The Hindu : M.S.Ramaiah School ties up with U.K. varsity

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Thursday, Apr 03, 2003

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Southern States - Karnataka-Bangalore

M.S.Ramaiah School ties up with U.K. varsity

THE M.S.RAMAIAH School of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, now offers PG engineering courses leading to M.Sc., degree of Coventry University, U.K. The Automotive Engineering, Competitive Manufacturing, and Engineering and Manufacturing Management courses have been on since 2000.

Recently, the school had interaction with a leading City-based industries and based on their requirements, designed several new PG engineering courses.

The courses launched this week are: Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Rotating Machinery Design (RMD), Smart System Design, New Product Design, Real Time Embedded Systems, VLSI System Design, Digital Signal and Image Processing, and Communication Engineering.

These courses are offered on a part-time basis for graduate engineers working in industries in and around the City. At present, 100 delegates from industries have registered. There are full-time courses for fresh engineering graduates.

Coventry University trained the faculty members at M.S. Ramaiah and faculty from Coventry regularly come here to teach some modules. The university helps faculty members here in setting industry-relevant assignments on each of the modules and in evaluating assignments and answer papers.

The university controls the quality of delivery and evaluation according to the norms of the Quality Assurance Agency of U.K. For the new courses, the faculty at M.S. Ramaiah are trained by professors of Coventry University and other leading universities of the U.K., U.S., and Singapore.

Graduates demand jobs

The Agricultural Engineering graduates in Karnataka find that they are unable to find jobs where their knowledge can be used to the optimum.

The University of Agricultural Sciences established a College of Agricultural Engineering, which has been offering four-year B.Tech courses since 1987-88. More than 150 students have passed out.

In addition to Agricultural Engineering, the students study crop production, soil science, farming systems, agricultural economics, horticulture, and animal science. Other subjects studied include farm power and tractors, farm electrification, design of farm buildings, renewable energy, soil and water conservation, irrigation systems, and agricultural drainage.

The graduates say the Government could use their expertise in watershed management, horticulture, forestry, sericulture, irrigation, water resource development, in Dry Land Development Board, Command Area Development Authorities, Karnataka Seed Certification Agency, Warehousing Corporation, and Karnataka Agro-Industries Corporation and its sister concerns.

Some states such as Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala have framed Agricultural Engineering Services Rules to use these graduates in relevant government departments. Tamil Nadu and Kerala have created separate Agricultural Engineering departments.

`Dress Circle' in May

The J.D.Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore, will hold its annual fashion event "Dress Circle" in the second week of May.

Students from the fashion and jewellery departments will prove their mettle at this event.

The creations of students will be modelled by professionals with a show choreographed by Rahul Dev Shetty. The JD Institute has invited directors or producers who want to associate their movies with this event. Corporates can be associated. For more information, call 2279927 or 9845001669.

K. Satyamurty

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