PoWER

Promotion of
Work-Experience & Research
http://www.iitk.ac.in/dord/power/
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PoWER is a platform involving Students, Faculty, Alumni
and External Agencies to promote student endeavor in
creating technology having global impact with
sustenance.
Students

Alumni Faculty

Outside
agencies
What is PoWER ? ...an integration
Technical
Support

Financial
Mentorship Players
Support
1. Students
2. Faculty
Infrastructure 3. Alumni
4. Outside
agencies

students
(Industrial/Social (Cost Effective/
Innovative solutions/
Problems/ Work
skill-building)
Experience Opportunities)
 Nucleolus
Work: Administrative head of
PoWER
Members: Dean R&D, IRDC
Convener, SIIC
Coordinator, Representative
Alumni Association,
Student Coordinators

Assessment Wing
Work: Assessment, Policy
design, mentorship
Teams: KoMent (Council
of Mentors), KoRep
(Council of
Representatives)
Members: Faculty,
Alumni, Students and
Technical individuals
Dissemination Wing
Corporate Wing
Work: Dissemination of
Work: Corporate Information, Public
Management Teams: Relation, Feedback
Alumni Interaction, generation
Industry Relation,
Resource Generation Teams: Web team,
Publication team
 Supporting Interest based
Skill building Opportunities
ideas convergence
 A program to promote interdisciplinary
student research
 An annual fund of INR 1-2 crores for student
projects (the amount can be augmented if
required)
 Currently major projects that are supported
are: Nanosatellite, Lunar Rover, Glucoband,
Abhyast (multi-purpose automatic vehicle)

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 • More opportunities and exposure
Students • Value addition
• Getting financial incentives and accreditation

• Development of relationships with students, fostering

trust and team work.
Faculty • Quality and quantity of students participating in your area
of interest increases
• Satisfaction

• Opportunity of growing and /or getting attached to an

Alumni interface involved in strong networking between
resourceful bright past and present students of IIT.

Outside • Finding Innovative and Cost Effective Solution

• Developing Highly Skilled Technical Workforce
Agencies • Involvement Of Energetic Young Minds
 Biomedical Sustainable
Astronomy Political Economy
Engineering Community Solutions

Automatic air-
quality
monitoring
system
Development
Models

Zero water
Observatory for community
amateur
astronomy Glucoband
(Astronomy
Club) Zero waste
community

Investment
University
Green House
Initiative
 Pre-emptive security
Artificial Intelligence Energy ICT
systems

Local
information
Immersive 3D
Kiosk (for any
audio- visual
Catch the city or
near-real time
vapors organization,
realization
starting with
system
Commonwealth
Games 2010
IITK Search
Engine

UAV
Orange Rinds: a
Energy from
modular and
thermo
secure web
acoustics
framework Sound source
localization
system
 NERD
Notes on
Lunar Rover
Engineering
Research & Prototype for
Development rover to be
Quarterly Student sent with Chandrayan-2
Magazine
Partnership with Vikram
Language that can be Sarabhai Space Centre
understood by people from
any department

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A program to bring
alumni and students
working together,
meanwhile students
getting mentorship and
work-experience/ research
opportunities.

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 Alumni
Mentorship
Program

Faculty
PoWER Students

External
Assistance

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 Alumni
start-up

Individual Alumni
Opportunities
alumnus enterprise

•Work-experience projects
Alumni
•Research projects organizati
•Student ideas on

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CRUX: Most important part of the idea/process/algorithm/
device or any endeavor.

CRUX-1 CRUX-2

• Student propose, defend • Alumni/outside agency

and solve propose a problem
• Help: faculty, alumni, • Student: propose, defend
outside agency and solve
• A first year student • Help: faculty, alumni,
proposed catching on outside agency
vapors • Our IITD team is working
on a problem offered by
bread making company,
Harvest Gold.

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Real-world Linkage
Activism, Critical thinking, Innovation, Outreach

* Industry-Academia Interaction: Industry-academia meets at Kanpur

and NCR
* Policy Perspectives: Conferences on innovation, Investment University

* Local innovation ecosystems: Interaction with MSMEDI, textile,

chemical, apparel and garment sector industries of Kanpur; interaction
with Kanpur Development Authority, Water and Pollution Boards and
different local bodies

* Appropriate Technology

* Synergy between IITs and other colleges: Workshop on ICT attended by

more than 20 colleges from the country

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Innovation and Technology Management
Area Representative
* Each area of research/interest will be having an area representative;
one will be a student and another Alumni
* Around 175 areas identified for alumni-student interaction

KoMent: Council of Mentors: Council of all project mentors, faculty

supervisors and area representatives

Intellectual Property
* Patents, Design, Copyright, Semiconductor Layouts and Design

 Technology Management
* Product Identification, Technology Status report, Technology Cycle,
Technology standards, accreditation, calibration & Testing, Technology-
Competition, Legal issues, Trade-Secrets.

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Innovation Database (ID): Database of students, faculty, alumni,
researchers and external agencies.
* Mapping: 1 to 1 mapping of alumni and students as per their
interest/expertise/choice

 Technical Counseling
* Thesis/Project Counselling

21 CC Engine for Sustainability

Activism, Co-existence, Experimentation
* Environment, habitat, energy, society, education, inclusive
growth, nutrition, transparency, security, infrastructure
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 Managed by Office of DRPG, Alumni Association and
Alumni Interaction Team PoWER

 Resource Generation and Management

* PoWER generates resources through Projects, IP, sponsorships, Institute
Grants
* Challenges and resources provided by alumni, outside agencies
* Donations from Alumni
* Managed by Office of Dean, Research and Development

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Become Area Representative of your area of interest/expertise

PoWER Ambassador: Brand Ambassador of PoWER

Creator of engagements for students in some ideas that you want to work
upon/implement

Assessment of project ideas brought by students or offered by any external

agency.

Support some student ideas technically and monetarily. Joint cracking of cruxes

Mentor policy design, innovation and technology management

Fostering national as well as global network

Technical Counseling and Networking

Preparing your juniors for 21st Century Challenges

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 Positive Experiences
* Finding fruitful reasons to come back to institute again and again
* Diverse engagements with Alma Mater
* Finding potential partners for any venture/collaborative research
* Feeling good after pre-equipping young for current and future challenges
* Direct relations with students which will drag back to academic years at
IITK

 Challenges
* Finding time
* Patient nurturing this idea in beginning years without much expectations
* Coping up with the expectations of family, profession, students, faculty,
academics, deliverables etc.
* Channelization of resources and especially convincing their current
organization

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* A B-Tech Project by 3 alumni being developed as a full-fledged project
supported the institute.

* Designing a tourist information system for Commonwealth Games 2010

with an IITK start-up Geokno Pvt. Ltd.

* Designing the outer model of two devices with Simplifix Automations,

an IITK alumni start-up.

* Designing the outer model of a device with Cenogen Pvt. Ltd. An IITK
alumni start-up.

* An autonomous group of students GE3 (Group for Environment and

Energy Engineering) is working with an IITK alumnus Virendra Kothari
on energy and environmental issues.

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Alumni Mentorship Program is in the design phase and will
take some time to establish
Active participation from alumni is requested

Alumni are requested to contribute only 5 days a year for

this, preferably in the campus, spending your time with

students, in any part of the year.

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 PoWER, IITK

Views and queries invited at:

power@iitk.ac.in
http://www.iitk.ac.in/dord/power/