IIT Ropar inks MoU with Canadian varsity for academic collaboration

IIT Ropar and the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, have signed an agreement for academic collaboration through student and faculty exchange between the two institutions.  

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with University of Saskatchewan, Canada, for mutual cooperation between the two institutions for exchange of students, faculty and researchers, joint academic activities and collaborative research.  

The MoU will pave the way for exchange of faculty members, regular exchange of course materials, case studies, research publications and other academic and research projects. 

The University of Saskatchewan started as a university for studies and research in agriculture, it then broadened its scope into the studies of medicine, arts, and sciences, law, engineering, theology, etc. The university offers more than 130 programmes. It has 13 colleges, six affiliated colleges and three graduate schools under it. It offers multiple scholarships, around $13 million are provided for scholarships, bursaries, and awards. The university is known for leading the world's largest university-led research programme about freshwater known as the Global Water Futures. 

A faculty development programme (FDP) titled “Topics in hardware security”, sponsored by the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), was organised at IIT Ropar under the AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) scheme recently. It focused on the importance of addressing different security threats on modern hardware design touching upon aspects that span across various layers of a computer system. Academics from seven IITs addressed the participants. 

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