Understanding the Challenges of Automotive Industries in the Region and Exploring Opportunities of Joint Projects

Chitkara University NewGen-IEDC and TEC facilitated the participation of five faculty members from the university, Dr. K. D. Chattopadhyay, and Dr. Kulwinder Singh, Professor, Professors, Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Varun Chhabra, Dr. Prateek Srivastava (Associate Professors, CURIN), and Mr. Sagar Juneja in the one-day workshop on ‘Future Technologies in Automotive Domain for Sustainable Mobility’. The workshop was held on January 28, 2022 at Municipal Corporation Office, Sector 17, Chandigarh and it was jointly organized by the Chandigarh administration and the Technology Enabling Centre of the Panjab University, Chandigarh. In this workshop as many as 10 industries from automotive domain discussed about their problems and challenges. The audience comprised of faculty members and researchers from different universities, colleges and research institutions of the region.

In continuation, a session was organized at the university to discuss the challenges faced by the automotive industries and to identify the possibilities of collaborating with these industries for joint projects. In this interactive session faculty members shared their views and explored different possibilities of collaborating with automotive industries. The resources persons of the session were Dr. K. D. Chattopadhyay, Dr. Kulwinder Singh, Dr. Rajeev Kamal Sharma (Dean, Mechanical Engineering) and Mr. Sagar Juneja. Around 50 faculty members from the department of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechatronics took the advantage of the session. The objective of the session was to motivate the faculty members to connect with the industries in this region.