ITS Engineering College Inauguration of Centre of Excellence Greater Noida

LOKESH GOSWAMI

 I.T.S Engineering College, one of the Premier Institution in the field of Engineering and Management Education established a Centre of Excellence (COE) that was inaugurated by Honorable Chief Guest Dr. Shivakant Ojha, Cabinet Minister, Technical Education, Government of  U.P , today.The COE is a major industry-academia Centre made with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry working in different areas of technology achieving mission & vision of ITS Group. In COE, ITS Engg. College has already initiated under SOPAN with Syscom Morpho, Apple , Software Testing Lab with ITB(Indian Testing Board) and SALT, SMC, National Instruments and On this occasion, our Honorable Chief Guest Dr. Shivakant Ojha, Cabinet Minister, Technical Education, Government of  U.P was welcomed with a bouquet of flowers presented by Dr. R. P.  Chadda, Chairman, ITS Group. The inauguration of COE started with Ribbon Cutting and lighting of lamps by our Honorable Chief Guest Dr. Shivakant Ojha  followed by Dr. R. P. Chadda, Chairman, ITS Group, Mr. Sohil Chadda, Vice Chairman, ITS Group, Secretary Mr. Bhushan Arora and Dr. Vineet Kansal, Director, ITS Engineering college. A warm welcome speech by Mr. Surender Sood, Chief Administrator, ITSEC who apprised about various accomplishments of honorable chief Dr. Vineet Kansal, Director, ITS Engineering college welcomed our chief guest, renowned academicians and people from industry. Then he expressed how his thought changed into a action for development of Centre Of Excellence with the support of ITS group. He stated that in today’s time, to get placed in industry, students should possess additional abilities like Software development and skill development along with university prescribed curriculum in various technical fields, which can only be accomplished by industry academia connect through interdisciplinary approach. He mentioned about contributions of Mr. Vipul Kochar, Chairman, ITB for training students in software and application testing, Mr. Vikas Phoghat, GM, Syscom for training students in writing OS for Smartcards. Dr. Kansal further told that ITS Engineering College has already signed a MOU with Apple for training students in iOS for i-Phone and i-Pad. He also mentioned about Mr. R. Subramanium, Rockwell, Mr. Lalit Awasthi from SMC and Mr. Arpit Poarwal from National Instruments. He mentioned that ITS group continuously make efforts to  provide students  with latest information in their respective fields.After this, there were speeches by Corporate representatives who shared their views and appreciated Dr. Kansal and ITS group for creating such a initiative by creating Centre of Chief Guest Dr. Shiva Kant Ojha delivered a speech in which he appreciated efforts made by ITS group in right direction and talked about our education system and told that polytechnic syllabus is going to change to suit industry requirement shortly. He also told that Board of Studies will meet industry people after every 6 months to judge industry requirements and will make changes to the syllabus of B. Tech. accordingly.After the Speeches, memento were presented by Dr. Vineet Kansal, Director, ITS Engineering College to our Chief Guest Dr. Shiva Kant Ojha and Other company The ISTQB certificates and SALT certificates were awarded to the qualified trained students by hands of Hon’ble Dr. Shiva Kant Ojha.Finally, Dr. Gagandeep Arora, Dean Academics, I.T.S Engineering College extended vote of thanks to Chief Guest Dr. Shivakant, Honorable Cabinet Minister of U.P., various eminent academicians and Company Representatives for sparing their valuable time from their busy Schedule. He also thanked Dr. Kansal, HODs of various departments, faculty colleagues, Staff and other people for their continuous efforts to make this inauguration event a successful one.