World Bank has recently appointed Prof. Ashiv Shah, Head- TIFAC CORE, AKGEC, as a consultant for Industrial Robotics and FabLab with responsibility to support World Bank projects in developing countries.

Prof. Ashiv has been assigned Project HEAT : Higher Education Acceleration & Transformation, launched at Bangladesh, to improve the quality and relevance of teaching and research environment in higher education institutions. Various experts and World Bank officials from different parts of the world joined for project preparation at Dhaka.