Interdisciplinary research has emerged as a crucial part of the re- search landscape in recent years. While there are not many universities in India that have adopted this ap- proach to make better a teaching-learn- ing environment to students, Chennai based Hindustan University is making big strides in the higher education with its interdisciplinary curriculum, giving options for advanced learners to move across departments to learn interdisci- plinary courses. “The transformation of higher education institutions is very important in today’s world of dynamic technologies. Universities’ main duty is towards solving some of humanity’s most complex problems, not merely churning out potential employees. If education is about overcoming shared problems, we need to be taught to be collaborative be- cause we will quickly realize that we can- not tackle them alone and that we need to cooperate with others,” says Dr. Eliz- abeth Verghese, Chancellor, Hindustan University.
With a balanced mix of faculty mem- bers from the various backgrounds such as Research organizations like ISRO, DRDO, and leading academic institu- tions like IITs, IISC, NITs, NUS and NTU, the university has established 12 research centres in thrust areas of tech- nology in interdisciplinary areas, pro- viding students and research scholars an integrated approach. The curric- ulum of Hindustan University is designed in such a way that the students have opportunities to learn specializations in their field of engineering. “With our diversi- fied faculty strength, we are able to offer 21 specializations in UG programmes and 35 specializa- tions in PG programmes. We also offer industry collaborated cours- es partnering with IBM, Infosys, ADG Boeing, MATLAB, Yaska- wa, SMC pneumatics and many more,” claims Dr. Elizabeth.
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