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Enabling students with IT skills
Mysore-based Raman International Institute of Information Technology (RiiiT), the State’s first IT Finishing School, has introduced a 12-month course — Post-Graduate Diploma in Software Programming — for producing post-graduates trained in soft skills and technical skills.
The University of Mysore has certified the course and the Department of IT, BT and S and T, Government of Karnataka, is supporting the initiative. Syndicate Bank has extended educational loans for students pursuing the course.
The IT Finishing School aims to expose students to corporate culture. The school was set up to meet the manpower requirements of the IT industry and cater to the employment training needs of students in Tier-II and Tier-III cities.
The course is divided into four sections — Foundation Track, Tech-Track, Project Track and Internship Track — all with duration of three months each. In Foundation Track, students are groomed to be professionals with emphasis on communication, teamwork, business knowledge and problem-solving techniques. Tech Track trains students in programming and technical knowledge. Students can specialise either in Java or in .Net. Live projects based on actual case studies are given in Project Track that gives students an opportunity to visit the industries frequently for exposure. Students are placed in software companies and are assigned projects in the Internship Track.
“The students will come out with academic as well as practical knowledge for future application in the software industry,” the RiiiT says. For further details contact RiiiT on 0821-42444487/8/9.
SHANKAR BENNUR
Seminar on nanoscience
A two-day seminar on “Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” was held at the Department of Studies in Physics, Karnatak University, recently.
Inaugurating the seminar, nanoscientist of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), G.U. Kulkarni, said this field promised unlimited innovative technological benefits. Underscoring the need for initiating training and research activities in both nanoscience and nanotechnology, he said “India being a global leader in IT revolution cannot afford to miss the opportunity of leading both teaching and research and development activities in order to compete with the rest of the world.”
During the two-day event scientists from JNCASR N. Chandrabhas and S.M. Shivaprasad, scientist from National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune, M.V. Badiger, and N.S. Sankeshwar of Karnatak University delivered lectures on various facets of nansoscience and nanotechnology including nanomaterials, nano in biology, surface physics and nanostructures.
The resource persons also elaborated on the scope for the subject and interacted with the participants and clarified their doubts. Students of Physics and teachers from various educational institution participated in the seminar.
GIRISH S. PATTANASHETTI
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