Posts Tagged technology
Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
Posted by Admin Madurai Tamilnadu India in Public on December 18th, 2009
‘Need for researchers in different areas of science and technology’ in Salem
SALEM:
Students studying in engineering colleges should take more interest in research and development activities, Assistant Professor, Department of Avionics, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology N. Selvaganesan has said.
Participating in the inauguration of first year classes in Maha College of Engineering near here on Friday, he said that the country needs more researchers in different areas of science and technology. Increase in research and development activities would help find solutions to a number of problems faced by the humanity.
Strengthen knowledge
Engineering students should be encouraged to take up research projects at the micro and macro levels from their first year of study itself.
The faculty members should help the students to identify the problems and guide them to bring in solutions, he stressed.
Mr. Selvaganesan also asked the students to strengthen their knowledge on various fundamental concepts in their chosen field of study. Inaugurating the first year classes, Assistant General Manager from Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Tiruchy, S. Dharmalingam asked the students not to fear about failures.
Success
Students should always remember that failures were the stepping-stones to success. They should learn from the failure, take the responsibility and put in wholehearted efforts to emerge successful. Failures were common when students attempted to do something different, he said.
Prepare yourself
Stating that the world was witnessing rapid changes, Mr. Dharmalingam asked the students to prepare themselves to lead the change.
Product Manager from HP India Limited Charles Cecil, College Chairman M.G. Bharath Kumar, Director V.M. Sriramachandran and Principal R. Asokan spoke.
Master courses in Public Health and Applied Epidemiology -Technology Essential For Health Solutions
Posted by Admin Madurai Tamilnadu India in Education, Uncategorized on July 12th, 2009
Technology Essential For Health Solutions
CHENNAI:
Solutions to public health issues should be inclusive of technological advances,comprise new ideas, and provide for social and local concerns, V.M. Katoch, Secretary,Department of Health Research and Director General,ICMR, said on Friday.
Speaking at the inauguration of the training programme for the two Masters courses in Public Health and Applied Epidemiology on the premises of the National Institute of Epidemiology ICMR School of Public Health, Dr.Katoch said it was essential to use technology to arrive at indigenous solutions but the challenge would be taking it to the field and having them work at that level.Stressing the translational research, he was also keen on promoting a permanent, sustained network of institutions and laboratories of the State and Centre working together to arrive at protocols and solutions through a process of exchange of ideas.
S. Elango, Director of Public Health, said both courses were essential for practitioners of public health. Foreseeing a bright future for the students who successfully complete the course, he said that there were a lot of areas of collaboration between the State government and the ICMR institutes where they will be of valuable assistance. The M.AE and M.P.H. courses are offered as offcampus courses by Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences, Tiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Both courses are recognisedby the Medical Council of India.The M.AE course is an initiative from the ICMR and ICMR Partnership for Schools of Public Health in response to the need for qualitative and quantitative change in the practice of public health in India, according to M.V. Murhekar, co-ordinator for the programmes.
NIE officer-in-charge V.Kumaraswami spoke on the institute’s activities. The former director, M.D. Gupte,who initiated the M.AE programme in 2001, said the course had become extremely popular. He spoke about the initial stages of setting up the course. K. Ramachandran, former head, Department of Biostatistics, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences,wished the students luck.
Software Technology Parks of India units register increase in exports in chennai
CHENNAI: Exports from units registered under the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) in Tamil Nadu stand at Rs. 36,680.40 crore for 2008-09, a 29.04 per cent increase from the 2007-08 exports total, which was Rs. 28,426.02 crore.
Speaking at a meeting here on Wednesday where the official figures were released, IT Secretary P.W.C. Davidar said that these figures were encouraging. He said the government would soon announce some proactive measures that would benefit the IT sector.
Innovation, new geographies and new verticals have contributed to the growth in Tamil Nadu, said K. Purushothaman, regional director, NASSCOM, the trade body of the IT industry.
Though the figures show that United States continues to dominate, accounting for 58 per cent of the total exports, followed by United Kingdom at 12 per cent, companies in Tamil Nadu are also looking at other markets such as Japan, Brazil, Australia and Germany, he said.
Tamil Nadu has also been a success for captives, he said, referring to organisations fully owned by companies outside India.
As companies have started focusing on e-governance and domestic markets, the growth would increase, he said. “The government should capitalise on this and take it further,” he said, adding that the process of approvals in various departments should be speeded up. With 41 per cent of the total exports in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coming from application software, it continued to be a major chunk of IT exports. IT Enabled Services were picking up in Tamil Nadu, said J. Parthasarathy, director, STPI Chennai, adding that areas such as e-publishing and knowledge process outsourcing had a lot of potential for employment.
According to 2008-09 data, the IT industry employs 2,85,000 people, he said, adding that in 2007-08, the figure was around 2,45,000.
“Despite the economic challenges faced by all sectors, it’s heartening to note that the industry is a net hirer,” said R. Chandrasekaran, president and managing director, Global delivery, Cognizant.
“More importantly, because of greater emphasis on domain and consulting, and rapid growth in BPO and IT Infrastructure Services, the industry is no longer restricted to hiring only engineering graduates,” he said, adding that graduates and postgraduates in fields including commerce, humanities, pharmacy, and law were being recruited.
The total number of units registered with STPI is 1,683 as of 2008-09, an increase of 107 over the number of units registered as of 2007-08.
Coimbatore saw the 124 approved units there clocking Rs. 373.76 crore worth exports for 2008-09. The export figures for the units in Madurai and Tiruchi for 2008-09 are Rs. 27.09 crore and Rs. 24.03 crore respectively. Madurai has 12 approved units and Tiruchi has 11. In Puducherry, the exports from 16 approved units registered under STPI were Rs. 78.65 crore for 2008-09, an increase of 22.93 per cent from the 2007-08 exports total, which was Rs. 63.98 crore.
Recent Comments