New Arrivals: August 1-16, 2019

BRANCH: MECHANICAL

27213-27216 DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (AS PER NEW SYLLABUS OF MUMBAI UNIVERSITY)  
By GUPTA, G.K.
CHENNAI/McGRAW-HILL/2018
005.74 GUP

27217-27218 KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS OF MACHINERY  
By NORTON, ROBERT L.
CHENNAI/McGRAW-HILL EDUCATION/2009
621.8 NOR

27219 INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS AND CONTROL  
By BHATTACHARYA, S.K/CHATTERJEE, S.
CHENNAI/McGRAW-HILL INDIA/1995
621.3815287 BHA/CHA

27227 ENGINEERING FLUID MECHANICS  
By KUMAR, K.L.
NEW DELHI/EURASIA/2016
620.106 KUM

27228 MECHANICS OF FLUIDS-3rd. ed.  
By SHAMES, IRVING H.
NEW DELHI/MCGRAW HILL/2014
620.106 SHA

27229-27230 THEORY OF MACHINES AND MECHANISMS-25th. ed.  
By BALLANEY, P.L.
NEW DELHI/KHANNA/2018
621.8 BAL

27238-27239 MECHANICS OF MATERIALS-2nd. ed.  
By GERE, JAMES M./TIMOSHENKO, STEPHEN P.
NEW DELHI/CBS/2004
620.1123 GER/TIM

27240 ELEMENTS OF STRENGTH OF MATERIALS-5th. ed.  
By TIMOSHENKO, S.P./YOUNG, D.H.
NEW DELHI/AFFILIATED EAST-WEST PRESS/2019
620.112 TIM/YOU

2724127245 ELEMENTS OF WORKSHOP TECHNOLOGY: MACHINE TOOLS-15th. ed.Vol.No.2  
By CHOUDHURY, S.K. HAJRA/BOSE, S.K./CHOUDHURY, A.K.HAJRA/ROY, NIRJHAR
MUMBAI/MEDIA/1964
621.9 CHO/BOS

2724627247 MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY: FOUNDRY, FORMING AND WELDING-5th. ed.Vol.No.1  
By RAO, P.N.
CHENNAI/McGRAW-HILL EDUCATION/2019
670 RAO

BRANCH: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

27220 MICROWAVES-2nd. ed.  
By GUPTA, K.C.
NEW DELHI/NEW AGE/2012
621.3813 GUP

27221 MICROWAVE ENGINEERING-3rd. ed.  
By DAS, ANNAPURNA/DAS, SISIR K.
NEW DELHI/McGRAW-HILL EDUCATION/2015
621.3813 DAS/DAS


BRANCH: ELECTRICAL

27222-27226 FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL CIRCUITS-4th. ed.  
By ANANDKUMAR, A.
DELHI/PHI LEARNING/2018 [Issued]
621.395 ANA

27231-27232 NETWORK ANALYSIS  
By VALKENBURG, M.E.
UTTAR PRADESH/PEARSON INDIA/2019
621.3192 VAL


BRANCH: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY


27233-27237 COGNITIVE COMPUTING AND BIG DATA ANALYSIS  
By HURWITZ, JUDITH S./KAUFMAN, MARCIA/BOWLES, ADRIAN
INDIANAPOLIS/JOHN WILEY/2015
006.3 HUR/KAU

BRANCH: COMPUTERS

27248-27267 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING-2nd. ed.  
By ANAND KUMAR, A.
DELHI/PHI LEARNING/2016
621.3822 ANA

Laboratories in engineering colleges, technical institutions in rural areas to get makeover: AICTE

New Delhi, Aug 11 Laboratories in engineering colleges and other technical institutions operational in rural areas are all set to get a makeover, with the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) deciding to providing grants to institutions for procuring modern equipment.

The technical education regulator under the HRD Ministry will be providing grants under the Modernisation and Removal of Obsolescence (MODROBS) scheme.

"A special drive is being undertaken by AICTE under MODROB scheme for modernising laboratories in technical institutions operating in rural areas and approved by AICTE by providing grants for procuring modern equipments. The institutions can apply under the scheme till August 28," a senior AICTE official said.

The MODROB scheme aims to modernise and remove obsolescence in laboratories, workshops, computing facilities excluding libraries, so as to enhance the functional efficiency of technical institutions for teaching, training and research purpose.

"It also supports new innovations in class room and laboratory, teaching technology, development of lab instructional material and appropriate technology to ensure that practical work and project work to be carried out by students is contemporary and suited to the needs of the industry.

"The equipment financed under the scheme could be ideally used for up-gradation of equipment in existing laboratories, enhancement of performance parameter specification of existing equipment, incorporation of latest development in the field and replacement of old depreciated equipment by modern equipment," the official said.

The equipment installed through MODROBS can also be used for indirect benefit to faculty or students through continuing education programmes, training programmes for local industry and consultancy work.

Only institutions that have been in existence for at least 10 years can apply for the scheme and get funding up to Rs 20 lakh. Duration of the project will be two years from the date of receipt of funds in the institute''s account.

"100 per cent grant of sanctioned amount will be released to government and government aided institutes. To private institutions, grants will be sanctioned in the form of per cent of the sanctioned amount as advance followed by 20 per cent as reimbursement on submission of the utilisation certificate and other supporting documents as specified in terms and conditions of MODROB," the official said. GJS GJS DV DV

Source: https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/laboratories-in-engineering-colleges-technical-institutions-in-rural-areas-to-get-makeover-aicte/1594754 (Accessed on August 16, 2019)

VIKRAM SARABHAI'S 100TH: WORDS FROM THE AWARD-WINNING LEADER'S 1971 SPEECH REMAIN IMPORTANT FOR INDIA TODAY

Editor's Note: On 10 April 1971, at the Silver Jubilee Celebration of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the father of India's Space program Dr Vikram Sarabhai was invited to take the stage and share a few words as the Guest of honor. He spoke of the role Tata Institute of Fundamental Research plays in the country's biggest atomic energy program  (the Atomic Energy Commission, of which Sarabhai was the President 1966–1971) and the importance of institutes of national import to freely-interact in clusters with others important institutions to address the needs of a developing nation like India. 

Your Excellency, Mr Tata, Prof Menon and friends,

I speak here on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission of India with admiration, gratitude, pride, and expectation as Panditji said, "This Institution has been the cradle of Atomic Energy in India", and it is through the agency of one single person: Homi Bhabha, that we saw during the early part of the fifties and right to the middle of the sixties a creation and the development of 3 major institutions — not only the Atomic Energy Commission itself but the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the Atomic Energy Establishment, of all three of which Bhabha was the guiding spirit.

But when in 1966 Bhabha met his tragic death, it was considered appropriate to separate the directing responsibility of each one of these three units, and we have in Professor Menon a most distinguished successor to Bhabha in the role of the Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. It is necessary for creative work to be able to see squirrels and birds. It is not a physicist's remark and I feel that Professor Menon has not only maintained the excellence of this Institute but has kept up the core 0f the culture which was created so admirably by Bhabha for the type of creative work which was to be done here.

Vikram Sarabhai (left), Chairman of ISRO, and NASA administrator Thomas Paine sign an agreement in September 1969. Image: NASA

But one of the most important aspects which I would like to deal with you here is this aspect of the relationship of the culture of fundamental research, the culture of research and development and the culture of industry; for the main task of Atomic Energy Commission in this county is to provide the benefits of Atomic Energy for the development of the nation. And I think it is necessary to understand that the main task is related to the completion of this entire innovative change from fundamental research to the industry, if we are to succeed.

I would suggest that the primary task of fundamental research is to discover; of research and development is to optimise, and of the industry to produce. One of the main problems that are faced in the organisation of innovative institutions or establishments is to make the link between these three cultures and to provide for a basis by which transfer of knowledge, of men, of technology can proceed from one step to another interacting freely and also benefitting one from the other. Margarate Mead has talked of the interacting clusters which are necessary if development and change are to take place. The clusters which are in each one of these three cultures require their transfer men who shared each other's trust above all and who share a common commitment to a profession, to science, to excellence, to certain common ideals. In electrical engineering, it is well known that energy from one loop to another can only be transferred if there are matched impedances.

Dr Vikram Sarabhai with Dr Homi Bhabha. Image courtesy: Darpana Archives

It is these common matching transformers at which the point of transfer takes place and it is through the men who are occupying positions of trust in these different clusters that it is possible to make the most important transfers which are involved in the innovative change. I would like to suggest that one of Bhabha's greatest accomplishments was that when he died suddenly, he left the state of affairs in the hands of people who shared a common trust and a common culture and could manage to develop these institutions further as a joint group or a family.

Dr Menon has already remarked about the role that the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research is playing in transferring electronics technology to the Electronics Corporation of India, of the big role that today they will be playing in the development of the computer industry in this country, and in the development of radars for the Space Research or the Variable Energy Cyclotron. There are a number of projects which TIFR continues to share with the other members of the family of Atomic Energy. In the years to come, we have a very challenging task before us. The 10-year profile of Atomic Energy and Space Research requires the best from our bright and talented scholars.

Why AIoT Is Emerging As The Future Of Industry 4.0

Two trends that are dominating the technology industry are the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). But for industrial automation, these two technologies are much more than the buzzwords or trending topics. The convergence of AI and IoT will redefine the future of industrial automation. It is set to lead the Industry 4.0 revolution.

To read the full article, please visit:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2019/08/12/why-aiot-is-emerging-as-the-future-of-industry-40/#56077a09619b (Accessed on August 16, 2019)

Five Factors Shaping Data Science

As data science evolves, key challenges are driving organizations to seek innovative solutions to compete in the new AI-driven economy.

Five Factors:

1. Making data actionable for data science

2. Shortage of data science talent

3. Time-to-value must accelerate

4. Business users need transparency

5. Improving the operationalization process

To read the full article, please visit:

https://www.informationweek.com/big-data/five-factors-shaping-data-science/a/d-id/1335387 (Accessed on August 16, 2019)

TCS’ AI platform Ignio tops $60m revenue mark

BENGALURU: TCS’ artificial intelligence platform Ignio has crossed $60 million in annual revenue and India’s largest IT services company is doubling down on the product strategy it has created for the unit, the company’s top executives said. 

Five years ago, Ignio began as a platform that was closely integrated and sold with the company’s services offerings but two years ago, TCS began to take it down a product path. ET had reported that the company hired a chief marketing officer and an .. 

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TCS Launches Robotic Automation Solutions to Accelerate Digital Transformation in the Semiconductor Industry

Tata Consultancy Services’ Robotic Data Factory Solution, Built at Its New Center of Excellence, Will Significantly Reduce the Response Time to Anomalies in Semiconductor Production

Tata Consultancy Services, a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced that it has launched new Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions that leverage the power of analytics to drive greater accuracy and better quality in chip fabrication, and help semiconductor companies accelerate their digital transformation journeys.

The semiconductor market is going through immense change at unprecedented speeds driven by hyper-connectivity, big data, and adoption of Internet of Things. Semiconductor companies are aggressively pursuing strategies to enable rapid innovation, product line expansion and vertical market focus, with speed and agility.

TCS is partnering with leading semiconductor companies in navigating the change using its Machine First Delivery Model and Business 4.0 framework. It is leveraging its deep domain knowledge in the semiconductor industry, and expertise in analytics, AI and machine learning to transform core operations in this sector.

TCS has set up a new Semiconductor Center of Excellence (CoE) to design and build closed loop systems that combine the power of analytics and automation to reimagine the semiconductor fabrication (fab) value chain. Specialists at this CoE are creating solutions that will enable production robots, powered with intelligent algorithms, to respond to heterogeneous scenarios to improve quality and accuracy throughout the semiconductor manufacturing process.

The TCS Robotic Data Factory solution, built on Blue Prism’s Connected-RPA platform, will leverage insights derived from fab production data to trigger appropriate business workflows, significantly reducing the response time to anomalies in the production of semiconductors.

“We are leveraging our deep contextual knowledge gained from engagements in the semiconductor industry and harnessing the power of robotic automation to intelligently streamline core business processes using fab data. This will significantly jumpstart our customers’ Business 4.0 transformation journeys, with faster product introduction and improved quality,” said V Rajanna, Global Head, Technology Business Unit, TCS. “Our new CoE reiterates our commitment to invest in defining new digital paradigms for the semiconductor industry.”

“By combining TCS’ semiconductor industry expertise and our Connected-RPA platform we’re able to transform operations and speed up product delivery in one of the most competitive and vital industries in the world,” said Chad Gailey, Vice President, Channel Sales and Global Service Providers, Blue Prism Americas. “We are driving disruption and innovation by offering an unbeatable value proposition for deploying intelligent automation solutions.”

Source: https://aithority.com/robots/tcs-launches-robotic-automation-solutions-to-accelerate-digital-transformation-in-the-semiconductor-industry/ (Accessed on August 16, 2019)

Opinion | Govt Must Boost Research In Social Sciences To Preserve Ancient Knowledge

Institutions like JNU, TISS, and CSDS, and Centre for the Study of Social Science, have a strong tradition of social science research and must be strengthened to realise government's vision, writes Badri Narayan, Director of the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute.

To read the full article, please visit:

https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-opinion-govt-must-strengthen-social-sciences-institutes-to-preserve-ancient-knowledge/336100 (Accessed on August 16, 2019)

Six cities picked for Centre’s project to link research, industry

The project is being spearheaded by the office of the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) on a priority basis under its agenda for the first 100 days of the NDA government’s second term.

To read the full article, please visit:

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/six-cities-picked-for-centres-project-to-link-research-industry-5899865/ (Accessed on August 16, 2019)

UGC to roll out NET for admission for M Phil, PhD

All higher education institutions across the country will soon have to enroll all category of students in PhD programmes on the basis of their scores in entrance test and interview.

Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/national/ugc-to-roll-out-net-for-admission-for-m-phil-phd-754137.html (Accessed on August 16, 2019)

Certificate by Institution of Mechanical Engineers not equivalent to Degree, Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has reaffirmed that Certificates issued by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (India) [IMEI/ appellant] to its Members on successful completion of its bi-annual examination cannot be equivalent to a Degree.

The judgment was passed by a Bench of Justices UU Lalit and Deepak Gupta in an appeal by Institution of Mechanical Engineers against a judgment of the Punjab & Haryana High Court.

The appellant, a Society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 was established to promote the profession and practice of Mechanical Engineering Professionals. It conducts bi-annual examinations known as Technician Engineers’ Part-I and Part-II, Automobile Technician Engineers’ Examination Part-I and Part-II, Production Technician Engineers’ Part-I and Part-II, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technician Engineers’ Examination Part-I and Part-II and Section-A and Section-B of Associate Membership Examination in Mechanical Engineering.

To read the full article, please visit,

https://barandbench.com/certificate-by-institution-of-mechanical-engineers-not-equivalent-to-degree-supreme-court/ (Accessed on August 16, 2019)

AICTE-CII survey to help academia, industry

HIGHLIGHTS:
The ongoing final and full survey of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2019 has shortlisted more than 50 technical, management and pharmacy institutions from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

To read the full article, please visit:
https://www.thehansindia.com/telangana/aicte-cii-survey-to-help-academia-industry-554427

What Skills Do Data Scientists Need

There is currently a huge demand for data scientists, which is a top-trending job with attractive salaries. But what are the skills and tools that employers are looking for. It's a few years since we asked What is a Data Scientist and How Do I Become One? The answer given back in 2015 is still valid as a starting point: Similar to a business/data analyst, data scientists combine knowledge of computer science and applications, modelling, statistics, analytics and math to uncover insights in data. But what does this mean in terms of the skillset a data scientist should acquire. The question How to Become More Marketable as a Data Scientist has been tackled by the research team at CV Compiler, a company which provides guidance on creating a convincing resume to developers and others in the software industry. For an analysis of the skills required by data scientists the CV Compiler team looked at 300 Data Science vacancies from StackOverflow, AngelList, and similar websites. Then using their own text analytics tool, they identified the terms which were mentioned the most frequently and created this chart: It needs to be noted that the research represents the preferences of employers, rather than of data scientists. I would have expected to see "Machine Learning" near the top of the list because looking at job descriptions you discover that Machine Learning Engineers work in Data Science teams and that Data Science Interns can expect to "gain valuable AI/ML skills". Perhaps the two terms are so intertwined that knowledge of  Machine Learning is assumed. While R is frequently referred to as "the language of data science, Python outnumbering it in job vacancies makes sense in that Python a general-purpose language and currently trending when it comes to popularity. I'm surprised to see Scala quite so high and the complete absense of Julia both from the table and from the blog report write up where other skills and tools that gain substantial number of mentions are discussed. For example, while Big Data is in the table with 221 mentions, the term Data Mining, used for "collecting big data" isn't in the table despite but the fact that it had 128 mention in job vacancies is reported. While SQL comes high in the list, and ETL (Extract, transform, load) is in the table, there's no mention anywhere Mongo DB or No SQL. On the other hand mentions of the open source  Apache Spark outnumber those of Hadoop. Commenting on this Andrew Stetsenko writes: According to the 2018 Big Data Analytics Market Study, Big Data adoption in enterprises soared from 17% in 2015 to 59% in 2018. Thus the popularity of Big Data tools also grew. [In addition to Spark and Haddoop] the most popular ones are MapReduce (36), and Redshift (29) .....some employers still expect candidates to be familiar with Apache Pig (30), HBase (32), and similar technologies. HDFS (20) is still being mentioned in vacancies as well. As with Compiler CV's earlier report on the skills needed by JavaScript developers, the figures in brackets are the number of mentions. Stetsenko also mentions the importance of data visualization, mentioned in 55 job vacancies and notes: It’s crucial that you could represent the outcomes of your work in a format, understandable to any team member or a customer. As for the data visualization tools, employers prefer Tableau (54). The fact that Computer Vision and NLP (Natural Language Processing) make it into the table serves to emphasize that AI and Data Science are inextricably linked and that knowledge of AI tools such as Tensorflow is well worth acquiring.  Source: https://www.i-programmer.info/news/197-data-mining/12988-what-skills-do-data-scientists-need.html (Accessed on August 7, 2019)

US tech firms dominate top 10 green card application list

Pune: Only two Indian companies —Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys — figure in a list of the top ten applicants for employer green cards in the six months to March 2019, a review of US government data shows.
US-based technology companies such as Amazon, Cognizant, Cisco, Facebook and Google have together filed more green card applications, or those seeking talented immigrants with permanent residency to work in their offices in the United States, according to the US Department of Labor data.
The Department of Labor follows an October to September calendar year.
Amazon has filed 1,500 applications, the largest among the ten companies. Cognizant Technology Services, a US-headquartered IT services firm that has a large employee base in India, is second with more than 1,300 employer green card applications, followed by Cisco. TCS, with 1,009 applications comes fourth on that list, while Infosys is in seventh position, according to the data. It is as yet unclear how many of these applications will convert into permanent residency permits.
Amazon, Cisco, TCS, Infosys, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Deloitte — all of which figure in the top 10 — declined to comment.
A spokesperson for Cognizant said it consistently sponsors employees in “securing legal permanent residence in the US precisely because they are highly-skilled, highly-educated knowledge professionals who are valuable assets to our company and clients.”
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), the industry lobby group for Indian IT, said the data supports its contention that there is a shortage of skilled talent in the US and that American companies are hiring people from where it is available the most —India. “While it is a company’s decision on how it wants to recruit and retain talent, this is a reflection of the talent shortage with low unemployment rates and an increased demand for digital skills,” said Shivendra Singh, vice-president of the global trade department at Nasscom.
US grants H-1B visas to highly skilled people for a period of three years. This can be extended for a similar term. Most workers apply for a green card or permanent resident status towards the end of their H-1B visa tenure.

The application enables them to stay and work in the US legally while it is in process.
Companies are required to pay for a worker’s H-1B visa application, but the responsibility for a green card rests with the individual. However, many companies apply for an I-140 or Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker to retain a highly valued or skilled resource.
A prospective employer submits the Form I-140 to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to petition for an alien to work in the US on a permanent basis.
Currently, it takes an Indian applicant more than eight years to receive permanent resident status. It is estimated that up to 300,000 Indians could benefit if the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act or HR 1044 is passed by the US Senate. 

Source: //economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70562546.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Must Read: 07/08/2019

University Grants Commission (UGC) has permitted SDM, Ujire to start three professional courses

Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70553169.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Existing varsities don’t qualify, yet-to-be-set-up ones do

If KREA University, Azim Premji University, Ashoka University, apart from the Indian Institute for Human Settlements and the Indian Institute of Public Health—all promising private universities—not making it to the University Grants Commission (UGC) list of Institutes of Eminence recommended to the government seems odd, its justification for rejecting these seems outright batty. The UGC says that since none of these institutes—and a handful of public universities—feature in global and Indian quality rankings, they weren’t included.

Read more at: https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/existing-varsities-dont-qualify-yet-to-be-set-up-ones-do/1668246/

'Spin' Highly Prevalent in Top Psychiatry Journal Abstracts

More than half of clinical trial abstracts published in top psychiatry and psychology journals exaggerate the significance of study findings, a discovery that may lead to poor clinical decision making.

This is potentially "dangerous," first author Samuel Jellison, third-year medical student, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa, told Medscape Medical News.

Read more: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/916484

Regarding Ph.D.

Varsities should send teachers on sabbatical leave for pursuing research: UGC panel

Universities and colleges should develop action plans to send mid-career teachers on sabbatical leave for pursuing research and writing, a panel set up by the University Grants Commission (UGC) has recommended.

The four-member committee on “Promoting and improving quality of research in Indian universities and colleges” headed by professor P Balaram, former director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, recently submitted its report to the commission.

“The UGC should encourage and support state universities and affiliated colleges to put in place a rigorous but generous program that would offer sabbatical leave to mid-career teachers for pursuing research and writing books and monographs which consolidated accumulated original research knowledge,” the panel said in its report.

The report said mid-career national level sabbatical awards on a competitive basis for a year may be introduced enabling 50-100 faculty-members to pursue research which may also provide an opportunity for faculty to build collaborative contacts with major national and international institutions.

“Such opportunities must be mandated in both public and private institutions,” the report said.

Developing classroom pedagogy, curricula and system of assessment, promoting academic integrity, remedial teaching, encouraging vernacular languages, use of technology and media platforms and policy internships, are among the other recommendations made by the committee.

Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/varsities-should-send-teachers-on-sabbatical-leave-for-pursuing-research-ugc-panel/story-4M0Wgrtmh6uYy83T4W5AVO.html (Accessed on August 7, 2019)

Must Read: 06/08/2019

Setback at high speed? India's ambitious Train 20 project reaches point of no return

Coming after the launch of the Vande Bharat Express, Train 20 was seen as the next level for high-speed trains.

To read the full article, please visit:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/railways/setback-at-high-speed-indias-ambitious-train-20-project-reaches-point-of-no-return/articleshow/70512840.cms

India will use more power than Europe, US by 2040: Study

India will consume more electricity than Europe by 2038 and  .. 

Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70504132.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

New Isro system to shield its assets from space debris

Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is setting up a n .. 

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Texas Instruments India, AICTE, DST, IIM-B to bring India Innovation Challenge Design Contest to students

https://www.aninews.in/news/business/texas-instruments-india-aicte-dst-iim-b-to-bring-india-innovation-challenge-design-contest-to-students20190805105943/

Chennai: Engineering freshers begin college life with yoga,  .. 

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Hindi imposition: MHRD seeks opinion of state varsities
Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/state/hindi-imposition-mhrd-seeks-opinion-of-state-varsities-752278.html

Gender disparity at PhD level, men dominate by a huge margin 

Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70535359.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Must Read - 05/08/2019

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UGC committee recommends four-year undergraduate courses to boost research

The NEP panel led by former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan, which submitted its report to the new HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', has recommended re-introduction of the four-year course as part of the undergraduate reforms

A University Grants Commission (UGC) panel has recommended the introduction of a four-year programme from the current three-year undergraduate course for promoting and improving quality of research in colleges and universities. The development comes five years after the controversial Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) was scrapped.

Apart from the four-member committee of the UGC, an HRD Ministry panel working on the new National Education Policy (NEP) had also recommended a transition to four-year UG course.

 “Increase the number of universities offering the four-year undergraduate programme, with a strong research component to provide the pipeline for good quality students for the doctoral programme,” the committee, headed by professor P Balaram, former director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, said in its report, according to PTI.

 “Also, the existing two-year MA and MSc programs should have a research project with a requirement of typically 6-10 credits. It may be important to stop undergraduate programmes that are limited in scope (for example in specialised subjects like Biotechnology or Bioinformatics ), as they provide training only in specialised subjects,” the report further said.

“All full-time undergraduate programmes must be broad-based. Professional and vocational courses that facilitate jobs should be run separately as Diploma courses,” the report added.

The Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) introduced by the Delhi University under the previous vice-chancellor Dinesh Singh was scrapped by former Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani.

The NEP panel, led by former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan, which submitted its report to Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, has recommended re-introduction of the four-year course as part of undergraduate reforms.

 “Both three-year and four-year courses will be allowed to co-exist, but with multiple exit and entry options. The four-year programme will provide for greater rigour and allow students to conduct research optionally,” the NEP draft said.

“Students will graduate with a four-year Liberal Arts Science Education degree with Honours, or may graduate with a B Sc, BA, B Com or B Voc after completing three years with a suitable completion of credits within their subject,” it said.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/education/ugc-hrd-panel-recommends-4-year-ug-courses-5877265/ (Accessed on August 6, 2019)