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BANGALORE: The Belgaum-based Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian subsidiary of National Instruments Inc. The MoU incorporates the donation of the LabVIEW software worth over Rs. 9 crores to engineering colleges affiliated to the VTU. The university will ensure training of students and faculty in the software. The software is a programming environment developed for engineers and is said to be one of the key factors behind the success of Virtual Instrumentation Technology. According to the two partners, the agreement will provide engineering students unlimited access of LabVIEW. "Primarily, the students will get an opportunity to learn a software of industry standards and work with the technology used for measurement and automation worldwide, thus increasing their career prospects," an official of National Instruments said. LabVIEW, the official said, is a graphical language that is very easy to learn. "It will provide faculty members a tool to design audio/visual-rich demonstration of intricate concepts for better understanding. Students can also use the environment for assignments and experimentation; they can concentrate more on observation and analyses rather than data collection."
Central utility
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, K. Balaveera Reddy, said the university proposes to use the software as a central utility in its curriculum and make it available to all departments of the university. Efforts are also being made to generate curriculum resources so that faculty members can make better use of the available technology. Mr. Reddy said the VTU is one of the first universities to take the industry-institute interaction to a new level. "Such an understanding between industry and academia will be mutually beneficial for engineering colleges and to the company. It will generate skilled graduates, trained in the latest technologies, thus benefiting the region as well," he said. The Managing Director of National Instruments India, Jayaram Pillai, said there is a growing demand for engineers trained in computer-based instrumentation technology. "We have coordinated with several universities and engineering colleges to establish virtual instrumentation laboratories," he said.
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