The National Institute of Design has set up a centre of PACE on its Ahmedabad campus.
The National Institute of Design (NID) has set up a centre of Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE) on its Ahmedabad campus.
The new centre at the institute is equipped with state-of-the-art computer based design software, hardware and other facilities that will further enhance NID's art and design programmes.
Talking about how the students of the institutes would be able to gain from the new centre, officiating director of the institute Akhil Succena said, "The new centre would provide technology and environment similar to one prevailing in the industries currently.
This means when the students pass out from here they would be ready for the industry. Moreover, the training programmes that would be given by companies like GM and Autodesk would benefit the students a great deal."
While the centre is more oriented towards programmes like transportation and automobile design and product design, it would also cater to the rest of the students of the institute.
Succena said, "While the department of transport design has been given priority in the new centre, students of other discipline would also be encouraged to utilise the new centre and the facilities."
PACE is a corporate alliance between GM, Autodesk, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens PLM software, EDS (an HP company) and Sun Microsystems. Talking about the visible outputs of the new centre, coordinator of the new centre K Mahesh said, "Design is a long process and it takes a long time to design a product. So, it will take another four to five years to see the real output of the new centre."
While PACE programme has already been joining hands with other engineering colleges in the country, NID is the first design institute in the country to join the PACE programme.
Ken Parkinson, vice-president of GM Design, Asia Pacific, said, "GM would need to recruit students of NID if it expands in India and the new centre would help the students of the institute be industry-ready by making them familiar with the tools of design that are used in the industry."
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