<P> The ICT has sanctioned positions of 108 faculty (29 Professors, 38 Associate Professors and 41 Assistant Professors) and a support staff of 240 . There are 114 visiting faculties (who typically are industry researchers), 7 emeritus faculties, and 4 adjuncts . The ICT has a tradition of establishment of endowments with an objective of supporting faculty positions, foreign travel assistance, merit - cum - means scholarships, staff welfare, library, campus development, research fellowships and seed money for research by young faculty . There are 90 faculty endowments in the Institute . All these endowments have been established through generous donations by alumni, industries, philanthropists and well wishers . Only part of the interest (up to 50 - 70%) is used towards the purpose of the endowment and the remaining is invested back into the corpus . There are 22 endowment chairs, as well as 49 visiting fellowships which helps attract the best professionals to the Institute from all over the world who interact with UG and PG students, faculty and alumni . The honoraria range from ₹ 5000 to 1.25 lakhs for a period of one day to 15 days . Some eminent faculty from institutes such as MIT, Purdue, Cambridge, Monash, UC Berkeley, UCSB, Montreal have taught UG and PG courses in ICT under these endowments . These lectures will form part of audit courses for research students . Besides, public lectures are organized under each endowment . Each academic year, 251 students are supported through under merit - cum - means scholarships . The range is ₹ 3000 - 75,000 per annum per person through several endowments, private trust and annual commitments by alumni . All economically deprived students are given assistance in the form of tuition fees, hostel fees, mess bills and travel assistance to present papers in national conferences . </P> <P> ICT has a very strong and celebrated research culture and is considered to be the best post-graduate center in India and comparable to other top - level centers in the world . The first ever Ph. D. in India in engineering was awarded by ICT in 1941 . Currently, ICT graduates 100 PhDs annually, which is about 10% of India's engineering PhDs . ICT has strong relationships with the industries and many government as well as industry sponsored projects take shape in ICT . In 2011, the Ministry of Textiles sanctioned ICT as National Center of Excellence in Sportswear with a grant of ₹ 24.5 crore for researching sports - related apparel and goods . With this, ICT has become the first institute in India to conduct research on sports fabrics . ICT hosts several research centers within the campus . These include DBT - ICT (Department of Biotechnology) Center for Energy Biosciences, ICT - DAE (Department of Atomic Energy) Center for Chemical Engineering Education and Research, UGC Networking Resource Centre in Chemical Engineering, and Center for Green Technology . </P> <Ul> <Li> Dyes department of ICT manufactures the entire requirement of laser dyes in India . </Li> <Li> Chemical Engineering Department designed a heavy water reactor which has resulted in 50% reduction in the energy requirement and 7% increase in productivity of heavy water requirement . </Li> <Li> Prof. J.B. Joshi, former director, ICT, designed an eco-cooker (US Patent US6668707) which has thermal efficiency of 60--70% compared to 10--20% thermal efficiency of conventional cooker . The cooker has been commercialized at several places resulting considerable energy saving . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Dyes department of ICT manufactures the entire requirement of laser dyes in India . </Li>

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