RTU signs MoU with Wipro

To facilitate training of faculty members at basic, technical and advanced level with an eventual goal to develop interest of engineering students in engineering innovations

PTI | July 15, 2011



Rajasthan Technical University (RTU) has roped in software giant Wipro to enhance the employability skills of its engineering graduates by encouraging innovation.

"Mission 10X" is an initiative of the Wipro Techonology and will be executed for faculty members of engineering colleges in the state.

"We are collaborating with the company's programme, which has innovative methodology, to benefit the engineering institutes in the state of Rajasthan as we have a common objective of enhancing employbility skills of engineering students," R P Yadav, Vice-Chancellor of the university, said in Jaipur.

An MoU was to this effect was signed by Yadav and Nagarjuna, General Manager and Head Mission 10X-Wipro at Swami Keshwanand Institute of Technology (SKIT), Jagatpura.

Nagarjuna said that in the last three and half years, Mission 10X has reach out to over over 15,000 faculty members from over 900 engineering colleges all over the country.

He said that engineering faculty members have concurred with innovative methodology and were actively supporting the initiative.

"Workshops and training programme to train faculty members at basic, technical and advanced level will be conducted under the programme and they will be trained on how to develop interest of engineering students in engineering innovations," he said.
 

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