Schneider Electric to set up 'Centre of Excellence' at MSRIT, Bangalore

Signs MoU with MSRIT for University Partnership

The Bangalore based M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT), run by the Gokula foundation, which offers several courses in engineering, and the global electrical major Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, have joined hands to promote “technical excellence” in the field of electrical, electronics, software and control engineering. The two have signed a MoU today covering “University partnership for curriculum development”. Through this program MSRIT with technical inputs from Schneider has deployed two courses, namely “Advanced Industrial Automation and Modern Controls” and “Energy Management”.

Schneider and MSRIT feel that this will go a long way in developing young engineers who could be productive from day one as they will have enough “hands on” experience when they leave college. The MOU was signed by Mr. Daniel Gheno, VP-Engineering for Schneider Electric and Dr. K. Rajanikanth, Principal, MSRIT at Schneider’s R&D facility today.

Apart from providing technical knowledge, Schneider will be setting up a modern lab with the state of the art electrical and electronic equipment with associated softwares, covering industrial automation, control systems and power monitoring.  These Schneider manufactured equipments will be given free of cost to MSRIT. The institute on its part will provide the infrastructure and other associated equipment to set up the “Schneider Centre of Excellence” in its campus.

Said Dr. K. Rajanikanth, Principal, MSRIT, “It is a great pleasure for us to be associated with Schneider on this University Partnership. It is also a major step forward in the industry- academia partnership which would be beneficial to both industry as well the student community.”

“The faculty from MSRIT underwent week long training at Schneider’s R&D facility at Bangalore.  This agreement is timed to last three years, thereby ensuring active participation between industry and academia.” added Dr. Rajanikanth.

MSRIT was founded in 1962 by Mr. M.S. Ramaiah. MSRIT was the first institute started by the Gokula Education Foundation. Since then, MSRIT has increased in size and stature, and now offers a wide variety of courses like B. E. in 12 areas, B.Arch., M. Tech. in 8 areas, M.Sc (Engg) by research, MCA, MBA & Ph.D. MSRIT was originally affiliated to Mysore University and later with the Bangalore University (until 2002).

MSRIT is now affiliated to Visveswaraiah Technological University (VTU), Belgaum. MSRIT is an institutional member of the ISTE and is recognized by the AICTE. It has been certified ISO 9001:2000 and has been accredited by NBA. MSRIT is one the institutes to be funded under TEQIP (Technical Education Quality Improvement Program) by World Bank.

From Aug 2007, MSRIT has been academically autonomous. While VTU will still award the degrees, MSRIT is free to set it own syllabus and conduct evaluation.

MSRIT is one of the few institutes with faculty – student ratio of 1:15 and achieves excellent academic results as indicated by the significant number of VTU ranks bagged every year.

The distinguishing feature of MSRIT is its state-of-the-art laboratories; the computer centers of all the departments have latest hardware & software.