December 15, 2017

News for the IET

India Providing Engineers to the Worldedit

Dharitri (Scanned clip attached in mail)

The IET is working towards revolutionising the old structure on engineering education to global standards

Prof. Richard MorlingThe IET
SRM Institute of Science and Technology attains IET International Accreditation.edit

Dinakural (Scanned clip attached in mail)

SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur campus secured the IET’s international accreditation for all of its four engineering courses.

AccreditationThe IET
Understanding Electronicsedit

The Statesman

The course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology on behalf of the Engineering Council. Interested candidates must have first class degree from a reputable university in electronic and electrical engineering, or any discipline involving significant mathematical competence, including physics, maths and other branches of engineering.

AccreditationInstitution of Engineering and Technology

News for other PEI

Your smartphone’s next trick? Fighting cybercrimeedit

Domain-B India

“I think most people assumed you would need 50 images to identify a smartphone camera. But our research shows that’s not the case,” says Ren, an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow and an ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Distinguished Scientist. To prevent forgeries, Ren designed a protocol -it is part of the authentication process described below which detects and stops two types of attacks.

IEEE
Bennett Univ Holds Data Science Conferenceedit

The Economic Times

Bennett University’s computer science and engineering (CSE) department held its first international conference on machine learning and data science at its Greater Noida campus that saw researchers and academicians deliberating on the new wave of technologies and their impact on the world of big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). The two-day conference was organised by the department in association with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. Bennett University has been set up by the Times Group, which publishes ET.

IEEE

Industry News: Information and Communications

The year set the stage for new tech and policy developments that augur well for startupsedit

YourStory

It is that time of the year again when lists are made, stock taken of the year about to go by (2017!) and lessons for the future are tabled.

2017 New technologies
71 percent Indian firms looking to deploy automation by 2020, finds new reportedit

Times Now

As firms’ appetite for the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) grows, 71 percent Indian organisations are looking at increased process automation as a key benefit which in turn is expected to spike spends on this technology over the next 18 months, a report said on Thursday.

Automation
The growing role of artificial intelligence in businessedit

Mint

AI is expected to drive worldwide revenues from nearly $8 billion in 2016 to more than $47 billion in 2020, across a broad range of industries

Artificial Intelligence

Industry News: Education

The real reason why 95% of Indian engineers can’t codeedit

The Economic Times

A few years ago, a McKinsey report said just a quarter of engineers in India were actually employable. Of late, some other studies put it at less than 20%. Recently, a survey by employability assessment firm Aspiring Minds said 95% of Indian engineers can’t code.

Engineering

Uncategorized

India to auction 5GW offshore wind projects in 2018edit

The Economic Times

Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh today said the government plans to auction 5 gigawatt (GW) offshore wind power capacities next year.

Renewable Energy
Efficient energy availability backbone of economyedit

PTI News

Availability of energy with efficiency is the backbone of India’s economic growth and development, President Ram Nath Kovind said today. He said that while India has succeeded in becoming a power surplus nation in the past three years, it cannot rest.

 

Renewable Energy
Govt plans to supply solar power to 40L farmers in 10 yrsedit

Times of India

Maharashtra energy minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to use solar energy not only for farmers but also schools. The BJP-Sena government has set a target to supply solar energy to about 40 lakh farmers for about 12 hours every day.

Solar Energy
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