Indo-Japanese Collaboration
Mr Junichiro Koizumi, the Honourable Prime Minister of Japan, had visited India from April 28 - 30, 2005. During his meeting with the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, an agreement to make every effort to collaborate towards the development of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing Jabalpur (IIITDM Jabalpur) was signed between the two sides. The possible models of cooperation were subsequently discussed. As a precursor to the visit of Indian Prime Minister to Japan in December 2006, a team from IIITDM Jabalpur visited Tokyo and discussed the draft of the undergraduate curriculum prepared by the Institute. With some modifications by the Japanese experts, the curriculum of the Institute was finalized. It was also decided that the following team from Japan would work out the cooperation modalities and methodologies for assisting the new Institute:Prof Manabu Kiuchi, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo: Overall Programme LeaderProf Yoshimo Ito, Professor Emeritus at the Tokyo Institute of Technology:Programme Leader for the courses of Mechanical EngineeringProf Takashi Nanya, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo:Programme Leader for the courses of Electronics & Communication EngineeringDr Hiroshi Suzuki, Executive Director, GE (Energy), JapanProgramme Leader for the courses in Computer Science & Engineering
Twelve partners of the Japanese Consortium were Japanese Government in July 2007. They are:
(1) University of Tokyo,
(2) Tokyo Institute of Technology,
(3) Tohoku University,
(4) Kyushu University,
(5) Kanagawa Institute of Technology,
(6) Shibaura Institute of Technology,
(7) M/s Hitachi Ltd,
(8) M/s Toshiba Ltd,
(9) M/s Sumitomo Metals Ltd,
(10) M/s Amada Ltd,
(11) M/s GE (Energy) Japan,
(12) M/s Okuma Ltd.
The following areas in the curriculum of IIITDM Jabalpur have been identified which will be developed with the help of the Japanese counter parts: Engineering Literacy, Computer Graphics, Simulation & VisualizationControl Systems: Theory, Software and Hardware Micro-Nano Science and Engineering Computer Vision & Image Processing, Mechatronics & Robotics Sensing Methods, Devices and Applications, Microelectronics, Agile Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Advanced Manufacturing Processes & Technologies, Energy and Supply Systems, Electronic Devices, Theory & Applications Design & Evaluation of Production Systems, VLSI: Design & Testing Business Models for Manufacturing. Since then, several experts and professors from Japan have visited the Institute and have delivered lectures to IIITDM Jabalpur students. Five faculty members from the Institute visited Japanese universities and industries in December 2007. Five IIITDM Jabalpur students were invited to visit the Japanese universities and industries in June 2008.