pune engineering graduates aspiring to a career in industryspecific research now have a unique avenue to pursue their dreams in the city a collaborative engineering research centre focusing on research problems faced by the industry was commissioned at the citybased vishwakarma institute of technology vit on monday the centre has been established as part of the vits tripartite engagement with the state university of new york suny binghamton us and tech firm anveshak students enrolling for a masters programme or phd studies at the vit will be offered research opportunities at the new centre which was inaugurated by prof bahgat sammakai vicepresident research and prof k srihari dean watson school of engineering and applied science at suny binghamton hemant abhyankar vicepresident vit group of institutions and anveshak ceo sandeep tonapi were present a consortium of industry partners will define the industryspecific research problems with advice coming from the academic faculty of suny binghamton as well as vit the results of the research will be shared and reviewed by the consortium members on a quarterly basis said tonapi while speaking to toi on monday to begin with the centre has identified issues like cloud computing and manufacturing execution systems which aim at integrating information technology with the manufacturing systems at industrial plants along the lines of such integration successfully done with the banking operations for collaborative research said tonapi he said the centre has already engaged one industry partner in the form of a citybased it firm and is engaged in discussions with other indian and multinational companies vit has provided dedicated infrastructure faculty and students for the research centre while suny binghamton will provide seed funding faculty and technical expertise anveshak will provide its technical and administrative expertise while the industry partners will provide funds as well as research topics said tonapi