IIT Ropar Establishes CPS Lab At VVCE

Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering (VVCE), Mysuru and IIT Ropar signed an MoU on February 24, 2026 to create an Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub (AWaDH) Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Laboratory at VVCE, funded at ₹25 lakh under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). The lab, IIT Ropar's first collaboration in Karnataka, will sit in VVCE's Civil Engineering department and support IoT, AI, robotics, data analytics, sponsored research, and start-up incubation coordinated by Dr. Shilpa B. S.