HP soln to power Mahendra Engineering College

BANGALORE, INDIA: Mahendra Engineering College announced that it had selected Hewlett-Packard (HP) to help power its Dspace Solution and ProCurve University initiative. Mahendra Engineering College is part of the Mahendra Educational Trust (MET) a well-known educational conglomerate in South India.

Mahendra Engineering College, over 13 years old, offers several basic Engineering/Applied Science UG programmes and PG Programmes, growing in strength from 180 students in 1995 to 2000 in 2005. The college is now affiliated to Anna University.

Given its exponential growth in recent years, the College took the initiative to opt for a digital repository solution from HP that can also double up as a digital library. This solution would meet the needs of storing the digital records of students, be it in the form of voice, text or images.

The repository could also house digitized courseware (such as NPTEL), project reports, e-books, workshop content, lab manuals, whitepapers and video lectures. All of these elements could potentially be enabled through web access, which basically means that a student can access this content from a remote location through the Internet.

HP’s Dspace Solutions Help Mahendra Engineering College Go Digital

Jointly developed by MET Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs, the DSpace software platform serves a variety of digital archiving needs for research and educational institutions worldwide:

·  Institutional Repositories (IRs)

·  Learning Object Repositories (LORs)

·  eTheses

·  Electronic Records Management (ERM)

·  Digital Preservation

·  Publishing

Ba. Mahendhiran, managing director, Mahendra Educational Trust said, “Mahendra Educational Trust (MET) is pleased to partner with HP, the world’s leading technology company, for the implementation of the Dspace solution. HP’s experts were ably supported in the implementation by HP Premium Partner, A-Team. This initiative is a major milestone in MET’s goal to become a completely digitally enabled organization that makes education accessible to students on the move, even in remote locations.”