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Global expert from Trinity College Dublin delivers guest lecture at Thapar University

Global expert from Trinity College Dublin delivers guest lecture at Thapar University

Patiala, April 30, 2015: Thapar University, Patiala hosted a lecture on Irish and Indian history by a global expert from Trinity College Dublin at the university campus today. This comes just a few months after Thapar University’s contemporisation agreement with the Dublin-based college.

A key feature of the agreement relates to faculty exchange programmes.

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, a globally renowned scholar of early modern Irish history, delivered a rare talk on the theme ‘’Ireland, India and the British empire’’. She drew a parallel between the Irish and Indian freedom movements, offering a rather uncommon insight into a facet of history not well known in India. The professor elaborated on how Ireland was often the policy laboratory from where policies were imported by the erstwhile British Raj and foisted on pre-independence India.

A visiting professor of history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, the widely respected Prof Ohlmeyer has also founded the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin.

In November last year, Thapar University and Trinity College Dublin had signed a comprehensive institutional agreement covering the award of dual degrees, academic collaboration in key areas of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, joint research initiatives and student and faculty exchange programmes. The five-year academic plan worked out by the two institutions will cover four departments—Civil Engineering, Electronics and Communication, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering.

“As part of this roadmap to benchmark Thapar University with global standards, an exercise of internal overhaul of all our processes is underway, ranging from pedagogy to research and faculty to curriculum. We are aligning with the Trinity way of teaching with more emphasis on research-inspired teaching than classroom instruction. We have already moved away from a content-based education system to an outcome-based one,” said Thapar University Director Prof Prakash Gopalan.

About Thapar University

Ranked among India’s leading institutions of engineering education, Thapar University in Patiala, Punjab has redefined technical education in the country through dissemination and application of actionable engineering knowledge. A steady source of highly skilled manpower to top Indian and overseas corporates, the sprawling 250-acre Thapar Technology campus, consisting of Thapar University, Thapar Polytechnic and Thapar Centre for Industrial Research and Development (TCIRD), has an extraordinary potential for development of indigenous technology and its transfer to engineering industries.

Standing tall on the four pillars of cutting-edge research capabilities, highly accomplished faculty, enviable infrastructure and smart academia-industry linkages, the 58-year-old university continually reinvents itself by upgrading its curriculum to match global needs through periodic self-assessment and formal reviews. One of the eight institutes selected by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for setting up a Centre of Relevance and Excellence, Thapar University sets a new benchmark in technical education with each passing day.

The university’s Science and Technology Entrepreneur’s Park, which was established as a joint venture between the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board, the Union Department of Science and Technology and Thapar University (TU) in April 2005, is a centre for business incubation that is playing the role of a catalyst in the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector by tapping new business opportunities through commercialisation and transfer of technology.

Over the years, Thapar University has grown by leaps and bounds as a research-based university with focus on sunrise areas like nanotechnology, biotechnology and IT. Signifying a pioneering corporate effort to strengthen research, the TCIRD has been facilitating a dynamic interface with the academia and national and international R&D laboratories.

Driven by the conviction that original research—applied, industrial, technological and scientific—has to be the backbone of engineering education, the university has published over 2,500 research papers in peer-reviewed impact factor journals in the past five years alone. It has 119 ongoing research projects under its belt with a sanctioned grant of Rs 25.72 crore. Engaged in high-end research, the faculty of the university have so far filed 19 patents. Many of them are working on research projects sponsored by the industry.

Backed by the Avantha group, one of India’s most diversified conglomerates, Thapar University also rates high on infrastructure with its campus home to some of India’s best automation, automobile engineering, metrology, sand testing and solid mechanics facilities. Another feather in its cap is its Sophisticated Analytical Instruments Laboratory, a central facility to carry out high-end testing, consultancy and research. Recognised as an Environmental Laboratory by the Ministry of Environment, Government of India, this lab is the only one in north-western India that has the swirl testing facility for combustion engines.

Aspiring to become a globally acclaimed university, Thapar University is in sync with the ever-evolving global trends in technical education through MoUs with various foreign universities. These MoUs have given students much-needed global exposure through the best of exchange programmes and collaborative research initiatives. Thanks to strong academia-industry linkages, many leading corporates are now a regular feature at Thapar University placements, a glowing testimony to the university’s reputation as a top-notch technical institute. Both reputed Indian and international companies are associated with Thapar University for research as well as faculty exchange programmes.

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NEWS ID : 465 | 30 Apr 2015 | By : Reporter
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