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IISc attracts and fosters the very best faculty members in all science and engineering disciplines. To become one of the top 50 universities in global rankings, IISc plans to institute several prestigious Chair Professorships to support outstanding faculty members. Each Chair Professorship would be awarded to a single accomplished senior or mid-level faculty member.
Your contributions to these Chairs would help us unleash our true potential and reach greater heights of accomplishment. Each Chair Professorship will be associated with the contributor/organization for perpetuity.
There are two levels of Chair Professorships:
12.6 crores contributed towards 3 distinguished Chair Professorships by the Tata Trusts
2.1 crores contributed by alumnus Dr. Satya Nadham Atluri for an Associate Professor Chair in Biosciences
2.1 crores contributed by Mindtree for an Associate Professor Chair
To encourage bright young faculty to pursue cutting-edge research, the Institute plans to award several named Young Investigator positions at the level of Assistant Professor. This would supplement the salary of the faculty member, enabling them to acquire world-class research infrastructure and pursue revolutionary research.
Contribution: One-time contribution of Rs. 1.05 crores per position (Rs. 1 crore for the endowment and Rs. 0.05 crores for institute administrative overheads). Each Position will be named after the Contributor for perpetuity.
1.05 crores contributed by Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw for “R.I. Mazumdar Young Investigator” position
1.05 crores contributed by Adventz Finance Pvt. Ltd. for “Saroj Poddar Foundation Young Investigator” position
Young investigator positions also supported by the Infosys Foundation under existing endowments
IISc actively encourages students to attend and present their work at national and international conferences. Such opportunities would allow them to stay in touch with research trends, gain a deeper understanding of their field of interest, and build fruitful collaborations with leading researchers worldwide.
Support the professional development of students by sponsoring their requirements to attend national and international conferences and workshops, symposia and internships.
Named travel grants can be established with a one-time endowment of Rs. 33 lakhs (+5% for institute administrative overheads), which will ensure meeting the full travel expenses of one student for one international conference per year. Smaller contributions will be accumulated under this fund until sufficient targets are reached to utilize appropriately. An Institute-appointed committee will oversee the beneficiary selection process.
To set up named travel grants, please write to development.odaa@iisc.ac.in.
The present old classrooms in the lecture hall complex at IISc are in regular use for the courses conducted by CCE for Proficience, QIP and industry-sponsored programs. These old classrooms are used on a daily basis and will benefit 2500 students/faculty/professionals per year.
In addition, these classrooms are also used for UG classes under the Bachelor of Science program at IISc, as well as for other academic programs required by the institute.
There is an urgent need for renovating these classrooms to be in line with the digital education system followed globally.
The renovation of the classrooms will cover up-gradation of the facility, provision of audiovisual systems, internet access and other facilities to transform them into “digital class rooms”.
Target: Rs. 2,10,00,000. A small percentage (~5%) of each contribution may be used for administrative/overhead expenses.
Timeline: 3 years
Centre for Continuing Education (CCE):
The Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) was established at IISc in 1975-76 to meet the primary objectives of providing continuing education to the incumbents of Universities, Research & Development (R&D) Laboratories and Industries, by utilizing the resources of institute. The courses are suitably designed to meet the requirements of different target groups, ranging from high school teachers to research scientists/engineers. The courses aim at enabling graduate engineers/scientists to grow into competent and creative managers of technology-intensive and data-driven organizations. CCE has rapidly grown in the range and depth of its activities since its founding. Over 40,000 scientists/engineers have been trained by the CCE so far.
The current courses being offered by the Centre for Continuing Education are as follows:
The Hydraulics Laboratory building, along with two new annex buildings, is being constructed to house several important departmental labs, student classrooms, seminar rooms and faculty offices.
To provide ultra-modern facilities and teaching aids for better student learning experience, the Department has constructed 3 classrooms in the Annex building to accommodate 40 to 55 students in each classroom. The Department seeks financial support for furnishing and AV facilities in the 3 classrooms.
The Department of Civil Engineering has recently embarked on an innovative Master’s program by combining three programs and the newly started M. Tech. program offers Major and Minor in the disciplines of Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Water Resources and Environmental Engineering. The Department plans to add Major and Minor options in Transportation Engineering to its Master’s program soon. Unified Master’s program attract some of the best Civil Engineering graduates from across the country. At a given time, the Department nurtures 50 to 60 M. Tech. students and nearly 100 PhD students.
The total funding required for this project is Rs. 75 lakhs.
Single or multiple contributors of any value are welcome. Each classroom furnishing and AV would cost about Rs. 21-26 lakhs. In case of a single donation of Rs. 25 lakhs or more, the classroom will be named after the donor.
Ways to Give:
Alumni
Corporates & Philanthropists
A small percentage (~5%) of each contribution may be used for administrative/overhead expenses.
IISc proposes to build a new women’s hostel on its Bangalore campus. It is imperative that women students stay on campus to gain maximum benefit from accessing world-class research facilities and academic infrastructure. IISc students are some of the brightest in India, selected through rigorous national competitive exams. Several women students also come from disadvantaged communities, backward regions and far-flung areas.
Impact: Empowering more women students to pursue research and increasing the number of women students at IISc.
Target: 3 blocks each at Rs. 20 crores. Each block can be named after the contributor. A small percentage (~5%) of each contribution may be used for administrative/overhead expenses.
CSR Category: Promoting gender equality, empowering women, setting up homes and hostels for women
For more details on how to support this project, please write to development@odaa.iisc.ernet.in
1 block (Rs. 20 crores) committed by Jindal Aluminium Group
1 block (Rs. 19.8 crores) committed by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
The Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA) will complete 50 years in 2019. To celebrate this occasion, the Department is planning a series of events between Aug 2019 and July 2020. The events will consist of Research Symposia, Instructional Workshops, Industry specific events, and more. The aim of these events will be to showcase past achievements of the Department and chart out a vision for the future.
A detailed plan of these events will be announced soon. To make all this possible, the Department requests external donors including alumni to generously donate to the CSA Golden Jubilee Fund. The mandate of the fund is to defray all expenses related to the events conceived under CSA Golden Jubilee Celebrations.
We invite contributions from alumni and well-wishers towards this initiative.
Ways to Give:
Alumni
Corporates & Philanthropists
A small percentage (~5%) of each contribution may be used for administrative/overhead expenses.
The ECE Department has, over the past few years, been attracting a large number of bright students to pursue research. In order for these students to gain experience and interact with their peer groups across the globe, it is necessary for the students to present papers in premier conferences in their respective research areas. The current travel support given to students for their entire duration of research studies is not sufficient sometimes for even one conference. Funds towards contingency/working expenses are also limited. There is a pressing need to augment resources for supporting this activity in the Department.
The ECE Department has launched this initiative to support the research and professional development needs of its students, and actively seeks generous contribution from its alumni towards this Fund.
Cheques/DDs in favour of “The Registrar, Indian Institute of Science” can be sent to the Chairperson, Department of ECE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012
Ways to Give:
Alumni
Corporates & Philanthropists
A small percentage (~5%) of each contribution may be used for administrative/overhead expenses.
The Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) is a new interdisciplinary engineering department formed in December, 2015 at the Indian Institute of Science. It is also the first of its kind among the top universities in India.
The Sponsored PhD fellowships at CDS will be named after the donor to support bright PhD students joining IISc. These could be instituted in a department or for a specific research area actively pursued by the institute faculty members. The named/sponsored fellowship will provide enhanced support as well as sponsoring their travel, accommodation, conference registrations and related requirements.
Target: Rs. 35 Lakhs for one fellowship.
As a young and growing department in an emerging discipline, CDS welcomes sponsorship opportunities from industry and philanthropists.
For a full list of sponsorship opportunities, please visit http://cds.iisc.ac.in/sponsorship/
Ways to Give:
The Department of Chemical Engineering has been running an active summer internship program (May – July) since 2010. The program attracts about 20-25 undergraduates from across the country, selected through an open application process, who spend 6 weeks in the department. Through a series of lectures, laboratory visits, and short projects, the students are exposed to modern aspects of chemical engineering research and training. The internship exposes students to chemical engineering research at IISc, through close interaction with faculty and students. The department envisions that the summer internship plays a critical role in our outreach activity to seek out talented undergraduates and expose them to chemical engineering research. Several summer interns have returned to IISc, to pursue either a Masters or PhD degree in Chemical Engineering.
This fund will provide a stipend for the summer intern, to cover travel and local accommodation during their internship. We would like to restructure and expand the summer internship to attract about 40-45 summer interns to this program.
We invite contributions from alumni and well-wishers towards this initiative.
Ways to Give:
Alumni
Corporates & Philanthropists
A small percentage (~5%) of each contribution may be used for administrative/overhead expenses.
Professor Kadavil Poulose Abraham (1920-2011) served the department for 21 years, including the period 1972-1977 when he was the fourth Head of the Department. As a teacher, Professor Abraham inspired many generations of students through his lectures on thermodynamics and extractive metallurgy. His teaching covered both iron & steel and nonferrous metals. He helped establish laboratories in Process Metallurgy, some of which were pioneering in the Indian scene. When that generation of alxumni reflects on the solidity of the fundamentals with which they left IISc, it is in large part a testimony to the academic excellence that Professor Abraham nurtured. His students went on to become leading metallurgists and materials scientists, both, in academic institutions as well as in industry, in India and abroad. In launching this appeal, the Institute and the department, where he spent the major part of his working life, would like to pay tribute to his accomplishments in laying the foundations for what has now become a vibrant centre for teaching and research in the field of materials in India.
The KP Abraham Chair Professorship will add to existing chairs to enable distinguished scientists to spend significant periods of time at IISc.
We invite alumni and well-wishers to contribute generously to the fund.
Target: The immediate target is to raise Rs. 50 lakhs and ultimate target is Rs. 1 crore to establish an endowment, the interest of which will be used to support the visits of distinguished scientists to IISc. Currently as on July 2017, we have received generous contributions amounting to Rs. 41 lakhs.
Contributions received so far: Click here
Ways to Give:
The Department of CSA currently enjoys a pre-eminent position in the country as a vanguard seat of learning and research in Computer Science and Engineering. The department is known for its excellent research atmosphere and is among the most preferred destinations for bright young faculty members and students in the country. However, given the rapid spread of educational excellence in the country over the last decade, and the need to constantly re-invent to reflect and promote the morphing manifestations of the external world, a slew of measures need to be implemented to maintain its competitive edge.
This re-invention will boost both scientific aspirations as well as the research environment and support provided in the department, and includes the following:
· Upgradation and maintenance of contemporary research infrastructure, with competent scientific and departmental administration.
· Hosting a vibrant community of post-doctoral scholars, who will be the department’s future faculty members and ambassadors.
We also welcome contributions from corporates and philanthropists.
Ways to Give:
Alumni
Corporates & Philanthropists
A small percentage (~5%) of each contribution may be used for administrative/overhead expenses.
To encourage bright young students to pursue research careers, named scholarships can be provided in selected areas. Interested institute scholars can apply, and the selection will be carried out by a committee constituted for this purpose. The scholarships are provided for upto 5 years (PhD) and 2 years (Master’s). The scholarships can be named after the contributor/contributing organization.
Contribution:
PhD scholarships: Annual contribution per scholar is Rs. 6 lakhs. For the entire program, the contribution per scholar is Rs. 30 lakhs.
Master’s scholarships: Annual contribution per student is Rs. 6 lakhs. For the entire program, the contribution per student is Rs. 12 lakhs.
Scholarships for 5 years committed by Cisco & Tata Motors under CSR
IISc plans to establish a biodiversity information base and museum/conservation facility centred around Indian and South Asian biodiversity, modeled after the US-based Smithsonian Institution.
This digital platform will integrate knowledge of India’s biodiversity into one database along multiple axes. Other than basic information, such as identification and distribution of species of plants and animals from different regions of India, this platform would include a number of novel components, such as genetic, behavioural, physiological and environmental data. The Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES) at IISc has made pioneering contributions to the study of ecology and conservation, and is ideally poised to act as a nerve centre for such an initiative. The Centre has already launched the first digital flora portal (the Flora of Karnataka) in India (currently hosted at http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ac.in/hjcb2/), based on an extensive herbarium collection in CES.
Cumulative Target: Rs. 2 crores. A small percentage (~5%) of each contribution may be used for administrative/overhead expenses.
Timeline: 3 years
Ways to Give:
Alumni
Corporates & Philanthropists
