Prateek Garg, Chairman, Western Zonal Council, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) delved onto the fact that global forces are now influencing our economy and presenting multiple challenges. Therefore it becomes imperative that our industry finds ways to nurture talent and undertake continuous skill enhancement and training.
He stated that today Industry must attract the right talent and encourage the passion to deliver. He congratulated AKGEC and P+F and emphasised that such collaborations pave the way for better knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry and vice-versa.
Dr RK Agarwal, Director AKGEC stated that this collaborative effort of AKGEC and P+F is to encourage young professionals to take up this cross disciplinary field as a career of their choice and acquaint themselves with the latest technological developments in the field of Industrial Automation.
He shared his vision that the competence centre being so envisaged would aim to train young engineering graduates and diploma students of all engineering disciplines up to the expectations of the Industry and foster research and innovation in the field of applied automation.
Ravi Agarwal, Director and head of the FA business in India shared his thoughts on the high importance and the necessity of Industry and academia working together in India. He stated that for the future needs of our country and technology driven economy, there is an urgent need to increase the exposure and practical knowledge of our future engineers.
He emphasised that industry-academia partnership stands on four strong pillars namely, the students, the faculty, the industry and the administration of the academic institution. The needs, goals and aspirations of all four must be taken into account for a strong, healthy and result oriented industry-academia partnership. Such collaboration as entered on the date holds the key to a good and productive future of the society and to give improved future perspective to the four stakeholders as aforesaid.
Pepperl + Fuchs has been engaged in India since 1987, and since last fifteen years has been established as a 100 percent owned subsidiary of P+F Germany. Its products are developed to provide reliability and suitability to a host of applications in the manufacturing environment.
They are widely used in India in a many sectors like machine building, pulp & paper, cement, metals & minerals, automotive, material handling, food & beverages, ceramics, process controls, gas & petrochemicals, fertilizers and so on.
Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, is a premier engineering institution of North India, affiliated with Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow and is duly approved by All India Council of Technical Education. The college offers B.Tech courses in seven disciplines of Engineering and Postgraduate courses in Computer Applications and M.Tech in five disciplines. The college has won an award for Best Industry-Academia Interface by Hon'ble Minister of Science & Technology.
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