Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
The one-year Post Graduate Programme for Executives for Visionary Leadership (PGPEX-VLM), conducted by Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), is nearing its successful completion.
Participants are getting ready for the international study visit early July where they visit facilities of Japan Honda Saitama Factory, Kao logistics center, Hino Motors, Sharp, Yao factory, Patlite, Kasai Recycling Systems, Toyota, Panasonic House of History, Panasonic HRD College, and Toyota commemorative museum of industry and technology.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 04:38 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
As you drive through the security barriers and past Route de Albert Einstein towards the old canteen where, it is said, many of the greatest leaps in our understanding of the universe had their genesis over a cup of strong Swiss coffee and a Gauloise, you cannot fail but sigh with relief that, in one tiny corner of the world, pure exploration continues, relatively unsullied.
Cern is noble, essential and precious; an almost utopian village of ten thousand physicists and engineers from 85 countries, formed by a recovering Europe after the second world war
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Monday 30 June, 2008 10:00 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
Engineering and medicine still remain popular choices for students in India, but a quiet initiative is underway to get recognition for a subject of study that’s increasingly gaining prominence in industry, but remains neglected in academics — design.
“Design is a creative course that looks at constant innovation and new ideas. It provides the student with a variety of skills,” says Ravi Poovaiah, co-ordinator of the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Powai, which is planning to send a proposal to the Ministry of Human Resources Development to allow introduction of design as a subject of study at the undergraduate level in art colleges across the country.
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Monday 30 June, 2008 04:10 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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A Government of India initiative to share Indian expertise in Education and Medicine connecting 53 African Nations • First of its kind System Integration project for HCL Infosystems in Africa. • The e-Network will enable Tele-Education, Tele-Medicine, Video-conferencing and VOIP services; connecting 7 Indian universities & 12 super specialty hospitals to 5 African regional universities, 5 super specialty hospitals and 53 learning centers all over Africa
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Sunday 29 June, 2008 12:11 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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In July, on a typically oppressive summer day in Washington, D.C., roughly a thousand college students from across the country gathered at a Marriott hotel with plans to change the world . Despite being sponsored by the Center for American Progress, a moderate think tank founded by one of Bill Clinton’s former chiefs of staff, John Podesta, the student group—called Campus Progress—leans decidedly farther to the left. At booths outside the main auditorium, young activists handed out pamphlets opposing nuclear power, high pay for CEOs, excessive profits for oil companies, harsh prison sentences for drug users, and Israeli militarism in Gaza and the West Bank
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 04:27 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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Words are hard to describe what artist Chris Lutter-Gardella creates by using trash. Residents in the St. Croix Valley are beginning to experience his unique style and his provocative mission statement. “To improve the health of human communities and the Earth by teaching people the process of transforming waste materials into imaginative art.”
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Sunday 22 June, 2008 02:12 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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Israel's prowess in high-tech and healthcare goes back more than the State's 60 years, and is powered by many motives.Joseph Morgenstern Israel’s high-technology scene is far from being 60 years old. For nearly 20 years of its existence Israel imported all of its technology needs, mostly from France. Its proudest achievement was drip irrigation. Israel’s exports consisted mainly of citrus fruits. Its universities did not concentrate on sciences and engineering.
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 02:40 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dillon Smatcher
Few innovators, creators, thinkers and dreamers have had the flair of Jules Felix Philippe Albert de Dion.
He was flamboyant, nearly to a fault, a playboy who lived life to the fullest and enjoyed the sense of adventure nearly as much as he loved finding a better invention.
What a perfect mix, that energy and engineering foresight.
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 10:38 AM |
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What will the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic torches look like and how will the cauldron showcase the Olympic Flame at BC Place Stadium on February 12, 2010? While the answers will remain a surprise for months to come, Bombardier has received the honour of designing and manufacturing the iconic torches and cauldrons for the 2010 Winter Games.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 01:28 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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This year the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) successfully conducted the Common Entrance Test and CET counselling is now on in full swing. The counselling for students who opted for the engineering stream has just started and will go on until all the seats are distribute.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 04:16 AM |
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In Silicon Valley , the stars have long been charismatic marketing visionaries and cool-nerd software wizards. By contrast, mechanical engineers who design and run computer data centers were traditionally regarded as little more than blue-collar workers in the high-tech world.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 06:58 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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The new higher-education academy launched this month to solve the malaise affecting the engineering sector has no money and no buildings. When placed alongside other academies we're used to reading about, it ain't much cop.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 12:45 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
Ever since man discovered oil as a source of energy, the importance of and the demand for oil has only increased. The emergence of oil not only saw the gradual demise of the 'coal age', but its effectiveness as a source of energy caused yet another industrial revolution, enabling mankind to improve their lives with new technological inventions powered by oil.
Consequently, almost every aspect of today's life, whether it is travelling, working, or cooking your simple meal, is inextricably linked with oil, coming in all forms like petrol, diesel and gas.
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Thursday 12 June, 2008 02:47 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
To all those motorists snarled in traffic when a Route 35 drawbridge linking Old Bridge and Sayreville jammed in the heat Sunday, cheer up. It could have been worse.
The car could have died. The air conditioner at home could have conked out. Monday morning train delays could have made your commute unbearable.
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Wednesday 11 June, 2008 12:00 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
COOKEVILLE -- Former TTU professor and soon-to-be-former Cookeville resident V.C. Venkatesh has just co-authored a seminal book in the field of engineering. Released only last month by McGraw-Hill, "Precision Engineering" is already on its way to becoming a key text in engineering programs worldwide.
His new book explains the state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques on the micro and nano levels that are required to create ultra-precise components.
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Sunday 8 June, 2008 10:33 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
A recurring theme in the government's skills strategy is that much of Britain's future national prosperity will depend on our wits, our imagination and our creativity. We have to grow a "knowledge economy", in which skills and knowhow, rather than the attributes once needed for mass production, are paramount.
Do ministers believe this? When it comes to giving out the hard cash, do they follow through from all their speeches and policy papers? Some of those in the creative industries are not convinced. When it comes, for instance, to expanding the number of apprenticeships, they suspect that ministers are still more likely to put their money into older, "safer" sectors of the economy.
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Wednesday 4 June, 2008 12:10 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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Here’s a funny article from the Boston Globe on the Larry Summers Quandary: Why have women professors made so much more progress at Harvard’s Law, Business, and Medical schools than in its mathematics and engineering departments? It’s a good article, but what’s amusing and depressing is how hard the journalist has to work to explain concepts that should be bleeding obvious to any college student, much less the college professors who will be most professionally interested in this topic.
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Thursday 22 May, 2008 10:46 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Did you know Trivia - The UK government has launched a £200m training project in a bid to tackle UK skills shortages and avoid relying on migrant workers to fill the gaps.
John Denham, secretary of state for innovation, universities and skills, announced the funding will pay for specialist training colleges focusing on construction, IT, finance, science and engineering industries over the next three years.
click this link to read more
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Wednesday 21 May, 2008 10:37 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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"A story in the New York Times reports that Japan, a country that rebuilt itself as a technological power after World War II, now faces an increasing shortage of college graduates with degrees in science and engineering. Says the article: 'By one ministry of internal affairs estimate, the digital technology industry here is already short almost half a million engineers.' The article goes on to point out that the overall trend of waning interest in science and technology has been going on for 'almost two decades' and that the shortage is made worse by the traditional reluctance of Japanese companies to hire and use foreign workers. The US has had a similar trend for quite some time: 'Undergraduate engineering enrollment declined through most of the 1980s and 1990s, rose from 2000 through 2003, and declined slightly in recent years.'"
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Wednesday 21 May, 2008 12:34 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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Castrol Professional is designed to help dealerships increase their after sales profit. A number of programmes have been developed to target a variety of dealership revenue streams and help them maximise customer potential in more than just oil. When Castrol teamed up with some of the biggest names in football to support their UEFA EURO 2008™ sponsorship, they discovered that there are more similarities between running a successful dealership and succeeding in football than you might think…
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