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Technology
Teaching technology by building it
Rohit founded AIIT Roorkee in 2025 to teach practical AI and IT skills, guide student research and projects, and help learners prepare for work.
Quick answer
Quick answer
How does Rohit teach technology?
Students start from a problem, build something that runs, find out where it breaks and fix it. Theory matters and it sticks better when it arrives as the explanation for something a student has just seen fail. The same approach shapes mentoring for early career engineers and the career counselling Rohit gives to IT students.
What students work on
At AIIT Roorkee the emphasis is on building things that run rather than collecting certificates. Projects are taken all the way to deployment, because that is where students meet the parts of engineering that courses skip: configuration, data that arrives in the wrong shape, errors that only appear under load, and the discipline of writing something another person can maintain.
AI tools are part of the work rather than a separate subject. They are most useful to students who already understand what the generated code is doing, so fundamentals come first and the tools are introduced as an accelerator that still needs a reader.
Mentoring and career counselling
Alongside teaching, Rohit is currently giving career counselling to 35 IT students, working through course choices, first roles, which skills to build and how to use AI tools without losing fundamentals. Mentoring conversations with early career engineers and founders tend to return to the same themes: learning fundamentals that outlast frameworks, writing clearly, and understanding the business around the code.
Talks and workshops on these subjects are listed on the Media page, and the Now page shows what is running at the moment.
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Questions
Questions about teaching and mentoring
What should a technology student learn first?
Programming fundamentals, data structures, databases and networking, followed by one real project taken all the way to deployment. AI tools are most useful to people who already understand what the generated code is doing.
How should an experienced engineer approach AI?
As a new layer on existing skills rather than a replacement for them. Retrieval, evaluation, prompt design and agent limits are learnable engineering topics, and system design experience makes them easier to do well.
Is mentoring available outside AIIT Roorkee?
Yes, in limited numbers and usually as a short series of focused conversations rather than an open ended commitment. The contact page is the place to ask.
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