Vice-President Hamid Ansari has urged the new generation of engineers and other professionals to be prepared to be learners all their lives in order to keep abreast of the rapid changes in technology.
“Don't imagine that after passing out of college you don't need to look back on your books,” Mr. Ansari told hundreds of engineering students gathered to listen to him at a ceremony to launch the golden jubilee celebration of Mar Athenasius College of Engineering. Noting the technology was changing very fast, Mr. Ansari told the young engineers, “the challenge to you is to march in step with these changes.”
Yesterday's technology was now passé and new technologies were emerging every day.
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“Train your minds to understand these problems,” Mr. Ansari said in his brief speech after launching the jubilee celebrations. M.A. College of Engineering, set up in 1961, is one of the first engineering colleges in the private sector in the State and has so far produced thousands of engineers, many of whom now hold senior positions in engineering and industry.
Social Welfare Minister M.K. Muneer; Catholicos Baselios Thomas I; P.T. Thomas, MP; Michael Mar Aprem, chairman of the college committee; former Minister Kuruvilla; and college principal George Isaac were among those who greeted the Vice-President on his arrival. The college manager Winny Varghese presented a traditional Aranmula mirror to Mr. Ansari.