Internal Quality Assurance Cell

Vision

Enable UPES to be a Quality driven institution with academic practices & systems that are robust, agile, adaptive and futuristic

Objectives

To develop a system and quality culture for conscious, consistent and proactive action to improve the academic and non-academic performance of the institution.

To promote practices for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internalization and collaboration that enhances parity of institutional learning and student experience.

To create awareness of excellence and quality.

To enable/ensure every stakeholder to take action considering “Quality & Excellence” factors.

To institutionalize the best practices which lead to the “UPES Way”

Functions & Responsibilities

To act as a ‘Think Tank’ and ‘Quality conscious’ of the institution. To create & facilitate Structures & Processes for the academic/non-academic functions of the institution.
To ensure/support academic and non-academic functions to implement the documented processes.
To conduct periodic reviews/audits with academic/non-academic functions.
To provide and collect feedback from stakeholders and facilitate corrective action/improvement.
To act as the nodal agency for (pre & post) Accreditation & Ranking activities.
- Awareness
- Preparation, Coordinating & conducting
- Implementation of feedback
- Preparing annual review reports for all accreditation bodies.
- Work with stakeholders to avail benefits.
Collaborate with stakeholders to build and maintain the institutional database.

Approach

Collaborative
Consultative
Proactive
Data & Process Driven

Accreditations

International Accreditations

International Accreditation Council For Business Education (IACBE)

National Accreditations

Ranking

International Ranking

QS World University Ranking

National Ranking

National Instituitional Ranking Framework (NIRF)

Composition

Composition Details

Title	MEMBERS
Chairperson	Dr. Ram Sharma, Vice-Chancellor
Vice Chairperson	Prof. Jayasankar Elassery Variyar, Pro Vice-Chancellor
One Management Representative	Mr. Manish Madaan, Registrar
Senior Administrative Officers	Mr. Jitendra Gadhvi, Director - Career Services Dr. Mohammed Yaqoot, COE Mr. Ravi S. Kumar, Director - HR
Dean of Respective Schools	Dr. Padmavathy Venkat Subramanian Dean - School of Health Sciences and Technology Dr. Atri Nautiyal Dean - School of Liberal Studies and Media Mr. Rahul Nainwal Director - School of Business and CEO - UCIE Dr. Bhaskar Bhatt Dean - School of Design Dr. Vijaysekhar Chellaboina Dean - School of Computer Science Dr. Devesh Kumar Avasthi Dean - Research and Development Dr. Abhishek Sinha Dean - School of Law Dr. Nishant Mishra Dean - Student Welfare Ms. Preeti D. Mehta Director - UPES Online
Teachers to represent all Levels	Dr. Vinita Singh Sr. Associate Professor – School of Law Dr. Jayadev Parida Assistant Professor – School of Liberal Studies and Media Dr. Pankaj Kumar Professor and Associate Dean – Research and Development (R&D) Dr. Syed Mohammad Tauseef Professor and Associate Dean – Research and Development (R&D) Dr. Niraj Shirish Mankad Professor and Associate Dean – School of Business Dr. Alok Aggarwal Professor - School of Computer Science Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Professor - School of Computer Science Mr. Ajit Bhandari Associate Professor – School of Design Dr. Ashish Mathur Professor - Research & Development (R&D) Dr. Prashant Shukla Assistant Professor - School of Health Sciences and Technology Dr. Ranjeet Kumar Brajpuriya Professor and Cluster Head - School of Advanced Engineering Dr. Nilanjana Banerjee Associate Professor and Cluster Head School of Advanced Engineering
One Nominee from Local Society, Students and Alumni	Ms. Pallavi Singh Alumni Representative Designation: Consultant Company: PricewaterhouseCoopers CA LLP Mr. Sachin Pratap Singh Student Representative Course: Integrated BBA-MBA (Finance)
One Nominee from Employers/ Industrialists/ Stakeholders	Mr. Manav Makin
Coordinators/ Director of the IQAC	Dr. Shyam Pandey

Advisory Committee

Prof. JP Gupta

Member on the Affiliation Board of GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi
Advisor (Quality Assurance) in Hydrocarbons Education & Research Society (HERS), Delhi

Prof. K.N. Balasubramanya Murthy

Vice-Chancellor, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru Former Vice-Chancellor, PES University, Bengaluru

Prof. S. Swaminathan

Dean, Planning & Development Director, Centre for Nanotechnology & Advanced Biomaterials SASTRA Deemed University, Tanjore

Prof. (Dr.) S. Shanthakumar

Director, Gujarat National Law University & Gujarat Maritime University President of Gujarat International Maritime Arbitration Centre

Prof. Dwarika Prasad Uniyal

Pro-Vice Chancellor, RV University Bangalore Former Dean/ Director at insitutions like IIM Kashipur, FLAME & OP Jindal University

Prof. M. Sundhararajan

Pro Vice Chancellor of the Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research NAAC, ABET, and NBA approved assessor for quality education

Dr Manimuthu Gandhi

Executive Director, Centre for International Legal Studies, Jindal Global Law School
Vice President, Indian Society of International Law Founding Dean of VIT School of Law

Dr. Prashant Vishwanath

Director (Research) & Coordinator, IQAC, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research Professor, Department of Biochemistry, JSS Medical College, Mysuru