June 7, 2018

News for the IET

SRM Institute of Science and Technology signs MoU with Kingston Universityedit

Vidhutalai

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SRM Institute of Science and Technology signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Kingston. The collaboration is a result of the long-term engagement that the IET provides to its Academic Partners in a bid to enhance the quality of their engineering programmes as well as pushing them towards attaining global benchmarks of quality engineering education.

The IET
The IET accredited SRM Institute of Science and Technology signs MoU with Kingston Universityedit

Malai Bhoomi

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SRM Institute of Science and Technology signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Kingston. The collaboration is a result of the long-term engagement that the IET provides to its Academic Partners in a bid to enhance the quality of their engineering programmes as well as pushing them towards attaining global benchmarks of quality engineering education.

The IET
SRM Institute of Science and Technology signs MoU with Kingston Universityedit

Dina Bhoomi

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SRM Institute of Science and Technology signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Kingston. The collaboration is a result of the long-term engagement that the IET provides to its Academic Partners in a bid to enhance the quality of their engineering programmes as well as pushing them towards attaining global benchmarks of quality engineering education.

The IET

News for other PEI

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Automation not to hit jobs in long run: TCSedit

Times of India

IT and consultancy giant TCS feels automation may lead to a slump in hiring in the coming years, but in the long run, it will create more job opportunities in fields of data science, artificial intelligence, robotics and analytics. Stung by the visa restrictions and paucity of local graduates in STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics — streams, the software major is now running two ambitious student reach-out programmes in the US and other developed countries to lure youth to take IT as a career option.

Automation
AI, automation and machine learning revolutionize pharma supply chain: Ushasri Tirumalaedit

Pharmabiz

The new technologies like, Artificial Intelligence (AI), automation and machine learning are being increasingly adopted into supply chain management in the pharmaceutical industry. With the intervention of these technologies, drugs logistics, tracking, packaging and processing can get automated, giving less room for human error, stated Ushasri Tirumala, senior VP and GM, Manhattan Associates.

AIAutomationHealthcare
Artificial Intelligence: NITI Aayog raises concerns over ethics, privacy, securityedit

The Week

The AI (Artificial Intelligence) threat to privacy has long been talked about. Now, NITI Aayog too has come out with a discussion paper on ‘National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence’ in which it says

Artificial Intelligence
‘Promoting innovation, harnessing potential of IoT imperative for India’edit

SME Times

The need of promoting innovation and harnessing the potential of Internet of Things (IoT) is imperative for solving practical problems in India, said Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan. 

IoT
In the coming era of ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT), cryptography will be the key to ensuring securityedit

Times of India 

The memory and energy consumption level of most IoT devices are small, and security has to be ensured within these limitations. A relatively new technology called “lightweight cryptography” is believed to be particularly useful for IoT, due to its efficiency of end-to-end communication and possibilities of more network connections with lower resource devices.

IoT

Industry News: Future of Mobility

India needs to produce Lithium-ion batteries for EVs to be successful : Ananth Geeteedit

Financial Express

The Minister said that India must become a hub for the manufacture and export of lithium-ion batteries. If well implemented, this move should be able to exponentially reduce the costs of manufacturing electric cars in India!

Electric VehiclesLi-ion batteries
How are 3D technologies supporting India’s journey to e-mobility: Opinionedit

ET Auto

The 3D technologies provide the most appropriate vehicle for making the entire electro mobility ecosystem more efficient, helping companies innovate and become more agile and effective.

e-mobility
Electric vehicle adoption gets a boost on World Environment Dayedit

Business Standard

In a major boost to the electric vehicle adoption in the country on World Environment Day on Tuesday, Goldstone-BYD, announced the launch as well as export of its full Electric Feeder Bus ‘eBuzz K6’, the first bus in this category to be manufactured in India.

Electric Vehicles
Govt may ease import norms for high-end e-vehicles, cars, bikesedit

Times of India

Indian roads may see a rush of top-of-the-line electric vehicles, luxury cars, vans and superbikes, with the government all set to liberalise import norms by removing restrictions on price and engine capacities, as well as the mandatory local testing conditions.

Electric Vehicles

Industry News: Education

Celebrating higher education ties between India and U.S.edit

The Hindu

The U.S. Consulate General on Wednesday celebrated the exchange of students between India and the United States on the the fourth annual Student Visa Day where alumni were invited to share stories and experiences from their academic lives.

Higher Education
Ten steps to transform the quality of education in Indiaedit

Qrius

Most of the steps needed to transform the quality of education in India do not require policy change or a new educational policy. Yet, these steps are not getting taken because there is no visible crisis pushing us to act. Only a few points in my list below – like the creation of a cadre of Indian education civil services, replacing the policy of schools within a kilometer of every habitation with a free transport to the nearest school policy – are policy-level issues.

Education
The digital skill gap that may trip the IT juggernaut in days to comeedit

Business Standard

Even though Indian IT firms are eyeing to be specialists in digital technologies catering to global corporates, there is going to be a huge shortage of skills in emerging technologies such as analytics, big data, cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in days to come. This is expected to create a huge bottleneck on their path of getting access to right talent.

Digital Skill Gap

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India aims to partner with UN to promote use of solar energyedit

The Economic Times

India aims to partner with the UN to use solar energy at the world body’s premises as part of the efforts to protect and preserve environment, the country’s Permanent Representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin has said.

Solar Energy
India raises renewable power target from 175 GW to 225 GW by 2022edit

Domain B

Encouraged by the rapid increase in renewable energy capacity in the country, the government has revised upward its renewable energy target from 175 GW to 225 GW by the year 2022.

Renewable Energy
2017 saw the largest rise in renewable energy capacity: Reportedit

Business Insider

With traditional sources of energy being depleted at an alarming rate countries around the world have already started moving towards renewable sources of energy. According to a report, renewable energy in 2017 accounted for about 70% of net addition to the global power generation capacity.

Renewable Energy
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