VELLORE: Danfoss India, a leading provider of climate and energy solutions has signed an agreement with VIT to set up an Advanced Drives Laboratory that will provide electric drives for the academic benefit of undergraduate and postgraduate students at VIT. This agreement aims to spur innovative thinking at the college level.
Ravichandran Purushothaman, President, Danfoss India said, power electronics and drives are an essential part of modern industrial and HVAC(heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) applications. To meet the challenges faced by industries, it was necessary to build engineers with industry relevant knowledge, skills and competencies in electric drives.
“Hence we have decided to set up Advanced Drives Laboratory in VIT to help students get hands-on learning,” he said. The Advanced Drives Laboratory will house electric drives such as induction motor, permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) and synchronous reluctance motor drives. It will open doors to PhD research and joint research projects and other funding opportunities.
Students from streams such as electrical and electronics engineering, power electronics and drives, communication engineering, power systems, will benefit as the lab facilities will be a part of their curriculum. The agreement also offers talented students internships at Danfoss to gain experience in an engineering environment. Technical sessions and programmes will also be conducted as part of this agreement.
VIT Chancellor G Viswanathan said, “the Advanced Drives Laboratory is a form of a curriculum-based learning that will enable them to be industry-ready”.