Friday 26 April 2013

B.Tech prog in IIT-Gn wins best innovation award

The Indian Institute of Technology-Gandhinagar's (IIT-Gn) B.Tech programme has been awarded "best innovation by an engineering institute" by a clutch of organisations, including United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), partly for having the country's largest Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) component among technical programmes.

The award was given to the institute at the "World Education Summit 2013" on Tuesday, organised annually by the AICTE, Elets Technomedia, Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) and UNESCO.

"The award recognised several innovations in the IITGN's undergraduate programme, including a compulsory course on design and innovation," the IIT-Gn said in a press statement issued on Wednesday.

Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/b.tech-prog-in-iitgn-wins--best-innovation-award-/1107396/

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