IIT Kharagpur launches online program on post-COVID-19 innovation
Team Careers360 | June 19, 2020 | 02:23 PM IST | 1 min read
NEW DELHI: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur will launch an online outreach program on innovation and entrepreneurship after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The program will target young college students who are startup enthusiasts. Working professionals, entrepreneurs, innovators, thinkers and strategists will also benefit from the course.
Course platform
The series will be conducted from June 22 to 29, 2020 through NPTEL platform which will also be accessible on other platforms of the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India such as SWAYAM Prabha channels.
The course materials and videos will be there present on National Digital Library of India also.
The program which will be conducted by IIT Kharagpur's Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship (RMSoEE) and will be a 16-part lecture series.
Subject areas
The program will delve into subjects like data science, healthcare, education, agri-tech, energy, rural innovation, fintech, and supply chain interventions mainly.
Mrigank Sharad professor, RMSoEE will be coordinating the course.
The teachers teaching the course would include Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, professor who will speak on - 'Role of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Technology to fight the pandemic and its repercussions. Manoj Kumar Tewari, Director, NITIE Mumbai would throw light on 'The drastic transformation of Supply Chain Network in the post-COVID world, its opportunities and challenges, adaptability'. Kris Singh, Founder and CEO at SRII, California will speak on 'Innovating education and skills for digital economy'.
The course will also concentrate on precautions and strategies related to operations, execution, change in consumer behaviour, and short term financial management.
Write to us at news@careers360.com .
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Featured News
]- Inter-IIT exchanges for 5% BTech students on the cards; IIT Madras to plan credit transfer with NITs, CFTIs
- CLAT exam, NLU admission costs are ‘a barrier’ to studying law: Students
- ‘Wanted my work to matter’: IIIT Delhi professor left ‘low-impact’ industry for prize-winning cancer research
- 2025 for Education: VBSA Bill, CBSE board exams, NAAC accreditation scam – big policies, bigger controversies
- PU Chandigarh: Stalled promotions, ‘discriminatory’ rules push college teachers to renew parity demand
- ‘Last democratic step’: Why 200 OUAT Bhubaneswar research scholars are on hunger strike
- MBBS Abroad: Indian students in Bangladesh medical colleges safe, but fresh violence keeps them on edge
- Post-Al Falah, Haryana expands control, can shut private universities over national security concerns
- Study in India falls short on visa issues, curricula; NITI Aayog sets 5 lakh foreign students target for 2047
- JEE Advanced reports show IITs cut hundreds of BTech seats in core engineering; here’s what happened