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Case Study: Greenfield IIT in the Remote Kamand Valley
Timothy A. GonsalvesDirector
IIT Mandi Jul 2019
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Jan ‘14
Outline
• Genesis
• Challenges
• Strategy
• Achievements
• The Future
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Genesis• 8 new IITs started in 2008, 2009
• 500-acre site chosen for IIT Mandi– Near Kamand village (pop. 200) along
Uhl River– 200 acres animal husbandry farm– 300 acres forested mountain slopes– 45 mins from Mandi (pop. 40k) via
steep mountain road with 1,500’ gorge– 5-6 hours from Chandigarh
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… Genesis• Himachal: peaceful State with high
HDI
• Low pop. 6m, largely rural 90%
• Economy: mainly agrarian and tourism
• Pockets of education, industry in Solan, Shimla, Dharamsala
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7/1/16
IIT Mandi in 2010: Dream or Folly?
26/5/12
… IIT Mandi in 2010
Challenges• General:
– Hire faculty and staff– Equip labs and library– Build a residential campus– Attract research funding– Attract industry for placements, etc
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… Challenges• Specific:
– Remote location• 2 days for 1 hour meeting
– Cold winters– Mountain terrain, landslides, …– Fear of leopards, bears, …– Poor ecosystem
• schools for children• jobs for spouses
• medical care for elderly parents
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Strategy for an IIT
Globally, many paths to prominence as a research University. Eg:
Technology excellence through focus on local and national needs
Name Size PG Scope Yrs Nature Strategy
Stuttgart 25K 47% S&T 185 Public Industry
Caltech 2K 55% S&T 125 Private Nat’l labs
MIT 11K 65% ST&M 150 Private Teaching, product, startups, industry, Nat’l labs
Stanford 16K 55% General 125 Private Product, startups, industry, Nat’l labs
NUS 37K 27% General 100 Public Partnerships, Nat’l labs
06/5/15 9
06/5/15
Vision
to be a leader in science and technology
education, knowledge creation and
innovation,
in an India that is marching towards a
just, inclusive and sustainable society10
IIT Mandi Strategy
• Focus on a few areas – especially regional and national relevance
• Partnerships with like-minded institutions in India and abroad
• Inter-disciplinary culture, organisation, academics
• Exploit Locational advantage
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Design-oriented B.Tech. curriculum
Students develop practical devices that meet real-world needs
2nd YrProduct
Development
2nd YrProduct
Development
1st YrReverse
Engineering
3rd YrTechnology &
society
3rd YrTechnology &
society
4th YrMajor technical
project – product, patent, publish
4th YrMajor technical
project – product, patent, publish
Inter-disciplinary academic culture
Real-world team projects from Year 1 to 4
Ingredients: Learn-by-doing,
teamwork, driven by needs of society,
strong humanities component
Innovative Curriculum
Pre-paid EB metervoice-controlled wheel-chairgas-leak detectorintelligent drip irrigationsmart whiteboard
oil-spill removerclothes drierwall-climbing spiderman…
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Eg. 2nd B.Tech. students design and build products for society:
Innovation by 2nd BTech
Low-cost 3D printerRs. 25,000 / $400
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06/5/15
Smart Cane
Socio-Technical Practicum
3rd BTech Practicum• Projects on social impact of
technology
• 15-25 WPI UG students (Mass., US) resident in Mandi for 3 months/year
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Direct solar lighting for houses
Quality of milk
Irrigation in the Himalayas
Hill farm mechanisation
Women’s education
…
Guided by faculty teams
Academic Organisation
CS/EE Hum/SS
Basic Sciences
Engg
Faculty Schools
Student Degrees Research Groups
CSEMech
Chemistry
EE
EnergyCNRG
Technology for Himalayas
Materials
Green EnergyMAS
Interdisciplinary Culture• No departments, instead broad schools• School ≠ Building
– Faculty offices assigned without regard to discipline
• School does not own degree program– Any faculty can teach any course
– Any faculty can guide any student– Institute Core courses designed and taught by
groups of faculty from various disciplines• E.g. IC150 Computation for Engineers,
taught by faculty from CSE, MA, Civil Engg, Bio
• Large shared labs encouraged– Generous allocation of resources to faculty teams
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Focus: Materials• 2 Distinguished Professors + 14 young faculty with
expertise in materials– from molecules to devices to applications
• National needs: Electronics, electrical, biomedical applications
• Sophisticated instruments installed/ordered– 32 cr / $5m installed + 20 cr / $3m (ordered/planned)
• $315,000 from Intel Corp, US for next-generation VLSI photo-resist material– State-of-the-art in 2012: 22 nm– IIT Mandi: 20 nm, working on 10 nm– Network of labs in India, Brazil, Mexico & US
• Centre for Design & Fabrication of Microelectronics19
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10 nm Feature
2018
VLSI Resists
20 nm Feature
2014
Validation at 180 nm
fab line of SCL
Intel US, $300K in 2012: <22nm
IIT Mandi indigenizing 11 out of 34 chemicals used at SCL, Mohali
Indian patents filed:No. 201611044190No. 201611018061No. 201611022219
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Advanced Materials Research CentreInaugurated by HRM on 9/3/13
Devices & InstrumentationBiomechanics
Bio ImagingNanobiotechBiomaterialsTheranostics
High-throughput phenotyping in agricultureSystemsanalysis of crop pathogens
Natural Products for Health and Industry
Novel microbes
in extreme environments
for industrial and biotech applications
22 facultyRs. 15 cr projects
BioX Centre – systems and synthetic biology
Detection of cervical cancer cells•With KIDWAI Memorial Institute of Oncology, PGI
Chandigarh, Aindra Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore
Low-cost point-of-care diagnostic devices● 0.2 Tesla portable MRI @Rs. 30 lakhs
Machine learning for telecom network management
● NMSWorks Software Ltd, Chennai
2 Mentor Profs + 10 young faculty, 10 cr projects
MANASMultimedia Analytics Networks Systems
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FarmerZone: A DBT Initiative
Raw Data
Farmers
Agri Supply Companies Agri Universities/ Experts
Startups
Cloud 1:Public Data
Utility
Cloud N:Public Data
Utility
Curation, triangulation, denoising, ...
Sources: IMD, ISRO, NABARD, ...
AI Advisories
Authenticated Data
Gov
tfu
nded
Indu
stry
Eco
syst
em
……
Raw Data
Lead: IIT MandiPartners:
India, UK, USRs. 10 cr
Energy Centre
• Renewable energy sources• Materials for high density
energy storage, fuel cells, carbon sequesteration, ...
• 12 faculty + 1 mentor professor– Rs. 5 crores sponsored
projects• eMandi: Project to convert
Mandi district to e-autos in 2-3 years
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Goal: e-transportation for India by 2030
More Strengths• Communications, Networks & Distributed Systems
– 6 faculty + 2 visiting professors– Rs. 1.2 crores sponsored projects
• Condensed matter physics– 5 faculty– Rs. 50 lakhs sponsored projects
• Energy and Power Systems/Electronics– 6 faculty + 1 mentor professor
– Rs. 50 lakhs sponsored projects • German Studies, History, Business
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Partnerships
India:•IITs- online teaching – biggest user of NKN initially
- faculty visits for 1-month to 1-year•Especially in May-June
- Student semester exchange, internships
- Joint sponsored projects
•Regional- online teaching, sharing of labs
- part-time MS/PhD
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Globalisation
Active MoU with TU9 in Germany since May 2011
• Funding from India and Germany for exchange visits:
• 3-month stay by faculty and post-docs in both directions
• Student exchange visits bilaterally
WPI (US):
•25 UG students every year for 3-month socio-technical practicum
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13/7/18
Gender DiversityIIT Mandi led effort from 2016 to increase females in BTech in all IITs
Goal: Increase 8% → 20%● In 2017: special outreach during JEE counseling
==> 8% → 9.1% IIT Mandi: 4% → 15%● In 2018: 14% via supernumerary seats
● Only candidates withranks > IIT closing rank
● IIT Mandi target 20%
New Campus at KamandOur Unique Advantage
3-pronged strategy, incrementally build-use1.Renovation of existing Animal Husbandry buildings
– 1,000 sqm Workshop + lab ~Rs. 3 crores
2.Preengineered buildings– Dining Hall in September 2012 (6 months)– Hostels, classrooms, labs for 200 students, residences– About 10,000 sqm by Oct 2013 ~Rs. 55 crores
3.Permanent concrete/steel buildings 1. Start of construction in Oct 2013
2. Use from August 2016
3. Construction continues up to 2019
4. ~2,20,000 sqm ~Rs. 900 crores
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NKN Electronic Classroom
100 Mb/s Connectivity
Rigaku XRDRs. 1.75 crores
Phase 1: Renovated Stable
in Kamand31
2nd BTech shift to Kamand23rd Sep 2012 32
Campus at Kamand: Plan B
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18-month setback in Phase 3 construction•Adopted LGSF technology- Light factory-made steel frame- Double wall of boards and insulation
- Cost: 30-50% of RCC
- Time: 3 months (ideally), 6-9 months
- Life: 20-50 years- 7,000 sqm, Rs. 20
crores
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LGSF
Renovated+LGSF
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North campus
South campus
Kamand Oct ‘14
Uhl RiverKamand
26/5/12
2017: IIT Mandi Campus
26/5/12
2017: South Campus
Adversity Opportunity• Bitter cold in December-January, semester
from mid-Feb to mid-JuneFaculty from other IITs visit for May-June
• Difficulty in travel from rest of India
Even VIPs spend 24 hours with us
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Students
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 20190
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321436 457 455 480 512 544
627
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6788
117155
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1028
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MAI.PhDPhDMSM.ScM.TechB.Tech
UG 49% PG 51%
Alumni: 80 PhD, 44 MS, 792 B.Tech, 89 M.Tech, 123 MSc 15/06/2019
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97
235
371
523572
616
704
871
1006
1281
1st BTech girls: 35/19219% – 1st among IITs
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Degrees
• 4-yr BTech programmes:– Computer Science & Engg– Electrical Engg– Mechanical Engg– Civil Engg
Minors in many areas
• 2-yr MTech/MSc/MA programmes:Energy Engg, Mech Engg, Chemistry, Physics,
Biotech, Maths, VLSI, Power, SP, Dev Studies
• MS (research) and PhD– Engineering, sciences and humanities
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New BTechs from Aug 2019:
➢Bio Engineering (DD)➢Data Science & Engg➢Engineering Physics
Some Achievements
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● 100+ highly qualified faculty, mostly young● Nature Index 2017 (60+ science journals):
● IIT Mandi ranked 5th among IITs(normalised by number of faculty)
● Sponsored R&D worth Rs. 85 crores● 1,140 alumni in industry, academia, public
sector – in India and globally● Pradeep Seervi: GATE(EE) topper, 2015● Aamir Khan: Civil Services 2nd rank, 2015● IITians Tech – 1st startup in 2014, several others
since● Strategic partnership with TU9, Germany● Catalyst – technology-business incubator
26/5/12
2019: IIT Mandi = 1,500 students, 110 Faculty, 150 staff, 1,140 alumni,
Rs.85 crores Research Projects
Performance Measure Rank:8 New IITs
Rank: all 23 IITs
Outreach and Inclusivity (NIRF)
1 1
Scopus publications per faculty
2 6
Teaching, Learning, Resources (NIRF)
3 8
Research funding/faculty 3 12
Engineering Overall (NIRF)
4 13
% female faculty 1 1
ISTP spinoff – EWOK
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Skills training, village-scale businesses by village women
Using Internet and pervasive mobile network
Serving local and global customers
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Kamand campus activities
Scalin
g the heights
Define a compelling vision and missionCapitalise on our unique locational advantage
A modest beginning on the arduous journey to making Mandi a household name globally
www.iitmandi.ac.in
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