Aviation India: Careers

Chennai: At the graduation day of the 100th Batch of Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Course of Hindustan Institute of Engineering Technology, K S Balasubramaniam, Director of Airworthiness, Director General of Civil Aviation, Chennai declared that for aircraft maintenance engineers sky is the limit and they are in great demand, following the unprecedented boom in the aviation industry.
In this graduation day where a record number of 50 aircraft maintenance engineers passed out, Balasubramaniam further declared that this demand was felt right across the globe and with the Indian aircraft maintenance engineers recognized for their technical capabilities, the whole globe was literally open for job opportunities, he opined.
HIET a flagship unit of the Hindustan Group of Institutions is approved by the Director General of Civil Aviation, Government of India, for conducting the Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Course and by the All India Council for Technical Education and the Govt. of Tamil Nadu for conducting Diploma Courses in Automobile, Mechanical and Computer Engineering Courses. HIET has trained engineers and technicians in many disciplines of engineering.
Various Governments including the Government of Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and the Commonwealth Secretariat and several aviation organizations have sponsored students to undergo courses at HIET. HIET has trained over 36,000 engineers and technicians, of which over 3,600 of them are in aviation and now working with various airlines and aviation industries in India and abroad.
09/02/08 Chennai Online