As part of the University of Pittsburgh’s newly established “Engineering and Business Collaborations in India” programme, nine students from the Swanson School of Engineering and Joseph M Katz Graduate School of Business will be in Bangalore from May 4 to 17 to get acquainted with their Indian colleagues—and competitors.

Led by Pitt’s Bopaya Bidanda, department chair and Ernest E Roth professor of industrial engineering in the Swanson School and G G Hegde, an associate professor of business administration in the Katz School, the student team will explore the industries and the schools fuelling India’s expanding economy, a market that American students will inevitably work with or compete against upon entering the job market.

Daily operations

The course is organised in collaboration with the R V College of Engineering in Bangalore with support from Pitt’s International Business Center in the Katz School. Pitt students will delve into the daily operations of companies from a software developer to an aircraft manufacturing plant to a coffee plantation.

The group will visit Indian-owned businesses—such as Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Asia’s largest aerospace company—and such American-owned operations in Bangalore as those of Pittsburgh-area companies—Kennametal, a metalworking corporation and technology firm iGATE Corporation.