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May 11, 2010

MoU Between PSG College Of Technology And Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc for joint Academic Program And Research

Visualisation of product data is a very important requirement in product development. PSG College of Technology with its excellent facilities and expertise on CAD/CAE /CAM/Virtual Reality and M/s Visual Collaboration Technologies, Michigan, Troy, USA, a company engaged in the development of Product visualization software (under the brand of VCollab) signed the MOU for joint academic program and research. VCollab solutions include large data handling, CAE data reduction, 3D visualization and Collaboration.

With this MOU, human resource with skills on the creation of Virtual environments and systems for product development will be created in the country. Such manpower is needed for several sectors of industry like aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, construction and healthcare. These technologies can reduce the cost of product development and improve innovations.

Department of Production engineering, Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Department of Mathematics and Computer Applications will be jointly working on the academic program and research in this area.

Dr. Rudramoorthy, Principal, PSG College of Technology, and Mr. Prasad Mandava, CEO, Visual Collaboration Technologies signed the MOU. Dr. R.K. Ramanathan, Consultant and Advisor, Visual Collaboration Technologies, Dr. K.Prakasan, HOD, Dept of Production Engineering, Dr. S N Sivanandam HOD, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the faculty of the departments were present on the occasion.