A Case Study on Industry-Institute-Cooperation

Engineering institutes in India are growing at a very fast rate and offer industry-specific graduate and postgraduate programs. Many of them don’t offer doctoral programs and don’t undertake consultancy projects due to a shortage of high-performing faculty teams. However, the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (Southern Region), Chennai has grown since 1964 and offers short-term and long-term programs, curriculum development courses, preparing instructional packages, and offer consultancy projects to various international development agencies and Indian MSMEs and government companies. This case study gives two significant consultancy projects offered to the cement industry under the World Bank-assisted project and another to Auto Ancillary Component Manufacturing companies. This institute has well-developed faculty teams who can conduct training needs analyses, develop industry-specific outcome-based objectives, prepare training packages, conduct participative training programs, develop executives to establish training institutes and develop need-based training programs. This institute also offers training programs to engineering faculty members in planning and implementing various outcome-based executive development programs. Such courses will improve the performance of companies and improve GDP of the country. Due to this regional competitiveness will increase.