Imperial Society of Innovative Engineers (ISIE INDIA) organized a National Summit on Skill Based Education, co-organized by the Automotive Skill Development Council (ASDC), in association with SMEV, MG Motors India, Hero Electric, Ansys Inc and Speedways Electric.
The event envisioned to address the challenges concerning Electric Vehicles and the Sustainable employment of youth through deliberations on diverse issues and needs of Electric Vehicle Industries and Academia. An audience of approx. 25000+ engineering students & faculties from all over India attend the event.
The event started with an introduction of the program and felicitation of the guests. Mr. Vinod Gupta (Founder and President, ISIEINDIA) addressed and felicitated all the Dignitaries, Guests, and stalwarts present for the ceremony followed by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with MG Motors and ARK Info Solutions (Elite Partner of ANSYS Inc.
The opening ceremony of the summit was honored by Professor (Dr.) Anil D. Sahasrabudhe (Chairman, AICTE), Guest of Honour Mr. Nikunj Sanghi (Chairman, ASDC), Mr. Dhianu Das (Co-Founder, Agility Ventures), Mr. Sohinder Gill (Global CEO, Hero Electric), Mr. YashYadav (Chief Corporate Aairs Ocer, MG Motors India) and Mr. Shitalkumar Joshi (Technical Director, ANSYS Inc.) and the Special Guest Mr. ArindamLahiri (CEO, ASDC), Mr. Rishi Khemka (CEO, ARK Info Solutions Pvt Ltd.), Mr. Vineet Kuamr Singh (GM- Manufacturing, MG Motors India), Mr. Sumantra Barooah (Executive Editor, Autocar Professional), Mr. Deepangshu Dev Sarmah (Editor, Mobility Outlook) and Vice Chancellors form Various universities, Academicians and Students from all across India.
Prof. (Dr.) Anil D. Sahasrabudhe (Chairman, AICTE) and all Guests of Honour launched the Centre of Excellence in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles for Engineering Institutes by ISIEINDIA.
Dr. Sahasrabudhe talked about that History repeats itself that we all gone through the current scenario of Electric vehicles which if we look one it goes back to the 1830s. During his talk he discusses the challenges that we were facing in the early late ’90s in electric vehicles are; Battery, how much weight that an EV can carry, Charging Stations, cost of the vehicle, etc. In his addressing message, Dr. Sahasrabudhe mentioned top companies like Mahindra Tata Motors and General Motors who investing in the eld of electric vehicles, and Tesla comes as a big name in the eld of electric vehicles.
Dr. Sahasrabudhe in his message mentioned that industry working over providing internship opportunities in front of the all those student who are willing to work in the eld of the electric vehicle. According to him, not only bookish knowledge is sucient until and unless the student got some practical knowledge as well to get to know how this theory is applied practically which is also important, but he also mentioned ISIEINDIA is the leading platform that provides this opportunity in front of the enthusiastic student.
Mr. Arindam Lahiri congratulated Mr. Vinod Gupta for signing MOU with MG Motors India, ANSYS Inc. mentioning that ASDC is already engaged with academics and industry side in terms of vision for skills Manpower. In any automobile industry, we always talk about the supply chain. He said the supply of skilled persons which is very critical for the growth of the automotive industry and another industry.
The dignitaries from industry and academia shared their thoughts on electric vehicle domain, skill development and industry demands.
Mr. Yash Yadav, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, MG Motors India said “We MG Motors India are also one of the fastest start-up autonomous industry and as a noticeably young organization, ISIE is running skill development programs for youth, ISIE trains people with high skills development.”
Mr. Sohinder Gill, Global CEO, Hero Electric stated about the need of skilled manpower, said “Today there should be a platform, which creates a distinction within the students’ knowledge and Skill-based education to value-adding to the EV. Talking about battery, he said, in India we need to develop expertise about the cells, thermal management and other manufacturing aspects. We need to do something serious about the battery development, the future of EV power factor.”
Prof. Rana Singh, Vice Chancellor, Sanskriti University said “This is the time for us to create an ecosystem wherein we evolve a world-class curriculum that will be having the focus on blending skills engineering so that they can work on EV.”
Dr. Harsh Kumar Sadawarti, Vice Chancellor, CT University said “Demand of EV is rising at fast pace in India and the country needs skilled engineers and skilled manpower who will have a cross-sectional knowledge in the field of EV, ECE, ME to build a robust EV industry.”
Prof. Balvinder Shukla, Vice Chancellor at Amity University stated “when we look at the EV, skill development is extremely important. For employability and entrepreneurship development and especially in the electric vehicle, skill development is the one area where skill development is required which is the need of today, and developing their skill sets in that area is extremely important.
The Moderator of the event, Mr. Sumantra Barooah, summed up the session saying it’s great to see the strong interest in academia, skill development council on preparing India well to adapt to the opportunities in the emerging Electric mobility space. such events by ISIE and the eorts from the organizations like ASDC as well as renewed eorts from the academia site will go long way not only in reducing the skill gap but also enhancing the capability and competence of Indian Engineers and thereby helps the Indian Industries.The first day ceremony summed up with the vote of thanks to all the distinguish dignitaries, stalwarts, experts, academicians, industy partners and attendees.
The summit was planned for 4 long days to discuss and capacity building on various topics. Day 2 – “Rising need for change in course curriculum to match EV industry demand.” was started with a Key Note Speech by Mr. Abhimanyu Kumar Singh (Senior Technology Specialist, ANSYS Inc.) on the Industry trends, Trends in Electrication, ANSYS solutions for Electrication, Future skills, and learning Resources which are the rising need in the domain of electric vehicles.
Followed by Experts’ opinions and panel discussion from the Panelist, Mr. Arindam Lahiri (CEO, ASDC), Prof. (Dr.) Raj Singh (vice-chancellor, Jain University), Prof. (Dr.) Sibaram Khara (vice-chancellor, Sharda University), Dr. Ashwini Sharma (Dean – Engineering, Adamas university), Mr. Sumantra Barooah (Executive Editor, Autocar professional).
Dr. Raj Singh stated that if you look at electric vehicles and align with the EV requirements it should take care of the specializations so the Engineering Department and Universities decided to get an approach that is more comprehensive in terms of educating the students in EV. Dr. Sibaram Khara added that the Management and Infrastructure of EV are very important; we have to design a compact module so that students after graduation should get skills as well as knowledge in dierent domains.
Mr. Arindam Lahiri stated that people are required to have skills in hybrid and electric vehicles and other alternate energy fuel vehicles in the context of green energy. There should be such a curriculum with hands-on practices to make students industry-ready. Dr. Ashwani Sharma spoke about trouble and apprehension which should take care of while looking to change the course curriculum. He further said, EV is concerned cleaner environment but still there is some apprehension. This is about producing the workforce or the manpower to produce such kind of clean vehicles.
Day 3 on “What skills are required to the students to be industry-ready?” was honored by Mr. Rajendra Pandhare (Senior Manager, Product Engineering Department, MG Motors India) as the Keynote Speaker of the Summit. Along with him, pioneers from various Universities joined as a Panelist – Dr. V.K. Rattan (Vice-Chancellor, GNA University), Dr. Abhay Kumar (Vice-Chancellor, Pratap University), Dr. Rana Singh (Vice-Chancellor, Sanskriti University) & Dr. Vikas Dhawan (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, SGT University) and Moderator Mr. Deepangshu Dev Sarmah (Editor, Mobility Outlook)
A key Note Speech was given by Mr. Rajendra Pandhare (Senior Manager, Product Engineering Department, MG Motors India) on What skills are required to the students to be industry-ready with an agenda of the rst experience in the industry, automotive industry trends and development, challenges & opportunities and the EV industries.
Dr. V.K. Rattan talked about the new education policy in India by the government of India which is based on making the student learn skills-based education and so we have to promote this education so that the students learn the practical things and then they go to industry and should be industry-ready. The three things that should promote are a) Industry, b) Education, c) Government/Management. Dr. Abhay Kumar further stated that e-mobility is the future, in many countries the future has already arrived and the industry-academia happen together to bring about those skills inculcate & integrate those skills into the students, and so many topics and the subject is to be covered under particular EV engineering with hands-on training.
Dr. Rana Singh stated that the collaborative framework will help us in terms of evolving the outcome base curriculum which will enable the young students to focus on learning. Dr. Vikas Dhawan further adds that the EV required basic skills Knowledge of Mechanical and electrical engineering as well as AI, we should have the vision of driverless cars in the future and we should have the tie-up with industries.
Day 4 witnessed the discussion on “What infrastructural changes are required to skill the students in EV”, started with a Keynote Speech by Mr. Ashutosh Kumar (EV Design Engineer, ISIEINDIA) on the requirement of a collaborative program that will train the students with hands-on training and make them industry-ready as per the requirements. He also added dierent initiatives taken by ISIEINDIA such as programs to ensure the student’s skill development.
Followed by Experts Opinion from the Panellist Dr. Gopinath Chintala (Registrar, Centurion University of Technology and Management), Prof. (Dr.) Rajeev Upadhyay (Director, Hindustan College of Science & Technology), Dr. Suthanthira Vanitha N. (Dean – Quality Assurance, Muthayammal Engineering College), Dr. Shahnaj Ayub (Dean – Research & Development, Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology), Mr. Bikram Pal Singh (Deputy Dean – Training and Placement, Global Group of Institutes) & Dr. T. Manigandan (Principal, PA College of Engineering)
After the expert’s opinion, there was a panel discussion among the panelist on “What infrastructural changes are required to skill the students in EV” which was moderated by Dr. Ashwini Kumar Sharma (Dean – Engineering, Adamas University) Dr. Gopinath Chintala reminded us that we are the pioneer in this eld of skill-based education. We just need to implement skill-based learning in the infrastructure with hands-on training. With this Prof. (Dr.) Rajeev Upadhyay added that on the receiving end there are so many opportunities available with the aliated colleges so on this forum as an organizational eort is very good but in this electrical vehicle part how we can make this technology a disruptive technology which is a challenge.
Dr. Suthanthira Vanitha N talked about the initiatives by ISIEINDIA stating the signing of an MoU with the reputed industry for enhancing the collaborative activities to established COE to more than 100 institutions all over the India. Dr. Shahnaj Ayub said “it is a great initiative from ISIE to a new era which is in the align with the implementation of national education policy 2020”. In outcome-based education, the skill-based education or skill-based laboratory. The curriculum is more important and when we talk about the various levels of education or various levels of learning. ISIEINDIA is doing skill-based education and its eorts are completely aligned with this particular level.
Mr. Bikram Pal Singh puts his view on the relevance of skill-based education in the present scenario. It was a time when the Indian economy opened to outside the world through liberation and globalization since then it created a great demand for our individuals especially our students to acquire requisites skills as per the available employment job opportunity. So this is that time to make the education system make our upcoming generation future-ready and employment-oriented.
Dr. T. Manigandan further stated that implementing the skill-based education is very dicult unless you put more MoU and experts from industry purpose to come over to the institute that means the institute and industry partnership should be encouraged and because of this partnership only we can do a lot of things for the benet of the student and especially the EV technology.
The 4-day event helped ISIEINDIA in gathering thoughtful, iconoglastic doers from Automotive Industries and Academia for sustainable development in Electric Vehicles. It brought together the bright minds that were idea-focused on renewable energy innovation and utility and a wide range of awareness among youths and society to foster learning, inspiration, and productive result on E-Mobility.
The last day of the summit ended with knowledge and understanding about the need for change in infrastructure to make the students industry-ready with the required set of skills and with industry requirements.
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