Industry Interaction
The School focuses on technology,
applications, and development processes. This focus makes it
mandatory for the School to form a very close relationship with
IT companies and the IT user community. This enables the
School to constantly keep itself abreast with developments and
changing industry needs. The relationship also helps it to
understand and adopt new tools, emerging hardware and software
platforms, and new areas of applications. The School can evolve
several different strategies for creating and sustaining the
relationships. Some of these are already proven through the
existing relationships between IIT and the Industry. We enumerate
below some of the possible mechanisms:
- Undertake long-term (3 -4 year
duration) R&D projects either as sponsored or
consultancy projects,
- Build relationship in specific
technology areas (such as embedded systems, database
tools) where focus is on the area rather than on specific
projects; this will need close interaction in formulating
specialized courses, student projects, etc.,
- Apply for joint funding from
Government & International funding agencies,
- Develop proof-of-concept projects for
attracting participation and funding from IT or the user
industries,
- Enable technology (methodology,
standards) transfer,
- Formulate student projects for
technology absorption/adaptation,
- Undertake tool development projects
for achieving better application devel- opment which will
directly help the industry in achieving better quality
and productivity; these may be undertaken jointly,
- Prepare regular technology reports
(`white papers') and make them available to the industry.
The School derives
significant advantages by these relationships and will play a
very crucial role in meeting the demands of the industry.
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