Message from the Cell Co-ordinator

Prof. (Dr.) B. D. Upadhyay
Officer Incharge,
Industry-Institute Linkage Cell,
Shantilal Shah Engineering College, Bhavnagar

An ongoing interaction between the Industry and Institute is an essential one. To strengthen the relationship between industry and our institute, the Industry-Institution Interaction Cell is established in the year 2024 which provides an excellent platform for both the students as well as the faculty members to be aware of industry expectations from the graduates. III Cell serves as a podium to showcase the best practices, latest technologies in industry stand point and their implementation. Industry-Institute Interaction is very much essential to bridge the gap between the need of Industry and academic curriculum to make the students in competent enough in the era of globalization.
Also, III Cell promotes industry experts to continuously partake in curriculum design and career development programs which play a significant role in honing the skill set of the students inclined towards the expectation of the industry. Towards up scaling the academia in the Global knowledge index, ample industrial exposure is provided to the faculty members to enhance the Teaching Learning Process and enable the Institution to produce quality students in turn.

Objectives of the Cell :

• • To explore and identify common avenues of interaction with industry.
• • To Establish Centre of Excellence by Industry/ Corporate to Provide Real Time exposure on Technologies.
• • To promote various research activities by the faculty members and students.
• • To establish convergence with industrial and research organizations from various fields through MOUs as a form of interaction.

Constitution of Industry-Institute Interaction Cell :

Name	Designation	Department	Role
Prof. (Dr.) B. D. Upadhyay	Assistant Professor	Mechanical Engineering	Officer In-Charge
Prof. H. M. Gandhi	Associate Professor	Civil Engineering	Member
Prof. (Dr.) M. D. Solanki	Assistant Professor	Electrical Engineering	Member
Prof. V. D. Parmar	Assistant Professor	Information Technology	Member
Prof. M. R. Dave	Assistant Professor	Instrumentation and Control	Member

Roles of III Cell :

• • To organize Workshop on trending technologies by experts in the field.
• • To assist the Departments in organizing workshops, conferences and symposia with joint participation of the industries.
• • Encouraging Engineers from industries to visit institution to deliver lectures.
• • To organize industrial visits for Faculty members and students.
• • To coordinate/ identify industrial partners for proposing ‘Centre for Excellence’.
• • To assist the Training and Placement Division.
• • Visit of industry executives and practicing engineers to the institute for seeing research work and laboratories.
• • Memorandum of Understanding between the institute and industries to bring the two sides emotionally and strategically closer.
• • Visits of faculty to industry for study and discussions or delivering lectures on subjects of mutual interest.
• • Visiting faculty/professors from industries.
• • Practical training of faculty members to update their knowledge to inculcate the research activities in institute thru industry.
• • Practical training of students in industries.