Bengaluru July 23 (IANS) US-based Altair Engineering plans to open a design innovation centre in Karnataka s Hubballi town with a private university to benefit locals in using software tools and become industry ready said a top company official on Monday.
"Industry-academia tie-up to benefit students from technologies and tools making them industry ready " Altair India Managing Director Pavan Kumar told reporters here.
The centre will be housed in the sprawling KLE Technological University campus run by BJP s Rajya Sabha member Prabhakar Kore.
"The objective of the centre is to develop competency on commercial finite element analysis (FEA) software of Altair called Hyper-Works " said Kumar.
The centre which will help in providing skilled power to Altair customers worldwide will also provide the university s under-graduate and post-graduate students license to work on Altair technology.
"The Altair-KLE partnership will produce future ready engineers for the industry across the country " said Kumar.
Varsity Vice-Chancellor Ashok Shettar said collaboration with Altair would expose the students to technologies and tools and make them industry-ready.
"Collaboration with Altair will help us to expose our students to industry relevant technologies and tools making them industry-ready " he said.
The Troy-based Altair in Michigan state transforms design and decision making by applying simulation machine learning and optimization through product life cycles.
"Our portfolio of simulation technology and patented units-based software licensing model enable simulation-driven innovation for our customers " added Kumar.

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