The Institution has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Leader of Automotive Domain, Indian based Multinational corporation KPIT Technologies Ltd. Mr. Rajesh Chouta, Chairman, MITE, and Mr. K N S Acharya, Vice President – Global Head – Education and Competency Development, KPIT, signed the MoU on 5th July 2018 at the KPIT Technologies Ltd. Bangalore. As per the MoU, Final Year Engineering Students of ECE, ME will have Four months of practical Industry training at KPIT Campus on Automotive, Electronics Design, and Development. Post the training, the students will not just be certified by KPIT, but excelling students would be offered core engineering job opportunities. Also, as part of the MoU MITE Faculty will be trained on niche and latest technologies at KPIT Campus by Domain experts.
MITE in the elite 20 select Partner College
KPIT, every year conducts Annual National Design and Project competition ‘SPARKLE’ for the Engineering College Students, in which has teams of IIT’s, NIT’s and prestigious institutions participate. Students design and develop innovative solutions on the problems based on the specified themes by KPIT. Student Teams from MITE were successively shortlisted for the final rounds in all the previous years. In 2017, A Project Team won the Platinum Award with the cash prize of INR 10 Lakhs for the best project. Considering this consistent performance from the students, KPIT has selected MITE as one of the Partner college: One amongst the only 20 Colleges across the country selected as Partner college by KPIT.
“We are extremely selective about who our partners should be in this strategic initiative. MITE has demonstrated their value by their students winning in our Annual innovation contest “SPARKLE” thus making us note this institution”.
Mr. K N S Acharya, Global Head – Education and Competency Development, KPIT
About KPIT
KPIT Technologies Limited (formerly KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd) is an Indian multinational corporation headquartered in Pune, India. Popularly known as KPIT, with an employee strength of 12,000. KPIT provides IT Consulting and Product Engineering solutions and services to Automotive and Transportation, Consumer and Industrial Goods, Energy and Resources, Utilities, High Tech, and Life Sciences companies. In the automotive domain, the organization has created well-known solutions including REVOLO and India’s first ARAI-certified intelligent transportation system – On-bus ITS.
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