Mumbai, April
10: Senior
industry leaders today asked the engineering students to `think smarter’ both as
an engineer and citizen, and create technologies required to make the cities
smarter and living easier for the people.
Taking part at
an industry-institution initiative at Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute
of Technology (VESIT) at Chembur, Mastek founder-chairman and IT leader Ashank
Desai called upon the future engineers to work on new technologies that would
make cities smarter and cleaner, whichever branch of engineering they work.
“Smart cities
are well defined as they are resourceful, efficient and livable with better
environment and superior transport. You look at the smart city concept not only
as an engineer, but also as a citizen and create technologies to make the
cities livable for the individuals. You should also help those digitally illiterate
people to be smarter by training them,” said the former NASSCOM chairman.
Backing the
`skill India’ campaign by the government, the industry leaders also felt that
skill development initiatives by the industry in the colleges threw up a
win-win situation for both the sides.
“Companies need
to train the new engineers for the first 3-6 months once they are appointed. If
you give proper exposure to the students on the practical side, the companies
can save on this,” said Sunil Khanna, who is the president and managing
director of Emerson Network Power India.
“Technology is
changing fast and the institutions cannot do much. But industry can bridge this
gap through such initiatives. This would also help the industry understand the
aspirations of the students,” said Mr Khanna.
Mr Desai
endorsed the initiative saying that it would make the students understand about
the requirements by the industry. The leaders also pointed out that IITs should
hand-hold other institutes like VESIT to enhance the capabilities of the
faculty and uplift the smaller institutions.
Such skill
development initiatives would prepare the students for the future tasks.
Besides, this would also boost the morale of the future engineers who would be
crucial in contributing to `Make in India,’ said VESIT principal Dr.
Jayalakshmi Nair.
Mr. Anthony
Thomas, CIO, Vodafone, was the guest of honour at the initiative called Tech
Connect, jointly held by the CII and Emerson with the support of VESIT. Makrand
Kulkarni (Emerson Climate Technologies), Nitin Nair (Chief Manager, Automotive
Vertical, Siemens Ltd. India), Sanjay Rozario (Founder, Marcom Plan –B Pvt.
Ltd) and Rajesh Marathe, Founder, Vaishvik Lifstyle also shared inputs on the
latest industry practices.
As the `Make in
India’ campaign is making headlines every day, students also made presentations
on different subjects like `what changes should the government make’ in the
current campaign. The presentations were also made on crucial issues like crude
oil pricing, data on cloud, social networking and digital marketing.
About V.E.S. Institute of
Technology
Vivekanand
Education Society was established in 1959 under the able leadership of Shri.
Hashu Advani. It is a matter of considerable pride and gratification that VES,
with its excellent track record, has grown from strength to strength and has
opened several educational institutions. Today, VES has 3, 75, 000 sq. ft. land
housing 12 buildings and 28 Institutions, ranging from a crèche to Ph.D.
Centers. It has a teaching and non-teaching staff of over 2000 that takes care
of more than 18,000 students passing through the hallowed portals of education,
each year.
V.E.S.
Institute of Technology was established in 1984, with the aim of providing
professional education in the field of Engineering. V.E.S. Institute of
Technology has been imparting quality education in the field of technology for
the last 28 years which has been getting top preference by students in
admission. The Institute is recognized by AICTE (All India Council of Technical
Education) and affiliated to the Mumbai University.
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