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PALS hopes to become a centre of excellence

N Ramakrishnan Chennai | Updated on October 29, 2019 | Published on October 30, 2019 PALS, an educational initiative by pan-IIT alumni that is now in the seventh year, hopes to become like a centre of excellence that will create workflow and processes for similar such projects across the country. Mohan Narayanan, Chairman, PALS, says the programme launched in 2012 by IIT alumni to help improve standards of education by targeting both students and teachers can be replicated in other places where there is a strong institute-industry linkage to make a similar impact. It started off with six institutions in 2012 and now covers 32 engineering colleges in Chennai, Tiruchi, Coimbatore and Madurai. PALS, which earlier stood for Pan-IIT Alumni Leadership Series, has impacted more than 28,000 students and over 2,250 faculty members since its inception, according to him. In 2018-19 alone, it impacted more than 13,100 students and 1,250 faculty members. PALS has also tied up with more than 50 companies for eld visits. Narayanan, who has a Master’s in electrical engineering from IITMadras, says the need for a nishing-school kind of arrangement for engineering students where the IIT alumni could contribute was felt because of the gaps that were noticed when these graduates went for jobs, especially in the software industry. A few IIT alumni got together to see if they could help in bridging this gap, using the infrastructure  10/30/2019 PALS hopes to become a centre of excellence – The Hindu BusinessLine https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/education/pals-hopes-to-become-a-centre-of-excellence/article29825453.ece# 4/7 Published on…

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