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Surappa said that there was a need for increased contribution from women in engineering fields, particularly mechanical engineering. more-inStating that women had potential to become leaders in diverse engineering fields, Anna University Vice-Chancellor M.K. He said that technological advancement had enabled a lot of engineering work, involving design and other aspects, to be done indoors with the help of computers. The sensitisation programme, ‘Women in Engineering Mechanical (Win-Mech)’ has been launched jointly by the Centre for University - Industry Collaboration (CUIC) in Anna University and Renault Nissan Technology and Business Centre India (RNTBCI). T.
Thyagarajan, Director, CUIC, said that the idea was to increase the abysmally low enrolment of girl students for engineering courses in different mechanical streams..