Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur
(IIT-K) have jointly established a world-class educational and research
ecosystem for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) at the
IIT-K campus.
This National Hub has come up as part of a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU), which was signed between the two reputed organisations in
November 2015.
The primary aim of the MoU was to foster cutting edge
research on ICME-based materials and technology of national importance,
strengthening research in related topics, training professionals through
different training methodologies and undertake research projects, besides
developing open source tools for facilitating development of materials and
teaching solutions.
At the same time, academic and industry collaborations would
be a key focus area for this HUB.
IIT Madras, IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay, Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO), National Metallurgical Laboratory, Georgia
Tech and Purdue are some of the better known academic institutions and national
labs, which the Hub would be collaborating with.
ICME is an emerging discipline with large potential in
materials development by integrating different disciplines to cut on time and
cost required in development and manufacturing.
ICME-based solutions have potential in government sectors as
well such as defense, atomic energy and railways, besides public and private
industries working in the area of steel, aluminium and automotive.
The National Hub will work on providing ICME-based solutions
for all these sectors.
Meanwhile, the focus areas for research in near future
comprise structural materials viz. high strength steel and aluminium,
composites, engineering polymers and additive manufacturing.
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