Since last 70-years each National Education Policy recommended industry-University/ Institute collaboration, however it has been a challenging task for many Indian institutions due to their inability to attract Industry effectively in creating their curriculum as well as teaching it with professional inputs. Lots of Universities in India are running such programs, but Adani University’s civil infrastructure engineering department has been at a huge advantage, due to its close association with the biggest group having huge investment in this sector. Their experiences over the years in facing challenges and creating innovative solutions leading to huge success, is carefully curated in the course structure giving it an anecdotal teaching and learning environment. The following are the few program differentiators:
- Fully NEP-2020 compliant program with multiple entry and exit options,
- Options to earn “BSc” after 3-years, “BTech (Honors)” and “BTech with minor in Project Management” after 4-years,
- Unique integrated program having balanced 50:50 techno-managerial components, and equal theory and practical components weightage.
- Student choice-based electives with hybrid pedagogical model to build domain specific futuristic skills in infrastructure sector,
- Departmental Board of Studies has serving members from reputed international academia, national institutions of repute, and industry leaders from Nihon University Japan, California State University USA, Howe Engineering Projects India, CBRI Roorkee, and Adani Group to help design the program,
- Faculty drawn from international infrastructure background including corporate conglomerates are teaching the course, Many Adjunct Professors from the Adani Group teach the course with their experiences of Infrastructure sector.
- Immersive visits to mega infrastructure projects such as Seaport at Mundra; Airports at Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Mumbai; Greenfield Airports at Navi Mumbai; Urban rehabilitation project like Dharavi; Green energy park at Khavda (Kutch).
- Industry internship opportunity with latest infrastructure projects
- Skill based learning on latest computer software such as Staad Pro, Primavera, GIS, Autodesk, Ravit, BIM.
- A bouquet of elective courses through MOOCs created from famous online resources to help students get a Honors degree.
- There could be a semester-abroad program with reputed university across the world.