Up the value chain

You can’t walk through a software company in India without hearing those four words. Now comes further evidence that India won’t be content to do routine work for the rest of the world. IIT Madras is establishing a “centre of excellence in engineering design with a science-meets-aesthetics curriculum,” The Hindu reports. The center “aims to develop engineers with a multidisciplinary background as well as an aesthetic approach to design development.” Or in the words of one IIT professor, it hopes to create engineers with a “right brain-left brain balance.”

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