Mentor, the first go-to resource for a student calls for a wonderful relationship

Faculty members being the ‘perpetually available mentors’ for their students, must, in all circumstances, be concerned about the academic, social and, to the extent possible, the personal affairs of students assigned to them as ‘mentees’. A mentor is a readily available, go-to resource who must develop anple confidence in the mind of the mentees so …

The Role of Training and Development for Placements

With the evolving landscape of higher education and constantly changing requirements of industry, the surmounting challenge remains to prepare future ready professionals who are equipped with the broad spectrum of knowledge, aptitude, employability skills and hawk like vision to stride confidently on their career path. Training and development plays a pivotal role in shaping up …

Why all engineers should know about Artificial Intelligence

At present, Artificial Intelligence is quite a popular term that is widely discussed in engineering, technology and business circles. Some experts and analysts argue that Artificial Intelligence or machine learning is the future – but if we air around, it is a fact that it’s not the future – it is the present. What exactly …

Tragedy of Commons to Governing of Commons – Key to Sustainability

Almost five decades back, Ecologist Garrett Hardin, published an article in December 1968 in a peer reviewed journal, Science and coined the challenging phrase “Tragedy of the Commons”- where he mentioned and explained that people who think only of their own self-interest eventually results in depletion of shared resources. To elaborate it further, he used an …

Nothing Happens until you Decide: Make a Decision and watch your Life move Forward

Engineering colleges which cropped up in 90s and beyond was a venture and effort by private individual’s as per the regulations of the UGC that could absorb students interested in engineering streams to fill up the insistent and peremptory demands of a newly found market. But none of them realized that they’d bring about the …