IITMAANA Board Strategy 2002

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IITMAANA Board Strategy - 2002
Connect with IITM

• Prepared by Ram Krishnan
• and IITMAANA Board
• Feb 2002

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Contents

• Our reason for existence
• Last years accomplishments
• Our Director M.S.Ananth
• Four Specific Goals for 2002
• Our IITMAANA team
• Action Plan

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Our Reason for Existence

• Develop interesting and useful programs to
  benefit the US-based alumni
• Develop programs to serve the following
• Alumni
• Faculty
• Campus
• Students
• To continue to develop the IIT brand name and
  image and provide a forum for alumni to interact
  with the IITM Board

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Last Years Accomplishments

• Fund Raising - 500K
• Rs 4 crores donated by Deshpandes for Sharavathi
  girls hostel which was inaugurated on July 2001
• Donations by Sudhir Krishnan for projects in Air
  Pollution, Water and other projects
• Donated by Girish Reddy's donation - student
  scholarships
• IBM grant for hardware- by Ramesh Natarajan
• Membership - increased from 300 To 1250
• New Chapter in New York
• Events Sponsored
• Class reunion for 1981 - attended by about 50
  people in Las Vegas
• 2 Networking meetings in San Jose

See for more details- http//akash-ganga-rwh.com/
IITMAANA/FRMainPage.htm
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Our new Director - Prof M.S.Ananth
Director Ananth (left) presenting Distinguished
Alumni Award to Pradeep Mallick Dec 29,2001
IITMAANA staff Ram Krishnan and Monishi Sanyal
meeting the new Director (centre) On Dec 30,2001
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Prof M.S.Ananth bio and goals

• Prof M.S.Ananth
• Loyola College, Chennai
• ChemE BE from A.C.College of technology
• PhD from University of Florida in Gainesville
• Post-doc work in Boulder Colorado
• 30 years in IIT Madras, Head of Dept of Chem.
  Eng
• Dean of Academic Studies
• Priorities
• - Faculty development
• - Develop labs
• - Alumni to help him achieve first 2 goals

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Four Specific Goals

• Goal 1 Enhance the IIT M network as follows
• Double the database of registered alumni from
  1,250 to 2,500
• Develop at least 2 good services that directly
  help the alumni
• a well-designed placement program
• The second program to be determined ( gap health
  insurance)
• Improve the IITMAANA Website to be
• Active, Dynamic, Forward-looking
• http//www.iitmalumni.org (being redesigned)
• Goal 2 Match Deshpandes annual contribution
  with contributions from other alumni
• - set up a few categories of alumni donations

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Four Specific Goals

• Goal 3 Publicize the IITM brand name with
  stories about IITMAANA alumni and their
  contributions to the local scene
• Goal 4 Establish 6 specific projects in IITM to
  be championed by IITMAANA. Each Champion will get
  other alumni to work in these
• areas, take ownership of these projects,
  do frequent site visits, report
• and guide the projects.
• Water Supply to Hostels
• Internet service for villages
• Web-based instruction in IITM
• Faculty Development and recruitment
• Industry-funded labs in IITM
• General infrastructure project

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Methodology - Goal 1

• Enhance the IITM Network and services
• Expand the concept of the Network meetings
• Create a Development office with permanent alumni
  staff
• Develop PanIIT ideas, meetings etc.
• Organize web-based symposiums to attract IITM
  alumni living all over North America besides CA
• Establish more local chapters to create forums
  for personal and professional networking
• Develop a suitable program to involve and include
  the spouses (in addition to the annual picnic)
• Web Sub-committee to enhance content,
  infrastructure and user interface

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Methodology - Goal 2

• Major fund raising programs (under discussion )
• Leadership Giving - Senior IITM alumni who are
  well off, about 20 to 30 alumni contributing
  around 25,000 per year to projects of their
  choice, from the list of required projects
• Fair Giving Other alumni to contribute 20 to
  50 per month, using an automatic bank
  withdrawal process (with alumnis permission)
• Encourage batch reunions and and regional get
  togethers to foster spirit of give back

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Methodology - Goal 3

• Publicize IITM brand name
• Write quarterly human-interest stories about
  IITMAANA alumni and their contributions to the
  local scene and publish this in regional main
  newspapers like NY Times and LA Times
• Target 3 or 4 Indian ethnic newspapers published
  in US like India Abroad and India Times (in
  Silicon Valley)

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Methodology - Goal 4

• Establish an Alumni champion working with a IITM
  staff champions to work the specific projects in
  IITM
• Water Supply to Hostels -
• Internet Service to Villages - Adopt and support
  Jhunjhunwalas villages to provide Internet
  service.
• Web-based instruction in IITM
• Project to recruit more staff at IITM
• Industry-funded labs in IITM
• General infrastructure project
• The Alumni Champion will get other alumni to
  participate, monitor the progress, visit the
  project site and provide feedback and future
  direction

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Water Supply to Hostels
1974 batch have collected money to help construct
2 storage tanks to supply clean drinking water to
the hostels. Sunil Wadhwani Mastec- in
Pittsburgh also 1974 batch has provided major
funding.
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Internet Service to Villages
Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwalas (Padma Shri) team in
IITM Tenet labs Have installed WLL (Wireless in
the Local Loop) technology in many Villages
Nellikuppam, Melur, Kuppam. Villagers use these
services for birth/death records, agricultural
information, Market prices for harvested crops,
basic medical information
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Web-based courses in IITM
About 35 courses in core subjects have been
developed. IITMAANA alumni who are faculty in
various US universities can work with IITM to
develop courses without leaving US
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Industry / University initiative

• Coordinator Ram Akella
• Goal Help IIT(M) attain World Class Level-
  Comparable to MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard
• Approach Achieve research and industry impact -
  Through US/India industry and university
  engagements- Mimic Silicon Valleys contribution
  to Stanfords stature
• Steps
• 1. IITM and pan-IIT team formed Includes
  industry(Mohan, Bob Rau, Partha, Padma, Monishi,
  Jayant), expanding further, including academic
  group2. Benchmark (Stanford Alumni Association
  etc.), obtain experience summary and insights
  faculty development3. Hook up with IIT Director,
  faculty, students4. Develop seed projects with
  IIT and US/Indian industries/universities
  coordinate with branding effort

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Industry funded labs Research Park in IITM
Prof Jhunjuhnwala (right) at a Meeting in San Jose
Alumni listening to Jhunjhunwala
A 10-acre land just south of the IITM campus has
been allocated by the Tamil Nadu government. The
research park will enable joint IITM-Industry
research, develop faculty, research opportunities
for students/faculty. Vijay Ullal is the alumni
champion.
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General infrastructure projects
Sharavathi hostel completed In July 2001
Jaishree and Gururaj Deshpande With Prof
C.R.Muthukrishnan
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Our IITMAANA Team for 2002
Ram Krishnan - IITMAANA President 1967 BTME, 1968
PG IE 1970 MBA VP. Descartes Systems
Group Logistics consulting and
Software Rkrishnan46_at_hotmail.com
Subbaraman Viswanathan Vice President 1966
BTChemE 1968 IITK MTech 1973 PhD Univ
Minn Research Associate Conoco Working with
IITMAANA since 1986 Viswaspc_at_yahoo.com
Ravi Sankar IITMAANA Secretary 1981 BTME 1984 MS
Op Research VP Supply Chain Davids
Bridal rsankar_at_davidsbridal.net
Lakshmikant Bhupathi - Treasurer 1994 BTEE
Narmada 1996 MS Computer Science 2001 MBA UC
Berkely Project Manager - Marvell
Semiconductor Bhupathi_at_yahoo.com
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Potential task members
Goal 1 Web services    Lead Rajesh
Srinivasaraghavan         Others Muralidharan,
Varadarajan, Sridhar Lavu, Mani Iyer, Prasad,
Goal 2 Database          Lead Dominic
Maratukulam         Others Monishi Sanyal,
Mani Iyer, Rajesh Goal 3 Fundraising     Lead
Lakshmikant Bhupathi         Others Ram
Krishnan, Viswanathan, Goal 4 Publicizing the
IITM brand-name Lead Padma Lakshman        
Others Seshan Rammohan Goal 5 Champions
              () Water Ram Krishnan        
      () Internet service for villages Jayant
Kudva (LA)               () Web-based
instruction in IITM UIUC guy?               ()
Faculty development and recruitment Ram
Akella               () Industry-funded research
labs Ram Akella, Vijay Ullal, Ramesh Natarajan
(Seattle)               () General
infrastructure project Ramji Ramachandran
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Potential task members
-- Other sub-categories         - PanIIT
Partha, Dominic         - Development office
Chili, Chow, Monishi, Partha         - Web-based
symposium Indira         - Local chapters
Partha, Prasad, Ram, Ravi         - Spouse
involvement Sudha         - Distinguished
alumni engagement Partha, Ashok Santhanam
        - Batch reunion co-ordination
Rajesekhar, Thiru Categories you may want to
consider         - IITM engagement/communication
Ram, Partha, Lakshmikant         - Networking
IITMADRAS.NET Indy Rajasingham, Gosakhan
        - Tax filing Viswanathan,
Lakshmikant                - Newsletter
MGSriram         - Publicity Seshan         -
IITMAANA travel grant MKKiran/Ravi         -
Community outreach Prasad Kaipa
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Next step

• Contact potential task members
• Define action plans and steps
• Provide timelines and tasks
• Each task leader and champion to define the
  projects, team members and steps
• Establish a schedule for each task leader to
  report progress