Vaughn ties up with SNIST to launch aviation courses

BANGALORE: Keeping in view India's projected three million job opportunities in the civil aviation sector, New York-based Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology has tied up with Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology to launch a four-year programme in aviation.

It would offer courses in airline management, airport management and electronics engineering technology (avionics) and have been approved by the All India Council for Technical Education said Vaughn College Vice President Kalpana Jain here today.

"The courses were being launched at a time when Boeing plans to start operating its MRO facility in Nagpur in 2011, Lufthansa, KLM and such other airlines in India were also looking to open up jobs in maintenance, in this sector, she said.

"The programmes are designed to meet the needs of the growing aviation industry and to cater to the inherent technically advanced and sophisticated nature of key functions of the aviation sector."

Director of SNIST P Narasimha Reddy said the programme would also include an international internship with some of the leading international airlines and training by a faculty comprising both SNIST and from Vaughn College.

Students would study at the Hyderabad campus of SNIST but also had the option of later completing their course at the US campus of Vaughn. The courses starting from August would have batch of 60 each in three of the BS courses.