380 students graduate during IIITDM Kancheepuram’s 10th convocation
India Today
India’s higher education system has created the best company executives globally, with also 25 percent of all start-ups in Silicon Valley being managed by people of Indian origin: Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister Finance.
A total of 380 students graduated during the tenth convocation of Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Kancheepuram (IIITDM Kancheepuram), a Central Government ‘Institute of National Importance’ located near Chennai, Tamil Nadu. This includes six PhDs, 53 M Techs, 110 Dual Degrees and 211 B Tech degree recipients.
The Institute was established with a unique mandate of excelling in IT and IT-enabled design and manufacturing pedagogy and research. In line with the same, IIITDM Kancheepuram offers unique design-centric engineering programs with specialisations in mechanical, electronics and computer engineering. Towards meeting industry demands, the Institute also launched B Tech and M Tech level programmes in ‘Smart Manufacturing.’
The convocation was held in physical mode today (September 10,2022) in the presence of chief guest Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Government of India, Professor S. Sadagopan, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIITDM Kancheepuram, Professor DVLN Somayajulu, Director, IIITDM Kancheepuram, faculty, staff, students and parents.
The entire convocation can be viewed on the following link - https://youtu.be/fFyRDpxpbGM
Convocation Booklet can be viewed and downloaded from the following link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Mcy2AI6uWVBeC4D5MmKlt8xZb9bjLwC/view
Addressing the convocation, Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Government of India, said,
“I want to underline the fact it is India’s higher education which has contributed to the best of company executives. Globally, 58 top-notch company CEOs are Indian in origin and India-education and they are in 11 such companies that are multinational, whose collective revenue is over 1 trillion and 4 trillion in turnover".
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