indore devi ahilya vishwavidyalayas davv institute of engineering and technology iet is now planning to provide consultancy to automobile manufacturing industries university teaching department utd of the varsity has acquired two machines for the engine testing and material strength testing which will be beneficial not only for students of the institutes but also for automobile manufacturing companiespolarascope and engine testing rig are the two machines that we have bought these two machines are not present with any institute or industry in madhya pradesh and this will be extremely beneficial for research work for postgraduate and phd students said director of institute of engineering and technology iet dr sanjiv tokekarstudents of masters of mechanical engineering and students who are pursuing phd in mechanical engineering will be taught about these machines and will also be able to do their research work with help of these machines from new academic session he addedcost of engine testing rig which will be used to test performance speed fuel consumption and other engine related things is of rs 65 lakh whereas polarascope which is of rs 30 lakh will be useful to do strength testingthe department is also planning to send our proposal to various automobile manufacturing companies such as eicher volvo maan so as to provide them consultancy as we will be able to do engine testing however the consultancy will be done by the faculty and it will not include students the consultancy will generate funds and as per consultancy policy of the varsity a certain percentage of the funds will be given to the varsity head of the mechanical engineering department dr ashesh tiwari told toi