Tata Motors and BITS Pilani launch automotive engineering programme

Aditya · 7th September 2015, 18:19

Tata Motors and Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS, Pilani) have entered into a partnership to launch a new engineering programme. The two organisations have signed a five year MOU for the initiative, which aims to bridge the gap of the automotive industry requirements and academics.

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The programme is aimed at strengthening the industry-readiness of the talent stepping out of campuses. The first set of programmes to roll-out of this association will be a customised Masters as well Bachelor's Degree in Technology for Automotive Engineering, which will run across various locations in India.

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The course is designed into two parts:

Technical orientation delivered through class room sessions
On-the-job training in engineering, design, manufacturing and customer support facilities in Tata Motors

Students will be mentored and guided by industry leaders and will also engage with Tata Motors for practice sessions wherein they would work with the company for six months on business projects.

They will have to go through periodic assessments and on successful completion of the programme, a certificate will be awarded jointly by BITS, Pilani and Tata Motors Ltd.

This partnership will involve Tata Motors' employees to further develop their skills by building their functional expertise.

Shuaib.am · 7th September 2015, 22:17

This is one great leap for automotive engineering. Hope this motivates other players like Mahindra and Suzuki to tie up with premier institutes.

technicalytuned · 7th September 2015, 22:38

Very good initiative by Tata Motors. If all the companies start to work with the various Universities of India than the gap between the industry and the colleges will reduce. This will benefit both the students as well as the companies since the students will get the experience to work on the industry standards and their will be no need to give extra training to the freshers from the companies. Request such companies to please improve the quality of education in Automobile department of Mumbai University especially in M. H. Saboo Siddik college of Engineering.

AutoInt · 8th September 2015, 08:10

This is indeed a great initiative by Tata Motors and BITS. This would really be helpful for the automobile engineering students as well as for the industry.

I would assume other automobile manufacturers might already have an understanding with other universities and colleges in some form or the other for taking students for internship, but this one is different as students would undergo practical class room as well as on the job training

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GeneralJazz · 12th September 2015, 16:37

Customized and specialized courses are whats required now. Regular B.Tech courses are too vague. Even Mechanical or Electronics, or for that matter, the relatively new Mecha-tronics. Syllabus is quite vast and students study bits and pieces of everything, but enough to be really good in any particular field. 'Jack of all trades' argument. Teach students what they will need when they step out of the college, not irrelevant nonsense. case in point, the textbook that was assigned to us for my M.Tech class a couple of years ago, that too in an IIT, mentions that 2.5G is a new technology, yet to be rolled out!

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Aditya Team-BHP Support Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Mumbai Posts: 18,789 Thanked: 81,205 Times View My Garage	Tata Motors and BITS Pilani launch automotive engineering programme Tata Motors and Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS, Pilani) have entered into a partnership to launch a new engineering programme. The two organisations have signed a five year MOU for the initiative, which aims to bridge the gap of the automotive industry requirements and academics. The programme is aimed at strengthening the industry-readiness of the talent stepping out of campuses. The first set of programmes to roll-out of this association will be a customised Masters as well Bachelor's Degree in Technology for Automotive Engineering, which will run across various locations in India. The course is designed into two parts: Technical orientation delivered through class room sessions On-the-job training in engineering, design, manufacturing and customer support facilities in Tata Motors Students will be mentored and guided by industry leaders and will also engage with Tata Motors for practice sessions wherein they would work with the company for six months on business projects. They will have to go through periodic assessments and on successful completion of the programme, a certificate will be awarded jointly by BITS, Pilani and Tata Motors Ltd. This partnership will involve Tata Motors' employees to further develop their skills by building their functional expertise. Last edited by Aditya : 8th September 2015 at 11:03.
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Shuaib.am Newbie Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Palakkad,kerala Posts: 3 Thanked: 2 Times	This is one great leap for automotive engineering. Hope this motivates other players like Mahindra and Suzuki to tie up with premier institutes. Last edited by Aditya : 8th September 2015 at 05:45. Reason: Dotty posting like.... this.... should be avoided. Thanks
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7th September 2015, 22:38	#3
technicalytuned BHPian Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Mumbai Posts: 45 Thanked: 217 Times	re: Tata Motors and BITS Pilani launch automotive engineering programme Very good initiative by Tata Motors. If all the companies start to work with the various Universities of India than the gap between the industry and the colleges will reduce. This will benefit both the students as well as the companies since the students will get the experience to work on the industry standards and their will be no need to give extra training to the freshers from the companies. Request such companies to please improve the quality of education in Automobile department of Mumbai University especially in M. H. Saboo Siddik college of Engineering. Last edited by Aditya : 8th September 2015 at 05:47. Reason: Quoting not necessary
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AutoInt BHPian Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: BANGALORE Posts: 151 Thanked: 92 Times View My Garage	re: Tata Motors and BITS Pilani launch automotive engineering programme This is indeed a great initiative by Tata Motors and BITS. This would really be helpful for the automobile engineering students as well as for the industry. I would assume other automobile manufacturers might already have an understanding with other universities and colleges in some form or the other for taking students for internship, but this one is different as students would undergo practical class room as well as on the job training .
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GeneralJazz BHPian Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: TN38/KL58/KL07 Posts: 664 Thanked: 4,485 Times View My Garage	Re: Tata Motors and BITS Pilani launch automotive engineering programme Customized and specialized courses are whats required now. Regular B.Tech courses are too vague. Even Mechanical or Electronics, or for that matter, the relatively new Mecha-tronics. Syllabus is quite vast and students study bits and pieces of everything, but enough to be really good in any particular field. 'Jack of all trades' argument. Teach students what they will need when they step out of the college, not irrelevant nonsense. case in point, the textbook that was assigned to us for my M.Tech class a couple of years ago, that too in an IIT, mentions that 2.5G is a new technology, yet to be rolled out!
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