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Integrating technology like computers and internet with teaching would certainly upgrade the quality of teaching. Such efforts would help rural children get quality education on par with school education available in urban areas, according to S. Thangasamy, Principal, Lakshmi College of Education. He was addressing an in-service training programme for teachers in teacher training institutes and B. Ed colleges in the district held at Lakshmi College of Education at Gandhigr
am recently. The trained teachers would restructure the quality of technology-based education meant for rural children in their schools. Resource person from Intel, Premson David said that this training programme was a world wide initiative to help teachers effectively integrate use of computer technology into classroom curriculum to enhance students’ capacity.
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The coming era would be of e-health as health care is the mother of all inventions. Future demand for bio-medical engineers would be 27 per cent whereas total demand for all other engineering disciplines would be just nine to 11 per cent, said S. Muttan, Professor from Anna University in his special address at a national workshop on bio-signal data acquisition and processing held at P.S.N.A. College of Engineering and Technology in Dindigul recently. Main aim of the worksh
op was to bridge the gap between understanding of equipment functioning and usage of computers for data interpretation and decision, he added.
In his special address, PSG Institute of Medical Science and Research Department of Bio-Informatics Director Suptendra Natha Sarbhadigari said that bio-engineering techniques are being used to process biological system.
While bio-medical engineering deals with biophysics, biotechnology deals with bio-chemistry. Over 120 participants from industry and faculty and students from various engineering colleges took part.
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Communication skills including components like how well we communicate, how do we sell our products, how we justify the quality of product to customers, are essential to enter into an industry, said Suresh Devrangadi, Business Manager, Keane International India (P) Limited, in his lecture at a national-level seminar on advances in information technology and computer applications held at P.S.N.A. College of Engineering and Technology in Dindigul recently.
Moreover, several ‘P’s – People, Product, Process, Power and Performance – were important for a product-oriented company. They must not compromise on the quality.
Mr. Rajesh Devadas, Project Manager, Hewlett Packard, in his valedictory address opined that paper presenters should consult with the industry to correlate their research with industry needs.
Sixty papers were presented in the expo.
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The 11th college day of K.R. College of Arts and Science, Kovilpatti, was celebrated in a grand manner recently. S. Mahesh, Manager, Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Limited, Chennai, was the chief guest and distributed prizes to the winners of cultural events. A first year undergraduate student, S. Senthil Kumar, gave a Bharatanatyam programme.
Contributions from K. Raju in Dindigul and R. Vimal Kumar in Tuticorin
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