July 31, 2017

News for the IET

Accreditation by Third Party Agencies Needs a Six-Pack Bodyedit

The New Indian Express

To build an integrity-driven model for accreditation, entities such as the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, European Consortium for Accreditation and the likes of ABET, IET, AACSB, EQUIS, etc, and private players such as Thomson Learning, have put in place a globally-accepted foolproof accreditation mechanism for government and non-governmental accreditation agencies.

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News for other PEI

India-born academician named dean of MIT’s engg schooledit

Business Standard

He was also recognised as the author with the highest number of publications in the 60-year history of the IEEE International SolidState Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the foremost global forum for presentation of advances in solidstate circuits and systems-on-a-chip.

IEEE
India-born Anantha Chandrakasan is new dean of MIT’s engineering schooledit

Mint

He is a recipient of several awards including the 2009 Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award, the 2013 IEEE Donald O Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits, an honorary doctorate from KU Leuven in 2016, and the UC Berkeley EE Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Digital transformation and IoT to up investment in IT operations management tools by 2020edit

ET CIO

The growth of digital business and the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to drive large investment in IT operations management (ITOM) through 2020, according to Gartner. A primary driver for organizations moving to ITOM open-source software (OSS) is lower cost of ownership.

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Internet of Things security is top-of-mind for consumers across the globeedit

Business Standard

IoT (Internet of Things) security is top-of-mind for consumers across the globe, according to new research from digital platform security provider Irdeto. The survey found that 90 per cent of consumers polled from six countries including India believe it is important that a connected device has security built into the product.

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IoT growth rate to accelerate after 2020: reportedit

Mint

Home automation is poised to become the next big thing in India with consumers increasingly opting for video door bells, voice-assisted technologies (like Alexa and Google Home), smart bulbs and surveillance systems.

Internet of Things

Industry News: Education

Skill Development is Key to Creating More Jobsedit

The Economic Times

At a breakfast session held by The Economic Times India Leadership Council, a peer group platform that brings together a group of senior business leaders representing a cross-section of industry verticals, Arvind Sahay of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), discussed the subject of livelihood enrichment. “The challenges are pretty big. In the next 10 years, India will need to provide 100 million jobs,” Sahay said.

Skill Development
Right to skill is what the country needsedit

The Financial Express

AR, VR, AI, etc, are emerging as areas where skills are needed. Do you have plans for such new-age challenges? Staying updated and skilled has never turned out to be insignificant. The challenge lies on the part of companies who have to upskill their employees. A recent study reports that up to 40°/o of the estimated 40 lakh IT workforce in India need re-skilling over the next five years to keep pace with automation.

Skill Development
How to create a new age engineer: As innovation gets reshaped, engineering education has to reflect the changeedit

The Financial Express

With the pace of technological innovation following the Moore’s law more than ever before, the demand for engineering skills is rising astronomically. The biggest trial will be the intense global connectivity that will pose a challenge to India for meeting cutting-edge engineering education levels. The good news is this will make sure that engineering education standards in India get pressured to meet global standards.

Engineering
Educating the engineer of the futureedit

The Financial Express

With The Pace of technological innovation following the Moore’s law more than ever before, the demand for engineering skills is rising astronomically. The biggest trial will be the intense global connectivity that will pose a challenge to India for meeting cutting-edge engineering education levels. The good news is this will make sure that engineering education standards in India get pressured to meet global standards.

Engineering

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Green energy sops may end in five yearsedit

ET Energy World

By Yogima Sharma

The government plans to gradually withdraw all the incentives for the renewable energy sector over the next five years, a move that may face stiff opposition from an industry that is to see significant growth in the coming years.

Renewable Energy
Renewables power in India: All you want to know in briefedit

The Financial Express

According to the report, India’s renewable energy demand is certainly set to increase from 3.7% in 2012 to 11-14%, thirty years hence, coal would still account for 42-50% of the country’s energy demand. Probably, the good news is that coal demand would hit its peak in 2037 and thereafter start declining, that is still a long way down for the country that is planning to surpass its Paris commitments.

Renewable Energy
A 100% ‘renewable’ worldedit

Deccan Chronicle

We all aspire to give our 100% to everything we do. We urge our children to give their 100% in their efforts in life. We motivate our staff to give their 100%. When we add all of this up, it seems that we are seekers of a 100% future. This is what scientists are seeking too a world which is 100% better than what it is now. And in the space of sustainability, a world that is powered with 100% renewable energy.

Renewable Energy
Unleash potential of green economyedit

The Hans India

India’s green bond market is currently pegged at about $3 billion, with the majority of it being allocated to renewable energy projects contributing directly towards achieving India’s NDCs.

Renewable Energy
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