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THE CHIEF executive officers, chief operating officers, chief finance officers and other top industry executives will talk to hundreds of students connected to the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) EDUSAT project every Saturday from the VTU studio in Bangalore. The objective of the initiative, according to the VTU Vice-Chancellor, K. Balaveera Reddy, is to improve understanding of industry trends, requirements and critical success-factors for students. He says the VTU is making efforts to conduct programmes involving companies such as Infosys, IBM and Microsoft to highlight various facets, technologies and trends relevant to industry, particularly the information technology industry. The VTU-EDUSAT network consists of a "teaching end" comprising a studio and an uplink earth station. The studio, which originates live or recorded lectures, is linked to the uplink earth station. The lectures (visual images and audio signals) are transmitted to the satellite from where they are beamed back to the earth, covering a large area. A 2.5-metre antenna for uplink has a data rate of 2 mbps. Live lectures are received in classrooms in engineering colleges. There are 100 classrooms, of which 50 are interactive and 50 non-interactive. A 1.2-metre antenna is installed in each college. From interactive classrooms, the students can interact with subject experts at the teaching end through a voice link via satellite (64 kbps audio return channel). The non-interactive classrooms will have "receive-only" facility, and students can interact with the subject experts via a telephone line or mobile phone or through the Internet. EDUSAT is a project of the Indian Space Research Organisation, under which 100 of the 118 engineering colleges affiliated to the VTU have been networked with a studio in Bangalore. This makes VTU the single largest "connected" university in the country.
THE SURANA College has organised an interface on "Indian scientific heritage" in association with the Gandhi Centre of Science and Human Values, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, on Sunday and Monday at the college premises. The interface is aimed at students and faculty selected from colleges affiliated to Bangalore University. The eminent scientist Roddam Narasimha will inaugurate the programme and release a book on "Aryabhata." He will also deliver the keynote address. Among the topics lined up for the programme are "Biological sciences in India," "Indian astronomy," "Indian medicine," "Orbits of Indian satellite," "Medicine and surgery in India," "Metallurgy and steel industry in ancient India" and "The brave new world of astronomy." The contents of the lectures will be published.
THE DEPARTMENT of Management Studies and Research Centre attached to the BMS College of Engineering recently organised a symposium on "Corporate restructuring" and "Capital markets." One of the speakers — the former Indian Institute of Management Bangalore professor and director of the Centre for Financial Management, Prasanna Chandra — spoke about who a "smart" investor really is, and how individuals can harness their resources and make intelligent investments.
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