Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) the two premier organizations have joined hands to establish the HAL-IISc Skill development centre where in high end skills related to Aerospace domain and manufacturing relates sectors will be imparted. This is a very appropriate activity synchronous with the Atmanirbhar program.
During 2016 IISc approached HAL to partner in this unique project. Considering the shared aims of social good HAL accepted and funded this as a CSR project. The MoU for establishing this unique HAL-IISc Skill Development Centre was signed on 28th March 2016. The construction of the centre was started on 27th October 2016. The total project outlay is Rs. 73.7crores. This covers the civil works for the buildings and laboratory equipment.
The centre will have the training centre of about 75,000 sq ft. with modern labs, class rooms and an auditorium to seat 250 members. There is facility to provide residential accommodation to about 250 trainees and faculty. The centre once fully functional will train about 1000 trainees yearly. The focus is to train the trainers who can in turn train more trainees thus leveraging the multiplier effect. Three areas for training have been selected by the Joint HAL-IISc technical committee. For the immediate future, the selected areas are Composite materials, Sensors and IoT, Manufacturing systems.
The beneficiaries of these program will be experienced engineers, supervisors and faculty members of various technical institutes. The trainings will cover both skill upgradation and also new skills. Another unique feature of the training programs is that more than 50% of the course duration will be devoted to learning by doing laboratory experiments. The faculty for the courses will be selected from IISc and other leading organizations including HAL.
HAL-IISc Skill Development Centre (SDC) has initiated the training activities with five planned courses to be offered in the first cohort in the virtual mode during the period Dec 2020 to Feb 2021. The first program, Workshop on IoT and embedded applications, to be Inaugurated on Monday 7th Dec 2020 by the Shri Alok Verma, Director (HR), HAL Bangalore, in the presence of Shri Ch. Venkateswara Rao, GM (HR-CSR &FM), HAL Bangalore and Prof. S K Satheesh, Dean (Planning & Infrastructure), IISc.
The SDC programs are being offered are in the niche engineering areas of Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronic sectors, in line with the ‘Make in India’ mission. This initiative has brough together two finest organizations of India, a Navaratna Status Public Sector Company (HAL) and a central funded Institution of Eminence (IISc) have joined hands and embarked on the path to provide skill upgradation and development in these important areas.