India: Best Industry-Linked Engineering Institute’ - 2015 Award For –DKTE

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India: Best Industry-Linked Engineering Institute’ - 2015 Award For –DKTE

Well known for its application oriented textile and engineering education and close ties with the textile industry, DKTE Society’s Textile and Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji has won prestigious ‘Best Industry-Linked Engineering Institute Award’(TATA Chemicals Award) in the nation-wide survey jointly conducted by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).

This award was presented to Prof. (Dr.) P.V.Kadole, principal, DKTE Society’s Textile and Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji at ‘Global Higher Education Summit-2015’ on December 2, 2015 at New Delhi by Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman AICTE, Naushad Forbes, President Designate of CII, Vijay Thadani, Chairman, CII National Committee on Higher Education, Ramakrishnan Mukundan Managing Director, Tata Chemicals Ltd.

As many as 2161 colleges across the country had shown interest in the survey, however, the AICTE-CII chose 901 of them.This was the fourth such survey conducted by premier bodies for the educational institutes working in engineering, management, pharmacy and architecture. Self financing, government, government aided and centrally funded institutes like IITs, NITs and IISERs qualified for the survey.

The entire process was online where institutes were asked to fill in all the data of their curriculum, faculty, infrastructure, placements, governance, and research & services/project & skill development for the year 2013-14 and 2014-15. At the end of the survey, the application generated an indicative objective score which was used for short listing of institutes for second stage of evaluation. The indicative objective scores obtained were placed before a high level jury comprising experts from industry and academia. The short listed institutes were asked to send all the documents in support of their data. Distinguished and eminent members from industry and academia undertook visits to the shortlisted institutes in the month of September 2015 for verification of information and qualitative assessment of the industry linkages of the institute.

DKTE Society’s Textile and Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji, popularly known as DKTE, was founded in 1982 by Mr.K.B.Awade and few other industries. Since its inception, DKTE has produced more than 10000 engineers in textile and other engineering disciplines. DKTE has grown multifold since its inception and has branched into other fields, besides textiles. The institute currently offers three diploma courses, ten bachelor degrees and eight post graduate degrees along with the facility to carry out Ph.D.

“It is one of the greatest achievements of DKTE. We are in textile engineering education for the last 33 years and have worked hard to achieve global levels. The institute’s interaction with 120 industries in the last academic year has fetched top position among the 901 institutes participated in this survey. This award is indicative of our hard work in bearing fruits” said Prof. P.V.Kadole, principal, DKTE.

“We ensure that students get cutting edge technology and best contemporary knowledge.DKTE and industries are complementing each other in a unique way which resulted in the award. DKTE has made many MOUs with industries in the areas of research and development, consultancy and joint publications. Good quality education and industry institute interaction have taken the name of the institute to the global level.” Prakash Awade, Governing Council Member & Advisor of institute said.