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19  Awards

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IITB faculty awards, IIT Bombay research award, teaching excellence award, national honours faculty

While good teaching and research is likely reward enough, both you and the Institute would benefit from greater visibility and recognition of your achievements.

19.1 S. P. Sukhatme Excellence in Teaching Award

Within IIT Bombay, the S. P. Sukhatme Excellence in Teaching Award is awarded to 15 faculty members across the Institute every year. Department teaching awards also recognise your teaching efforts. The teaching awards are based on student feedback. Since the guidelines for Excellence in Teaching Awards are currently undergoing revision, you may refer to recent Senate meeting minutes for updates on this.

19.2 Class of 1973 Faculty Award for Research Excellence

There are several categories of research awards in IIT Bombay. The Class of 1973 Faculty Award for Research Excellence is awarded to sixteen faculty distributed across basic sciences, engineering sciences and design, applied sciences, and humanities and management. The distribution of the awards is proportional to the number of Assistant and Associate Professors in the four categories. The selected faculty members will receive ₹‎ 1 lakh. If suitable awardee(s) is (are) not available in any year, the unused amount will remain in the endowment and will be carried over to the next year. All faculty members at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor are eligible to be considered for receiving the award. If a person wins an award in a year, later work which was not considered for the 1st award only may be considered for subsequent considerations. The cooling off period is 3 years.

An eligible faculty member may be nominated (or self-nominated) for the award by any faculty member in the academic unit. A nomination package shall consist of three items: (1) A one-page statement indicating the desired award and explaining why the candidate’s work is worthy of the award, (2) A list of intellectual contributions with emphasis on work done during the prior three calendar years (for example, for 2023 award, consider 2020, 2021, 2022), and (3) The candidate’s curriculum vitae.

19.3 Rakesh Mathur Awards for the Excellence in Research

The Rakesh Mathur Awards for the Excellence in Research are instituted in honour of two former Professors of the Institute, and each of these awards carries a cash incentive of ₹ 1,50,000. They are

  • Prof. S.C. Bhattacharya Award for Excellence in Pure Sciences
  • Prof. H.H. Mathur Award for Excellence in Applied Sciences

Earlier recipients of this awards are available at the IRCC website.

Guidelines for nominations for these two awards are:

  • This is a one-time award given based on research work undertaken at IIT Bombay during the last ten years.
  • There is no age bar for these awards.
  • Nomination for the award can be made by any full Professor of the Institute. Self-nomination is not allowed.
    • Institute functionaries, with the exception of Heads of Academic Units, are not eligible for these awards.

The IRCC Research awards include:

  1. Research Publication Award (up to 5 awards for the year): To recognize original research results which have appeared in peer reviewed publications and/or other forms such as exhibits (e.g., design, film). Individuals as well as teams can be nominated.

  2. Impactful research award (up to 3 awards for the year): To recognize “research results which have had a tangible impact on practice” on industry/ government/other stakeholders. Individuals as well as teams can be nominated.

  3. Research dissemination award (up to 2 awards for the year): To recognize “outstanding efforts to disseminate their/others’ research through monographs/ books/review chapters/review papers”. Individuals as well as teams can be nominated.

  4. Early research achiever award (up to 3 awards for the year): To recognize young researchers who have already shown their potential for producing outstanding original work. Only individuals can be nominated for this award - the person being nominated should preferably have completed 2 to 3 years but should not have completed 4 years of service in IIT Bombay and must not be more than 40 years of age. An individual can get this award only once in his/her career. Each of the IRCC awards will consist of a citation and a cash prize of ₹ 50,000 (Rupees Fifty Thousands only). The cash prize will be given to nominated researcher (candidate) at IIT Bombay. In addition, the awardee(s) will be invited to submit a research proposal to IRCC for possible funding of up to ₹ 5,00,000 (Rupees Five Lakhs only).

19.4 Prof. S. C. Sahasrabuddhe Lifetime Achievement Award

Prof. S. C. Sahasrabuddhe Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred on a faculty member who has:

  • served the Institute with distinction for the major part of his/her career as a faculty member - at least twenty years.
  • made outstanding contributions towards teaching, research. industrial interaction and institution building - as perceived by students, alumni and peers.

The Award may be conferred on a faculty member one or two years before or after his/her superannuation/retirement. Nominations for such awards will be sent by Heads of Departments/Centres/ equivalent entities involved in teaching, research and industrial interaction. The recommendations by the committee are be placed before the Board of Governors for consideration and approval. A recipient of this award will also be eligible for all the privileges extended to a Professor Emeritus.

19.5 Other awards

Other IRCC awards include the Dr. P.K. Patwardhan Technology Development awards and the Prof. Krithi Ramamritham Award for creative research. More details and the procedure to apply for these awards is available on the IRCC Awards webpage.

There are also several external awards and fellowships that you can apply for. One such list (from IIT Kanpur) is available here.