The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : VTU programmes may be telecast in Germany

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VTU programmes may be telecast in Germany

Special Correspondent

30 professors from Germany are on a visit to Bangalore

BANGALORE: German universities and technology schools may be the first outside India to benefit from Visvesvaraya Technological University's technology related courses beamed through EDUSAT.

VTU Vice-Chancellor K. Balaveera Reddy suggested this here on Saturday, while interacting with a German delegation led by the Governor of North Rhine West Phalia, Dieter Patt.

A group of 30 German Professors from different universities and technology companies is currently visiting Bangalore to study the successful transnational entity, Indo-German Institute of Technology (IGIT), based here. This is a four-year-old collaborative venture between VTU, the German company Diamant Metall Plastic and its Indian arm here.

Mr. Patt said the university of West-Phalia, one of the oldest and largest in the region, could benefit from the technology lessons beamed by EDUSAT among the few such in the world. Prof. Reddy agreed this could be possible through German satellites and the channels from the Indian satellites if both the Governments could work out a suitable arrangement.

About IGIT's collaboration with the German industry, Prof. Reddy said the joint research related to precision moulding technology and study of advanced industrial school and lubricant one outcome was the development of a "Tribo-Metre" to measure the efficiency of lubricant, the first to be developed within India. A natural follow-up could be a related PG-course again a first for VTU.

Achim Sculz Managing Director of Diamant, said the possible satellite link between the Rhine and Bangalore could be an example of how important technology education was as an investment in the future. It was also an indication of German industry steadily shifting its focus from China towards India.

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