The event, which will be held between December 15 and December 18, will reportedly host more than 5,000 participants.
Bridging the gap between industry requirements and education imparted by colleges in the country will be one of the main agenda of the 26th Indian Engineering Congress (IEC).
The event, which will be held between December 15 and December 18, will reportedly host more than 5,000 participants from India and across the world.
The four-day congress, organised by Institution of Engineers, revolves around the theme ‘Towards Prosperous India: Challenges for Engineers’ and will feature 15 conferences focusing on various fields in engineering.
“One of the key aims of the congress will be to promote R&D and innovation amongst engineers in the country. Made-in-India products should be the very hallmark of quality,” said LV Muralikrishna Reddy, the chairman of IEC, 2011.
He said the congress would see the participation of several labs from wings of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), among others.
For U Chandrasekhar, chairman (RDC), Institution of Engineers, the congress is about presenting students pursuing engineering to the members of the industry. “We have about 150 educational institutions participating and this congress will be an avenue for students to gain more insight on their own employability and knowledge,” he claimed. He added that the congress would exhibit products and systems that are representative of more than 20 streams in engineering.
Mini-innovations
As part of the curtain-raiser, National Design & Research Forum (NDRF), a constituent of IEI, showcased some technologies developed under the National Programme on Micro-Air Vehicle.
Some of the products on display were Quad-Captors, which rise vertically and can hover at a place for more than 40 minutes.
“These are great for aerial reconnaissance. Many of the air-borne products displayed here can also be used for civil purposes such as traffic monitoring, crop mapping and disaster management,” said Krishna Venkatesh, COO of Drone Aerospace Systems.
He lamented about the low number of engineering students who enter R&D. “They all want to work in the IT industry because that is where they will earn more but this mindset has to be changed. Most of the students who graduate from engineering colleges have only a bookish knowledge and that’s the failure of the curriculum,” he added.
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