IIT-Madras Conducts a Five-day Summer Camp for School Students on Social Innovation
Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a research institution in the area of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship under IIT-Madras, Chennai, recently conducted a five-day Summer Camp on ‘Social Innovation through Technology’ in association with TVS Srinivasan Services Trust, Chennai, at the college campus. The programme was designed to promote awareness about the role of technology and entrepreneurship to solve socially relevant issues among students from public schools that have relatively lesser access to technological knowledge. A batch of about 40 students from the government schools of Veppampattu, Melakondiar and Ayathur villages of Thiruvallur District (all in Tamil Nadu) attended the camp. The students had series of lectures and trainings in various topics like social issues, relevant technologies for solving social issues like eco-sanitation technologies and social business & enterprises. Sessions were conducted by IIT-Madras faculty and social entrepreneurs. Prof R Nagarajan, Dean — International and Alumni Relations, IIT-Madras, inaugurated the programme. Prof LS Ganesh, Dean, Prof Sudhir Chella Rajan, Prof K Mangala Sunder, and L Kannan, an alumnus of IIT-Madras who demonstrated their innovation, a welding simulator, were some of those who held lectures at this programme.
Tech Mahindra Forays into engineering education
Mahindra École Centrale (MEC) is a College of Engineering established through a three-way collaboration involving Mahindra Group, École Centrale Paris, a 200-year old leading French University dedicated to engineering education and the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. This institution, situated in Hyderabad, India, will be based on a contemporary and international academic programme. MEC has opened admissions for its Integrated Dual Degree Programme that is set to commence in August. The programme is designed to provide unique cultural diversity that helps real time association with the industry through internships and a healthy mix of international and domestic faculties. The curriculum covers not only several traditional branches of engineering but also fundamentals in Natural Sciences, Humanities, Business and Management. The engineering degree will be also accredited by the French board of Engineers. MEC currently offers two programmes – BTech (four years) and BTech and MTech (five years). Classes will begin August 4. Visit www.mahindraecolecentrale.com for more details.
Over 230 women students enrol for ISB’s PG programme in management
The Class of 2015 of the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, has 231 women students constituting 30 per cent of the total class size – the highest number ever since the school’s inception 13 years ago. The number of women students at the school has been rising steadily and has increased by almost 120 per cent in the last seven years. An interesting highlight of the Class of 2015 is the entry of students selected under the Young Leaders Proramme, an initiative launched to support outstanding undergraduates from diverse disciplines to get an early start in their careers by getting a pre-admission into ISB. These students have been mentored and supported by ISB over the last two years even as they gained the mandatory two years of work experience required to get into the PGP. These students have studied in institutions such as Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi, NITs, IITs and BITS-Pilani, and have worked in organisations such as Google, Deloitte, Wal-Mart, ZS Associates and Capstone Securities and Analysis. The PGP is a full-time, one-year programme in Management designed for young working professionals.
Training workshop on Impact of Natural Disasters at Amity
Amity Institute of Wildlife Sciences in association with National Institute of Disaster Management organised a three-day training workshop on ‘Impacts of Natural Disasters on Wild Animals and Mitigation Strategies’ for Forest Officers, Researchers, Academicians and Students at the Amity Campus in Noida. This training will educate participants with key components leading to natural disaster and its impact on wildlife. PR Sinha, Country Representative, International Union for Conservation of Nature-India, was the chief guest. During this three-day workshop, sessions on various topics like ‘Flood Management in Kaziranga’ by BS Bonal, Member Secretary, Central Zoo Authority; ‘Impact of Natural Disaster in and around crucial wild habitats’ by Harendrra Singh Bargali, Deputy Director, Corbett Foundation; ‘Rescuing wildlife in Crisis and Distress during Natural and Man Made Calamities’ by NVK Ashraf, Senior Veterinarian and COO, Wildlife Trust of India, were held. NPS Chauhan, Director, Amity Institute of Wildlife Sciences, and Balvinder Shukla, Vice-Chancellor, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, were present at the event. Satendra, IFS, Executive Director, National Institute of Disaster Management, also addressed the gathering.
Over 50 BITS-Pilani students will work with Google during the summer
Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani today announced that over 50 BITSians have been selected for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this year. These students represent different BITS Pilani campuses with the largest cohort being selected from the Goa campus (30), followed by Pilani (18) and Hyderabad (3) respectively. GSoC is an annual programme where Google awards a stipend of $5,500 (approx over `3 lakh) each to all students who successfully complete a requested free and open-source software coding project during the summer. Students also get to earn a significant stipend during their tenure. The programme is open to students aged 18 or over and the closely related Google Code-In is intended for students under the age of 18.