Information Technology
ESTABLISHING
THE ADVANCED SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGIES:
UNDER
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB WORLD UNIVERSITY
A consortium of technology institutions in collaboration with the industry partners of repute.
EDUCATION REDEFINED
“We will redefine what it means to be an educated person. Traditionally an educated person was someone who had prescribed stock of formal knowledge.
Increasingly, an educated person will be some one who has learned how to learn, and who continues learning throughout his or her lifetime.”
By Peter Drucker, The Management Guru
A HOLISTIC EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
| Analytic Model, Present |
Integrative Model, Future |
| Vertical (in depth) Thinking |
Lateral (Functional) Thinking |
| Abstract Learning |
Experiential learning |
| Reductionism-Fractionization |
Integration-Connecting the parts |
| Develop order |
Correlate chaos |
| Understand certainty |
Handle ambiguity |
| Analysis |
Synthesis |
| Research |
Design/process/manufacture |
| Solve problems |
Formulate problems |
| Develop ideas |
Implement ideas |
| Independence |
Teamwork |
| Technological –Scientific base |
Societal context/ethics |
| Engineering science |
Functional core of engineering |
PROPOSED MODEL-CHARACTER
- A network of “clouds” (industry partners) clustered around a “core” (institute)
- The core institute would aim to amalgamate the technology strengths of Indian institutes of technologies with the sound business and management principles of Indian institutes of management to prepare business leaders for the new economy.
- The school to have two wings, one academic and the other clinical.
- It would operate on the principle of internship in a medical college where real time medical practice is part of the learning process.
- The clinical wing would operate a software development and business center to handle real life IT projects from the industry.
- To be run on self sustaining basis.
PROPOSED MODEL- CURRICUAL AND COURSES
- International standards of modular curricula which would be revised periodically to remain in tune with the latest emerging technologies.
- Multi point entry and multipoint exit. Credit system based modular courses
- At lest 50% hands on training including live projects.
- The studies would culminate into masters degrees in IT, industry certifications or post graduate diplomas to be awarded by the university.
- The students may get a graded stipend during their period of work in the software development center handling real life IT projects.
PROPOSED MODEL – GOVERNANCE
- The school to be established, managed and run as a constituent unit of Sri Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib, near Chandigarh (India) in close collaboration with the IT Corporate Sector.
- The school would strive to be a consortium of technology institutions and R&D centers to be run and managed jointly with the concerned IT corporate and industry partners.
- The representatives of IT corporate institutions, the industry partners to be approached to participate as corporate members.
- The School would frame, within university parameters, its own rules and regulations on internationally recognized pattern.
PROPOSED MODEL- FUNDING
- The school. Being a unit of the university, would be funded, mainly, by the sponsoring body, that is, Sri Guru Granth Sahib Fourth Centenary Memorial Trust set up by the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee, Amritsar- Being the apex elected religious body of the Sikh Community ; the school would be run on self-sustaining basis so far as recurring expenditure is concerned.
- The other avenues of funding, such as the NRIs, venture capitalists, private business sector, individual donors, etc., have also been fruitfully explored with enthusiastic responses.
PROPOSED MODEL- CORPORATE PARTNERS
- There will be a core institute surrounded by a number of corporate schools from companies like IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, SCO, Cisco etc., that would be approached to establish centers in their own areas of core competencies.
- The land and the basic shell structure of the buildings for these IT and management corporate centers to be provided by the university.
- Furnishing, Equipment and machinery, faculty, curricula, instructional material, and recurring cost of these corporate IT and management centers to be met by the partners industries.
- Land and core building to be jointly funded by promoters.
PROPOSED MODEL- ACEDEMICS
- Academic networking with national and international IT and management institutions.
- Logically the school to be an extended enter of the university.
- Offer short term and medium term continuing education programmes for the existing professionals of IT industry.
- May take up the work of accreditation of IT and Management institute as an agency.
- Collaborations and tied ups with foreign universities.
PROPOSED MODEL- FACULTY
- The faculty would be the best and highly professional.
- Institute core faculty (Senior/Junior) :20%
- Faculty of the partner IT and management industry for their centers : 30%
- Faculty form the IT and management industry : 30%
- External / visiting/ adjunct faculty : 20%
PROPOSED MODEL (INDUSTRY / BUSINESS) : PROMOTERS ROLE
- To shape a world class infrastructure and study/work environment.
- To build a well mandated, value based, highly effective institution.
- To attract and nurture leading edge world class IT and management companies with proven technologies, R&D culture and educational background.
- To facilitate knowledge and technology transfer along with creation of wealth.
- To overview the infrastructure creation.
- To help in affiliations and tie ups with foreign universities/ bodies.
- Funds for infrastructure of the core institute to be provided or arranged, to the extent possible, by the promoters form own source, market borrowings, venture capital funds or any other source.
PROPOSED MODEL – COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES
- Offer high end short and medium term continuing education programmes for the professionals from IT and management areas from industry.
- High end IT and management consultancy
- Provide incubation facilities for supporting new technologies.
- Run and manage a software development center within school
- Take up research and development sponsored by industry
- Organize short term management development programmes for industry sponsored candidates.
- Take up the work of accreditation of IT and management institutes and courses.
- Take up high quality multimedia content development.
PROPOSED MODEL
| NICHE AREAS IDENTIFIED |
POSSIBLE R&D CENTERS |
E-business / E-Commerce
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Bio- Technology |
IT services / IT enabled services
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IT services / IT Enabled services |
Software development/ product development
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Software engineering |
| Electronic governance |
System software technologies open Source technologies
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Tele communication sector
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Hardware Technologies |
Smart card technologies
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Communication engineering |
Multimedia Technologies/
Electronic Content Development
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Internet Technologies Electronic content development |
Trade facilitation services
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IT for masses – Citizen IT Interface |
Bio Technology, bio informatics
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Information access devices Technology |
| Agri biotechnology |
Management of new economy |
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AREAS
SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS
- Human computer interface
- Computer supported cooperative work
- Cryptography
- Anti piracy
- Natural language computing
- Adaptive systems and interaction
- Social computing
- 64 bit applications
- Audio video mining
- Open runtime platforms
- Polymorphic software
- Information visualization
- Electronic publishing
- Knowledge acquisitions and modeling
- Spatial imaging
- Visual computing
- Context aware computing
- Wireless verification program
- Weather mapping and prediction
- Computational atmospheric sciences
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AREAS
HARDWARE
- DNA computers
- Optical computers
- Quantum computers
- Mobile computing
- Parallel computing
- Distributed computing
- Network computing
- 64-128 bit processors
- Real time systems
- Wearable electronics
- Silicon process and manufacturing research
- Microprocessor research
- Photonic computing
- Cluster computing
- Fault tolerant systems
- Proactive computing
- Solid state electronics
- Super conducting computers
- Low cost devices
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AREAS
| Networks |
Artificia lintelligence and Robotics |
| Optical Networks |
Pervasive computers |
| Wireless networks |
Learning algorithms |
| Internet 2 |
Foundations for a theory of mind |
| Self organizing overlay networks |
Perception |
| Ubiquitous networks |
Natural language computing |
| 100 Giga bit Ethernet |
Expert systems |
| Network embedded software technology |
Artificial cognition |
| Ambient intelligence |
Probabilistic and game theoretic methods |
| Collaborative wireless communication networks |
Self replicating machines |
| Ad hoc networking |
Polymorphic software |
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AREAS
| Communications technology |
Security |
| Network processors |
Algorithmic and deductive methods |
| Cellular wireless technologies |
Simulation oriented methods |
| Photonic communication |
Bio metrics |
| Wireless broadband |
Cryptology |
| 4 G mobility |
Hardware based security |
| Cooperative transport protocols |
Pressure sensitive passwords |
SOME TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE
Bluetooth
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Unified communications |
Web conferencing |
| Smart dust |
E-link |
Utility computing |
| MMS |
Open source |
Zigbee |
| LEP |
Instant messaging |
Portals |
Linux
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UWB |
IP telephony |
SCM
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MEMS |
WLANs |
| iSCSI SAN s |
Smartphones |
Realtime DW |
| services |
Location aware
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Semantic web |
| IT self service |
OLED |
Speech recognition |
| Search |
infrastructure |
Real time |
Opteron
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Micro fuel cells |
Software as services (SOA) |
| Ontologies |
4g wireless |
Camera phones |
| Trusted platforms |
Tablet PCs |
Mobile applications |
| Nano computing |
BAM |
CRM |
| Grid computing |
Metadata management |
RFID tags |
| Network security convergence |
Mesh networks |
802.11 g |
| Maturing withing 36 months |
Established, wider usability |
Partial value next three years |
| Network security |
Utility Computing |
RFID tags |
| Convergence |
WLANs |
Grid computing |
| IP telephony |
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Web conferencing |
| Software as services |
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Real time infrastructure |
| Instant messaging |
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ACADAMIC AND OTHER CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Post graduate programmes
MBA (Integrated) in IT
M.tech (Integrated) in IT
M.tech in IT
PGD in IT Applications
Doctoral Programmes : Ph.D in IT related area
MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY IN IT
With specialization / super specialization in following sub areas
Software Engineering
* Software analysis design and development
* Software testing and quality management
Information systems and management
- IT management and administration
- Knowledge management and data warehousing/mining
- System integration- design and implementation
- Enterprise resource planning – design and implementation
Information technology communications engineering
- Telecommunications services
- Networking and routing technologies
- IT resource management
E- business and management
- Internet and web technologies
- Advanced E-commerce applications- design and implementation
- Management of technologies
COMPONENTS OF A NEW AGE INSTITUTION
- Commitment, will and leadership to excel (both faculty and top management)
- Shared vision and goal setting
- Lay the institutional framework and systems
- Infrastructure and facilities
- technology centers- industry partnership
- shared infrastructure – IT resources, cyber cafes
- common standards- educational, technology.
- Connectivity, communication and networking
- campus wide area network
- fiber optic backbone
- development of curricula in collaboration with real world
- IT education and IT based education
- New technologies
- Change management
- reforms to create learning friendly environment
- processes re engineering of delivery mechanism
- create win win for all stake holders
- Competencies training, quality faculty, outsourcing
- existing faculty training- adjunct, contractual faculty
- recruiting and retaining talented faculty
- outsourcing non core HR requirements
- outsourcing facility management services
- Content information, databases, applications
- Creation and management of teaching resources and content
- Capture, authentication and management of info and data
- Major databases students, courses, instructional material
- Intranet instructional material and public domain info
- Right to information
- capital funding and recurring costs
- Fee for quality education
- Financing through public private partnership
- Capital funding. VCs FIs, government’s budgetary support
- Strong interface, collaboration and partnership with industry, R&D culture
- shop floor and hands on training and real life projects
- enabling environment, incubation facilities, consultancies
- close liaison with industry
- R&D culture sponsored by industry, government
- Students, faculty, staff, employers, parents interfaces
- Core, common, group and individual departmental applications
- Web bases services, applications and common interface
- Simple, universal access infrastructure
- Privacy and security.
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