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Wednesday, Aug 18, 2010
To technologically empower villages with creative solutions
Fostering innovation: P.Devadas Manoharan, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University of Technology-Tiruchi, inaugurating Students Innovation Club in Tiruchi on Tuesday.
Trichy: With the objective of technologically empowering villages with innovative solutions, the Anna University of Technology – Tiruchi on Tuesday launched its Students' Innovation Club, ‘innovautt,' at the Bharathidasan Institute of Technology in the main campus and four constituent colleges in Panrutti, Ariyalur, Thirukuvalai and Pattukottai.
Other affiliated colleges will start the club within a week, the Vice-Chancellor P.Devadas Manoharan said after launching the club in the presence of the Registrar In-Charge J.Raja, the Coordinator of the club R.S.Ponmagal and the D.Nedunchezhian of Technocrats India College Finder.
‘Out of box' thinking is the basis for innovation, he said, emphasising on developing the traits of imagination and attitude for finding solutions to simple problems in the immediate environment. Synthesis of ideas will lead to innovative solutions.
Ideas generated by students will be showcased at the science exhibition the university has planned during January 2011, the Vice-Chancellor said. Industries will shortly be invited to participate in the ideation that is directed at service to the society, he said.
Later, in an informal chat with reporters, Dr.Devadas said the first semester text books in Tamil for Civil and Mechanical branches will be supplied during the first week of September when the classes commence.
Anna University of Technology – Tiruchi accounts for 600 out of 1,200 students in the State who have opted for engineering education through Tamil medium. Dr.Manoharan termed as encouraging the patronage for engineering education in Tamil medium.
Contents for equipping these students in functional aspects of English have been completed.
The gradual training has been planned in such a way that by the time they complete their under graduation, the students will gain capacity to express in English, the subject contents they had learnt in Tamil.
On the infrastructure front, he said that additional hostels for boys and girls were under construction in the main campus. The academic blocks for constituent colleges will be readied within a year, he said.
University launches innovation club with social cause
To technologically empower villages with creative solutions
Fostering innovation: P.Devadas Manoharan, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University of Technology-Tiruchi, inaugurating Students Innovation Club in Tiruchi on Tuesday.
Trichy: With the objective of technologically empowering villages with innovative solutions, the Anna University of Technology – Tiruchi on Tuesday launched its Students' Innovation Club, ‘innovautt,' at the Bharathidasan Institute of Technology in the main campus and four constituent colleges in Panrutti, Ariyalur, Thirukuvalai and Pattukottai.
‘Out of box' thinking is the basis for innovation, he said, emphasising on developing the traits of imagination and attitude for finding solutions to simple problems in the immediate environment. Synthesis of ideas will lead to innovative solutions.
Ideas generated by students will be showcased at the science exhibition the university has planned during January 2011, the Vice-Chancellor said. Industries will shortly be invited to participate in the ideation that is directed at service to the society, he said.
Later, in an informal chat with reporters, Dr.Devadas said the first semester text books in Tamil for Civil and Mechanical branches will be supplied during the first week of September when the classes commence.
Anna University of Technology – Tiruchi accounts for 600 out of 1,200 students in the State who have opted for engineering education through Tamil medium. Dr.Manoharan termed as encouraging the patronage for engineering education in Tamil medium.
Contents for equipping these students in functional aspects of English have been completed.
The gradual training has been planned in such a way that by the time they complete their under graduation, the students will gain capacity to express in English, the subject contents they had learnt in Tamil.
On the infrastructure front, he said that additional hostels for boys and girls were under construction in the main campus. The academic blocks for constituent colleges will be readied within a year, he said.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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