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Now, Italians are scouting for students

IF THE English-speaking countries are luring students to their universities and institutes of higher education, the Italians are now here.

The Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce recently organised a road show with seminars, offering 50 postgraduate scholarships at prestigious Italian universities.

The chamber launched a programme called "Invest your talent in Italy" aimed at talented postgraduate Indian students, offering them training in prestigious Italian academic institutions and an internship period with placement in direct contact with companies to complete their university course.

The 50 scholarships were offered in Information and Communication Technology and Management and Industrial Design.

The universities participating in the programme were LUISS (Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociali), Rome; Politecnico Di Milano, Milan; Politecnico Di Torino, Turin; Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa; Universita Bocconi, Milan and Universita Degli Studi Di Trento, Trento.

All the lectures and teaching materials for the chosen courses will be in English.

Besides, there will be courses in the Italian language and culture to help students get an opportunity for closer social and intellectual integration.

For more information, call 41125886 or 22264130.

International symposium

India is a giant waking up to match the global need for optimisation in product and process design.

The research and development activities in India are growing rapidly, said S. Shamasundar, Managing Director, ProSIM R & D Centre, at an international symposium organised here last week by the P.E.S. Institute of Technology.

The symposium on the topic "Application of optimisation technique to product and process design" was inaugurated by Ronald Averill, president of the US-bsed Red Cedar Technology. Eric Goodman, Chief Technology Officer of Red Cedar Technology traced the history of optimization techniques used for design since the 1960s.

R.K. Ramanathan, project director of Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), said India would be a major hub for product and process design, analysis and optimisation in a few years.

Conference convenor S. Shamasundar emphasised that by using optimisation techniques in auto, aero and general engineering, companies could reduce their time to market and increase the profits.

Seminar

The city-based M.V.J. College of Engineering's Department of Computer Science and Engineering has organised a seminar on "Emerging trends in software engineering" at the college premises near Whitefield, Kadugodi, on Thursday.

The seminar will focus on emerging trends and industry standards in software development, and the trends in software architecture, verification and validation, testing methodologies and software quality standards.

The event is open to faculty members planning to teach a course on Entrepreneur Development at the postgraduate or undergraduate level. For details, call 28452324.

RASHEED KAPPAN

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