Infrastructure is recognized today as one of the most essential requirements for economic development of any country. Its importance has been increasingly appreciated by policy makers of different countries, including India which envisages a growth rate of nine percent during the eleventh plan period (2007-08 to 2011-12) for which about Rs. Two million Crores need to be invested in key infrastructure sectors during the eleventh plan period. Besides generating the necessary finances, it is very important to build necessary capacity to realize these ambitious targets.
Large infrastructure projects require strong, interdisciplinary technical and management skills. It has therefore become imperative that Institutes bestowed with solid foundations in engineering, architecture, and management skills should initiate academic programmes to develop trained manpower in this upcoming area of infrastructure design and management.
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur has a vantage position with regard to its existing faculty and academic programmes in the areas of engineering, architecture and management. The institute, with its numerous academic departments, centers and schools with academic programmes in such wide ranging areas such as law, management, architecture and engineering, is in a uniquely advantageous position to contribute to the nation’s goal of building world-class infrastructure.
The Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of infrastructure Design and Management has been started by IIT Kharagpur in the year 2008. The school of Infrastructure Design and Management is the first such school to be set in the IIT system and also in the country.
The mission of the School is to prepare outstanding professionals capable of designing and delivering quality infrastructure projects efficiently and effectively with a comprehensive and fast-track approach.
The Department offers following specialization:
ID Infrastructure Design & Management
The postgraduate programme has been designed with focus on planning, management, and effective delivery of large robust infrastructure projects in areas such as Transportation, Power, Utility Infrastructures and infrastructure facilities. The programme is multi-disciplinary in nature. Faculty members of different departments, schools and centers participate in the teaching and research activities of this programme.
Students joining this programme will have the option of selecting courses in such a way as to gain expertise relevant to the infrastructure sector of their interest.
The programme is currently designed for graduates in architecture, civil engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.
The programme has five theory subjects and three laboratories as core (compulsory) courses and five elective subjects, to be covered in the first year. The elective subjects are being so grouped (the groups being designated as verticals) as to enable the students to select appropriate electives depending on their background and interest. Every vertical group has an associated mini project.
Course Content
The five core subjects and three laboratory components to be covered by all the students are Project Engineering and Management, Financing Infrastructure Projects, Infrastructure Regulatory Issues, Quantitative Methods for Decision Making, Environmental Impact Assessment, Simulation Laboratory, Virtual Reality Laboratory, Project Management Laboratory.
The elective subjects have been grouped under the following four vertical groups:
- Transportation (Highway Construction Practice, Planning, Operation and Management of Transportation Facilities, Airport Planning and Design, Bridges and Tunnels Engineering, Sea and Inland Port Infrastructure)
- Public Utilities (Water Supply Systems, Waste Water Management, Solid Waste Management, Air Quality Management)
- Facility Infrastructures (Housing Infrastructure, Regional Infrastructure Development, Facility Programming and Specialized Building Design, Building Management Systems)
- Power Systems (Power System Planning and Reliability, Power Infrastructure: Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Power Infrastructure: Economy, Management, and Environment, Thermal, Hydel and Nuclear Power Generation)
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Areas of
Research
Project management, infrastructure financing, Infrastructure planning and systems management, housing and community planning, Planning and management of rural an urban transport systems, pavement and airport management systems, environmental impact assessment, system analysis and water quality management, process modification and pollution minimization, environmental life cycle assessment, power system analysis and operation, non-conventional energy sources, power system planning and reliability
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