Industry-academia partnership key to popularise core engineering courses
The Hindu
Summit on ‘Academic excellence in higher education through industry collaborations’ organised by CII
A senior official in the Telangana Department of Collegiate and Technical Education on Tuesday mooted a collaboration between manufacturing sector and autonomous engineering colleges to address the issue of fewer students opting for Civil and Mechanical engineering courses.
Developing a curriculum customised to needs of the industry as well as through offer of internship for students, the later possibly for a semester or more after second year of the course, ought to be facets of such a collaboration, said Navin Mittal, Commissioner, Department of Collegiate and Technical Education.
“We need to collaborate... it is becoming imperative,” the senior official said, addressing the 3rd edition of EDU Summit on ‘Academic excellence in higher education through industry collaborations’ organised by CII Telangana in partnership with the Department and the Telangana State Council of Higher Education.
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