Six Bengaluru colleges tie up with Carnegie

Updated on: Thursday, November 17, 2011

Six engineering colleges of Bengaluru have signed MoUs with iCarnegie, powered by Carnegie Mellon University, USA, and India’s robotic education firm Technophilia Systems Pvt Ltd to launch a first of its kind Centre for Robotic and Embedded Systems Excellence (CRESE) on Tuesday.

Representatives of the six colleges - BNM Institute of Technology, Dayanand Sagar Institute of Technology, M.S. Engineering College, Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, St Joseph’s Engineering College and Reva Institute of Technology and Manag-ement, expressed excitement over the setting up of CRESE on their campus.

Dr M.S. Indira, Principal Chairman, VTU said, “The project sounds very exciting and will benefit our students immensely. We are happy to be associated with such a reputed university and make our students industrially ready.” Speaking about the project, Hiral Sanghvi, Managing Director of Technophilia Systems, said, “According to a survey conducted by Nasscom, the Indian robotics and embedded systems arena is set to witness a huge growth” . He said, presently, there are about 22,000 engineers working on embedded systems in the country and by 2015, there will be a requirement for about 1.75 lakh engineers in India.

Mr Sanghavi said, “At present, VTU offer this course for one semester for final year students, which is not sufficient. To ensure our graduates are industrially ready, they have to get practical exposure that matches international standards and hence we have tied with the well know Carnegie Mellon University to initially set up CRESE facilities at 27 colleges in the country at a cost of Rs 10 lakh per facility.”

The curriculum, certified course by iCarnegie, will be divided into eight modules over a period of four years. The duration of the course is 45 hours per semester, where students will be charged $100 (Rs 4,950) per semester and full access to these CRSE facilities where will get to work on several different projects, including wireless speech controlled robots to writing robotic arms.

Six Bengaluru colleges tie up with Carnegie

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