Kovai institute selected for Indo-US collaboration
Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology here has been selected under the Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education(IUCEE) programme.The IUCEE has been launched by the American Society for Engineering Education, along with PAN-IIT and Academic and Business leaders from leading US and Indian universities.This collaboration was aimed at making engineering education and research more relevant to the needs of global society and to the aptitude and aspirations of new generation of youth, an institute release said here today.This would help in building the next generation technical workforce using new paradigms and a series of workshops as +2009 Indo US Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute (FLI), is being organised from June 22 to July 10 at Infosys, Mysore Centre, in this regard, it said.
IUCEE has raised more than Rs. 3 crore from personal donation for conducting 24 workshops for 600 participants at the 2009 FLI.Considering the competencies and committment, the Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology has been selected as one of the 100 colleges across India and four faculty members would participoate in the FLI, it said.
