NIT signs MoU with Warangal and Malardalen University

Updated on: Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Chennai: India's premier engineering Institute NIT-W (www.nitw.ac.in) has signed a MoU with Malardalen University (MDH) Sweden today to promote collaboration in areas of Innovation, Design and Engineering in Embedded systems, Real-time systems and Software Engineering.

Mälardalen University (www.mdh.se/university) is one of Sweden's largest universities. The University has more than 13 000 students and offers 60 programs and about 750 courses. Mälardalen University is located in the cities of Eskilstuna and sters. It is also the first university in the world to be environmentally certified and the first in the world to be work environment certified.

Speaking at the signing ceremony which took place in NIT-W Dr. YV Rao, Director of NIT-W expressed delight and said the collaboration will facilitate the conduct of programmes and activities in basic and applied research, education and training, as well as technology and information transfer that are mutually beneficial to both institutions.
It will also foster the development of mutually agreed collaborative projects and activities, student exchange in general at undergraduate and graduate levels including staff exchange with combined research, development and teaching which will enhance the programmes of each university.

The agreement was signed by Dr. Y V Rao, Director, NITW and Mr. Christer Norstrom, Vice President, MDH, Sweden.  Sri V Rajanna, General Manager, and Regional Head, TCS, Hyderabad, Prof.P.Sasikumar, Malardalen University and Deans, Heads of departments in NITW were also present during the signing ceremony.

NIT-W ranked among the top 10 Tech colleges in India completed 50 years serving the nation as a premier engineering Institute. It has been steadily expanding ties with foreign universities throughout the world. The Institute started its journey with a little over 100 students from a temporary campus, now boasts of 4,200 students. Out of 4,200 students, currently 1,400 are M.Tech students and 300 are PhD scholars.

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