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Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering (VVCE), Mysuru has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, to found an Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub (AWaDH) Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Laboratory astatine VVCE. The task costs ₹25 lakh. Significantly, this inaugural marks IIT Ropar’s archetypal collaboration successful Karnataka, expanding its nationalist outreach successful precocious probe and innovation.
The projected laboratory volition beryllium supported nether the National Mission connected Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), a flagship inaugural of the Government of India aimed astatine promoting cutting-edge probe and exertion improvement successful cyber-physical systems with absorption connected areas similar astute agriculture, h2o assets management, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, robotics, and information analytics.
The MoU was signed successful the beingness of Prof. Rajeev Ahuja, Director, IIT Ropar; Dr. B. Sadashive Gowda, Principal, VVCE; Prof. M. K. Surappa, advisor to VVCE, who is erstwhile manager of IIT Ropar; and Dr. Pushpendra P. Singh, Project Director, IIT Ropar Technology Innovation Foundation (TIF), according to a property release.
Prof. Ahuja expressed happiness successful collaborating with an instauration located successful a Tier-II metropolis similar Mysuru, wherever determination is important scope and existent request for the exertion of AWaDH technologies.
Dr. B. Sadashive Gowda expressed his happiness successful VVCE being chosen arsenic IIT Ropar’s archetypal spouse instauration successful Karnataka. He said that the AWaDH CPS Lab volition beryllium established nether the Department of Civil Engineering, enhancing hands-on learning, sponsored probe initiatives, consultancy activities, and start-up incubation efforts. Dr. Shilpa B. S., Associate Professor successful the Department of Civil Engineering astatine VVCE, volition coordinate the activities of the AWaDH CPS Lab.
