August 7, 2008 Bangalore
Mission10X, not for profit trust launched by Wipro Limited in September last year, announced constitution of the advisory board with senior academicians joining the board. The Advisory board with senior academicians is expected to further boost Misison10X’s innovation in addressing the employability landscape in India.
The advisory board comprises of Prof R Natarajan former Chairman of AICTE and former Director of IIT Chennai, Prof Ashok Kolaskar, former Vice Chancellor Pune University and Prof Chidananda Gowda former Vice Chancellor Kuvempu University. These advisory board members are with vast academic experience, widely traveled and have significantly contributed to Professional Education in India.
Announcing the constitution of the advisory board, Mr. Pratik Kumar, Executive Vice President – Human Resources - Wipro Limited said
“The carefully chosen advisory board comprises luminaries from academia. We are confident their rich experience and knowledge will help us further enhance systemic changes Mission10X initiated in transforming teaching-learning paradigms in engineering colleges across the country.”
Representing the Mission10X Academia in Karnataka, Prof Viresh Baslalli, Director of Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore said
”Mission10X program launched by Wipro is highly appreciated. Mission10X is first of its kind in the country for the development of Faculty in Engineering Institutions. Our faculty members who attended the first batch of program in Karnataka have tried out various innovations in Engineering classrooms including in Bio Technology area. Popularity of those faculty members who attended the program has gone up significantly in the student community and across the institution. We are very happy to be associated with Mission10X”
Mission10X also launched Faculty Resource Guide for showcasing the innovation in teaching for Fluid Mechanics (Non IT subject) and Microprocessor (IT subject). These resource guides are to help the Mission10X trained faculty to act as base for formalizing the Misison10X Learning Approach to their own Engineering subject.
Mission10X program involves a layered set of capability building workshops to help engineering Faculty nurture talent pool across the country. It was formally launched on Sep 5,2007 and covered 5 states till date. It will be launched in a phased manner across the country. The aim is to cover 10,000 faculty by the year 2010.
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