IIT Bhubaneswar

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An earlier compilation on this is at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=...677&type=3 .

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MoU signed to establish OPTCL Chair position in IIT Bhubaneswar

will lead to a

Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy & SMART Grid at IIT Bhubaneswar

Following is an excerpt from https://odishabytes.com/optcl-iit-bhubaneswar-sign-mou/ .

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited (OPTCL) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar signed an MoU on Friday to establish OPTCL Chair position in IIT Bhubaneswar in presence of Odisha Energy Minister Dibya Shankar Mishra.
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According to OPTCL Chairman Saurabh Garg, the IIT would be a troubleshooter for various technical issues surfacing in the Power Sector.

“Apart from the education, IIT Bhubaneswar is committed for the local area and social development through structured intervention. This Chair will act as an extended arm of R&D wing for Odisha Power Sector. These synergies are sure to create lasting impact in addressing key issues pertaining power sector. We also assure that the proposed Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy & SMART Grid will provide an amalgamation to both academics and industry in general” Professor RV Raja Kumar said.

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As of today the page https://www.iitbbs.ac.in/centers.php lists three centers of excellence at IIT Bhubaneswar

1. Virtual and Augmented Reality Center of Excellence: https://www.iitbbs.ac.in/VARCoE/ 
   
2. Design Innovation Center: https://webapps.iitbbs.ac.in/dic/index.php
   
3. S K Dash Center of Excellence of Biosciences and Engineering and Technology: https://www.iitbbs.ac.in/skbet/index.php
   

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In the 2022 JEE Advanced (see https://jeeadv.ac.in/documents/IB-2022-English.pdf), the IIT Zones and the Zonal co-ordinating IITs are:

1. West Zone: IIT Bombay (Main Organizer)
   
2. North Central Zone: IIT Delhi
   
3. North East Zone: IIT Guwahati
   
4. Central Zone: IIT Kanpur
   
5. East Zone: IIT Bhubaneswar
   
6. South Zone: IIT Madras
   
7. North Zone: IIT Roorkee
   

Among the above, IIT Bhubaneswar is the only one from the set of new IITs.  Normally the older IITs have been serving as IIT Zonal co-ordinators.

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As per https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city...097408.cms IIT Bhubaneswar becomes part of the Chips to Start-up  program. More on this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KENBmkxg...rendraModi .

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IIT Bhubaneswar faculty situation as listed in their web site today (April 9, 2023).

• School of Basic Sciences: 15 in Physics, 13 in Chemistry, and 14 in Mathematics.
  
• School of Earth, Ocean & Climate Sciences: 10 regular faculty, and 7 adjunct faculty.
  
• School of Electrical Science: 10 in Electrical Engineering, 19 in Electronics & Communication Engineering, and 8 in Computer Science and engineering
  
• School of Humanities, Social Sciences & Management: 7 in Economics, 6 in English, 3 in Psychology, and 3 in Philosophy
  
• School of Infrastructure: 23 faculty
  
• School of Mechanical Sciences: 25 faculty
  
• School of Minerals. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering: 12 faculty
  

In total they have 168 faculty and >= 7 adjunct faculty.

The faculty situation at NISER, as listed in their web pages, as of today (10th April 2023) is as follows:

• School of Biological Sciences: 21 regular faculty, and 7 visiting faculty
  
• School of Chemical Sciences: 21 regular faculty
  
• School of Computer Sciences: 4 regular faculty
  
• School of Earth & Planetary Sciences: 7 regular faculty, and 3 visiting faculty
  
• School of Humanities & Social Sciences: 6 regular faculty
  
• School of Mathematical Sciences: 23 regular faculty, and 1 visiting faculty
  
• School of Physical Sciences: 33 regular faculty, and 10 visiting faculty
  

Thus NISER has a total of 115 regular faculty and 21 visiting faculty.

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As per https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/...67699.html IIT Bhubaneswar will start 4 year programs in BA/BSc/Bcom with BEd.

As per https://jeeadv.ac.in/documents/IB_V.2.0_...nglish.pdf the closest programs in offer are as follows:

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As per https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l_-uj4z...1QSqr/view the following are MSc and MSc/PhD programs at IIT Bhubaneswar.

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Following are excerpts from https://argusenglish.in/article/odisha/a...on-pradhan 

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday inaugurated the Virtual and Augmented Reality Centre of Excellence at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar.

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"Heartening to know that IIT Bhubaneswar intends to augment the existing experimental facilities and establish two pioneering centres, one for materials characterization, processing and manufacturing and other for a Centre of Excellence for Laboratory Grown Diamonds," he tweeted.

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Following are the programs offered through JEE Advanced  in 2023, as obtained from https://josaa.admissions.nic.in/applican...xinfo.aspx