1

Akshai AggarwalVice-Chancellor

Gujarat Technological UniversityDec 3, 2011 e-mail: vc@gtu.ac.in

Can India have 'World-class' Universities?:

The Experiment in Gujarat

Gujarat Technological Gujarat Technological University, AhmedabadUniversity, Ahmedabad

2

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)

3

4

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

8

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

9

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

10

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)

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

47.14

213= National Tsing Hua University Taiwan 45.34

217 University of Indonesia Indonesia 45.14

218= Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)

India45.1

16

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.

17

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?

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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.

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

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.

30

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.

31

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.

32

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

33

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

35

TO BRING THE CULTURE OF INNOVATION TO BOTH THE INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA

GTU Innovation Council: Mission

36

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.

38

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

39

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.

40

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.

41

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.

42

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.

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

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

49

50

Questions and Suggestions

Thank you

Gujarat Technological University