Indian Navy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IIT-Delhi to improve the Quality of Life onboard Indian Naval Ships through design interventions.

 

 

As part of the MoU, IIT Delhi will collaborate with the Directorate of Naval Architecture (DNA) on the creation of a research and design centre.

 

 

Researchers at the Institute will study the safety, efficiency, and habitability of ongoing and future construction projects, and will also contribute to ship design. This may also be extended to the mercantile marine and any other Indian ethnicity-based habitability requirement.

 

 

 

The MoU was signed by the Indian Navy’s Asst Chief of Materiel (Dockyard & Refit), Rear Admiral Arvind Rawal and IIT Delhi Director Professor Rangan Banerjee.

 

 

On the occasion, Rear Admiral Rawal said that the initiative introduces a scientific, process-based approach to habitability-bringing in the disciplines of ergonomics, human factors, and design optimisation into naval architecture.

 

 

 

Professor Banerjee said in his address that the MoU will broaden IIT Delhi’s existing links with the Navy in underwater and electronics and postgraduate programmes in naval construction.