The Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (Diat), a deemed university, is contemplating starting three new courses – cyber security; material engineering for defence and radar and communication – from the next academic year.

“The syllabus on cyber security will be formulated with advice from foreign experts, DRDO and Asian School of Cyber Law from Pune. We are venturing into these new avenues as Diat is a recognised campus interview centre of recruitment and assessment centre of DRDO,” Diat Vice Chancellor, Lalit Patnaik, has said. Diat will also include in its existing disciplines, new emerging areas of nano technology applications in sensors for defence and civilian applications and in embedded systems, for medical, defence and civilian applications.