IIT Ropar, CSIR-CSIO join hands for academic exchange

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here and the Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) today entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for academics and advancement in science and technology.
The scope of this MoU also involves sharing of expertise, domain knowledge and available facilities in mutually agreed research areas, including physics, photonics, optics, chemistry, biomedical, material science and engineering, nanoscience and nanotechnology, electronics, computation and mechanical engineering.
Sarit K Das, director IIT Ropar, and R K Sinha, Director CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh, have signed the MoU on behalf of the IIT Ropar and the CSIO respectively.
Speaking about the association with the CSIO, Das said, "This MoU will facilitate exchange of staff and students towards co-supervision of undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. Theses."

Also for participation in research thus promoting interaction among the scientists, professors and research scholars of both the organisations, he said.
This will help in conducting joint research programmes, including externally funded schemes, consultancy activities and will also facilitate collaboration in teaching under the academy of scientific and innovative research, Das said.

The CSIO, a constituent unit of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is a national laboratory dedicated to research, design and development of scientific and industrial instruments.
It is a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional apex industrial research and development organisation in the country to stimulate growth of instrument industry in the country covering wide range and applications.

The IIT Ropar is one of the eight new IITs set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2008.
The institute has been ranked third among the new IITs in overall and fifth in engineering category in the NIRF rankings 2017, announced by the HRD Ministry, Prof Das claimed.