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Internships may soon be a must for technical degrees

AICTE effort to make students more industry-ready Technical education institutions in India will soon have internships as a mandatory requirement for the award of degrees. The All-India Council for Technical Education — the regulator for maintaining norms and standards in technical education — has set the ball rolling to make internships a mandatory part of technical education in the country.   “For a beginning, we are asking institutions providing technical education to arrange for internships for 75% of their students. We will also help by trying to get industry bodies and MSMEs on board for this. The institutions can then…

60% of engineering graduates unemployed

  HIGHLIGHTS Less than 1% of engineering students participate in summer internships Just 15% of engineering programmes are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation More than 60% engineering graduate remain unemployed   NEW DELHI: More than 60% of the eight lakh engineers graduating from technical institutions across the country every year remain unemployed , according to the All India Council for Technical Education.   This is a potential loss of 20 lakh man days annually. That’s not all. Less than 1% of engineering students participate in summer internships and just 15% of engineering programmes offered by over 3,200 institutions…

60% engineers remain unemployed: AICTE

NEW DELHI, MARCH 18 (ENA) According to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), 60 per cent of more than 8 lakh engineers who have graduated from technical institutions remain unemployed. It is learnt that less than 1 per cent of the engineering students take part in summer internships and around 15 per cent engineering programmes offered by more than 3,200 institutes are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA).   Seeing this trend, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) is planning to give India’s technical education a face lift.   The stratagem involves rolling out the…

Out of 8 lakh engineering graduates, 60 per cent remain unemployed every year: AICTE

New Delhi, March 18: Over 60 per cent engineers graduating from technical institutions across the country remain unemployed, according to the All India Council for Technical Education. As per the institution, a total number of eight lakh engineers graduate every year. Reportedly, it records to a potential loss of 20 lakh man days annually.   Apart from this, less than 1 per cent of engineering students participate in summer internships and just 15 per cent of engineering programmes offered by over 3,200 institutions are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA).   In a bid to change these numbers,…

Robolab Technologies Wins HOT 1OO StartUp 2017 Award

Mumbai, India – March 15, 2017 – Amidst a gathering of eminent CIOs, angel investors, industry stalwarts, VCs, and corporate heads, Robolab Technologies has been recognized with HOT 1OO: RACE TO GRACE 2017 Award, which champions innovation and enterprise.     This was the third edition of the Hot 100 Awards, which honor startups providing unique and disruptive technology solutions that work, deliver real benefits, are innovative and potentially address the market at large. This year saw a significant number of entries and the 23 jury member panel was hard pressed to select the winners whose creative use of technology…

The importance and uses of the educational robotics for the students

The robotics is the branch of the computer science, the mechanical engineering, and the electrical engineering that deals with the construction, the design, the operation and the application of robots as well as the computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing.   The educational robots strengthen  and support  the students skills, and they develop their knowledge through the creation, the design, the assembly and the operation of robots .   The educational robotics are very useful in learning that they improve the design and construction of creation which are given in the first instance and later mental form…

Why are schools obsessed with turning kids into robots?

Standardized tests aren’t the only way of measuring intelligence.   Anya Kamenetz is very clear when she says she didn’t set out to write about standardized testing. A 2014 New America fellow and lead education blogger at National Public Radio, she had already written two books about the future of education and wanted her next project to be about innovations in K-12 education. But as she began researching her new book, The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing—But You Don’t Have to Be, she found something surprising: Innovations weren’t at the center of the story for K-12….

How AR technology can help farmers stay relevant

Augmented reality(AR) and robotics are closely related . Both model their environment to some degree. Robotics uses that model to guide the behaviour of a machine , whereas AR uses it to provide an enhanced sensory experience to a human.   The exact nature of that enhanced experience is bounded only by available sensory, computational, and display (audio, haptic) hardware, and by how the data gathered can be usefully transformed into overlays that argument the natural perception of the human user. What is useful is a function of both the content of those overlays and the latency, how much lag…

College of Engineering Pune wins Robocon, to represent India in Tokyo!

When Anuj Phegade, a student from College of Engineering Pune (CoEP), came out of the final of Robocon in 2016, he was disappointed by the team’s loss in the competition by just three seconds.   However, this year the team led by Anuj came up with a better ‘bot’ (robot), determined to win. CoEP’s hard work paid off as they won the Abu National Robocon of 2017 on Saturday. The team will now represent India at the international Robocon at Tokyo.   Explaining the game, Yogesh Bhalerao , principal, MIT Academy of Engineering said, “All games are conducted between two…

Robotics Pedagogy Bibliography

Links to externally hosted robotics education sites and materials that may be of interest (categorized, but in no particular order): External Robotics Course Materials ROS Courses Wiki – Links to a number of internal and external course materials sites focusing on courses that utilize or teach ROS, the Robot Operating System. ROS Tutorials and Examples – A number of excellent ROS tutorials, demos, and resources, provided by Clearpath Robotics. Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) – an organization dedicating to applying and evaluating robots as a context for computer science education. Stanford Engineering Everywhere – Links to course materials…

Robotic Engineering: Scope in India

Let’s accept it. Robots have always fascinated us from our childhood. The entire idea of having someone else do the hard and mundane job with the help of the computer, while with sit back and relax is definitely interesting. However, with the development of technology and extensive research and experiments on robots, it has been found that the Robotics has much depth than can be seen. Much like the tip of the iceberg, the depth of which cannot be gauged with the naked eye. And the scope of opportunities with Robotic Engineering is also on the rise. Let’s take a…

Details and scope of Robotics Industry in India

Purpose The purpose of this article is to provide a basic information to the students from engineering colleges/technical institutions or the beginners who are interested to pursue their career in Robotic Industry.   Description Robotics defines as “technology dealing with the design, construction, and operation of robots”. Robotics encompasses such diverse areas of technology as mechanical, electrical, and electronic systems; computer hardware; and computer software. The Robot Institute of America defines a robot as a programmable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices, through variable programmed motions, for the performance of a variety of tasks.  …

Scope and Career Opportunities in Robotics

What is Robotics? A robot is an automatic mechanical device guided by a computer program or electronic circuitry which enables it to perform tasks assigned to it. It is a system that contains sensors, control systems, manipulators, power supplies and software, all of which work together. Robotics is the branch of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of robots,as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing. These technologies deal with automated machines that can take the place of humans in dangerous environments or manufacturing processes,…

What is Mechatronics? Scope and Career Opportunities

What is Mechatronics? Mechatronics is a field of engineering that includes study with a combination of various engineering disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, telecommunication, control and computer engineering. The aim of mechatronics is a design process that unifies all the above disciplines of engineering. Mechatronics industry employs both engineers to design and develop equipments and technicians to maintain it. Career Options in Mechatronics The profession of mechatronics includes technicians and engineers. They design and maintain automated equipment. Technicians and engineers work in laboratories, offices or on-site manufacturing plants. The goal is to produce safe and efficient automated equipment. Technicians primarily…

What is B.Tech in Mechatronics and its scope

What is B.Tech in Mechatronics and its scope? B.Tech Mechatronics programme provides engineers with multi-disciplinary skills. The programme is made after clubbing mechanical, electronics, computer and systems design engineering streams. Mechatronics programme strengthens the students with the skills that allow them to design, construct and run factory production lines and automated processes. Students studying this course are well equipped with the skills that they can use in computers, micro-controllers, programmable logical controllers, programming, industrial sensors, hydraulic, pneumatic and electric drives, design of mechanical structure and mechanism and manufacturing process. Talking about its application areas, they range from power systems to…

India Celebrates National Science Day!

National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman on 28 February 1928.   For his discovery, Sri C.V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.  

iKeybo: World’s Most Advanced Projection Keyboard and Piano

  iKeybo is the world’s most advanced virtual laser projection keyboard & piano introduced by the Serafim Company. Serafim focuses on the software and hardware integration of mobile devices and wearable mobile technology. Serafim currently provides a lineup of products and services, such as phone sensors, smart laser presentation pens, laser virtual keyboards, and handheld sensing devices just to name a few. The most important and attracting feature of iKeybo is that In just a second, it can turn any flat surface into your keyboard or piano.     Need of Virtual Keyboard :-   Without keyboard, communicating between family,…

So why learn robotics?

Robotics can be very dynamic to the point of being intimidating. However, robotics helps the young people of today develop skills which are essential for life.   Skills such as critical thinking, decision making, public speaking, being able to work in a team and creative thinking are important for a student’s life in the present and the future. Robotics is not just about building and programming robots but designing, programming, modifying and getting the the root of problems and overcoming challenges.   It builds the resilience of our youth and gets them acquainted with real life engineering challenges and allows…

Simple Labs Quick Start kit for Arduino – List of Contents

Getting Started with the Arduino & Simple Labs Quick Start Kit So you have picked up Arduino and the Simple Labs Quick Start kit for Arduino in hope of doing something. We hope you have read your way through about Arduino as we are going to directly jump into using the Quick Start Kit.   So what can you do with an Arduino? There are a lot of things that you can do with an Arduino. The possibilities are quiet unlimited and open-ended. We are putting together a list of topics to get you started comfortably with Arduino.   For…

Arduino Programming Notebook

Winking two LEDs: A first exercise. This is, of course, the “Hello World” of micro controller programming. Your Arduino probably came programmed to wink one LED, just as a quick “Is it working?” test. The material in this tutorial is not rocket science, but please read through it anyway. It covers some important foundation material. Click Here   A better program to wink two LEDs! What is a “good” program? Click Here   A few general points. In this short tutorial I mention a few “gotchas”. Click Here   Simple Counting on LEDs Click Here   Using the built in…

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