IIT Roorkee is on the move to catch up with the leading institutes of the world. This movement could be considerably enhanced through focused interaction between the students and the faculty. These interactions have contributed significantly in harnessing the research potential of an institute - as observed in leading institutes like Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and
STIFKI
STIFKI aims at enhancing interaction between students and faculty members for improving research & innovation culture in IITR. STIFKI’s two primary objectives are:
• To help in identifying areas where commonality of interest may help faculty members and students to get together to work within and across the departments.
• To provide opportunities to students to get exposed to ongoing research and innovation activities so that they may participate in these activities.
Different features of STIFKI:
I. Forum for Weekly Seminar & Face-to-Face Interaction:(Current phase)
This forum will provide opportunity for a face-to-face interactive session between faculty members and students. The faculty members will introduce the research and consultancy projects on which they are working through a seminar talk and suggest a preferred mechanism through which students can participate in the research and innovation activities.
II. STIFKI Online (Coming Soon!!)
STIFKI would also allow electronic interaction between:
• faculty members currently involved in research & innovation activities
• those students who want to get involved in research & innovation activities
The most important features of this online platform would be
Ø a database of skills,
Ø fields of interest and,
Ø other relevant information of students as well as faculty members.
It will be like searching, say an image on a search engine, which would allow the user, say a faculty member, to look for profiles of those students who possess required skill sets. The user can locate either students or faculty members with similar interests. This would allow faculty to find not only the right students but also a fellow faculty member with similar or complimentary areas of interest according to the need.
Your views, feedback and queries are invited.
7 comments:
I am very much interested in being a part of this programme. I would like to know if we, the students have an open option to choose any faculty member we wish for or is there some kind of restriction or selection procedure?
ya sm here..i m also luking forward to be a member of dis programme...but the selection procedure is nt clear frm here....
dis will be a very gud platform for students to get a chance to interact wid faculty members...
@ Mayank and Abhishek
The students will have the option of selecting the faculty member, from who ever is present in the seminar. Currently we are limiting it to 4-5 faculty members for the first STIFKI, each of whom will share possible opportunities for students in a particular focus area - which will be revealed in the next few days. But, as far as the selection procedure is concerned, the faculty member has the complete freedom of devising his own methodology of how,where and how many students he wants to work with him. What STIFKI will do, is to provide students the freedom to listen,choose, interact and express interest in the work and faculty members of their choice. Selection has to be at the discretion of the faculty member.
All suggestions are welcome.
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Team STIFKI
Keep an eye on the blog for updates on the theme(or focus area), name of faculty members confirming participation and the date of the first STIFKI.
hi! everybody. i m keen to know whether the project work will b provided by faculty member or the student already having some idea can work on it?
Nice question Shivank. I have answered it in the new post- "FAQ", so that it could benefit more people. You may have a look.
I am interested in knowing about the projects on image processing at offer in the insti...When can we have such a seminar....
hi!!!!!everyone.
i am also very much interested to become a part of stifki.
i provide a better opprtunity to interact.
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