Indira Gandhi Delhi Technological University for Women Offering PhD programmes

It’s the second admission season for the first women’s technical university in the Capital. The Indira Gandhi Delhi Technological University for Women (IGDTUW) has started admissions for various programmes for 2014-15. This is the second year of admissions ever since the erstwhile Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology was upgraded to a university last year.

This year, the university has launched PhD programmes in Computer Science and Engineering; Electronics and Communication Engineering; Mechanical and Automation Engineering; Information Technology; Applied Sciences and Interdisciplinary areas like Nanotechnology and Environmental Sciences and Computer Applications. These will be open to both female and male candidates. IGDTUW also offers BTech degrees in all these disciplines, an MCA and MTech in information security management; mobile and pervasive computing; robotics and automation and very large-scale integrated (VLSI) design. A part-time MTech programme in electronics and communication is also on offer. Each BTech course has 60 seats and every MTech programme has 30 seats. Admission to the undergraduate programme is based on the JEE (Main) score combined with CBSE marks and the MTech intake depends on a candidate’s GATE score. About 85% seats are reserved for students of NCT Delhi.

“We also plan to start PG diploma programme on e-goverance in collaboration with the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, BTech in electrical and electronics engineering, BArchitecture, MArch in town planning and urban design and MTech in nanotechnology programmes. MTech in renewable energy and green technology with a focus on smart grids is also on the cards. We are also aiming to set up a knowledge park, an incubation centre and an entrepreneur development cell by next year,” says Professor Nupur Prakash, founder vice chancellor of IGDTUW.

Elaborating on the new approach of the university, Prakash says, “Our main focus will be on research and innovation and helping our girls develop entrepreneurial skills, for which we are seeking help from the department of science and technology.”

What is creditable is that the university has 25% of its students getting into hardcore research and higher studies. The rest of them prefer to opt for careers in application-oriented areas, design, consultancy and manufacturing sector. About 75% go in for software development, software architecture design, software project management, mobile application development, automotive engineering and VLSI design.

Hardware design and telecom services and management are the other choices. It has 55 regular faculty, 30% of which are PhD holders, and is going to add another 30% faculty in the coming academic session.

Source: Hindustantimes.com