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M. Somasekhar

Hyderabad, Dec. 19 Altair Engineering India, a product design and technology development company, is planning to set up a network of Centres of Excellence (CoEs) in engineering design in collaboration with leading Indian engineering institutes.

A subsidiary of the Michigan-based, $116-million turnover Altair Engineering, the company has tied up with the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) at Kurukshetra (Haryana) and Surat (Gujarat), according to Dr J.S. Rao, Chief Science Officer.

Efforts are on to forge relations with the NIT in Bhopal and the Engineering College of Osmania University, Hyderabad. Altair Engineering has set up a CoE in Kaula Lumpur with the University of Malaysia as well, Dr Rao told Business Line here.

The objective behind setting up these CoEs is to create a pool of trained students, who would be able to take up high end engineering design projects, which is emerging as the next big demand and opportunity for Indian engineers, especially from multinational corporations, Dr Rao said.

Altair Engineering would provide some part of the funding and engineering design tools, as also expertise at these centres. Plans are on to rope in the local industry to be part of the training and curricula design. About 30-50 students in each of the centres would be trained.

Altair Engineering, which has over 350 professionals at its India subsidiary based out of Bangalore, handles 20 per cent of its job in developing original design and research and development focussed on automotive and aerospace, while the rest is into analysis and outsourced work, said Dr Rao.

He is in Hyderabad chairing the three-day international conference on Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery (VETOMAC-IV).

Dr Rao, who is also the President of the Vibration Institute of India, said for Indian engineering services to continue to remain competitive in the global arena and attract MNC jobs, it had to take up value added engineering design. If not, developing countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and even Pakistan can pose serious competition.

Altair Engineering India at present has three divisions – software development, product design and consulting and product sales.

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