Institutional Distinctiveness

AIT was founded with the aim to provide students with exposure to the real industrial environment and skills, as founders are reputed industrialists from Kanpur leather industry (Promoters of Allen Cooper brand).The area in which institute has worked intensively is to train the students in the skills required by the industry and then by using that skill set, students can get the learning by working on real projects received by the industry.

The institution has set up a lab in collaboration with the leather industry, and gives training on shoe master software. Another lab has been set up for design and refurbishment of leather product manufacturing machines. Through these labs institute provides the facility of “experiential learning to students with live problems from industry through Institute Industry Interaction” in which faculty and students get an opportunity to gain real life problem solving experience in shoe and leather industry related to advanced level shoe designing ,repair, refurbishing, troubleshooting and designing new innovative machines. So far this practice is successful and more than 50 students have been trained and about 10 to 12 machines are refurbished and are functional in their respective premises. Students are designing innovative machines as their project work to ease out human effort.

The Institute offers different graduate programs in engineering. Fundamental requirement for excellence of any professional institute is to produce a skilled workforce which can cater the needs of the industry, and therefore the Institute opts to design various skill based courses apart from the regular AKTU curriculum so that the employability of the students can be enhanced.

Institute has started a practice for Employability Enhancement and Skill Development courses” where design, development and delivery of the content as per the industrial requirements is done. The aim of this practice is to get the students trained on the skill set needed by the industry. These skill based training courses are floated just after the completion of first year and attending these courses are mandatory for every student. A total of 23 such programs have been organized in the last five years benefitting more than 1300 students. Many of the students have reported that due to attending such skill development programs, their employability has gone high and they are working to a higher profile than expected, More details are given in criteria subsection 1.2.1. Some prominent training programs to be mentioned are Advance Python programming with Machine Learning, PRIMAVERA, ANSYS, AUTOCAD, CAM etc. The results can be verified from the enhancement of quality placements and our students are now qualifying national qualifiers like INFYTQ and TCSNQT in very good numbers (32 out of 60 qualified the written round of INFITQ this year).