Autodesk and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to enhance skills education for the generation of engineers, designers, and innovators for successful careers in the design and make economy. This partnership will consist of Autodesk’s industrial experiences while IIT Bombay possesses the education, research, and innovation domain knowledge. The aim is to skill the best talent and help build India by steering the nation’s technical and scientific future.
The MoU was signed by Autodesk Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Steve Blum, and Professor Ravindra Gudi, Dean of Alumni and Corporate Relations at IIT Bombay. This is part of Autodesk’s journey of preparing students for their future workplaces by providing appropriate skills. The Design and Make industries, which will employ 300 million people worldwide and will be worth $30 trillion worldwide by 2027, employs nearly 300 million people worldwide.
Autodesk is committed to broadening access to software and technology training to the future workforce of these industries by providing its software solutions across Infrastructure, construction, water, manufacturing, and entertainment for free to over 100 million students and educators across 160,000 educational institutions around the world.
About 5 million students learning in more than 14,500 secondary and post-secondary institutions across India practice using Autodesk’s software and learning how to prepare for projected competencies. Recently, students who participated in WorldSkills and IndiaSkills 2024, a skills competition in which over 900 candidates across the country demonstrated their performance in 61 competencies, trained on software from Autodesk, with which the company became a global partner of WorldSkills.
