IIT Roorkee, Ansys Teams For Edu Ministry's CBDE Programme

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has partnered with Ansys Software, an engineering simulation software company, to empower its students towards entrepreneurship through the Capacity Building on Design and Entrepreneurship (CBDE) programme, launched by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. This initiative aims to foster design thinking and entrepreneurship culture at Indian Higher Educational Institutes.

Under this CBDE programme, Ansys has committed to offer top-up fellowships, preferably to female MTech students for promoting social entrepreneurship. This initiative will enable the students to develop technology-based solutions for societal challenges. This kind of collaborative efforts empower higher education institutions to promote design and entrepreneurship development within their institutions.

As part of this initiative, the institute recently hosted a lecture under its corporate lecture series, titled Physics-based Simulation in Research and Education: Current Practices and Key Initiatives, delivered by Dr Dipankar Choudhury, Ansys Fellow and Academic Programme Lead at Ansys. The lecture focussed on leveraging emerging technologies in Digital Twins, High-Performance Computing, Machine Learning, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Structural Mechanics, Computational Electromagnetics and Photonics/Optics as well as current and emerging technologies.