Wipro launches resource guides for engineering faculty

BANGALORE: Mission10X, a not-for-profit trust created by Wipro Ltd, today launched two resource guides that it said would help the faculty of engineering colleges to create resource guides in their respective areas of expertise.

The sample guides for fluid mechanics and microprocessor would facilitate the delivery of sessions to the learners in a planned and effective manner, people spearheading Mission10X told a press conference here. The prime objective of Mission10X, launched in Septemeber last year, is to empower faculty members of engineering colleges to help students imbibe higher understanding of a subject and at the same time develop key behavioural skills that would lead to higher employability, officials said.

Mission10X programme involves a layered set of capability building workshops to help engineering faculty nurture talent pool and it has covered five states till date. "It will be launched in a phased manner across the country", said Pratik Kumar, Executive Vice-President - Human Resources, Wipro Ltd. "The aim is to cover 10,000 faculty by the year 2010".

Meanwhile, Mission10X announced constitution of its advisory board with the joining of three senior academics. They are: Prof Chidananda Gowda, former Vice-Chancellor Kuvempu University, Prof. A S Kolaskar, former Vice-Chancellor of Pune University and Prof. R Natarajan, former chairman of AICTE and former Director of IIT Chennai.

Mission10X is involved in multi-dimensional activities such as training, portal development and asset building, officials said.