PEC inks pact with Siemens Software

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 12

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A memorandum of agreement (MOA) was signed by the Punjab Engineering College with Siemens Industry Software (India) Pvt Limited (SISW) to establish a centre of excellence in the area of manufacturing engineering, control and automation.

The MOA was signed in the presence of Administrator UT VP Singh Badnore on Thursday.

According to the Director PEC, the idea of setting up of the Industry Linked Centre of Excellence in Manufacturing and Automation (CoE), originated from the need to align the engineering education with the latest industry trends and practices.

Several laboratories will be set-up under this project. These will include design and validation, advanced manufacturing, automation, electrical and energy saving, mechatronics, process instrumentation, test and optimisation, CNC controller, CNC machine, robotics, rapid prototyping, metrology, renewable energy and internet of things (IOT).

The BOG of PEC has stated that once the facility is created in the institute, it will be a game changer.

The MOA includes three years of hand-holding, where full responsibility of running the operations of the centre for two years, followed by one year of hand holding for smooth transition, will be done by Siemens and their partners.

This will also enable PEC to improve the quality of technical education and training. The other benefits of the COE includes vocational training for skill enhancement of the youth, training to the faculty and students of the Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC) institutes, training to the faculty and students of other engineering institutes/ ITI’s and polytechnics in the region.

PEC convocation today

The convocation ceremony for the 2014-18 batch of Punjab Engineering College (PEC) will be held on Saturday at Indradhanush Stadium, Sector 5, Panchkula. Governor of Punjab VP Badnore will be the chief guest. Dr Manoj K Arora, Director PEC, and Rajinder Gupta, chairman, BoG of the institute, will address the audience and award degrees to 511 BTech students, 192 MTech students and 30 PhD students.