NIT-Trichy's students receive degrees amid jubilation
He spoke at the eighth convocation of NIT-T held at the institute on Saturday. As many as 1,322 students from various disciplines received their degrees from B Prasada Rao, chairman and managing director of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) who was the chief guest of the function.
Sundarrajan appreciated the young faculty members of NIT-T for getting most of these projects from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Coir Board, Ministry of Information Technology, Department of Atomic Energy and Defence Research and Development Organisation. The institute is currently carrying out 141 projects with a funding of Rs 34 crore from as many as 25 leading national and international funding agencies. Moreover, the institute has on-going MoUs with 10 leading industrial organizations and 10 reputed universities from India and abroad.
On a long relationship with BHEL, Trichy, he said the MOU with BHEL had been renewed for a further five years with focus of strategic partnership in areas such as development of super-critical boilers. During this year, NIT-T trained around 500 engineers and managers from BHEL in personality development. The students of NIT-T also got placed in India and abroad with the highest offer of $ 1,25,000 ever made for any T-school being bagged by NIT-T.
Earlier, Prasada Rao addressed the media saying that as part of industry-oriented research and industry-institute interaction programme, BHEL would spend 2.5 percent of its total turnover for research and development (R&D). The company had spent Rs 1,200 crore on R&D on its welfare as well as in premier educational institutions last year. For 2012-13, they planned to hike the amount to Rs 1,400 crore. They would focus on research in super critical boilers, ultra critical boilers and new materials, he a
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