IIT Roorkee partners with Ansys Software for Capacity Building on Design and Entrepreneurship programme

NEW DELHI: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), has partnered with Ansys Software Private Limited a leading engineering simulation software company, to empower its students through the Capacity Building on Design and Entrepreneurship (CBDE) programme today, October 1. The programme aims to foster design thinking and entrepreneurship culture at Indian higher educational institutes.

The CBDE programme offers top-up fellowships, preferably to female MTech students to promote social entrepreneurship. The programme will enable students to develop technology-based solutions for societal challenges.

The collaboration empowers higher education institutions to promote design and entrepreneurship development within their institutions, the IIT Roorkee statement said.

The director of IIT Roorkee, KK Pant highlighted the importance of the Ansys fellowship and said: “These fellowships together with the supportive environment and resources available on campus will inspire our students, especially our female students, to contribute towards technology-driven solutions for societal advancement and thus fulfilling the objectives of Viksit Bharat 2047.”

IIT Roorkee, Ansys Software

The area vice president of India and Japan Ansys, Mike Yeager said: “Ansys provides the required educational resources to empower future engineers. The Ansys Academic Program is committed to lowering the barrier to adopting Ansys simulation for the students. It provides a hands-on simulation experience that bridges the skills gap in the engineering industry and prepares engineering students for complex technologies. We are proud to champion this initiative and look forward to the groundbreaking innovations the upcoming engineers will introduce.”

As part of this initiative, the institute recently hosted a lecture under its corporate lecture series, titled Physics-based Simulation in Research and Education: Current Practices and Key Initiatives, delivered by Dipankar Choudhury, Ansys fellow and academic programme lead at Ansys.

The lecture focused on leveraging emerging technologies in digital twins, high-performance computing, machine learning, computational fluid dynamics, computational structural mechanics, computational electromagnetics, photonics, and optics as well as current and emerging technologies, the IIT Roorkee statement adds.

Dipankar further said: “IIT Roorkee is a pacesetter in the research and technology development of fast- growing, critically important areas such as Electronics, Semiconductors, and Space Technology. The collaboration will mutually strengthen the academic programs in these areas at IIT Roorkee while helping fill the demand in the industry for trained engineers equipped with the latest knowledge and expertise.”