Industry-Academic Meet 2011 – Rudrapur Teerthanker Mahaveer University took the first initiative towards building industry ready professionals by organizing an interactive Industry-Academia meet at Rudrapur on November 17, 2011. The meeting was chaired by Shri Darbara Singh, President KGCCI, and Mr. Ritesh Singh, General Secretary representing the industry and Prof R. K. Mittal, Vice Chancellor and Prof Rakesh K. Mudgil, Registrar representing the University at the dais. After the initial briefing about the aims and objective of the meet by Prof K.K.Pande, the gathering was addressed by the Vice Chancellor who gave a brief about the University and the future plans which was followed by a presentation by the representatives of the college of Engineering, Management & Pharmacy. Thereafter, the floor was open for interaction during which very valuable inputs were received and many industries were willing to collaborate for the initiative the first being TATA Motors who are willing to have diploma students for industry exposure. Some key suggestions from industry were:  Institutions must work to change the attitude of students focusing for next five years ahead Teachers/Faculty must be trained and updated with latest technology to properly mentor students for which they should spend the summer vacation in industry to update with changes. Similarly industry should also send their technical staff to institutions to interact with students and faculty. Students must have the mind set to work in a 24x7 environment. Students must be given some industrial job project to work in real environment in each semester so that they learn skills and are familiar with industry environment  More emphasis should be given to enforce discipline among students like in military. Industry depends on material science for manufacturing. Good engineers of material sciences are scarce in the industry hence required in good number. Industry requires energetic engineers who: FEEL - FIT and FINISH projects on time Gap between and theory and practical must be minimized to produce effective engineers/ managers. For effective learning students must Join - Trained - Finish projects - Rejoin same projects - Work perfectly - Finish ...the cycle must go on. Universities must provide universal education to increase patience level of employees. Students must do case studies in industries to learn more Videocon Industries - have invited our faculty members/ mentors to see the work methodology of Innovative School, its vision and actions live at Videocon Plant at Kashipur. The meeting was attended by over 60 representatives from various industries in Rudrapur and Kashipur like Dabur India Ltd, HP India Sales Pvt. Ltd., Kores Printer Technology Pvt. Ltd., Parle Biscuit Pvt. Ltd., Khandelwal Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Wimco Limited, Wheels India Limited, V-Guard Industries Ltd., Tata Motor Limited, Steel engineers, Tata Max, SPJCHR, TSN, TVS Srichakra Limited, Windals Precision Pvt. Ltd., Viola Diagnostic Sys., Shriram Foundry Ltd., Shirdi Industries Ltd., Kumaun Garhwal Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Lucas-TVS Ltd., PIARS Ltd., Shivalik PVC Pipe Pvt. Ltd., ACME Tele Power Ltd., Alpha Electronics, Alps Industries Limited, Goodwear Fashions Pvt. Ltd. Etc. At the end the Registrar gave a summary report and thanked KGCCI and all industry representatives for the effective interaction which will help build a mind set for the future course design.