Nissan confers scholarship on two IIT-M students

Chennai:

Nissan and Indian Insititute of Technology, Madras on Tuesday awarded two IITM students with Nissan Global Foundation Scholarship.

The two students – Naveen Nikamath and Siddarth Dialini were selected by the joint committee of Nissan Global Foundation and IIT Madras (IITM).

Dr K Ramamurthy, dean, academics, IITM said that two students from IIT Madras are selected every year to attend the scholarship. The scholarship consists of Rs 80,000 as financial aid besides a sponsored trip to Nissan factory in Japan.

The scholarship was handed over to the students by Hiroki Sasaki, vice-president, research and advanced engineering Renault Nissan Technology and Business Centre India (RNTBCI) and Hiraoki Hirata, general manager, Nissan Motors L:imited, Japan.

Nissan is engaged collaborative research projects with IIT Madras in frontier areas of automobile technology. It runs the ‘Nissan Support Programme’ to encourage research and development projects at IITM in the areas of engineering, science, management, humanities and social sciences. A maximum of five projects are chosen for funding every year from proposals received from the faculty of IITM, Dr K Ramamurthy said.