IIT-M tops faculty research awards
A study done by a private firm has ranked IIT-Madras as the leader in faculty awards for research activities.
Zinnov, a globalisation and market expansion advisory firm, on Friday released its latest study titled “Top research faculty in tier-1 engineering institutions in India”.
According to the study, IIT-Madras emerged as the overall leader in bagging top awards for its faculty research with about 15 coveted achievements and awards like IEEE fellowship and Bhatnagar awards; over 60 international awards and fellowships including Humboldt fellowship, grants from multi national companies; and more than 40 national awards and fellowships.
This study includes a detailed assessment of faculty in India’s tier-I engineering institutions and also identified top faculty by their areas of research. The Indian Institute of Science (IISC), followed by IIT-Kanpur and IIT-Delhi, emerged as the top institutes for faculty research competence in India.
The faculty in these institutes has the highest number of industry and government research grants, international and national journal references and conference publications and patents (about 90 per faculty) to their credit. In addition, these top institutes have higher proportion of senior faculty members (all PhDs) with greater overall experience.
“Even as innovation-focused corporates look to expand their ecosystem and leverage the research expertise of India’s top engineering institutions, the study has brought out the impact that international exposure and industry collaboration can have on the nature of education imparted to our students,” says Pari Natarajan, chief executive officer, Zinnov.
The study results of the department-level analysis revealed that the faculty scores of computer science department of IIT-Delhi were the highest, backed by strong research expertise, high overall experience and good connects with the industry.
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