Source : The Hindu CHENNAI, May 14, 2010

The nation’s premier science and technology institutes will be launching a virtual university in a few years’ time, said IIT-M Director M.S. Ananth on Thursday.

At the awards function for the winners of a blog contest on U.S. – India relations, Mr. Ananth said that the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) was receiving a large number of hits on youtube.com.

Initially, the IITs and IISc had developed 240 courses for the Ekalavya channel to reach out to students across the nation through Web and video. As the channel was not effective, an IIT alumnus working in youtube.com came forward to post the content on the Net to help in the spread of science and technology.

“We hope to launch a virtual university in a few years,” Mr. Ananth said. The IITs and IISc will partner with other premier institutes to produce about 600 courses to make the virtual university a reality. The need to offer Web courses was necessary as the number of students entering engineering has tripled from 3 lakh students from the time he assumed office as IIT-M Director to 9 lakh students at present.

With fewer takers for the less attractive teaching profession, the brick and mortar model would not work, he said. Besides, the teacher’s role in future could well be restricted to teaching the student to discriminate between actual information and the so-called info-noise.

On Indo-U.S. relations, Mr. Ananth said that while the people-to-people relations were excellent, the relationship between the two States was formal. He expressed hope that it would come to equilibrium at some point of time. Bryan Dalton, Acting Consul General, U.S. Consulate General, Chennai, and Robert Kerr, Acting Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Consulate General, Chennai, gave away the prizes to the blog winners. Rajat G. Bhusan won a laptop. N. Krishna Kumar won a desktop computer and Sujay Babruwad won an iPod. Tom Tillo, K. Shameer and V.P Aneesudheen won an iPod shuffle each as consolation prizes.

Memorandum of Understanding between AIeMs and Altera-California Based World leader in Electric Design was signed to set up a LAB in AIEMS college

We cordially invite you to the Engineering Career Guidance Programme being held at number of places all over Karnataka and elsewhere …

For further details please contact: +919343067167  or write to:  info[AT]aiems[DOT]in

• 22nd April 2010 – Gulbarga
• 22nd April 2010 – Bidar
• 1st May 2010 – Bengaluru / Bangalore
• 11th May 2010 – Chintamani, Kolar
• 14th May 2010 – Bijapur
• 22nd May 2010 – Hubli (tentative)
• 28th May 2010 – New Delhi, NCR

Amruta Institute of Engineering and Management Sciences is organising “Engineering Career Guidance Programme” workshop on 1st May 2010.

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We cordially invite you to the Engineering Career Guidance Programme and launching of e-Counseling facility for Engineering Career Guidance. This is being inaugurated on May 1st 2010 by Shri Aravind Limbavali, Hon minister for higher education, Govt of Karnataka.

Venue: NMKRV Auditorium, 3rd Block, Jayanagar, Bengaluru – 1st May 2010, 10:30 AM

There will be a panel discussion involving eminent educationists, corporate leaders and entrepreneurs. This will be of particular interest to the PUC/12th Students and their parents.

Please contact the coordinator at 9343067167 for further details.

A history is in the making, 06th March 2010 is  a day to remember at ‘Amruta Institute of Engineering & Management Sciences’ as it marked the beginning of the much important ‘Amruta Education – Industry Forge’ (A-Forge)

About A-Forge:

A-Forge establishes a forge with other industries to know & understand the basic pre-requisites, needs and demands what the industry requires which in turn helps students prepare to its requirements & demands accordingly

Dignitaries Present:

• Sri Murugesh R Nirani – Honourable Minister for Large & Medium Scale industries, Government of Karnataka
• Sri Aroon Raman – Vice Chairman CII( Consortium of Indian Industries) Karnataka State Council.
• Sri Anil Kumar – National President, IPCA
• Smt Tejaswini Ananth Kumar, Managing Trustee – AIeMS
• Sri G R Narayan, Chairman – KPIT
• Sri Pradeep Oak, Chairman – AIeMS
• Dr. V.B. Sondur, Principal – AIeMS
• Dr. K.N. Murthy, Research Dean – AIeMS

Inauguration:
Dr. K.N. Murthy, Research Dean – Amruta Institute of Engineering & Management Sciences welcomed all the dignitaries present on the Diaz.
Sri Murugesh R Nirani – Honourable Minister for Large & Medium Scale industries, Government of Karnataka, inauguratedA-Forge. His humble speech involved his hard core experiences to reach his destiny of becoming an industrialist. He advised students to be more realistic & practical and also urged the students to develop common sense more than academic implications to reach new heights. Before stepping down the minister urged the students to be employers than becoming employees.
Smt. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar, Managing Trustee – AIeMS addressed the gathering and briefed the inception of the institute, its glory and its journey ahead.
Sri Aroon Raman Vice Chairman CII, justifying the statements of the minister advised the students to work hard in accomplishing their careers and whole heartedly appreciated the efforts of AIeMS in shaping an individual through inception of innovations.
Sri G R Narayan, Chairman – KPIT advised the students to make use of the A-Forge to the maximum extent and felt that, A-Forge shall be a bridge in filling the gap between the academics and the industry.
Sri Anil Kumar briefed how the collaboration with SLN technologies would be beneficial to the institute. Its future endeavours and accomplishments with AIeMS.
Dr. V.B Sondur, Principal – AIeMS explained the objectives of A-Forge in detail and presented the vote of thanks to all the dignitaries present on behalf of the Management, Faculties and Students.

Kiran: we build roads sans pride

The appalling state of Bangalore’s roads has invited the wrath of Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar Shaw. She made her displeasure known — and publicly — at the launch of the MBA programme of the Amrutha Institute of Engineering and Management Sciences here.

Training her guns on everyone’s hate subject, she thundered on Monday: “Look at the things around us, look at the infrastructural challenges around us that we take on. One of the most important things about integrity is the sense of pride. Because excellence is about pride. You look at our roads in Bangalore, you feel that these people do not have pride in what they are doing because, none of our roads are finished with a sense of excellence. All are half done. Everyone is just doing the job with a sense of owning the task and not with a sense of owning a responsibility.’’ Don’t seek jobs, create them: Kiran

Bangalore: “We desperately need skillbased education to prepare our country for the future. Management education is a step in this direction,’’ stated Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.

The Biocon CMD on Monday inaugurated an MBA programme of the Amruta Institute of Engineering and Management Sciences (AIeMS). The two-year programme, which costs Rs 1 lakh, is aimed at making students industry ready.

According to Shaw, future entrepreneurs and leaders need to create jobs and not become job seekers. “For that, one needs to innovate by seeking new knowledge, upgrading skills and not accepting conventional methods,’’ she said.

But she also warned: “The path of entrepreneurship is full of obstacles, failures and a lot of disillusionment. Entrepreneurs and leaders are not quitters, and quitters cannot be entrepreneurs or leaders.”

Shaw felt management education has a huge role to play to solve the country’s challenges, such as infrastructure, health care and education, and the solutions developed 50 years ago won’t work today. Even though India’s education sector is estimated at $40 billion, and about 300 new business schools will come up over the next four years, few management graduates get selected through campus placements, because they are not industry ready.

She added: “Management education is about building leadership — of leadership about shared vision, leadership about shared responsibility and leadership that brings about pride in the whole team that is involved in doing something for our country.’’

According to Jagdish Bapat, member, governing council at AIeMS, and head of people function at Azim Premji Foundation, the MBA programme will be on a par with the best, giving them the wherewithal to compete in the global arena. “The graduates may be technically sound, but we will hone them with new skills required by the industry,’’ Bapat added.

AIeMS stated that various industry leaders, entrepreneurs and faculty from top B-Schools will come as guest mentors to make students industry ready.

Higher end, fully equipped laptops will be provided at free of cost for all MBA students.

Education which is affordable without compromising on quality is the dream of many a deserving student. To fulfill these aims, AIEMS is proud to announce its MBA program, which is approved by AICTE and affiliated to VTU, will ensure that apart from employability, we will create an environment to create all round individuals, imbibed with qualities of a global citizen. We lay emphasis on values, culture, business environment, corporate etiquette among other qualities, which will create outstanding students.

The first year students have won accolades and won a prize at a national level competition, conducted by IISc, rubbing shoulders with even the final year students drawn from across India. – A standing testimony to the academic and extra curricular inputs we give.

Built in the salubrious lush green environs in Bidadi, well connected by our fleet of buses to the city, hostels to make education a pleasure and technology and library which will serve as windows to the world, along with best of faculty drawn from academia and industry, will nourish the aspirant to reach their heights of excellence. A digital classrooms,, with Wi-Fi connectivity, digital library, with latest pedagogy, involving PPT’s and courseware available in advance for every class on the intranet, To ensure a high tech teaching learning process every student and faculty would be given a free laptop.