Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR)

 Professional Development & Innovation Awards

Sponsored by the Class of 1983  to Recognize Deserving IITR Students & to Honor Memory of the Departed Friends

Update: Enhanced Program Launched for the Year 2023

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. - Steve Jobs

Purpose

Our goal is to promote innovation and professional excellence among IITR students by partnering with IITR departments on an ongoing basis and providing incentives through cash awards.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)  has been signed on Jan 9, 2019 between Director, IITR, and the Class of 1983 alumni to achieve the twin goals.  Recognizing that IITR has several existing schemes, this  MOU is focused specifically on promoting innovation and professional excellence among the undergraduate students. 

Our 1983 class contribution is listed among the IITR top batch donations.

Sponsors & Supporters

Innovation

Innovation has been recognized as key to engineering and technological excellence for IITR students to be successful in long-term. To incentivize students’ meaningful participation, an annual competition focusing on innovation by undergraduate students will be organized every year.  Details of the competition, and specific implementation steps, have been developed.

Professional Development and Mentoring

To facilitate professional development, accomplished alumni from  Australia, Canada, India, U.K., U.A.E., U.S.A. etc. have been involved in the program to act as sponsors, jury and mentors,  in partnership with IITR faculty. Special preference is given to the projects focused on environmental sustainability, development of rural areas and under-privileged sections of the society.

Program Details

Under "Professional Development & Innovation Awards" program, cash awards are given every year to the students for

Open competition is organized every year to select the top teams. Awards are given away at the time of Annual Convocation.

AWARDS OPEN FOR  POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS SINCE YEAR,  2022-23!!!


For program details, please visit  IITR website for Senate Committee for Scholarship and Prizes

Pledge 1% of Your Income to IITR: Promote Innovation

Under "Pledge 1% of Your Income to IITR" initiative, several alumni have pledged to continue donations every year in future too. This will add to the initial corpus built by the alumni.

To get involved in this program or to contribute/donate, please reach out to  Team.


Click here to see full list of IITR alumni who have supported and contributed/donated to promote innovation.

Execution Responsibilities

Under the MOU, a core team consisting of IITR and alumni representatives is guiding the execution of the program.

For program execution, IITR is represented by:

Following IITR Class of 1983 alumni are supporting in the program execution:

Prof. Rahul Dev Garg

Prof. Dheeraj Khatod

 Dr. Vivek Varma

Mr. Atul Srivastava

 Dr. Hari  Srivastava

 Prof. Pamela Chawla

Mr. Shailendra Sharma

To reach out to core team, email: admin@iitr-innovationawards.com