Well known for its application oriented textile and engineering education and close ties with the textile industry, DKTE Society’s Textile and Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji has won prestigious ‘Best Industry-Linked Technical Institute-2017 Award’ in the nation-wide survey jointly conducted by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). This is the second time that DKTE won this coveted award. The objective of the survey was to assess and reward the institutes with good industry interaction.
Around 9,525 colleges across the country had shown interest in the survey. The entire process was online where institutes were asked to fill in all the data of their curriculum, faculty, infrastructure, placements, governance and research and services for the year 2015-16 and 2016-17. Post generating objective scores for the full survey, screening and shortlisting was done by an eminent jury comprising experts from industry and academia. DKTE emerged as the winner in Chemical and Allied Engineering Institute category in this survey
The jury was impressed by the commendable progress made by the institute in the area of training, placements and MOUs with industries. They were also impressed by the 100 per cent placement record, training in industries of textile graduates for the last 35 years. The research and publications of faculty and students, state of the art equipment worth 50 crores, intensive interaction with industries and alumni, MOUs with national and international industries and universities, seminars, workshops and training programmes organised and 100% placement of students for the last 35 years impressed the jury members. This was mentioned in the survey report published by AICTE-CII.
The faculty members are deeply engaged in carrying out research sponsored by industry as well as in-house research. As a result of this, as many as 650 research papers have been published / presented by the faculty members in reputed national and international journals as well as in important national and international conferences.
