CHENNAI: Hindustan Institute of Engineering Technology (HIET) has tied up with the Volkswagen group for a part-time training course for students of Diploma in Automobile Engineering. As part of the inauguration of the course, Volkswagen dealers from Chennai, together, handed over a Jetta to HIET for the students’ project study.A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed in June last year.The course, Volkswagen Group-Technik Ausbidungs Programme (VG-TAP), is of 32-week duration and would be imparted to students by two certified instructors of HIET, who had already been trained in this project for three days at Pune. Elizabeth Verghese, chairperson, Hindustan Group of Institutions (HGI), said, “TN is becoming the hub of automobile giants and it is the responsibility and task of the management to make sure each student is employed with a good organisation like Volkswagen.” She added that training should be provided in such a manner that students are exposed to globalised education. Dietmar Hidebrandt, Director, Group Service, Volkswagen, said, “We require a huge number of excelled trained technicians for the workshops of companies such as Volkswagen, Audi and Skoda as a group. Having 203 dealers all over India by 2012, we expect to have 400 dealers in another five years. The Jetta was handed over to the students for them to study the sophisticated technology used.” All the 15 students selected would be placed in any of the dealership showrooms of Volkswagen within and outside the State and in abroad as well.
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