Prof.(Dr.) Shalini Bhaskar Bajaj Professor and Head of Department
Amity School of Engineering and Technology
From the desk of Dean
As a Dean, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology I welcome you to Amity University Haryana (AUH) a part of Amity Educational Group which is a Research & Innovation driven University. The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology has fostered the ideal environment to accelerate learning and creativity by adopting value added teaching & knowledge dissemination. Due to the rapidly evolving dynamics contributed by constant technological updating, traditional learning has evolved into blended teaching at AUH. Technology has enabled the dissemination of information beyond geographical barriers and provided students access to modern concepts and learning outcomes. AUH has been constantly putting effort to provide ‘smart learning’ to the student community making them better equipped to face modern day challenges and grooming them at par with other world-class universities.
Since the day Dr. Ashok Chauhan, the Founder President of Amity Education Group had dreamt of revolutionizing the Indian education system by a research tide, he also realized that this platform needs two solid pillars. First, he brought back the best Indian brains from abroad. Second, he provided the best possible infrastructure to nurture research. The intellectual workforce at AUH includes alumni of world-renowned institutions like UCSF and UCLA, USA; NUS, Singapore; Max Planck, Germany; Birmingham University, UK; UMMS and UNC, USA to name a few. At AUH, on the research front, our faculty scientists spend maximum effort to amalgamate research and teaching together. They strongly believe in the conception that students benefit as budding researchers when they are directly involved in the ongoing research projects as research scholars and project fellows in dissertations. A balance of the two activities is a must for providing an impetus to our research and innovation drive. Today several extramural research projects are running in parallel with the teaching program in our research cluster labs. The research clusters work actively in domains of Cancer Biology, Stem Cells, Nanotechnology, Infectious Disease, Plant-Microbe Interaction, Big Data Analytics, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence. The research faculty have on-going collaborations/MoUs with leading national institutes like NII, NIPGR, RCB, THSTI, IGIB, IARI as well as international collaboration in Rutgers University (USA), UK, Germany, Sweden, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, Poland that has contributed in the scientific endeavor and broadened the horizon for both the researchers and the students. Guest lectures and hands-on workshops from eminent scientists, innovators and technology experts at regular intervals for our students give them practical insights into scientific innovations around the world. Simultaneously, our newly developed Central Instrumentation Research Facility (CIRF), DST sponsored FIST Centers and Bionova Lab with a team of industry connect introduces the students to hands-on experimentation skills and practical scientific know-hows. National and international conferences, symposia, workshops are successfully coordinated to develop a network of global scientific communities.
A good teaching-research practice has been adopted for concept-based and inquiry-driven learning, as opposed to the more traditional content-based pedagogy. Strong emphasis is laid on the interdisciplinary nature of today’s science, engineering and technology fusion while recognizing the importance of research-based experiments during the process of learning. The most important feature of the graduation program comes with defined learning outcomes. AUH has made a concerted effort in this direction. The process is facilitating the students in innovative learning and helping them to achieve higher academic or entrepreneurial pursuits.
I wish you all a very fruitful academic stay with us and confident that with our ensured constant support you will fulfil your dreams thus making us proud.