Technophilia to teach robotic science to engg students

Technophilia Systems Pvt. Ltd, a robotic education institute has signed an Memorandum of Understanding MoU with Pune's six engineering colleges to establish Center for Robotics & Embedded Systems Excellence (CRESE).

The purpose of this is to provide practical knowledge to the engineering students. This course is supported by iCarnegie, which is powered by Carnegie Mellon University in USA.

As part of the phase one of launch, 25 engineering institutes across India have signed up for CRESE amongst which the six of them are from Pune. They are MIT College of Engineering, Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Bharati Vidyapeeth University's College of Engineering, Maharashtra Academy of Engineering, Alandi, P.E. Society's Modern College of Engineering and Pune Vidyarthi Griha's College of Engineering and Technology.

Technophilia is setting up a training and research lab across Indian universities so that students will get an exposure on taking up projects based on latest robotic applications.

The association aims to target another 75 institutes to complete the target of reaching 100 CRESE partner colleges by July 2012. CRSE is offering eight different courses, one course module per semester.

Each course module is of 45 hours which includes practical project development work based on curriculum.

Ron Shell, vice president, iCarnegie Inc. said during the conference, "We are not offering any kind of degree to the Indian students. iCarnegie is only giving certification for this course. The Indian students we have taught over the years have been some of the most motivated and driven we have seen; they are particularly adept at using technology."