GIAN Short Course

Union Cabinet has approved a programme titled Global Initiative for Academic Networks (GIAN) in Higher Education aimed at tapping the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs internationally to encourage their engagement with the institutes of Higher Education in India so as to augment the country's existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reform, and elevate India's scientific and technological capacity to global excellence. GIAN is envisaged to catalyse higher education institutions in the country, and that it will initially include all IITs, IIMs, Central Universities, IISc Bangalore, IISERs, NITs and IIITs subsequently cover good State Universities where the spinoff is vast. GIAN is an evolving scheme which will initially include participation of foreign faculty in Institutes as Distinguished / Adjunct / Visiting faculty / Professors of Practice, etc., to participate in delivering Short or Semester-long Courses. Other activities will be included in due course.

Upcoming Courses

Fundamentals of Micromachining

Foreign Faculty: Prof. Shiv G. Kapoor, University of Illinois, United States of America 
Host Faculty: Prof. J. Ramkumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur 
Tentatively Starts from: 14th Aug, 2017 to 21th Aug, 2017

Recently Concluded Courses

Combustion: Science, Technology, and Processes

Foreign Faculty: Prof. Thierry Poinsot, France 
Host Faculty: Dr. Santanu De, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur 
Tentatively Starts from: 9th May, 2016 to 18th May, 2016

Brochure: Combustion: Science, Technology, and Processes

Pipe Inspection Robots for Structural Health Monitoring

Foreign Faculty: Professor Harutoshi Ogai, Waseda University, Japan 
Host Faculty: Prof. Bishakh Bhattacharya, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Design Programme, IIT Kanpur 
Tentatively Starts from: 27th Feb, 2016 to 6th Mar, 2016

Brochure: Pipe Inspection Robots for Structural Health Monitoring

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