The certificate course will range from 3 to 6 months. So far, other institutes such as IIT Guwahati, MITS Gwalior and the Andhra University engage in technology for the development of drones, but GBU in UP is the first to introduce a dedicated center within the university.
The Gautam Buddha University (GBU) has become the first state-run institute in Uttar Pradesh to set up a center dedicated to and offer a certificate course on the topic from April this year.
Gautam Buddha University drone studies center: Details
The certificate course will range from 3 to 6 months. So far, other institutes such as IIT Guwahati, MITS Gwalior and the Andhra University engage in technology for the development of drones, but GBU in UP is the first to introduce a dedicated center within the university.
The Centre of Excellence in Drone Technology (CEDT) has been created to help make the country self-reliant in drone technology and boost research in the Delhi-NCR, said Dr Ravindra Kumar Sinha, vice-chancellor of GBU. For this, GBU has also signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) -- with Omnipresent Robot
Technologies and the National Skill Development Corporation-Instrumentation Automation Surveillance & Communication Sector Skill Council -- for research.
The university aims to develop drones for use in the environmental, industrial and civic fields among others. “This is the first such center in UP and will work in developing various kinds of drones to avail sky-space to be utilised for various government, industrial, civic and health bodies,” said Navaid Zafar Rizvi, convener of CEDT.
Around 29 students of GBU’s School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have enrolled for the programme that begins this April.
ICT students had already developed two quadcopter drones that can stay airborne for 14.3 minutes and fly at 300 kmph. Both the drones can be used for agriculture and traffic surveillance, and one them can also be employed to deliver smaller utilities like blood samples for medical use.
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