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the ecosystem of ECSE. This focus engineering school. “The Mahindra
History. In 2014 Tech Mahindra
enables our students to develop
Group has a well-established
signed a tripartite technical coop-
eration agreement with the Ecole
trepreneurial skills for which French
quality engineering goods and
Centrale Superlac, Paris (estb. 1829), excellent design, innovation, and en- tradition of manufacturing high
one of France’s most respected engineers are known to be among the providing IT and ITES services.
Grand Ecoles “with a rich entrepre- best globally, at par with the best in This combined with the excellent
neurial tradition since the industrial America. In ECSE, the core subjects engineering education and research
revolution era” and “the cradle of of mechanical, civil, and electron- tradition of ECSE is certain to
top-level engineers and executives ics & communication engineering develop highly skilled research
who continue to constitute a major are supplemented with cutting edge scholars — we already have 150 Ph D
part of the industry leadership in technical education in computer students in our campus and expect
France” and the Jawaharlal Nehru science, electronics and computer to touch the 250 mark by 2025 — for
Technological University, Hyder- engineering, artificial intelligence, the Indian economy and industry.
abad. Four years later when Mahin- mechatronics, nano technology, bio- We have got off to an excellent
dra University was established, ECSE technology, computational biology start and I am very confident
(India) was integrated into it. Within and computation and mathematics. I that within ten years, MU which
a short period, it has acquired a am confident we are well on our way has been established as a multi-
national reputation for turning out to developing engineers with high- disciplinary research university as
high-quality graduates and research quality competence in core engineer- per the mandate of the National
scholars in engineering and applied ing theory and practice, supplement- Education Policy 2020 right from
sciences. ed with training in new emerging the start, will be a globally respected
Direct talk. “French education phi- technologies,” says Prof. Pal. and top-ranked higher educational
losophy is to develop engineers with Future plans. Unsurprisingly, Pal institution,” says Dr. Pal.
strong grounding in mathematics is optimistic about the future of Way to go, Prof!
and physics and this is reflected in MU and especially its Indo-French Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)

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