Prof. Dr. P. S. Aithal
M.Sc.(Physics), M.Sc.(E-Business). M.I.T (I.T.), M.Tech.(I.T.), Ph.D.(Physics), Ph.D.(Business Management), PostDoc.@PRL, Ahmedabad, PostDoc.@CREOL, UCF, USA, D.Sc.(Technology Management), D.Litt.(h.c.) Director, Poornaprajna Institute of Management, Udupi, India.
Poornaprajna Institute of Management (PIM) has been established with twin specific goals: to impart professional knowledge and essential skills in management studies on one hand and on the other, to shape the personality of the nation’s young ones by tending to their physical, mental and spiritual development. As such PIM is imparting quality education in management studies with specializations in functional areas, such as Finance, Marketing, HR, Hospital Administration and Banking & Insurance.
Further, the Institute has a meaningful partnership with industries, linkages with community, tie-ups with premier institutions and rapport with the experts in the field in order to achieve holistic development of the students of this Institute.
In the present competitive world, where it is ‘Survival of the Fittest’, the ‘Future Managers’ have to be fully equipped with contemporary concepts and professional skills warranted by the modern business environment. In Poornaprajna Institute of Management, all the students of MBA are trained with earnest care in order to imbibe in them the desired level of professional competency and also ethical, social and moral values.
The physical amenities at PIM are excellent and they provide a congenial environment for advanced learning. The rich blend of core faculty with academic rigour and industrial experience and a number of visiting faculties with years of industrial exposure provide here a unique learning environment.
About Dr. P.S. Aithal:Â
Prof. Dr. P. S. Aithal, Director, Poornaprajna Institute of Management, Udupi, Karnataka State is also founding and former Vice Chancellor of Srinivas University, Mangalore. Dr. P. S. Aithal has 33 years of experience in Teaching & Research and 22 years’ experience in Administration. Having four master’s degrees in physics with Electronics, Computer Science, Information Technology, and E-Business, he got his first Ph.D. degree in Physics from Mangalore University in the area of nonlinear optical materials and a second Ph.D. degree in Business Management from Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, in the area of mobile banking. He worked as a Post Doctorial Research Fellow at “Lasers & Quantum Optics Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad for two years from 1999-2000. In the year 2002, he has been selected for the prestigious Oversee Fellowship of Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India – Better Opportunity for Young Scientists in Chosen Area of Science & Technology (BOYSCAST) Fellowship and did Post Doctorial Research at Centre for Research & Education in Optics & Lasers (CREOL), at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, U.S.A. He has more than 1,000 research publications in refereed International Journals and Edited Books in the area of Nonlinear Optics, Photonics, Nanotechnology, Business Management, Higher Education, and Information Technology, and published 55 Books & Edited books. Dr. P. Sreeramana Aithal is currently holding SECOND Rank among Top 30,000 Research authors world-wide and had FIRST Rank among the Top 12,000 Business Management Authors worldwide in Elsevier’s SSRN Research network, USA in terms of the total number of open access scholarly papers in their network. Dr. P. S. Aithal has initiated many innovations and best practices in higher education system. With more than 18,000 scholarly citations, Dr. P. S. Aithal has more than 19 lakhs of Readers for his publications in ResearchGate.