Indian Institute of Technology - IIT inks MoU with Autodesk Inc
Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Madras) and the US-based Autodesk Inc, a design software and digital solutions, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), to established a Centre of Excellence for Innovative Design and Research in Chennai on Tuesday.
Krishniah, Dean, Academic Research, IIT-M, and Rajiv Nair, regional rector, Autodesk India, signed the MoU, in the presence of IIT Madras Director M S Ananth and Paul Mailhot, senior director of Autodesk’s worldwide education.
Speaking on the occasion, Ananth said that the IIT Madras had entered into Madras had entered into collaboration with various industrial houses and described the new Centre of Excellence as a “welcome initiative” for the students of IIT.
Though the facility world specifically target students of civil and design engineering, all students of civil and design engineering, all students of the IIT Madras can make use of it, since the institution has an inter-disciplinary approach, he added.
Among other efforts undertaken by the institution, the Research Park was expected to start functioning in about nine months, with the IIT “waiting for the last bit of land from the State Government,” said Ananth. He hoped that he could see in industry representatives teach there.
Indian Institute of Technology - IIT inks MoU with Autodesk Inc