Role of Urban Public Spaces in Community Integration

Urban Public Spaces leave a very strong impression on our minds as these mere experiences continue to remain with us as memories. People not only spend time at these places, but also make memories by meeting, communicating, celebrating goodness and enjoying being together. Different places cater to different purposes and possess various characteristics/aural feelings because …

Globalization of Education – An Indian experience

Globalization is not a new word anymore. With the rise in information technology, falling trade barriers, liberalization, and continuous efforts of international organizations such as the United Nations, World Trade Organizations and the like; we have come a long way towards a highly interconnected, interdependent world economy. Some proponents of globalizations also posit that the …

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 …