CoP asked to pardon e-mail sender Oct 17, 2008
He studied engineering in Velammal Engineering College. His father is no more and he has been living with his grandparents and mother in T Nagar. (Times of India)
Cross-LoC trade is not alternative to Kashmir resolution: Abbasi Oct 16, 2008
Tie-ups between educational and Technical institutions like Universities, medical and engineering colleges, craft development institute (CDI), Indian Institute of Carpet Technology should also be encouraged. Working groups on both sides of the LoC have been set up to prepare recommendations regarding additional items to be included in the list for the first meeting and future review meetings. (Rising Kashmir)
In Russia, a second home for U.S. astronauts Oct 14, 2008
Instead, Energia rented part of a nearby engineering college to prepare American hardware for the station. "The heat didn't work," Bowman said, and the winter of 1994-95 was particularly bitter, he said, with temperatures that reached minus-30 degrees. (International Herald Tribune)
Udupi: Two-day National Conference of VCs from Technical Universities Oct 11, 2008
The conference will also make an effort towards striking a consensus on a 10-point cumulative grade point average system in all the engineering colleges in the country. This is in tune with the internationally accepted practices, he stated. (Daijiworld.com)
Don't Buy A Mac Laptop* Oct 11, 2008
Don't Buy A Mac Laptop* - Faster Forward. Recent Posts Stories By Date. (Washington Post)
Upwardly mobile India fights scourge of fake CVs Oct 8, 2008
With engineering colleges across India continuing to put thousands of fresh graduates on the job market each year, more are hiring "CV detectives" before they recruit, to weed out those with fraudulent credentials. It's not just fresh graduates, but also experienced professionals who indulge in CV embellishment. (Christian Science Monitor)
Make tree-plantation drive a mass movement: Badal Oct 8, 2008
Quality Control: Punjab Engineering College. Completion Date: November 30, 2009. (Chandigarh Newsline)
IIT students can be late for class Oct 7, 2008
An engineering college without a campus and a full-time director would have instantly been derecognised by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). However, what do you when the offender in this case is the Union HRD minister who has started three new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) from this academic session without ensuring that the required infrastructure is in place. (India Times)
UT gets $12.5 million to instruct H.S. teachers in engineering Sep 24, 2008
5 million to instruct H.S. teachers in engineering - Austin Business Journal. Members: Not Registered. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Swoop on UP terror cradle Sep 24, 2008
Sources said the police also raided Al Faraz Engineering College in Faridabad, about 350km away in western Uttar Pradesh. Atif, killed in a shootout in Delhi last Friday, had apparently completed his BTech from the college in 2005. (Calcutta Telegraph)
Azamgarh: Den of terror or victim of poverty? Sep 23, 2008
Azamgarh, he points out, is the only divisional headquarters that does not have a university, a medical college, engineering college, or any institute worth mention. There are no industries. (India Times, India)
Profs held in bribes-for-grades probe Sep 19, 2008
But reporters saw police raiding economics and traffic engineering colleges in Zagreb, searching offices and bringing professors in for questioning. Thousands of students were gathering in front of the colleges as most lectures and exams were postponed. (MSNBC -- International)
NEWSMAKER: Praveen Vishakantaiah Sep 19, 2008
He had his early schooling from the Indian Preparatory School in Malleswaram (a traditional locality in Bangalore), and higher secondary schooling from MES College before pursuing his BE in electronics and communication from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapalli. Having joined Intel, US, in 1993 after his MS and PhD in electrical and computer engineering from University of Texas, Austin, Vishakantaiah has been involved in various leadership positions for developing a series of... (Business Standard)
Small-town Boy Sep 19, 2008
Don't be confused by the accent; thanks to his town's engineering college, he was writing code at a back room in the Bay area before the dotcom bubble burst and he was benched again. Town boys also display better firepower as they play to a larger audience than you can fathom. (India Times, India)
A dead man tells of his too short life Sep 17, 2008
After a year at a local Newark college, Marcus transfers to Winesburg, a small liberal arts and engineering college in the farm country of Ohio all to escape his father's suffocating surveillance of his every move, his suspicion that his son is out carousing, when in fact he's hard at work in the library. His father, a kosher butcher in Newark, Marcus recalls, had become "crazy with worry that his cherished only child was as unprepared for the hazards of life as anyone else entering manhood,... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Developer floats cancer center in suburbs Sep 15, 2008
Already, UA's medical school and Translational Genomics Research Institute and a unit from the ASU engineering college have taken root there. State lawmakers recently approved $470 million for future campus construction. (AZCentral -- News)
Nuclear deal: Hard work lies ahead Sep 12, 2008
Paradoxically AICTE has an important role to play to revise the power curricula in more than 1500 engineering colleges. I have over the years seen fine minds from ordinary engineering colleges flower in this society with ease. (India Times, India -- Community News)
TDI unveils TDI City Mohali, Phase- II Sep 11, 2008
With the approach road going through the process of expansion and a frontage area of about 8 acres, not to mention it being conveniently located on the Main Landran-Banur Road near the well known Chandigarh Engineering College , TDI City Mohali Phase II has the potential to become a landmark for the city of Mohali as well as set a benchmark for excellence. To read business stories in. (India Times)
Its Jammu vs Kashmir --- finally Aug 26, 2008
Besides, they manipulate for themselves more than 50 per cent of the seats in Jammu's ill-equipped and under-staffed medical and engineering college and in the Agricultural University in R S Pura. No such institution exists in Ladakh. (Sify.com, India)
Duo robbed of Rs 2.5 lakh by auto driver, aides Aug 25, 2008
"We had gone to Bangalore for my admission in an engineering college and returned to the city on the Sampark Kranti Express around 10 am. We took an auto from outside the station, not the pre-paid stand. We wanted to go to ISBT to catch a bus to Bahadurgarh in Haryana where we live," said Mayank Makkar, who was travelling with his father Naveen (49). He added that a little distance from the station, two men stopped their vehicle and told the driver that their auto had broken down. (Times of India)
Researchers devise technique to detect tooth decay early Aug 25, 2008
R Siva Kumar of RMK Engineering College explained that dental caries, known as tooth decay or dental cavities, damages the structures of the teeth, besides causing toothache, tooth loss, infection of the jawbone and beyond, and in severe cases, death. . (Sify.com, India)
Seeing through tooth decay Aug 24, 2008
R. Siva Kumar of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, at RMK Engineering College, in Tamil Nadu, explains that dental caries, known colloquially as tooth decay or dental cavities, is an infectious disease which damages the structures of teeth ... The researchers at RMK engineering college have now developed an X-ray image analysis technique that reveals the pixel intensities at different X-ray wavelengths, much like the histogram analysis of images by a high-specification... (EurekAlert!)
Chandigarh to celebrate cycle day Aug 23, 2008
Representatives of various institutions like Chandigarh tourism, STEP, Chandigarh industrial and tourism development corporation limited (CITCO), Dell, Infosys, Yuvsatta (an NGO), British Library, Punjab University, State Bank of India, Punjab engineering college and Chandigarh choir are participating in the rally. In the past too, Chandigarh tourism in collaboration with various organisations has conducted such rallies in the city to promote cycling. (India Times)
Mission 10X to train engg teachers Aug 22, 2008
According to IIT Bombay professor Kannan M. Moudgalya, close to five lakh students join the 1,500 private engineering colleges in India every year ... The Mission 10X primarily involves a series of faculty enabling workshops conducted at engineering colleges with a specific focus on the faculty's potential and insight into interactive teaching methodology and teaching aids ... "In our first year, we have covered 1,000 faculty at engineering colleges in five states Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu,... (Times of India)
Donor offers Fresno State $10 million Aug 19, 2008
Fresno State officials several years ago considered merging the engineering college into the College of Science and Mathematics. It was a period of uncertainty about engineering studies at the university, but officials decided to revamp the program instead. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
School of Mines boasts grads' starting salaries Aug 17, 2008
The school is ranked 15th among nation's engineering colleges for starting median salary. Eighty-five percent of this year's graduating class at the School of Mines were placed in jobs within three months after graduation and 99 percent of the 2007 class graduates are employed. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Report: Median wage of Mines grads at $55,800 Aug 14, 2008
The report also ranked the Mines 15th in the nation for Best Engineering Colleges by Salary Potential. Last year, 218 employers from 26 states recruited School of Mines students. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
NCSU gets $2.5M grant to study educational video games Aug 13, 2008
N.C. State s education and engineering colleges will collaborate on the project. Reader Comments. (Raleigh Triangle Business Journal, NC)
LETTERS: NCT, Aug. 4, 2008 Aug 5, 2008
" Imagine wrote on Aug 4, 2008 11:24 AM:OBAMA SHIFTS ON ENERGY: I am beginning to wonder about all this shifting by Obama.The more he shifts, the more he endangers his nomination as the Democratic candidate. The delegates are only pledged on the first ballot. Some, may change and vote differently on the first ballot. Super delegates are free to change their mind at will. Hillary may take it yet. Nature Lover wrote on Aug 4, 2008 11:28 AM:These statements by the Democrats that there is no point... (North County Times)
Re-employ retired faculty: Minister Aug 2, 2008
CHENNAI: The premier Indian Institutes of Technology , which are concerned over faculty shortage due to retirement of senior professors, may well have a stop gap solution on hand, much like the self-financing engineering colleges in the country ... Tamil Nadu has also become the number one state in providing technical education by creating 163 seats in engineering colleges per one lakh population. (Times of India)
Bangalore techie killed for dowry Aug 1, 2008
A graduate from Malnad Engineering College, Hassan, she worked in Bangalore for the past three years. Three months of marital life, and fate, it seems, had different plans for her. (India Times, India)
New IIT opening on August 2 Jul 24, 2008
To start operations from the Vishawkarma Government Engineering College (VGEC) in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, the new IIT will get able guidance and study aide from IIT Bombay, which last week celebrated its golden jubilee. The classes for the four-year B Tech courses in chemical engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering will commence with an orientation programme August 2. (India Times, India)
Cool shade, jazz for cyclists on campus -- Update Tuesday, July 22 Jul 23, 2008
Michael Kirchner hopes to attend the engineering college at ISU in the future. Asked if his dad was pushing him pretty hard on his very first RAGBRAI experience, Michael smiled. (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
Cabinet seal on 8 new IITs Jul 18, 2008
IIT Gandhinagar, mentored by IIT Mumbai, will start classes from a temporary campus in the Gujarat capital Vishwakarma Government Engineering College (VGEC), Chandkheda sources at the mentor institute said. The hostels of the VGEC were rather dilapidated when we took over the campus. (Calcutta Telegraph)
Man killed, 3 drown in picnic tragedies Jul 14, 2008
Meanwhile, the other picnic tragedy took place behind the Bharatiya Vidyapeeth engineering college in Kharghar. Three youthsUday Kadam (22), Sandesh Vinayak Nandgaonkar (22) and Anil Abang (24)who were frolicking in a pond, drowned. (Times of India)
Inspection raj in colleges Jul 13, 2008
Armed with a new law to rein in private engineering colleges that do not deliver what they promise, the West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) has created the post of an inspector of colleges to keep tabs on these institutions. We want to intensify the process of inspection of all our affiliated private engineering colleges to ensure that each one of them offers quality education, university registrar Rafiqul Islam said ... Higher education minister Sudarshan Ray Chaudhury had said while... (Calcutta Telegraph)
General students to jostle for just 23% seats as counselling for ... Jul 6, 2008
On the first day of the counselling session at the L D Engineering College, the Joint Admission Committee (JAC) conducted the screening exclusively for students belonging to the physically challenged category and those who had appeared for the class XII exams under the CBSE board. Nine seats under the physically challenged quota and 120 seats for CBSE board students were filled up today. (Expressindia.com)
Patna big draw for IIT coaching Jul 5, 2008
"I wanted to help Bihari students make it to premier engineering colleges of the country," he said, recalling the number of Bihari students in IITs had dwindled when he was an IIT stud 00004000 ent. Singh said he is now roping in the services of the best teachers, including the ones who teach in IITs, to counsel the students of his institute. (India Times, India)
IIT coaching a Rs 10k cr industry? Jul 3, 2008
NEW DELHI: Coaching for admission to the IITs and other engineering colleges has acquired the status of a big industry in India ... At least 50% of the students who appear in the entrance tests for admissions to IITs and other engineering colleges enrol with coaching centres to beat the cutthroat competition, ASSOCHAM said. (India Times, India)
JEE counseling to start from July 11, no e-counseling this year Jun 29, 2008
Similarly, 10,957 students in the MBA stream, 424 in MCA, 191 in architecture, 2500 in B-Pharm, 142 in Hotel Management and 7,000 students would be called to attend counseling for the engineering colleges through the lateral entry. Search. (odishatoday.com)
NIT rules stay, with more seats Jun 27, 2008
Till 2007, each of India s 20 NITs upgraded from the status of regional engineering colleges (RECs) in 2002 was allowed to reserve 50 per cent seats for students from the state in which they were based. The remaining 50 per cent formed part of a central pool which, till now, had been filled on the basis of proportional representation a state where the NIT offered more seats got greater representation in other NITs. (Calcutta Telegraph)
Estate gift to Ohio U. engineering college grows Jun 26, 2008
A major estate gift from the namesakes of 's engineering college has grown even larger. The Athens school on Wednesday said a gift from the estate of Russ College of Engineering and Technology namesakes Fritz and Dolores H. Russ will provide nearly $92 million in securities and real estate to the engineering college ... 7 million in real estate, it was the largest for any public engineering college and the largest to any Ohio public university. (Columbus Business First, OH)
Car gifted by Hitler to Nepal king awaits new home Jun 17, 2008
It is lying there for more than three years after an engineering college in Kathmandu, which was using it to train mechanics, said it did not have enough money and spare parts to restore the antique car. But now efforts are being made to display the car in the palace, which the government says will be turned into a museum. (Yahoo News)
* World News Quick Take Jun 16, 2008
It was left lying there for more than three years after an engineering college in Kathmandu, which was using it to train mechanics, said it did not have enough money and spare parts to restore the antique car. But now efforts are being made to display the car in the palace, which the government says will be turned into a museum. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Mythili Bhusnurmath: Best of a bad job Jun 15, 2008
Thus the Roorkee Engineering College, that has a long tradition of excellence, was made the seventh IIT a few years ago and now the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, is set to join as the eighth IIT.. But that will not solve the problem, especially since none of the six IITs slated to start classes this year has any infrastructure in place neither buildings, nor laboratories nor hostels nor teachers. (India Times)
A personal glimpse into life of Late KS Hegde Jun 15, 2008
For example, the upgradation of the Engineering College with a new one lakh square feet facility, infrastructure including laboratory and training facilities, shifting of the Pharmacy and Nursing Colleges to new ultra modern facilities, construction of new hostels for men and women, upgradation of the Dental College, construction of a super specialty hospital are some of the activities which have taken shape as promised. The establishment of Nitte University is only the latest in a series of... (Mangalorean.com)
US slowdown takes toll on IT campus hiring Jun 12, 2008
MUMBAI: The economic slowdown in the US is having a reverberation on campus recruitment in engineering colleges here as well. The entry-level salaries offered during the campus recruitment season for 2009-10, beginning in regional engineering colleges across the country in the past week, have hardly seen any upward revision ... IT firms account for more than 80% of the recruitment in engineering colleges. (India Times)
Dr Praveen Vishakantaiah, President, Intel India Jun 9, 2008
I completed my BE (Honours) in Electronics and Communication from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapalli and then, got my MS and Ph. D in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas, Austin. (India Times)
PMK-DMK crisis deepen as Ramadoss raises fee structure Jun 9, 2008
M Karunanidhi is unfit to restrain money-fleecing private engineering colleges. The Tamil Nadu government had recently increased the fees for management quota seats in the self-financing engineering colleges, inviting opposition even from the parties within the ruling alliance ... He also said the DMK government had announced a hike in the fee structure for self-financing engineering colleges, without consulting its allies. (Financial Express)
Protests may see exodus of students Jun 5, 2008
"Students who have come to city for coaching do not want to take admission in universities or engineering colleges of the state," he said. Bookmark / Share. (India Times, India -- Community News)
MSU's engineering college names first woman as dean Jun 4, 2008
Your browsers security settings are preventing some features from appearing. The Clarion-Ledger June 4, 2008. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Keep It Simple: Gardening grandpas teach life lessons May 31, 2008
Never mind he worked a full-time job for many years at one of the Big Three automakers and in retirement continued to work teaching drafting and tool design classes at the small engineering college his brother, my great-uncle O.B. Jones, had founded in Detroit in the 1940s. As the practical mentor, Grandpa Steck, with his approach to farming naturally/organically or whatever it was thought of at the time, his modest Christmas tree farm, chickens, berry bushes, rows of gladiolus and orange Allis... (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
IIT-Gujarat to begin this academic year May 29, 2008
At present, the IIT will be located in the Vishwakarma Government Engineering College campus at Chandkheda in Gandhinagar district where the necessary infrastructural support is already in place. Last year IIT-Mumbai had opened its extension centre here which provides courses on developing skills in engineering education. (India Times, India)
Examining the coming up of more premier engineering Institutes May 25, 2008
Need for more premier engineering colleges ... Second, the faculty drawn from various engineering colleges in India worked hard to make the IITs world-class institutes, although majority of them (faculty) were not the products of IITs or IIT-JEE. There were many foreign professors and technicians who helped IITs to develop doctorate programs, setting up labs, teaching new and exotic subjects (aeronautics, naval architecture, electronics, etc ... The problem of faculty shortage is also being... (MyNews.in)
Tata Elxsi to hire 2200 May 23, 2008
NEW DELHI: Tata Elxsi Limited, the technology arm of Tata Group, has announced the setting up of two new development centers in Coimbatore and Hyderabad. Together these two design centers will accommodate over 700 engineers and designers. (India Times, India)
Infosys to hire 25,000 this year May 22, 2008
MUMBAI- IT services provider Infosys has said it would be hiring most of its engineers from the top 250 engineering colleges in the country. "Jobs are changing. They are not the typical maintenance jobs. Now we have jobs in systems, consulting, BPOs and lots. So we want the best engineers," Infosys VP & HR head Nandita Gurjar told reporters on Wednesday. (India Times, India -- Intl Business)
Rajrishi Singhal: End licence raj May 21, 2008
Initially, a large number of engineering colleges in the south found an escape route by declaring themselves deemed universities, thereby seeking refuge under UGC and escaping the AICTEs gimlet glare. Today, a few reputed B-schoolssuch as the Indian School of Business, Hyderabadhave gone ahead with their courses and business plans without the AICTE stamp of approval. (India Times)
With Re cooling down, do you think it's time to tap IT stocks again? May 21, 2008
Engineering colleges, traditionally the recruitment bastion for IT companies, are feeling the pinch already and they expect the campus intake to come down by at least 15-20% this year. There is no single reason, industry players say. (India Times)
A first: Woman to head DRDO's Agni-II project May 14, 2008
A BTech from Thrissur Engineering College, Kozhikode, and an MTech from Pune, Thomas is an expert on "solid system propellants", which fuel the Agni missiles. And she was not alone in the Agni-III project. (Times of India)
Climbdown by self-financing college May 11, 2008
Meanwhile, self-financing engineering college managements association will meet at Mannam Memorial National Club here at 4 p.m. on Sunday to finalise their stand on quota and fee structure. They would meet Education Minister after the meeting. (Newindpress)
Pitroda wants IITs to adopt engg colleges May 10, 2008
NEW DELHI: Concerned over the "glaring regional imbalance" in engineering education, the National Knowledge Commission has suggested that the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology should adopt some lesser known engineering colleges to raise their standard. In a letter to PM Manmohan Singh, NKC chairperson Sam Pitroda has also suggested integration of science and engineering education. (Times of India)
Slowdown jitters in engineering insts May 10, 2008
Engineering colleges, traditionally the recruitment bastion for IT companies, fear a slowdown in recruitments this year because of the recessionary trend in the US, Indias biggest technology market. They expect the campus intake to come down by at least 15-20 per cent. The decrease in overall hires might have three effects: Companies will visit fewer colleges, restrict their intake to creamy layer and insist on hiring students purely from the IT stream. (India Times, India)
Technical institutes rile students on fee refund May 9, 2008
A Mumbai student had to wait this long to recover her fees from an engineering college. Elsewhere, in Gujarat, two students did not receive their marksheets till Ahmedabads Consumer Education & Research Centre (CERC) intervened. (India Times, India -- Intl Business)
Now, a virtual computer! May 4, 2008
K Ansar and PP Ismail, final year computer science students at an engineering college in Vatakara, about 45 km from here, have set up www. bloxtr. (India Times, India)
Same ring behind last year's JEE leak Apr 22, 2008
As many as 18 students, now studying at various engineering colleges in the state, got the paper days before the examination. There is another common thread: the papers were leaked from Saraswati Press. (Times of India)
