Engineering

Engineering Admissions in Gujarat, West Bengal and Goa through JEE Main

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The new JEE format for admission to Engineering courses in IITs, NIT, IIITs and other institutions is making inroads as more and more states accepting to participate in the examinations. The IIT JEE examination and AIEEE exam have been scrapped and replaced by a single JEE Main and JEE Advanced examinations. The reports says that Gujarat and Goa have already accepted to participate in JEE Main from the academic year 2014-15.

West Bengal also proposed to come under the purview JEE Main from the academic year 2015-16. Minister for Human Resource Development has informed that about 29 deemed universities have also accepted to take JEE Main exam scores for admission to engineering courses in their institutions.

BITS Pilani is not in favour of JEE examinations and has been on its way to conduct own examination as it is doing at present. Several other state are studying the pros and cons of accepting JEE Main and may come out with decisions soon or later this year.

VIT and ARAI to offer Research in Auto Engineering

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Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India’s reputed private university for Engineering education and Pune-based Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) have joined hands to start a doctoral degree programme. The programme is aimed at promoting world class research in automotive engineering and related disciplines.

As per the MoU between the organizations, engineering practitioners and the scholars can carry out their research work at VIT or ARAI. The location will depend on the research topic chosen by the candidate.

Candidates sponsored by industries also will be admitted to this programme. The research areas offered under this new programme are newer materials, alternate energy sources, power train, new manufacturing techniques, engine, emission control and Mechatronics.

The candidates admitted into doctoral programme would be jointly guided by the faculty at VIT University and senior Engineers of ARAI. Both the institutes are already offering joint B.Tech. and M.Tech programmes in Automotive Engineering.