Industry Internships
(up to 1 year paid internships)

This program reaches out to Corporate America's University Relations and Research groups for collaboration with IIT Roorkee for several initiatives, such as:

• • Invite grant proposals from faculty and students

  • Provide lab equipment (Hardware/ Software) to supplement classroom teaching

  • Paid internships for students ranging from 3 to 12 months

Results (with collaboration of IITR alums working at these companies)

2004: Got Intel set up a Planet Labs in E&C Department.

2005: Took IITR Director Prem Vrat to several US companies & universities for collaboration

2005: Got Cisco to set up equipment for a Telephony and Security Lab in E&C Department.

Cisco offers to upgrade entire IITR campus networking infrastructure at 90% discount.

2006: Hosted Prof Kukum Garg (E&C Dept at IITR) at Cisco USA labs to write grant proposals.

2006: Took Cisco Research delegation to IISc, IITR, IITK, IITB, IITD to encourage students & staff to submit proposal grants.

2007: Took Director S.C.Saxena and to several US companies & universities for collaboration.

2008: Got Cisco to sponsor the 16th IEEE conference, organized by IITR, in New Delhi.

2013: Added IITR & IITGN (as the 1st 2 Indian universities) to Cisco International 1 year paid internship.

2014: Nine IITR & IITGN students join Cisco USA (1st batch) international internship.

2015: Cisco sponsors Hackathon at Cognizance, IITR's Annual Technical Cultural Festival, held Mar 27-29th, http://cognizance.org.in/sponsors.php, powered by IITR founded startup www.hackerearth.com

2015-20: Cisco extends 1 year internship program to all Indian accredited universities. See interns list below.

2020: Collaboration with Google for Quantum Computing Residency Program. Open to MS and PhD students. They can work from IITR campus on Google Quantum Computing projects.

(for info send email admin@iitrhf.org)