A bi-weekly faculty development programme around next generation material and manufacturing was inaugurated at IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Heidekaju Tokoro, Dax Manager, MSc Hard Metal India Pvt Ltd, Mitsubishi Materials, was the chief guest at the event. Professor D Ravikumar, IIT Delhi, professor Inderdeep Singh, IIT Roorkee, professor Shravan Mu Erjee and Dr VK Saini, HOD mechanical engineer were also the guests.

The programme is sponsored by AICTE and organised by the mechanical engineering department of the institute. In the programme, experts from various engineering colleges across the country will give information about this to more than 50 teacher participants with their technical skills.

Tokoro also emphasised on the need to explore new materials in the future and addressed the students while highlighting the challenges of maintaining the overall quality of production while reducing production costs.

In the first week of the programme, professor Suresh Neel Kantan, professor Rajesh Prasad of IIT Delhi, will express their views on phase transformation in metallic systems. Apart from this, professor Sachin Maheshwari from Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology (NSIT) will talk about the ongoing research and requirement on advancement welding. Professor Arshad Noor Siddiqui from the Jamia Milia Islamia Institute will provide information to the students by expressing their views on friction stir welding. Professor Qasim Murtaza will talks about advanced machining.

In the second week of the programme, professor AK Sharma of IIT Roorkee, Dr Akshay Dwivedi and professor Jayant Jain of IIT Delhi will present their thoughts and research work on many technical aspects of manufacturing and materials. An industrial visit is also being arranged for the participants at the end of the programme, which will conclude on December 28. It will also organise a lecture on additive manufacturing by Swaroop Chand, director, Adroit Link Information Systems Private Limited.