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Pune may soon become Aerospace hub
The type of infrastructural facilities available in Pune has the potential in making the city aerospace engineering hub, thus putting the city on the global map in the field, a top aerospace scientist said on Monday.
He was speaking on the occasion of a joint venture between Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Aeronautical Engineering and Research Organisation (AERO) to start BTech in aerospace engineering at the Indian Institute for Aeronautical Engineering and Information Technology (IIAEIT).
“There are lots of prominent technical education institutes in and around the city along with defence organisations especially Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), which has gas turbines, wind tunnels and other facilities. There are also a lot of aerospace engineers working in defence laboratories like ARDE, R&D Engineers, ARDE and HEMRL, which provide the right kind of infrastructure required for pursuing aerospace engineering as a career,” dean (academics) and pro vice-chancellor DIAT G C Pant said.
He said that there were industrial hubs having companies venturing into manufacturing activity, notably assemblies and sub-assemblies being outsourced by aviation majors like Airbus and Boeing.
Elaborating on the four-year BTech programme, he said it is aimed at developing knowledge, awareness and professional skills in the aeronautical engineering discipline and will commence from July this year. Initially, four centres will be activated at Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune. The course material will be developed in collaboration with aviation experts, he said.
“Today, R&D institutes and organisations working in the field of aerospace engineering like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) or the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), absorb mechanical engineers and then train them to become aerospace engineers. However, now they will benefit by getting trained aerospace engineers, who will be specialised mechanical engineers,” Pant said.
Unlike the popular notion that IGNOU conducts only distance learning courses through correspondence, this BTech course will be taught in regular mode at four training centers. It is not a distance-learning course.
“The mode of teaching is contact mode, e-learning, multimedia assisted teaching and video conferencing using IGNOU facilities,” Professor of mechanical engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, IGNOU Subhasis Maji said.
The joint venture will also offer diploma in mechanical engineering to students dropping out after completing four semesters due to personal compulsions.
This would help them take up a technical job to support their families and later rejoin from fifth semester.The eligibility criteria for the course is class 10+2 pass with 55 per cent aggregate in Physics, Chemistry and Maths for open and 50 per cent for reserved category, AERO director Air Commodore (retd) Raghubir Singh said. sourcE: http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2009/01/20110055/Pune-may-soon-become-Aerospace.html
He was speaking on the occasion of a joint venture between Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Aeronautical Engineering and Research Organisation (AERO) to start BTech in aerospace engineering at the Indian Institute for Aeronautical Engineering and Information Technology (IIAEIT).
“There are lots of prominent technical education institutes in and around the city along with defence organisations especially Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), which has gas turbines, wind tunnels and other facilities. There are also a lot of aerospace engineers working in defence laboratories like ARDE, R&D Engineers, ARDE and HEMRL, which provide the right kind of infrastructure required for pursuing aerospace engineering as a career,” dean (academics) and pro vice-chancellor DIAT G C Pant said.
He said that there were industrial hubs having companies venturing into manufacturing activity, notably assemblies and sub-assemblies being outsourced by aviation majors like Airbus and Boeing.
Elaborating on the four-year BTech programme, he said it is aimed at developing knowledge, awareness and professional skills in the aeronautical engineering discipline and will commence from July this year. Initially, four centres will be activated at Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune. The course material will be developed in collaboration with aviation experts, he said.
“Today, R&D institutes and organisations working in the field of aerospace engineering like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) or the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), absorb mechanical engineers and then train them to become aerospace engineers. However, now they will benefit by getting trained aerospace engineers, who will be specialised mechanical engineers,” Pant said.
Unlike the popular notion that IGNOU conducts only distance learning courses through correspondence, this BTech course will be taught in regular mode at four training centers. It is not a distance-learning course.
“The mode of teaching is contact mode, e-learning, multimedia assisted teaching and video conferencing using IGNOU facilities,” Professor of mechanical engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, IGNOU Subhasis Maji said.
The joint venture will also offer diploma in mechanical engineering to students dropping out after completing four semesters due to personal compulsions.
This would help them take up a technical job to support their families and later rejoin from fifth semester.The eligibility criteria for the course is class 10+2 pass with 55 per cent aggregate in Physics, Chemistry and Maths for open and 50 per cent for reserved category, AERO director Air Commodore (retd) Raghubir Singh said. sourcE: http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2009/01/20110055/Pune-may-soon-become-Aerospace.html
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