by admin | May 25, 2021 | Markets, Technology, World
By Nishant Arora,
Sydney : Three Indian teams are among the 12 finalists who will vie for the top slot in the Microsoft Imagine Cup Asia Regional Semifinals here and move one step closer to win the grand prize of $100,000 at the world championship in the US.
First place at the Asia competition will secure $15,000 and a spot in the world championship to be able to win the grand price of $100,000 at Microsoft’s Redmond-based headquarters later this year, while the first runners-up will get $5,000 and the second runners-up $1,000.
The team from Faridabad-based Manav Rachna Institute of Research and Studies has developed “Caeli” — a smart automated anti-pollution and drug delivery mask specifically designed for asthmatic and chronic respiratory patients.
Caeli implements breakthrough features to improve the quality of life for respiratory patients living in polluted areas like in north India and especially in the Delhi-NCR region.
The team from Tamil Nadu-based Vellore Institute of Technology has designed “Spot” which allows you to recognise packaged foods and check if it contains a certain ingredient or exhibits a certain character.
The third team from Bengaluru-based R.V. College of Engineering has designed “RVSAFE”, a one-stop solution for effectively handling any kind of disasters be it natural or man-made.
Disasters leave behind a trail of destruction, adversely affecting human life, and property.
The loss caused by disasters can be significantly reduced with better communication and proper management.
Considered as the “Olympics of Technology”, Imagine Cup is a global annual competition sponsored and hosted by Microsoft.
Over the past 10 years, more than 1.65 million students from more than 190 countries have participated in the “Imagine Cup”.
In addition to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain and Machine Learning (ML) have been key technologies that students focused on for the competition.
Last year, “Team DrugSafe” project from R.V. College of Engineering won the award under the Big Data category at the Microsoft Imagine Cup world championship.
This time, the three Indian teams are facing some tough competition from innovative solutions designed by students from China, South Korea, New Zealand, Malaysia and others.
(Nishant Arora is in Sydney at an invitation from Microsoft. He can be contacted at nishant.a@ians.in)
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | World
By Arul Louis,
New York : India is the second largest international reservoir for the US higher education institutions having sent 196,271 students here in the last academic year, according to latest data.
Their numbers continued to grow, with a 5.4 per cent increase in 2017-18 over the previous academic year, according to the Open Doors report from the State Department and the Institute of International Education.
In the other direction, 4,704 students went to study in India during 2016-17, latest period for which data is available. It was an increase of 12.5 per cent from the previous year.
The report said that there was a steep fall in the number of Indian students at the post-graduate level in the US. Their numbers came down by 8.8 per cent to 95,651 in 2017-18 compared to the previous year, while the number of students in practical training programmes after graduation shot up by 32 per cent to 75,390, according to the report.
The number of undergraduate students also went up by 6.2 per cent to 23,346.
Indians made up 17.9 per cent of total of 1,094,792 international students in the US last academic year.
China sent 363,341 students, the most of any country.
In 2016-17, there were 186,267 students from India in the US, a 24.9 per cent increase over the 165,918 the previous year.
During 2016-17, there were 21,977 students in undergraduate programmes, 104,899 in graduate courses and 57,132 in practical training programmes.
The State Department said international students contributed $42 billion to the US economy and supported 450,000 jobs.
(Arul Louis can be reached at arul.l@ians.in and followed on Twitter @arulouis)
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News
New Delhi : Around 4,000 Indian students appeared for interview on Wednesday to secure the American visa to pursue higher education in the United States.
The interview was conducted at the US embassy here and the Consulates in Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai.
The US Mission in India organises Student Visa Day every year to celebrate educational ties with India.
In 2017, more than 186,000 Indian students were enrolled in the US institutions of higher education, double the number from a decade ago and a 12 per cent increase from the year before, the embassy told media persons here.
“India is the second leading place of origin for students coming to the United States, with Indians comprising over 17 per cent of the total international students in the country,” Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) MaryKay Carlson said.
“Today (Wednesday) marks US Mission India’s fourth annual Student Visa Day, an event that celebrates higher education ties between India and the US,” Carlson said.
She said the day is also dedicated to helping qualified Indian students prepare for their education in the United States.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate, Corporate Buzz, Employment
By Saurabh Sinha,
Mumbai : Aiming to skill students to enhance their employability, global 3D experience major Dassault Systemes is planning to forge partnerships with academic universities to create more visibility for better outreach.
The company intends to support the future generation through various training programmes that will boost the government’s ‘Skill India’ initiative, a top company executive has said.
“We want to do more aggressive partnership with universities and make those connections more visible because they are key to the ‘Skill India’ initiative — both at the centre and the state level,” Samson Khaou, Managing Director, Dassault Systemes India, told IANS on the sidelines of its ‘3DEXPERIENCE FORUM 2017’ event here last week.
“We want to enforce our partnership with the education sector, whether it’s vocational training, engineering colleges and universities or Center of Excellence for under-graduates and post-graduates. We are supporting the future generation of the country,” Khaou added.
Dassault Systemes has announced the commencement of the first and second batch of the Aerospace and Defense Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru, which was set up at the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in association with the Karnataka government.
The first two batches will have 50 students undergoing one month-long foundation course. The company is also planning to launch an advanced course of four months on overall Aircraft Design and Development process, Structural Engineering and Equipment Engineering.
The company, in 2015, had partnered with Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha (CUTM) to offer a virtual design and digital manufacturing programme.
While Khaou maintained that the manufacturing domain remains the core business, the company, with its business-to-business-for-consumer (‘B2B-for-C’) approach, is also focusing on consumer experience.
“Through our ‘B2B-for-C’ approach, we want to enable the customers (businesses) we are serving to create or design experiences for their consumer and make those experiences omni-channel by making them available both online and via retail using the ‘3DEXPERIENCE’ platform,” Khaou noted.
As per its ‘open innovation community’ strategy, the company has also collaborated with several startups in the country, which have agility and creativity to leverage the technology, to help them adapt to the global market needs.
“This is very important because now the focus on Digital India is going to boost the Startup (India) initiative. The startup model is no longer the classical way — ‘start local, go global’ as it is now ‘go global at first’,” said Khaou.
“They can leverage the bigger marketplace based on our platform to support the global approach,” he added.
The company is also targeting to leverage the vast potential of the retail and apparel market in India.
It has collaborated with major apparel brands like Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd, Arvind Lifestyle Brands Limited, Mohan Clothing and Myntra.
(Saurabh Sinha can be contacted at saurabh.s@ians.in)
—IANS