PALS is an educational initiative by volunteers from Alumni Fraternity of various IITs, for the benefit of students of engineering colleges. This initiative is supported by IIT Alumni Industry Interaction Centre (IITAC) and IIT Madras Alumni Charitable Trust (IITMACT).
The Objective of PALS is to reduce the Industry Academia gap, put Academia in front of the industry and lead the way to serve its customers better
PALS offers a regular engagement with the students and faculty through a series of events conducted through out the year with various activities. It features various events such as insightful general and technical lectures, Industry visits, an Innovation Challenge Competition and interesting and enlighting Workshops and Seminars for students as well as for faculty. The various offerings of PALS are delivered by and with active collaboration from Faculty, Management and Alumni of various IITs, apart from Industry / domain experts from across the globe. We also collaborate actively with IIT Research Park, Start up incubation cells, TLC (Teaching Learning Center) of IIT, RuTAG (Rural Technology Action Group) funded by DST etc.
With the complete 360 degree intervention that PALS offers we believe, we provide students with an exposure to the industry so that they are more confident in their engineering career.
Activities of PALS as a social outreach program of IITM have been brought to the attention of MHRD and PMO. PALS have been encouraged to reach out and extend the model in other parts of India. Andhra / Telangana region has been the first choice with IITH / large alumni community / many colleges and industry support. Thirteen Institutions from Andhra / Telangana region had enrolled to PALS 2023-24 edition and successfully participated in the various events conducted during the year. Apart from attending the virtual programs and physical programs at IITM, PALSH partner institutes also had an additional advantage of programs organized by PALS H Hub in collaboration with IITH / local industry and alumni experts. First year Anniversary and annual day was celeberated with all the Partner Institutions, Dr. B S Murty, Director IITH as the chief guest. It was a grand event with participants from IITH, Alumni, Industry, and all Partner Institutions attending.
We aspire to reach out to deserving students of many more engineering colleges. Understandably, this will need significant financial support from the industry. PALS is excited to invite your esteemed organization to be a Corporate Sponsor of various PALS events or allocate funds through your CSR mission. Please reach out to PALS.
PALS has entered into partnership with many organizations across Industry. The organizations who have tied up with PALS are known as Industry Partners (IP). IPs help PALS in providing Industry projects, Internships, Industry visits, Faculty development Programs, Speakers for campus lectures, and so on to students / faculties of PIs enabling them to get a feel of the real life in industries. IPs also assists in providing mentors and judges for “innoWAH” Innovation Challenge Competition, yet another annual flagship event of PALS.
A new deep dive learning program that is designed to impart practical knowledge on different aspects and applications of Emerging Technologies in industry. Core and Emerging Technologies topis on AI, Cyber security, Internet of things, Electric vehicles, etc. will be conducted as a series of sessions
T2P – Theory to Practice Lectures are usually given by IIT professors who have consulted for industries or who have knowledge about lab to real life products which have had a social impact. T2P session will be followed by the state of art lab visit to the respective department in IIT
Year long innovation competition, from start to finals. Enables students develop business, communication and presentation skills, teamwork and leadership capabilities. Gives students an understanding of engineering industry practices, including rigors of documentation and compliance. Enables students, through practical experience, to pick up the threads of entrepreneurship
Connecting entrepreneur to appropriate support for developing the idea to a marketable Connecting entrepreneur to appropriate support for developing the idea to a marketable product or solution Enabling mentoring for start of a new business (product/service)
FDP at IIT Madras Teaching Learning Center
PALS PI’s Faculty visits to Industry are also mostly virtual
think create engineer, 3-day residential program
