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 …

Basic Life Support- Never Heard About It!

Basic Life Support, or BLS, is the first line of response provided to anyone who is going through cardiac arrest, respiratory distress or an obstruction in the airway by the health care providers or the first responders. It requires knowledge and skills in performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), relieving airway obstruction and using automated external defibrillators …

Why We should Stop Googling Medical Symptoms

Many individuals use ‘Dr Google’ to self-diagnose and seek medical assistance, but researchers warn that internet symptom checkers are only correct about a third of the time. The latest study, which was published in the Medical Journal of Australia, looked at 36 worldwide mobile and web-based symptom checks and found that they got the right …

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

As we say food, shelter, clothing are three most important aspects of life. In today’s era affordable housing has also become an important aspect of healthy and sustainable communities. Good, inexpensive housing has become the need of the hour in order to confront the challenges of urban segregation. High land and housing prices have created …