About QIP Centre @ IIT INDORE

The Government of India launched the Quality improvement Programme in the year 1970. One of the main objectives of the programme is to upgrade the expertise and capabilities of the faculty members of the degree level institutions in the country. The programme is now being implemented and monitored by All India Council for Technical Education. In “Quality Improvement Programme” only sponsored teachers are eligible for admission to both Master’s & Doctoral Degree Programmes, with the aim to enable the teachers to acquire Master’s & Doctoral degrees and imbibe in them a culture of research and better teaching educational capabilities by exposing them to the environment of the institutes of study.

QIP Centre at IIT Indore was established in the year 2018-19 for the fulfillment of the objectives of the QIP scheme like quality, relevance, excellence and equity in technical education in the country. The QIP Centre, IIT Indore currently offers admission to PhD program in 11 different departments which includes Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Electrical Engineering (EE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), Civil Engineering (CE) and Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), Astronomy Astrophysics and Space Engineering (AASE), Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics departments. Under this program faculty members from different engineering institutions have got registered during the year 2020-21, 2021-22 & 2022-23. Apart from this, the QIP Centre, IIT Indore also organizes short-term courses for the faculty members of the engineering institutions coming under the umbrella of AICTE. These courses open avenues in which the faculty members with rich experience in new and upcoming areas share their expertise with the teachers of the QIP institutes.