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International
Opportunities for
Research Scholars
Office of International Alumni Relations
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MOUs with academic institutions and industry Generic template provided
Institutional & department-level MOUs
Senate-approvals obtained
Monitoring & renewal
Currently, > 100 MOUs in effect
Joint doctoral program IITM guidelines formulated, shared with partner institutions
Currently, 1 JDP in effect with NUS, Singapore
Institutional Partnerships: Current Status
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Australia Europe East Asia South Asia USA UK
Universities 10 75 29 16 37 5
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MoU Status
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General Guidelines for International Academic Collaborations
Study-Abroad Programs:
intended for (mainly) undergraduate and (some) graduate students
credit transferability to be ensured
Internships Abroad:
linked to students academic or research pursuits.
Research Scholar Exchange:
gains on both sides
cements a strong collaborative relationship
Faculty Visits:
encouraged to make visits to research labs abroad to continue orestablish collaborations.
short visits during the semester, longer stays over vacation periods/
sabbaticals.
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Modality: First Level
Faculty visits to identify collaborators
o Initial, exploratory
o Longer visits to initiate joint work
oJoint workshops to consolidate & disseminate
o
Joint teaching of courses
Exchange of research scholars
o3-6 month stays at collaborators lab
o
High productivity even during short stays
oHome institution pays airfare, host institution takes
care of living expenses
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Opportunities Abroad: Preparation
Improve your communication skills
Oral- discussion, presentationWritten- reports, papers, thesis
Seek out faculty who are collaborating with research
groups abroad
Look for joint publications
Ask!
Train yourself to be best-of-breed
Expectations much higher when you visit abroad
Develop outstanding skills in experimentation, theory,
simulation, literature survey
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Opportunities Abroad: Prep, (contd.
Attend conferences abroad, meet talk to people
Develop networks; sustain the dialogBenchmark your work against peers in a global context
Improve where necessary
Poster sessions can be more helpful than oral presentations!
Attend international conference sessions @ IITM
Great opportunity to interact at home with researchers fromabroad
Present at international conferences held in India, mingle
Publish in international journals during your
thesis work
Academicians value these!
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Opportunities Abroad: While youre there
Avoid ambiguity in work scope
Essential that collaborating faculty have a good &long working relationship
Document scope of collaborative work before yougo; confirm consensus on this.
Interact with lab mates, other faculty extensively Post-doc, employment may open up
Be alive to possibilities
A post-doc abroad adds great value to resume
Viewed favorably in faculty hiring (even at IITs) Chance to establish some financial security
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Doors are open
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USA: Strategic Partner Institutions
UNIVERSITY CURRENT ENGAGEMENT OUTLOOK
Purdue Large # of collaborating faculty, alumni in key positions
Joint proposal submitted for Obama-Singh Initiative
Several Purdue faculty teams have visited IITM in past 4-6
months
Workshop planned at Purdue in
June 2013 to facilitate contact &
discussions between IITM & Purdue
faculty
University of
Maryland at College
Park
Large # of collaborating faculty, alumni in key positions
Joint proposal submitted for Obama-Singh Initiative
Workshop planned at UMD in May
2013 to facilitate contact &
discussions between IITM & UMD
faculty
Penn State Several collaborating faculty Workshop planned at Penn State in
June 2013 to facilitate contact &
discussions between IITM & Penn
State faculty
Michigan State Long-standing collaboration
Joint-Doctoral degree program mooted by MSU
Need to seek MSU & IITM Senate
approval
IIT Chicago Strong partnership in Engineers-Without-Borders program,
innovation/ entrepreneurship initiatives
Dean, I & AR visit planned in May
2013
CMU Dr. Subra Suresh joining as President; Dean- Business
School is IITM alum
CMU has high interest in
collaboration; Dean, I & AR visit
planned in May 2013
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USA Canada: Other Potential Partners
NIVERSITY CURRENT
ENGAGEMENT
OUTLOOK
NYU, Columbia, MIT, Boston College,
Delaware, West Virginia University,
Ohio State, Wright State, Yale, UIUC, NCA & T State
Existing research
interactions
Collaboration
discussions in
progress
Dean, I & AR visit
planned in May 2013
UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz,
UC San Diego, US Santa Barbara,
UCLA, Rice University, U Houston, UT-
Austin, Texas A & M
Existing research
interactions
CA workshops planned
in late June-July; TX
workshop in Dec 2013
Indiana U, Iowa U, LSU, U Missouri-
Columbia, Northwestern, Wisconsin,Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, South
Dakota, U Alabama- Birmingham, U
Nebraska Lincoln, UT-Dallas, U
Alabama- Huntsville, U Arizona, Spelam
College, UOIT (Ontario), Uni. Toronto,
Waterloo U, Ryerson (CFI), McGill,Markham
Potential
researchcollaborations
Need to be cultivated
to next level of maturity
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European Strategic Partnerships
UNIVERSITY
MECHANISM
CURRENT ENGAGEMENT OUTLOOK
TUs (Germany) Large number of collaborating faculty, research scholar
exchanges, faculty visits
Sustain & grow
DAAD scholarships Enable DD, M.Tech., M.S. students to go for 6-month visits to
Germany
Sustain & grow
Indo-German Center
for Sustainability(IGCS)
Funded jointly by German & Indian Governments
Enables faculty exchanges, research scholar involvement injoint projects
Coordinated by Aachen
MOU renewed in 2013, to be signed in Germany in April
Sustain & grow
EU 7thFramework
Program (FP7)
Several IITM faculty involved, along with European
collaborators
On going
Erasmus Mundus
programs
Ongoing projects:
Heritage
IBES
GATE
Promote faculty , staff & student mobility to/ from Europe
4 faculty @ IITM involved as coordinators
HERITAGE Partners in Europe: Several (9 nations)
Indian partners are IISC, IITM, IITB, IITK, IITG, NIT Rourkela,
Anna University.
Need to get more IITM students
involved
Coordinators asked to meet
students & present re opportunities
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Europe: Other Partnerships
UNIVERSITY
MECHANISM
CURRENT ENGAGEMENT OUTLOOK
University of Passau Joint doctoral program with DoMS approved by Passau in March
2013
Need IITM Senate approval
to proceed
University of
Bremen, Germany
Student exchanges
Visited in March 2013; interested in collaboration in Physics, OE,
CS, EE
Need to sustain
University of Ghent,
Belgium
Collaboration with BT, ChE, OE
Frequent faculty visits, student exchanges
Erasmus Mundus partner
Sustain & grow
Denmark Technical
Univ, Denmark
Exploring student & faculty exchanges, internships for B.Techs Visit to IITM planned,
Initiate partnership
Insa Lyon, France Collaboration with Mech. Engg (Shyama Prasad Das)
Visited IITM in March
Expand to other depts
Jonkoping Univ,
Sweden
Exploratory MOU approved in March 2013 Need to cultivate & track
Kungliga Tekniska
Hgskolan KTH,
Sweden
MOU in place
Collaboration with Civil Eng (Murali Krishnan)
Need to scale
Univ. Pompeu Fabra,
Spain
MOU in place collaboration between Music School & CS (Hema
Murthy)
Need to expand scope
Univ. Twente,
Netherlands
MOU in place several faculty champions (B Viswanathan, Ashwin,
Sabitha Sarkar, Selvam)
Sustain & grow
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UK: Partnerships
UNIVERSITY
MECHANISM
CURRENT ENGAGEMENT OUTLOOK
The Open Univ.,
UK
EC FP7 grant with IITM as major partner
Collaboration with Physics Dept.
Ongoing
Cambridge
University, UK
Collaboration with China Studies Center
Visit by Prof. Peter Nolan in June
Sustain & grow
University of
Edinburgh,
Scotland
Collaboration with OE (offshore renewable energy)
Visit by Team in Feb
Various UG & PG initiatives
mooted
Univ. College
Cork, Ireland
MOU signed to promote student/ faculty mobility,
research collaborations in OE, ICT, Energy, Bio
Participants in Science Foundation Ireland Call
Scale-up in progress
Queens Univ.
Belfast
Student exchanges in Chemistry To begin in 2013
Dublin City Univ.,Ireland
Collaboration with Physics and ElectricalEngineering Dept.
Ongoing
Univ. of York VC visit in Jan; several depts visited; faculty
discussions initiated
Requires follow-up
Univ.
Southampton
Several relations, including UKIERI award
Dame Wendy Hall visit in Jan (CS interaction)
Sustain & grow
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Australia: Strategic Partnerships
UNIVERSITY
MECHANISM
CURRENT ENGAGEMENT OUTLOOK
University Western
Australia (UWA)
Collaboration with EE and CSE Ongoing, Expand relationship
with ME and CE. Have invited
faculty from IITM to visit UWA.
Curtin University Collaboration with OE (Petroleum Eng, subsea eng) Student & faculty exchanges
University of Sydney Collaboration with ED Student & faculty exchanges
University of South
Australia
Collaboration with ME, AM, BT Student & faculty exchanges
Deakin University Collaboration with MME and ME
Submitted proposal to govt. of Australia on development of
Hydrogen Hybrid Hi- Tech Van
Ongoing
Swinburne University Collaboration with BT. Visited on 12thMarch to collaborate
with other areas like Physics, Mathematics and Ocean
Engineering
Expand relationship
La Trobe University Research collaboration with CS Initiating student exchange
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Australia: Other Partnerships
UNIVERSITY
MECHANISM
CURRENT ENGAGEMENT OUTLOOK
Australian National
University
Joint Indo/Aus research project with Physics Dept
(Vijayan)
Met in Jan 2013 with Assoc Dir (Research), Chemistry
faculty
Expand relationship
Queensland University of
Technology (QUT)
Collaboration with CS Research collaboration
The University of
Queensland
Collaboration with HSS
University of Wollongong Collaboration with CE Student & faculty exchanges
University of Melbourne
andUniversity of Technology
Sydney (UTS)
Potential research collaborations and research
scholars exchange
Need to be nurtured
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Japan: Partnerships
UNIVERSITY
MECHANISM
CURRENT ENGAGEMENT OUTLOOK
The University of
Tokyo
Promoting exchange and offering scholarships Ongoing
Nagaoka University
of Technology,
Hitachi, IITM
Collaboration with MME Promoting exchange between
industry and university
Kyushu University
(IGSES)
Active collaboration with ED (Nilesh Vasa)
Advanced Graduate Program in Global Strategy
for Green Asia launched in Jan 2013
Dean IAR visited Kyushu for
the MoU signing ceremony;Kyushu delegation visited IITM
in March
Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Toyo
University, Shinshu
University and OsakaPrefecture University
Existing research interactions Sustain & grow
Toyohashi Univ.
Technol.
Collaboration with Physics Dept (Bisht) Initial stage
Toyo Univ. MOU in place
Interest in Physics student exchange (Somanth
Chanda Roy)
Need to scale
Shinshu Univ. MOU renewed in 2013 Student exchanges to start
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Asia: Partnerships
UNIVERSITY MECHANISM CURRENT ENGAGEMENT OUTLOOK
NUS, Singapore Joint doctoral program in place; 2
scholars have joined in 2013
Need to scale
NTU, Singapore UG student exchanges Need to pursue research collaboration
Seoul National University (SNU)
Kyungpook National University (KNU)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology (KAIST)
Korea Polytechnic University
and
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon
Active research collaboration and
student exchange
Sustain and grow
Pukyong National University Visit by delegation in Jan 2013
Visited Research Park, EE, CSE.
Initiated collaboration in EE Dept.
Need to cultivate relations
UST, Hong Kong Visit by delegation in Nov 2012
Seeking Collaboration in Physics, Life
Sciences, CS, EE
Need to cultivate relations
National Taiwan University of Science
(NTUS)
National Tsing Hua University
(NTHU)
National Chiao Tung University
(NCTU)
IITM faculty visited in late 2012; strong
relations in EE, CS
Need to expand partnerships
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University of Melbourne ranked as Australias No.1
Engineering School and ranked No. 25 worldwidePhD offered in the areas of Engineering and IT Education
Key features of the program:
Dedicated program for IIT Madras students
Attractive scholarships covering tuition fees and living expenses
Joint supervision for PhD Program provided
PhD program at University of Melbourne
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University of Western Australia (UWA)
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Swinburne University
University of South Australia
Other Universities offering Research
Opportunities at Australia
E M d S h l hi
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Erasmus Mundus project is funded by the EuropeanCommission
Up to 1500 offered as scholarship
India is getting almost 400 scholarships between four
consortia.
The following consortia are involved with IIT Madras:
HERITAGE
IBIES Consortium
GATE
India4EU II
Svgata.eu
Erasmus Mundus ScholarshipsErasmus Mundus aims to enhance quality in higher education
through scholarships and academic cooperation between
Europe and the rest of the world.
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DAAD Scholarship for PhD Research
Stipend of Euro 1000.00 per month
A lump sum towards air fare from India to Germany and backExemption from payment of university tuition fees
A study and research subsidy
Compulsory health insurance covered by DAAD
2 months German Language Course in India - free tuition4 months German Language Course in Germany - free tuition
Boarding, lodging plus pocket allowance during period of stay
Financial support for field research
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German Universities offering PhD Programs
Bauhaus-universitat weimar
Catalysis Research Center of Technische- Universitat Munchen
Dortmund University of Technology
Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences
Friedrich-Alexander-University
Hochschule Bremen University of Applied Sciences
Hof University of Applied Sciences
Katholische Universitat Eichstatt WFI-Ingolstadt School Of Management
Leibniz Universitat Hannover Technical University, Braunschweig
Technische Universitat Berlin
Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Technical University Dresden
University of Kaiserslautern
University Karlsruhe University of Duisburg-Essen
EBS Business School, Wiesdaden
ESB Business School Reutlingen University
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French Universities offering PhD exchange
Programs with IIT Madras
Ecole Centrale de Nantes
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Ecole nationale Superieure d' Arts et Metiers
The University Paris-Sud
University of Rennes
University of Toulouse
Polytech Lille
Sciences Po
Scholarship Avenues
Corporate Scholarships By French Companies
Charpak scholarship program
N+I
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Korean scholarship OpportunitiesKorea-India governmental scholarship for IIT-
Madras exchange students
Korean Universities offering exchange PhD programs
with IIT Madras
Korea Advanced Institute of science and Technology (KAIST) Korea Polytechnic University, South Korea
Changwon National University
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang
School of Electrical Engineering, (Brain Korea 21-IT), Korea University
SEOUL National University , Republic of Korea
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon
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Admission through NUS or IITMScholars follow admission & graduationpolicies of admitting Institute
Must first be admitted into resp. Ph.D.program, then into JDPMust spend at least one year at thepartner Institute
3 scholars currently enrolled
IITM NUS Joint Doctorate
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Opportunities abound..
Limited only by your own initiative Use faculty as your main conduits
They can pave the way
Our Office can facilitate
Visit frequently Talk to personnel (Kavitha, Rahul, Vadhana, Archana)
Get familiar with all open offers
Select judiciously
Pursue relentlessly
GOOD LUCK!
In summary