New Uni IT deal with India offers student benefits
[ UniNews Vol. 15, No. 18
2 - 16 October 2006 ]
University of Melbourne ICT students will have global opportunities for real world experience with a new agreement between the University and a major Indian IT company.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Innovation and Development), Professor Vijoleta Braach-Maksvytis, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on behalf of the University with Satyam Computer Services Ltd, a leading global consulting and information technology services company.
Victorian Minister for Information and Communication Technology, Marsha Thomson, attended the signing ceremony.
The new agreement provides for a number of University of Melbourne students to undertake a software development internship with Satyam each year. Satyam also expects to recruit as many as 20 software engineering graduates from Melbourne every year.
Satyam has a presence across six continents and development centres in the USA, the UK, the UAE, Canada, Hungary, Malaysia, Singapore, India, China, Japan, and Australia.
Students in the internship program will undergo a three-month training course in India and China before taking up placements on projects in Australia, or one of Satyam’s other 55 global locations.
Professor Braach-Maksvytis sees the Satyam partnership as a major coup for the University. “This formal collaboration with Satyam gives our students valuable opportunities for internships which will expose them to real-world problems in a commercial environment,” she says.
The new agreement provides opportunities for joint research projects and to invest in collaborative research on futuristic IT solutions such as grid computing.
Head of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Professor Rao Kotagiri, says that, in strengthening ties between the two organisations, the agreement with Satyam will foster the collaboration of research and contribute to the development of new undergraduate curriculum.
Professor Braach-Maksvytis says the University also looks forward to opportunities for ICT knowledge transfer through the agreement.
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