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I would like to know about a career in geospatial sciences & technology.
Geospatial is a term widely used to describe the combination of spatial software and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic datasets. The term is often used in conjunction with geographic information systems and geomatics
Geospatial science and engineering is an emerging discipline that integrates spatial, temporal, and analytical data/tools, and provides new methods for understanding the environment and man-made systems. By combining the power of geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, photogrammetry, geodesy, 3D visualization, global positioning systems (GPS), and computer science, geospatial science and engineering provides insight into events that happen and phenomena that exist on earth.
Examples of geospatial research, technologies and applications include Internet mapping; in-vehicle navigation systems and the Global Positioning System; Geographic Information Systems; aerial and satellite imagery; spatial analysis and modelling of social and natural processes; visualization and data mining of complex information, and understanding relationships between society and geospatial technologies.
Geospatial science is part of one of the world’s largest and fastest growing industries — Information and Communication Technology.
Graduates have a range of exciting career opportunities in areas as diverse as tourism, environmental management, surveying and property development, building and construction, land management, software development and marketing and sales.
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Hyderabad, offers a postgraduate programme in geospatial sciences & technology.
I am in final-year B.Sc Electronics. I would like to know about a course in bioelectronics and biosensors and the career opportunities.
Bioelectronics is a combination of high-tech electronics such as micro-electronics or nano-electronic technology and the biological sciences.
Biosensors are defined as analytical devices incorporating a biological material (tissue, micro-organisms, organelles, cell receptors, enzymes, antibodies, nucleic acids, natural products, etc.), a biologically derived material (recombinant antibodies, engineered proteins, aptamers, etc) or a biomimic (synthetic catalysts, combinatorial ligands, imprinted polymers) intimately associated with or integrated within a physicochemical transducer or transuding micro system, which may be optical, electrochemical, thermometric, piezoelectric, magnetic or micromechanical.
Biosensors have been applied to a wide variety of analytical problems in medicine, drug discovery, environment, food process industries, security and defence.
The emerging field of bioelectronics seeks to exploit biology in conjunction with electronics in a wider context encompassing, for example, biological fuel cells and biomaterials for information processing, information storage, electronic components and actuators. A key aspect is the interface between biological materials and electronics. You will work on micro and nano-electronic devices and systems used for biological and medical applications. You will learn to develop sensors and interfacing devices used for diagnostic, imaging and therapeutic applications.
I am studying pre-final computer science engineering. I would like to know about an embedded software engineering programme and the career opportunities.
Embedded software is computer software or firmware which plays an integral role in the electronics it is supplied with.
Embedded software’s principal role is not Information Technology, but rather the interaction with the physical world. It’s written for machines that are not, first and foremost, computers. Embedded software is ‘built in’ to the electronics in cars, telephones, audio equipment, robots, appliances, toys, security systems, pacemakers, televisions and digital watches. This software can become very sophisticated in applications like airplanes, missiles, process control systems, and so on.
Embedded software is usually written for special purpose hardware: that is computer chips that are different from general purpose CPUs, sometimes using real-time operating system such as LynxOS, VxWorks, Linux, eCos, ThreadX, Windows CE, Fusion RTOS, Nucleus RTOS, RTEMS, Integrity and Neutrino.
A postgraduate programme in embedded software engineering will provide an introduction to embedded software engineering: the first part covers real-time operating systems, real-time communication protocols, and scheduling theory; the second part focuses on real-time programming and code generation.
The course begins with an introduction to real-time operating system concepts and real-time communication protocols such as the time-triggered protocol (TTP) and the event-triggered CAN protocol. Scheduling techniques such as rate-monotonic and the earliest deadline first will be illustrated. The second half of the course emphasises real-time programming and code generation for embedded systems.
The high-level embedded programming languages Esterel, Lustre, and Giotto, will be presented. Code generation for Giotto will be discussed based on a virtual machine architecture called the Embedded Machine. Example programmes in Esterel, Lustre, and Giotto will be implemented on Lego Mindstorm robots.
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