BHUBANESWAR: The Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar (IIT-BBS) is stitching up a spate of collaborations for research and development (R&D) in emerging sectors of science.
On Wednesday, it signed an MoU with BHEL for R&D collaboration in energy sector. The MoU for long term R&D was signed by IIT-BBS Director Prof RV Raja Kumar and Dr Executive Director of BHEL Umakant Choudhury.
A dozen areas where IIT can collaborate with BHEL has been identified which includes carbon nanotubes to system-level study on grid interaction of multiple hybrid PV System.
Raja Kumar said the collaboration would enable IIT’s faculty members to contribute for technology development in the areas of energy and power systems including renewable energy sources in which both the agencies have a lot of common interest and huge potential.
Earlier, the institute had collaborated with Integrated Test Range (ITR), DRDO, Chandipur by signing agreements for three sponsored research projects. The projects include ‘Utilisation of ITR Doppler Weather Radar Products in High Resolution Mesoscale Model for Prediction of Severe Weather Over Chandipur’ by Prof UC Mohanty, ‘Real time Implementation of Image Fusion Algorithms for IR and CCD Video’ by Dr NB Puhan and Prof G Panda of SES and ‘Aeronautic Telemetry Channel Estimation and Equalisation’ by Dr PR Sahu and Prof G Panda.
The research partnerships apart, the institute has sought to rope in visiting faculties and researchers from international institutions to create an academic atmosphere of cosmopolitan character and global flavour.
The visiting faculties can be hired for a semester which can be extended up to one more year. They can also participate in teaching as well as research programmes in its constituent schools.
The IIT-BBS is offering an honorarium of `1.5 lakh per month and other amenities to the international faculty members. They would also be eligible for an allowance up to `50,000.