PANDIT DEENDAYAL PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY,GUJRAT (PDPU)

 “A WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY WHICH PROVIDES EDUCATION ALONG WITH GREAT OPPORUNITIES AND SUCCESS TO ITS STUDENTS”

Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University’s 100 acre campus is located in Gandhinagar, which is the capital city of Gujarat and located 23 Km North from a well developed city called Ahmedabad with a population of 8 million people. The city is famous for its remarkable cultural development and social life.

PDPU offers multiple courses ranging from engineering, arts and management along with maximum exposure and opportunities to its students through various national and International exchange programs with best University worldwide. For development of its faculties and staff the University endeavors for various Joint Exchange and Research programs.

HISTORY OF PDPU

PDPU has been promoted by Partnership of Government, Industry & Energy to create a world class University in energy education and research with special focus on the oil and gas sector. The university has further expanded its programs to address the need for trained human resource in the domains of engineering, management and humanities. It intends to broaden the opportunities for students and professionals to develop core subject knowledge which are duly complemented by leadership training interventions, thereby helping the students to make a mark in the global arena. This objective is being further addressed through a number of specialized and well-planned undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral programs as well as intensive research projects.

Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) has been established by GERMI as a Private University through the State Act enacted on 4th April, 2007.

SCHOOLS@PDPU 
School of Petroleum Management offers M.B.A. and Ph.D., Post Graduate Diploma in Petroleum Management for Executives, and Management Development Programmes focused on Energy & Infrastructure Sector.
The School is approved by AICTE

School of Petroleum Technology offers B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering. It is academically engaged in creating a high quality talent pool for the hydrocarbon sector across the entire value chain.

School of Technology offers B.Tech. in the fields of Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, & Chemical Engineering, besides the Ph.D. Program. It also offers M.tech in Nuclear Engineering.

School of Liberal Studies offers four year Bachelor programme in the field of Liberal Studies, M.A. in Public Administration/International Relations /Political Science as well as the Ph.D. programs.

School of Solar Energy offers M.Tech. and Ph.D. in the field of Solar Engineering.

UNIQUE FEATURES

• Emphasis on problem solving and practice with soundfundamentals, through active and continued partnership with energy &infrastrucuture sector companies and National and InternationalUniversities, Consultants and Vendors.

• Top down approach from ‘Systems to Components’ tobetter appreciate holistic education.

• Rural, Industry, and Research internships to provide abetter understanding and challenges faced in rural and urban Indianlandscape, industry culture and career options for students.

• Emphasis on holistic engineering as key to long-termeconomic and environmental sustainability of communities.

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS The University has collaborations with the following Universities of International repute:

• University of Tulsa
• University of Oklahoma
• University of Houston
• Ontario, Canada
• American Jewish Committee
• Texas A & M University, USA
• Georgia Tech University
• University of Sasksatchewan, Canada
• University of Regina, Canada
• Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• University of Trinidad & Tobago

Earlier, PDPU had facilitated a 3 week training programme in association with University of Houston, University of Tulsa and University of Oklahoma to expose petroleum engineering students to state-of-the-art technology in the upstream sector. This training helped the students to get acquainted faster with changing technology in the sector.

The University has 70 full time faculty and 35 visiting and adjunct faculty. There are more than 1700 undergraduate students and 225 postgraduate students in the University.

Dr. Mukesh Ambani

President,
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University

The onus of creating a world class educational institution is challenging and embellished with a host of initiatives which validate themselves over an extended time span. We focused on the energy domain a few years ago and worked to create a talent pool to meet the human capital needs of the sector. The university today has metamorphosed into a preeminent institution with significant national and international visibility. It was only natural to give PDPU the look and feel of a more complete academic environment and we have done that with the development of the School of Technology and the School of Liberal studies in recent years. Each one of these schools along with research in the area of Petroleum, Solar, Nuclear and engineering a lot of academic credibility to a research led environment.

Today the corporate world seeks a generation of young people who are not only enlightened, but also trained to think innovatively. They are expected to meet tough challenges and create opportunities in uncharted areas with unprecedented success. They soon settle in an advanced academic ecosystem which abets an innovative approach to the evolving challenges of the academic world. They will be required to acquire diverse skills and competencies, and take the extra step to understand the parameters of leading a dignified quality of life and seek to achieve the same through intellectual self-propelled pursuits.

I am sure that with our collective vision we will achieve the enshrined goals through dynamic, participative and scholarly academic inputs duly complemented by collaborative deployment of professionals of high repute and caliber. The university has to serve as a cradle of innovation and research to facilitate this.

Once again, I extend my best wishes to the all the stakeholders of the university.

Prof. Paritosh K. Banik,
Director General
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University

Professor P K Banik is the Director General of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum university, Gandhinagar.

Born in 1953, he had his early education in Assam and obtained 1st class B.Sc.Hons (Physics) in 1972. Thereafter, he went to Moscow (Russia) on a Govt. of India scholarship to study Mining Engineering. He obtained integrated Masters’ degree in Mining Engineering from Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University, Moscow in 1980 and Ph.D. in Engineering from Moscow Mining Institute in 1984. He had been to Nottingham University and Heriot-Watt University, UK for training in Mine Planning in 1991.

He started his professional career in 1984 as a Faculty Member at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad (ISM), a premier institute in Mining, Petroleum and Geo-sciences in India. He worked in the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-Kh) in 1994 as Associate Professor. He then returned back to ISM in 1994 as Professor of Continuing Education & Head, Executive Development Centre and served the Institute till 2005. The Govt. of India appointed him as the Director of the National Institute of Technology, Silchar (NIT-Silchar) in 2005, where he served the Institute for 3 years as Director of the Institute. He served School of Petroleum Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum Technology as Director during 2009-2010.

He has successfully guided several Ph.D. and M.Tech scholars and published more than 30 research papers in National and International journals and proceedings. He has carried out more than 25 R & D and Consultancy projects. As a team work, he has contributed in developing Training Modules and Training Materials for Coal India Ltd. and Tata Group of Collieries. He has also carried out several World Bank Projects for Coal India Ltd. He was the leader for implementation of Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP) at NIT-Silchar under a World Bank project of MHRD, Govt. of India.

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India), Member of Indian Society for Training & Development, Indian Society for Technical Education and The Mining, Geological & Metallurgical Institution of India. He is the 1st Mining Engineer to receive ‘CAREER AWARD’ from University Grants Commission, New Delhi.

He has experience of working in Siberian coal mines. He was also a coal mining consultant in Tajikistan. Professor Banik has traveled widely including USA, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden and other countries.

His current areas of interest are CBM, Underground Coal Gasification, Project Planning & Development.