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In the first-ever such initiative to tap top brains, the IAF will now host as many as 57 IIT students for a two-month summer training stint in a bid to motivate them to become “air-warriors’’. Being a technology-intensive force with frontline fighter jets, radars and missiles, the IAF wants bright youngsters to joint its engineering ranks. And what better talent can it expect then the globally-recognised IITians, who constitute one of the biggest Indian exports to the US?
The IAF, in fact, even wants to attract IITians to join it as pilots. The idea is that with fighter jets getting more and more advanced, pilots should have more technical knowledge than merely having the skills to fly the sophisticated machines. “This special summer training drive from May 15 is being conducted as a step forward in our efforts to attract better quality talent from premier institutes,’’ said Wing Commander Ashim Kapoor. The 57 pre-final year IIT engineering students will be attached to IAF’s Base Repair Depots (BRDs) in Kanpur, Chandigarh, Nashik, Delhi and Pune, among others, with the force footing their entire travel, boarding and lodging expenses. The IITians, from streams ranging from electrical and mechanical to aerospace and computer engineering, will gain an insight into how the IAF maintains, repairs and upgrades different systems. The BRD in Kanpur, for instance, handles engines of Mirage-2000 s, MiG-23 s and MiG-27 s, while the one in Delhi services the different missiles and radars in the IAF’s inventory.
That’s not all. The Air Force Technical College (AFTC) has approached IIT Chennai with the aim to set up a full-fledged IIT-IAF Engineering College (IIEC) in Bangalore spread over a 310-acre campus. The AFTC, at present, takes qualified engineers from various disciplines and converts them into “aeronautical engineers’ ’ in the military arena. “AFTC trains around 150 engineers every year but we have a shortfall since IAF requires around 250 engineers per year,’’ said an officer.
(source: TimesOfIndia.Com)
The IAF, in fact, even wants to attract IITians to join it as pilots. The idea is that with fighter jets getting more and more advanced, pilots should have more technical knowledge than merely having the skills to fly the sophisticated machines. “This special summer training drive from May 15 is being conducted as a step forward in our efforts to attract better quality talent from premier institutes,’’ said Wing Commander Ashim Kapoor. The 57 pre-final year IIT engineering students will be attached to IAF’s Base Repair Depots (BRDs) in Kanpur, Chandigarh, Nashik, Delhi and Pune, among others, with the force footing their entire travel, boarding and lodging expenses. The IITians, from streams ranging from electrical and mechanical to aerospace and computer engineering, will gain an insight into how the IAF maintains, repairs and upgrades different systems. The BRD in Kanpur, for instance, handles engines of Mirage-2000 s, MiG-23 s and MiG-27 s, while the one in Delhi services the different missiles and radars in the IAF’s inventory.
That’s not all. The Air Force Technical College (AFTC) has approached IIT Chennai with the aim to set up a full-fledged IIT-IAF Engineering College (IIEC) in Bangalore spread over a 310-acre campus. The AFTC, at present, takes qualified engineers from various disciplines and converts them into “aeronautical engineers’ ’ in the military arena. “AFTC trains around 150 engineers every year but we have a shortfall since IAF requires around 250 engineers per year,’’ said an officer.
(source: TimesOfIndia.Com)
posted by Shaking Shenoy at 4/23/2006 11:45:00 PM
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