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Anna varsity gets SMT Development Centre

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CHENNAI: The first-ever Surface Mount Technology (SMT) Development Centre in a university in India was inaugurated at Anna University, Chennai, on Friday. The silicon chip assembling equipment, worth Rs. 5 crore, was sponsored by Flextronics, as part of its ongoing collaboration with the university.

Inaugurating the centre, P. Mannar Jawahar, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, Chennai, said that opening the centre was part of the university’s efforts to forge a closer relationship with industry. He congratulated the Department of Manufacturing Engineering for concluding the agreement, and bringing the laboratory to the university.

The importance given to IT and ECE in the current years was pushing other branches including manufacturing engineering towards innovation in novel technologies, research, and products, and this lab would facilitate this process, he said.

SMT is the technology used to mount the hardware on top of the Printed Circuit Boards in cellphones and other digital equipment. Since the technology was new to the faculty themselves, the university had sent two of their faculty to Malaysia for training and consultations on curriculum preparation with the company, S. Gowri, head of Department, Manufacturing Engineering, said.

The company would also train technicians and provide support for the centre in the coming years, Prof. Gowri said.

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