chennai indian institute of technology madras collaboration with a european union initiative has created opportunities for students to work in industry even before graduating and gain experience and training that can lead to preplacement opportunities the concept in technical education for developing countries called dual education the teede towards excellence in engineering curricula for dual education initiative is a european union and erasmus funded consortium of eminent universities in europe and asia that merges the classroom learning with industrial experiences on tuesday around 20 industry partners of this initiative attended a workshop held at iit madras campusiit madras is the topranked engineering institute in india as per nirf for last four years in a row and was also adjudged as the top innovative institution in the country in atal ranking of institutions on innovation achievements ariia 2019 launched by innovation cell of mhrd the institute has a responsibility not only to remain in the forefront but also to innovate it is good to have industry come on board early in the curriculum helping students become more industryready by the time they graduate said prof ravindra gettu dean industrial consultancy and sponsored research iit madras the partners of this teede consortium are eminent universities in russia italy germany cambodia india china finland belgium and spainunlike internships which are shortterm teede envisages students spending considerable amount of time employed in industry as fulltime workers rather than interns as part of their curriculuma release from iit madras said the institution has already developed two industry collaborations under this initiative in genomics research coordinated by department of biotechnology iit madras and in petroleum engineering coordinated by department of ocean engineering iit madras the masters students from these departments will have the opportunity to work in companies engaged in cuttingedge research in these two fields genomics and petroleum engineering