Automotive tech supplier Valeo sets up Center of Excellence at VIT Vellore

Valeo, the worldwide car technology supplier has set up a Center of Excellence (CoE) at Vellore Institute of Technology’s (VIT) Vellore campus. The trendy facility changed into inaugurated on Tuesday with the aid of Pierre Lebrun, Vice President, Group Electronics Expertise and Development Services, Valeo.

Jaji Vijayaraman, Mechanical R&D Director, Group Electronics Expertise and Development Services, Valeo India and Dr. Anand A. Samuel, Vice-Chancellor, Dr. S. Narayanan, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Dr. Vasudevan R, Dean, School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) were gifts on the event.

As part of its Industry Academia initiative, Valeo had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with VIT Vellore final year. As part of the MoU, Valeo has established this Center of Excellence with an intention to guide college students and research students in automobile research, especially within the regions of the strength educate, protection, energy electronics, and infotainment.

The 1,800 square ft facility showcases the products and technologies of Valeo in the regions of powertrain systems, thermal structures, visibility structures, and self-sustaining riding to offer publicity to the students at the contemporary and futuristic car enterprise tendencies. The Center may be used by studies pupils and college students for experimentation and testing in their initiatives and computational research.

Commenting on the Valeo Center of Excellence, Ashok Belani, Group President and Managing Director, Valeo India, stated, “Innovation is in Valeo’s DNA. Our targeted efforts and investments in studies and improvement have led us to turn out to be a leading international automobile technology player.”

In India, Valeo wants to tap into the large engineering talent pool for progressive ideas that could deal with the rising mobility wishes throughout the globe. Our groups are working closely with the students throughout the country to discover and nurture new thoughts to broaden achievable solutions to deal with industry-precise wishes.

Commenting on the tie-up with Valeo, Dr. Anand A. Samuel, Vice Chancellor, VIT, stated, “This is an exquisite initiative toward integrating University and Industry and will gain the scholars in information the enterprise procedures and they may get an possibility to paintings on stay troubles of industry and solve them. I am happy that this Center of Excellence at VIT will offer the scholars and research students experiential gaining knowledge of possibilities. I am assured that this exposure mixed with powerful mentoring from Valeo’s in-residence experts will help them to end up enterprise-geared up professionals, by the point they step out of the college.”

Valeo has initiated joint research projects on rising technologies in conjunction with VIT and the groups are running on 5 tasks currently. The corporation is also running carefully with the University to release a joint certification path on Mechatronics and an unique curriculum for the Master’s software.

The agency’s R&D division has recruited close to 60 engineers from Mechanical, Electronics & Communications, Electrical & Electronics, and Embedded Electronic streams and control graduates from VIT within the last 3–5 years.