July 18, 2019

News for the IET

IET SSF Projectedit

Education World 

The Institution of Engineering and Technology India (IET) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Saraswati Seva Foundation (SSF) a non profit organisation committed to serve underprivileged communities to use new knowledge tools and Technologies.

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News for other PEI

Institution of Engineers India (IEI), Mysuru Local Centre and Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE)edit

Star of Mysore 

The newspaper has feature rich articles and dedicated pages targeted at readers across the demographic spectrum of Mysuru city. With a readership of over 2,50,000 Star of Mysore has been the best connection between its readers and their leaders; between advertisers and customers; between Mysuru and Mysureans. (Institution of Engineers)

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Engaging Innovation In Times Of Constant Change With GTRI & IEEE TEMSedit

Forbes

In June, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) hosted a threepart IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (IEEE TEMS) conference (IEEE TEMSCON), Leading Innovation in Times of Constant Change. For the first time, the conference broke new ground by combining academic research on day one, industry forum on day two, and a combined sharing of academy and industry on day three.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

India Lags in Artificial Intelligence Readiness Indexedit

Analytics Insight 

Earlier this month, in a move towards skilling and reskilling millions of Indian youth to embrace to new age technology and job roles, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated that the government will now focus on newage skills like artificial intelligence and IoT (Internet of Things) to help them get jobs overseas.

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Almost every discussion of cyber security relates back to the confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) triadedit

Express Healthcare 

What are the strategies to defend medical devices from cyber threats, even as we leverage the transformational abilities of technologies such as IoTAlmost every discussion of cyber security relates back to the confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) triad.

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AI driven companies need to be more diverse. Heres whyedit

Qrius 

Artificial Intelligence interpretation of data can be as biased as the human intelligence behind it. What can happen when you have an excellent AI team but it is not cognitively diverse Amazons recruiting algorithm was gender biased, discarding competitive female candidates for roles after learning that the percentage of women in those positions was lower.

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AI Under Our Skin: How Wearable Tech Has Become A Part Of Our Daily Livesedit

Analytics India Mag

The market category termed as wearable technology is gaining significant popularity within this space. Today, wearable technology covers a multitude of applications, and even more, devices to fulfil them. There are several general factors for this growth including human need, want and expectation, the rise of the IoT and advances in technology that make the wearable devices themselves viable.

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Talk on Role of Nuclear Energyedit

Star of Mysore 

Institution of Engineers India (IEI), Mysuru Local Centre, in association with the Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE), has organised a talk on Role of Nuclear Energy for Sustainable Development by Madhusudhan Ojha (BARC/ RMP, Mysuru) at S.P. Bhat Hall, IEI Mysuru premises, JLB Road, in city on July 17 at 6 pm.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Warning Sound is Mandatory for Electric Vehiclesedit

Steel Guru 

This stipulates that initially in newly certificated hybrid, electric and fuel cell vehicles also trucks and buses the Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System must be installed for the protection of other road users. In the EU the acoustic warning is mandatory up to a speed of 20 km/h.

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Electric Vehicles A Huge Opportunity For India: Niti Aayog Chief Kantedit

The Economic Times 

Electric vehicles are a sunrise opportunity as India has over 72 per cent twowheelers; our endeavour should be to make these electric, and also manufacture EVs for the world, in India, Kant said. The Niti Aayog has proposed that twowheelers below the capacity of 150cc sold in the country after March 31, 2025, should be electric ones only.

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Charging Station Builders Still Await Clarity As India Pushes Electric Vehiclesedit

Bloomberg Quint 

India offers tax breaks and subsidy to buyers if they dump fossilfuel driven cars and scooters and switch to electric vehicles as the nation looks to curb one of the worlds worst air pollution and reduce energy imports. But theres one missing link.

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Cant afford to ban vehicles run on fossil fuel: Dharmendra Pradhanedit

The Economic Times 

The government has no plans to ban the sale of fossil fueldriven vehicles as India cannot afford to do so, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said a statement that counters reports that an official deadline for their phaseout is in the offing as part of a larger plan to promote electric vehicles (EVs).

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100% EV transition possible by 2030edit

Free Press Journal 

Electric vehicles could be a better alternative to fuel-based automobiles to mitigate air pollution, but the government’s target to switch to e-vehicles in next 10 years is hard to achieve, TERI said, pointing out that consumers would need time to accept the change. By 2030, the government aims to make India a 100-% EV nation.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Why everyone should learn to code, and start in school itselfedit

The Times of India 

The Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum predicts that 65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that dont yet exist and a majority of these will require algorithmic thinking and programming skills. In the US, Europe, observers say that the talk is that everybody should learn to code.

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5X Increase in Renewable Jobs in 5 Years Skills Council Reportedit

Saur Energy 

Indias renewable energy workforce has grown fivefold in the past five years. In 2019, nearly 100,000 workers are employed in the solar and wind industry, up from 19,800 workers in 2014. Of these, 12,400 new workers were employed in FY19 and 30,000 new workers were employed in FY18 by utilityscale solar, rooftop solar, and wind energy projects.

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Need for 2.7mn digitally skilled people by 2023edit

The Times of India 

Within its digital talent base, India has around 2,60,000 people in cloud computing, 1.85,000 in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data analytics, 1,85,000 in social media and mobile platforms and almost 1,70,000 in Internet of Things (IoT), the industry body said. Nasscom also aims to move from a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) approach to STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) as liberal arts emerge an integral part of understanding emerging tech.

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AI will replace low level healthcare roles: Rituparna Chakraborty, ISFedit

The Economic Times 

By Rashmi Mabiyan

In a recent report released by Indian Staffing Federation showed that India emerged as the fifthlargest market worldwide in flexistaffing in 2018 and the country would have 6.1 million flexiworkforce by 2021.

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80% firms in India facing leadership talent shortage: Surveyedit

Telangana Today 

The survey was conducted across industries including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), telecom, commodities, trading, education, retail, media and entertainment, among others.

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Industry News: Education

AICTE Launches Online Course To Impart Professional Skills To Students And Boost Employabilityedit

Swarajya Mag 

With the AICTE putting the emphasis on overall social and communication skills for engineering students, the body has partnered with TCS iON to offer an online course to acquire basic professional skills, reports The Times of India.

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How AI Will Transform Higher Educationedit

The Times of India 

Most higher education institutions havent changed for over 200 years. Today, universities have been reduced to expensive diploma offering factories with flickering relevance. Apart from signaling some level of competence, they arent doing much for graduates.

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Industry News: Skilling

AICTE Launches Online Course To Impart Professional Skills To Students And Boost Employabilityedit

Swarajya Mag 

With the AICTE putting the emphasis on overall social and communication skills for engineering students, the body has partnered with TCS iON to offer an online course to acquire basic professional skills, reports The Times of India.

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