Indo-US Inter-university Collaborative Initiative in Higher Education and Research using EDUSAT - Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham along with India Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the government of India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) has entered into a landmark and historic tie-up with more than 20 leading American universities which include Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Georgia Institute of Technology, Universities of Massachusetts -Amherst, Washington, Texas - Austin, Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Wisconsin-Madison, North Dakota, Maryland, Michigan and University of California campuses at Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles and Santa Cruz to enhance higher education in India.
Under this agreement, these eminent US universities will depute their reputed faculty to teach and guide research to a large population of Indian students at hundreds of colleges and universities in India via AMRITA’s E-learning
setup and ISRO’s EDUSAT satellite. The program will also introduce U.S. faculty to potential research partnerships in India. This program holds great promise of taking advantage of the tremendous synergy between the United States and India, and makes it possible to build a truly ambitious education system in advanced technology areas for the growth and development of India. Three of the leading technology companies in the world, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Cadence, will be funding this Initiative.
President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam launched the Indo-US Inter-University Collaborative Network for Higher Education and Research in New Delhi on 8 December, 2005. Earlier, on July 20th 2005, five U.S. universities including the University of California, campuses at Berkeley and San Diego, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University and State University of New
York at Buffalo had inked the agreement during the visit of the Honorable Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh to Washington DC. University leaders, corporate executives, and the Secretary of Space, the Secretary of Science and Technology, and the Indian Ambassador to the U.S attended the event after which they were warmly greeted by the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in Blair House, across from the White House.
As part of this Indo-US agreement, a joint MS Programme in IT Enabled Services with State University of New York, Buffalo has been launched.
Research Agreement between Indian Scientific Institutions and University of
California System:
India’s premier science and technology organizations, including the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), TIFAC, and Indo-US S&T Forum, and Amrita University, IIT Kanpur, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, and SETS, have together signed a 5-year agreement with the ten campus University of California System to carry out ground-breaking research in globally challenging and impactful areas.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by DST Secretary Professor V.S.Ramamurthy and DBT Secretary Dr. M.K. Bhan with the 8-member University of California delegation, in the presence of Shri Kapil Sibal, Minister of Science and Technology and Ocean Development, at New Delhi.
This Initiative takes the collaboration between the University of California System, with its ten campuses and four
Institutes for Science and Innovation, and leading Indian scientific organizations and universities, to a far deeper level in areas of science, technology, research and education. It will dramatically strengthen joint research and educational collaborations, and will build on the recent US-India collaborations in engineering education, expanding the focus to a wide
range of disciplines aimed at providing solutions to common pressing challenges that will yield long-term benefits to the
competitiveness and security of India and the US.
Areas of collaboration include, biomedical and digital healthcare technologies, drug design and delivery systems, study of emerging infectious diseases, wireless and mobile communication, intelligent transportation systems, telematics, information technology and cybersecurity, technologies for disaster warning, mitigation, and management, nanobiosciences, nanomedicine, and nanotechnology, energy, including a focus on solar energy and bio-fuels, agricultural biotechnologies and food security, biodiversity, with an emphasis on marine systems, water quality and quantity, global warming and climate change studies.
Amrita - ISRO - Cognizant Initiative on satellite based education and research which links all the campuses of Amrita
university thorough a dedicated Satellite network enabling conducting of courses/ lectures from one center which can be
interactively participated by students in other centers.
Amrita - Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) - DST Center in Biomedical Technology. This is the first such center in biomedical technology in India with extensive industry participation from HP, Mascon Global, etc.
Amrita-Hewlett Packard Initiative on Wireless Sensor Networks and Center for Digital Earth Amrita-Cadence Initiative on VLSI
Technology.
Amrita - Konkan Railway Initiative on SkyBus Technology.
Amrita - TIFAC Center in Cyber security
Amrita - Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) initiative in Information Security
Amrita - Konkan Railway-DST joint initiative in Telematics.
Amrita - Microsoft Center for Excellence in E-learning
Center for Digital Health, Telemedicine and Hospital Information System Amrita Research Labs and Amrita
Technologies, developing various products like Amrita Health Care Informatics Suite (AHIS), Amrita University Management
Suite, Amrita Telemedicine, Amrita Single- Line PBX, Amrita Health Care Solutions, Amrita Security Lock Solutions, and Amrita
Telematics.
Center for Environmental Studies
Center for Computational Engineering and Networking
Projects with foreign universities like Milano University, Italy in Autonomous Bioinspired robots and Berne University, Switzerland in Intelligent Surgical Telemetry Refractor Telescope (8") CCD Interfaced (AFU-85, Russia) funded by ISRO for
Space Studies Initiatives in the fields of Lunar Observation, Satellite Tracking, Solar Studies.
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