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IIT-Kharagpur Starts Trending Tech Short Courses


KOLKATA:
IIT Kharagpur, under the Union government's GIAN programme, has started conducting short courses on the latest and trending technologies that are most in demand. "Nanobiotechnology is a relatively young discipline whose purpose is the juxtaposition of nanoscience and biotechnologies. Naturally, it is a science at a crossroads, bridging some of the most exciting and prospective scientific disciplines. It feeds on the creative input of physicists, chemists, biologists, materials scientists, medical practitioners, pharmacologists, and engineers from different milieus, ranging from the mechanical to the electrical to the biomedical, requiring more multidisciplinary openness than perhaps any scientific discipline before or after," the institute said in a statement. These courses are of short duration, where students are being acquainted with the roots and the prospective paths branching out of a figurative tree that this field of science represents. Occasionally there will be talk about the political and economic climate in which it thrives.

 

Another course which has been started is on 'Smartgrid Operation with Renewables'. "Electricity generation from renewable sources will need to increase significantly to achieve the goal of sustainable energy for all. Fortunately, there is growing evidence in many countries that high levels of renewable energy penetration in the grid are technically and economically feasible, particularly as solar and wind technologies increasingly reach grid parity in economic terms. Smart grids incorporate information and communication technology into every aspect of electricity generation, delivery and consumption in order to minimize environmental impact, enhance markets, improve reliability and service, and reduce costs and improve efficiency," according to the IIT-Kgp statement. These technologies can be implemented at every level, from generation technologies to consumer appliances.

 

Apart from BTech, MSc, MS, MTech and PhD students, the course can be attended by executives, engineers and researchers from manufacturing, service and government organizations including R&D laboratories. Students can further opt for the video-based scene understanding course, done through computer vision — a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analyzing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information. "The students enrolling for these courses from IIT-Kgp will get two credits per course. Students enrolling from outside will get a grade certificate which their college may choose to accept to provide additional credit. The courses are approved by the senate of the institute," said professor Adrijit Goswami, the institutional coordinator for the GIAN programme at IIT-Kgp.

Posted on 08 Jan 2016