The United States (US) State Department has curated an educational programme that is in line with India’s New Education Policy (NEP). The new programme will allow Indian students to pursue a one-year professional master’s degree with an industrial specialisation in American universities.
The programme has been developed by Akhilesh Lakhtakia, a Jefferson Science Fellow at the State Department’s South and Central Asia (SCA) bureau. Lakhtakia was roped in from Penn State University where he was serving as a professor of engineering science and mechanics to study India’s NEP. The State Department wanted him to come up with a programme that is beneficial to the students, governments as well universities of the two countries.
The courses are currently confined to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines and will start beginning the fall semester of 2024. Specialised courses on wireless technology, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, quantum engineering, 5G and 7G communication systems, semiconductor processing, nano-technology, and photonics among others are currently being offered.
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