IIT IUCEE

‘Indo-US collaboration for Engineering Education’ (IUCEE) seeks to create an Engineering Faculty institute for fostering Curriculum collaboration, R & D, Quality Accreditation and Entrepreneurship Education thus creating support network for 100,000 Engineering Faculty
across India & US.

The Context

• Many of 400,000 graduates coming from 1300 engineering colleges might not be employment or research ready. Hence, Quality of graduates coming to US has been decreasing over the years
• Critical shortage of graduate students & Phds in India for good quality research. Hence, there are opportunities for Indo – US collaboration to cross-pollinate best practices in Engineering Education.

The Proposition

With an aim to increase the quality of undergraduate engineering education, Research & Development and to prepare students for global economy, an Indo-US Engineering faculty development institute is being set up which works on the following thrust areas:

Sustainability, Scalability & Impact

Two pilots would be commissioned in each of the thrust areas and roll them out in India-US to seek
feedback. Based on the learning, modified pilots would be implemented in new regions and thus
scale will be achieved geographically. A sustainability fee would be charged for the colloborations
created by the institute to ensure self-sustainability of the project.

Future Steps

Fall 2007:

• Establish Governance Structure
• Build Communications Portal
• Develop Models in Thrust Areas

Spring 2008:

• Pilot model programs in selected regions

Fall 2008:

• Roll out programs in other regions