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226 Science and Technology Research Players in India 3. Humanities and Social Science Department – IIT Delhi Overview: Department currently offers courses in five subjects: Economics, English Literature and Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology. Whatever their individual branches of scholarship, it is the concern of all faculty teaching in these areas to continue to meet and to extend the intellectual challenges projected in the charter of the IITs. Experience: The department has 54 years of experience in inter-disciplinary research and education. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in IIT Delhi offers the following teaching programmes such as PhD and undergraduates. PhD course offers: Social Psychology, Social Research Methods, Sociology of India, Philosophy of Social Sciences, Sociology of Science, International Economics etc. Undergraduates such as: Introduction to Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometric Methods, Personality and Society, Sociology: The Science of Praxis etc. Human and Financial Capital: There are around 40 institute faculties with more than 60 undergraduates and post graduates students. Funding comes from various courses offered and through research projects sponsored by DST, International Development Research Centre, Canada; Institute for the Future, USA; Industrial Research & Development, IIT Delhi; H.P India. Research Areas and Activities: Original contributions to research and to ongoing debates in ethics, cultural anthropology, critical theory, cognition, ideology, development policy, organizational behavior and economic activity, environmental and gender studies, the history of science and technology, the philosophy of culture, and indeed to the nature of theory itself are crucial within a Department like HSS. Some of the research projects are: • Center-for-global or Local-for-global an examination of FDI in R&D Centers of IT MNEs in India • ICT’s and Urban Micro-enterprises: Identifying and Opportunities for Economic Development • Psychological Tests on Positive Psychological Constructs • Language, Emotion and Culture • Ethnographic Study of Changing Behavior and Attitudes in the Domains of Security, Local Communities, Intimacy and Entrepreneurship • Cosmopolitanism and Locality along India’s Western Coast: Maritime Histories from Kachch, Gujarat • A Survey of the Public Distribution System in Indian States Networking and Collaborations: Some of the collaborations are: Jawaharlal Nehru University, IIT Bombay, IIT Roorkee, Aston University, Imperial College, American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, International Association of Cross-cultural Psychology, International Society for Justice Research etc. Publications: Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences has around 100 publications. Source/web link: http://hss.iitd.ac.in EUROPEAN BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE
Science and Technology Research Players in India 227 4. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) – IIT Kanpur Overview: Humanities and Social Sciences is one of the academic departments of IIT Kanpur. It is multi-disciplinary and consists of six disciplines: Economics, English Literature and Linguistics, Fine Arts, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology. The Department offers undergraduate courses to engineering and science students. These were first introduced in the curriculum in July 1963. Experience: The department has 51 years of experience in inter-disciplinary research and education. M.Sc. Economics Program is guided. The Ph.D. programme was started in 1964 is offered in the following disciplines: Economics, English Literature and Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology. Human and Financial Capital: Around 31 faculties are present in HSS- IIT Kanpur. There are currently 41 PhD students in the programme and 50 M.Sc. students. Funding comes from various courses offered and through research projects sponsored by WIZMIN Management Consultants, Ministry of Rural Development, ICSSR, Media Lab-Asia in collaboration with the Media Lab- MIT-USA, Artificial Limb Manufacturing Corporation, MHRD, SIEMAT etc. Infrastructure: Art and Design Studio: The studio is a hub of art and interdisciplinary studio activity. It provides facilities for drawing and painting classes, surface painting, printmaking. New Language Lab: The New Language Laboratory installed with the stateof-the-art Robotel New SmartClass Digital technology. It provides an advanced language laboratory teaching/learning experience. Psychology lab: The psychology laboratory offers adequate facilities for conducting experimental research in perception, memory, psychomotor and intellectual abilities, personality, and group dynamics. Other Facilities/ Computer Lab and Library: The department has access to several computer software, such as SAS, SPSS, and MATLAB. Research Areas and Activities: Internationally, IIT Kanpur has been ranked 295 th in the QS World University Rankings of 2013, and 51 st in the QS Asian University Rankings of 2013. Economics: The teaching and research interests of the Economics are diverse: Microeconomics, Macro-Money, Industrial Organization, Regional Economics, Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Law and Economics, Transport Economics, Econometrics, Input- Output Analysis, and Project Economics. Philosophy: The Philosophy Discipline has contributed significantly in the areas of Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Logic and Language, and Phenomenology. Psychology: The Psychology discipline has been able to create substantial impact through teaching, research, projects, and consultancy. The discipline is active in the areas of Social Psychology. Sociology: The discipline of sociology offers undergraduate courses for students of engineering, science and social science and runs a Ph.D. programme in sociology. Enhancing EU-India Collaboration in Clean Technologies
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