Examples of workshops that can be conducted
• Assessment of student learning to fulfill ABET
  requirements
• Development of course objectives
• Use of specific technological tools appropriate
  to the curriculum
• Using effective teaming in the classroom

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LTU

• Joint delivery of CEP at MGI
• Administrators and faculty at both universities
  will identify short training programs to be
  offered for non-credit to professionals in India

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University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Umass, Lowell

• Assistive Technology Program for improving the
  quality of life for the disadvantaged community
  through technology as a part of senior Capstone
  Projects (Project examples include Voice control
  system, audio mixer for visually impaired,
  wireless remote control wheelchair trainer etc.)

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UMass, Lowell

• Hiring industrial persons as adjunct faculty and
  assign 8-9 students per faculty to promote RD
  culture
• Distance learning on line certification programs
  like Microelectronics and VLSI

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Northern Illinois University, Chicago
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NIU

• NIU has agreed to offer on line safety
  Engineering courses in India under MGI
  coordinatorship.
• Electrical Engg Faculty members will be acting
  as co-guides for Ph.D thesis on mutually
  agreeable basis work place is YCCE, Nagpur.
  Head, Electrical Engg., YCCE to co-ordinate.

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NIU

• Mechanical/Industrial Engg. Students can take
  courses upto 12 credits online while pursuing
  BE. Credits earned will be used/carried forward
  in case they pursue MS in NIU.
• Head, Mechanical Engg., NIU is visiting India in
  December,2009 and has agreed to visit
• us. Head Mechanical Engg., YCCE to coordinate.

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NIU

• In Mechanical Engg. Under Graduate projects are
  of relevance to society for ex. Active Vibration
  Control hand shaker, Cable stayed bridge.
  Faculty members have agreed to share Project
  details through Video Conferencing. Head
  Mechanical Engg.,YCCE to finalize the Video
  Conferencing schedule.
• It has been decided to jointly submit a project
  for financial assistance to NSF (NSF funds for
  initial two years of collaborative activities) 

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• NASA missions
• Voyager 1
• Voyager 2
• Visit to
• Launch monitoring cabin
• Clean room where assembling of next voyager
  mission is currently underway.
• Visit of MGI students can be arranged at NASA Jet
  Propulsion lab.

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Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Purdue University, Indianapolis

• Purdues Engineer of 2020 programme for quality
  improvement of students divided in two phases
  Phase I Curricula , Phase II Implementation
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• Discovery Park for high end research
• Workshops focused on selected attributes
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Purdue University, Indianapolis

• Strong collaborations with research and corporate
  organizations
• Use of Cognitive and Reflexive Tools to
  facilitate engineering thinking i.e. Engineering
  Eliciting Activities
• Interested in creating a Communication Hub of
  which we can be a part

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Purdue University, Indianapolis

• Purdue will collaborate on curriculum development
  at MGI to align syllabi with the latest trends in
  industries
• Purdue will also collaborate on cutting edge
  technology research at MGI as well as Purdue

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University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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USC

• Very strong ISI- Information Science Department
  achievements include creation of DNS, TCP/IP,
  Globus Grid Computing Architecture , MPEG, JPEG
  etc
• Distinguished Lecture Series with a well defined,
  printed, circulated calendar
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• Hiring industrial persons to take care of a
  particular course or guest lectures

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USC

• Centre of Excellence in Teaching
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• Freshmen Academy where seniors become mentors
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• Distance Education Network DENs E-learning
  System 11 studios to capture the lectures on
  line and broadcast

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USC

• Seed Funding to start research in new areas
• NSF award winning faculty, University Professors
  an honor for only 20 professors at a time
• Strong in the research areas of Internet, DNA
  computing etc.

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USC

• Electrical Engineering is worldwide known for
  research advances in following areas
• Photonic Technology, including devices, chips,
  optical communications, semiconductor lesser,
  photonic system architecture.
• sensor networks and wireless technology
• Very large scale integrated circuit
  architectures.
• Nano electronics and nano devices,
  micro-electromechanical systems.

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USC

• Pulse power applications.
• Image, video and signal processing.
• Communications and information theory, error
  coding, cryptography for space and terrestrial
  applications.
• Biomedical Engineering.

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USC

• Ph.D. programmes are offered in  
• Aerospace engineering,
• Astronautical Engineering,
• Biomedical Engineering,
• Chemical Engineering,
• Civil Engineering,
• Computer Engineering,
• Computer Science,
• Electrical engineering,
• Environmental Engineering,
• Industrial Systems Engineering,
• Material Science,
• Mechanical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering 

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USC

• Research Centers at USC
• Biomedical Micro-systems Lab.
• Centre for Robotics and Embedded systems
• M.C. Gill foundation for Composites Centre,
• Graphics Lab.
• Rocketry Lab.
• Nanotechnology research lab and Info lab 
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Role of IRO

• We are here to help you in every possible way
  such as
• Faculty to faculty connection
• Faculty development programs
• Ensure US counterparts responsiveness in terms
  of collaborative research, guidance for Ph.D.
  work, sharing of expertise etc.

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Role of IRO

• Provided
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