With the electric vehicle segment rapidly expanding, the National Institute of Technology – Karnataka (NIT-K) in Mangaluru will begin offering a two-year post-graduate programme (M. Tech.) in ‘Power Electronics and Control for Electric Vehicle’ — in hybrid mode — in October 2022. Initially, the course will be available only to Bosch professionals.
An agreement was signed on September 16 for the start of an industry-sponsored M. Tech. programme, according to Dattatraya N. Gaonkar, Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at NIT-K.
Regular classes will be held in the online mode from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. from Monday to Friday. But examinations will be conducted in the offline mode at NIT-K.
Maximum seats for students
Mr. Gaonkar said that Bosch will select its employees for the M.Tech. program and send their list to the NIT-K, which will screen them by conducting an interview or written test before admitting them to the course. The maximum intake is 40 students. “Bosch has sent a list of 27 of its professionals for the program,” he said.
“All other regulatory requirements will be applicable to them as per the regular fully residential post-graduate programs of NIT-K,” he said.
“The electric vehicle industry is growing rapidly. There is a huge demand for EV technical skill sets. Almost all automobile industries are focusing on manufacturing EVs,” he said.
According to Mr. Gaonkar, battery management in electric vehicles has emerged as an area that requires attention. As a result, NIT-K will provide a market-oriented programme with a strong theoretical foundation and laboratory experience. In collaboration with Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited, the programme was created.
