CIPET to design courses in plastic engineering

At a time when layoff fear seems to be prevalent across industries, the Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) is designing innovative courses in order to provide the right talent to the plastic industry. The institute, which runs graduate and post graduate programmes in plastics engineering at high learning centres like Ahmedabad, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai and Lucknow, is also trying its best to increase its intake capacity to meet industry requirements.

According to S K Nayak, director general, CIPET, the institute is set to design innovative courses in various disciplines of plastics engineering and technology like product design, plastics mould technology, plastics processing and testing & quality control. "The discipline-specific CIPET's courses are industry oriented with lot of practical exposure in an industry environment, which help industries in getting right type of human resources, who can be directly entrusted responsibility of supervising and managing the technical operations in the respective areas of tool room, product design centres, plastics processing or manufacturing, testing & quality control, maintenance, R&D, and application development," said Nayak.

To increase its intake capacity, CIPET is also developing specific centres as technology schools in different areas of plastics engineering and technology, including mould design & development, precision & CNC machining centre, plastics processing centres with capability to process high performance and specialty polymers.