Jain Group of Institutions (JGI), one of India’s largest premier educational groups and Seer Akademi USA Inc. a global pioneer in engineering education and incubation, have entered into a JV agreement to form India’s most advanced electronics labs and incubation centers. The laboratory will be one of a kind, modeled after premier facilities like ITRI in Taiwan and IMEC in Belgium, but adapted to the needs of Indian academia and industry, Seer Akademi said in a release here today. With an initial investment of USD 15 million, the laboratory is likely to be India’s largest facility targeted at developing hands on skills in the area of electronics. There is a severe shortage of manpower in the field of electronics in the country at all levels. 2.8 million people are required by 2020 to meet the growing demand according to the Department of Electronics and Indian Semiconductor Association statistics. The laboratory will be operational in August next year and offer programmes in a broad range of Electronics & Computer Engineering disciplines such as VLSI, Embedded Systems, Telecommunications,Solar PV, Core Computer Science and Advanced Software Engineering/Information Technology. Many industry leading companies have come forward to work with the laboratory to build up the capabilities. Further, the laboratory will have an incubation facility targeting over a hundred incubations in the next few years,the release added. UNI
