IIT Indore, an Institute of National Importance, having laid its foundation on 17 February 2009, has carved a niche in Academics and Research & Development. Since its inception, the Institute has grown multidimensional in fields of Engineering, Basic Sciences and Social Sciences. The focus of the Institute has always been to mold raw minds into Researchers and Innovators.
The Institute is creating vibrant and expanding academic programs by incorporating lot of flexibility, making it relevant to the society and introducing new programs. Under National Education Policy 2020, the Institute is constantly introducing several new concepts of learning, such as Do-It-Yourselves, project-centric learning, and a credit bank, where the students can accrue credits during their academic journey.
Research has been the forte of the Institute and it is committed to contribute to society and help people at the bottom of the pyramid by making the research relevant to them. Though IITs are known for technology, this Institute is equally focused on humanities too and is working on the application of technology in the humanities domain by starting ‘Jai Prakash Narayan National Centre for Excellence in Humanities’. It is also working towards creating a Translational Research Ecosystem – a Lab-to-Land system that converts research to technology.
Fortified with state-of-the-art Teaching and Research Labs, the Institute widened its vision and forayed into innovation and entrepreneurship. IIT Indore Advanced Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE) is a Section 8 company focusing on start-ups and incubation-related activities. Presently, 20 startups are incubated, however, the total number is 40 since inception. Facilities include seed capital, physical space, coaching, common legal, administrative & financial services and networking connections.
IIT Indore has grown exponentially by way of research and academic endeavors as one of the top-ranking institutions in the country. In the India Ranking-2023 released by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), IIT Indore has been ranked 14th amongst all engineering institutions. The Institute is at a remarkable position even in the global rankings and is ranked at 396 in the QS ranking in the 2023
The Institute has major plans and thought processes underway, for the expansion of the teaching and research activities and making them more relevant to industries and society. There are plans for new UG as well as PG academic programs. It is also planned to develop new Industrial Research Park, where industries can cross-over and bring them closer to the Institute.
Student Life at IIT Indore comprises a judicious balance between different academic and extra-curricular activities. Besides the regular academic activities associated with the respective degree program, there are many engaging co-curricular activities that students indulge in. These include BTech Project Work or BTP in the 7th semester, projects as part of different courses, industrial visits, etc., that bolster the student’s knowledge, experience, and personality. Extra-curricular activities of students are driven by a systematic structure of clubs within the institute that channel these activities. Some such clubs are the Literary Club, the Dance Club, Aaina (Drama Club), the Music Club, the Programming Club, the Electronics Club, Cynaptics (AI/ML Club), the Robotics Club, the Aeromodelling Club, the Quiz Club, Prakriti Wildlife Club, the Gaming Club, etc. that contribute to the all-round development of the students. Another notable cell for the students is the Entrepreneurship Cell which encourages students to come up with ‘out of the box’ ideas and provides a ‘seed’ infrastructure for realizing the same. Consequently, many start-ups have been initiated by IITI students. Faculty members at IIT Indore are widely known to be not just wonderful teachers who are open and easily approachable but also outstanding researchers in their respective fields. This, coupled with IIT Indore’s very healthy student-to-faculty ratio, provides students with the best environment possible for learning and overall development. Many BTech students work in association with the professors working in their interested field and get exposed to some latest ideas and innovations in that field. Many BTech students have published research papers during their courses.
There is an active social welfare initiative taken up by students of IIT Indore called ‘Avana’ that plays a significant part towards the welfare of underprivileged people in and around Indore. This includes conducting teaching activities for rural children, distributing basic clothing and blankets through a donation mechanism, conducting blood donation camps, and, more recently, developing educational content such as educational videos to benefit the rural folk.
Students at IIT Indore also participate in many technical competitions, namely the BAJA competition (which includes the design and development of an ‘all terrain’ vehicle with optimal costs and resources), Robocon (comprising design and development of innovative robots), the ACM ICPC (colloquially known as the ‘Olympics of Programming’ where IIT Indore has regularly featured and won accolades), Boeing National Aeromodelling Competition, tech fests organized by other IITs, etc. IIT Indore bagged the 6th position at Tech Meet 2023, organized this year by IIT Kanpur, where all IITs compete in various technical problem statements. Students bagged medals in problem statements from every field of tech, be it hardware, product development, AI/ML, etc. Fluxus, IIT Indore’s annual Techno-Cultural festival, is Central India’s largest and hosts some of the country’s biggest names in music, science, and literature. Quite a few cultural and technical events are organized around the festival, and the institute sees participation from students from all over the country.
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