The 12th Five Year Plan submitted to the University Grants Commission (UGC) by the University of Pune (UoP) reveals the emphasis on multidisciplinary courses and research. The plan proposes grants over Rs80 crore for six new multidisciplinary courses ..

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay are busy in carrying out research and development on Aakash tablet, the dream project of human resource development minister Kapil Sibal.The pro ..

As many as 115 students from the first B.Tech batch and second PG (Masters) batch of the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad have found jobs during the ongoing maiden placement season so far.The average salary of the placed students has been pe ..

Core branches in engineering such as civil and mechanical are believed to be the oldest branches in engineering study and are considered to be evergreen branches. Though in the mid 1980s the demand for civil engineering students saw a slump, it has r ..

Competition to pick up the best candidates among companies is advancing the placement season in top engineering colleges this year.Placement season could start as early as July instead of the October/November period when the final year students are j ..

Making a mockery of university regulations, many self-financing engineering colleges affiliated to Calicut University have been conducting courses that don't even have a basic syllabus.Though the courses are approved by the All India Council for  ..

While most Mumbai students are either appearing for exams or preparing for one, 30 students of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) are busy putting together an electric formula car that will compete with 109 other cars at the Silversto ..

An IIT Madras technical survey report suggests that the construction of the Metro Station near Vidhana Soudha can be carried out without actually relocating the B R Ambedkar statue.The shifting of the statue, which has taken a controversial turn, has ..

M. Anandakrishnan, veteran educationist, has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur for the third time.The third tenure, lasting three years, will begin from June 12, according to an official  ..

Girls outshined the boys, bagging the top ranks at the 11th annual convocation of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU-Belgaum), held on Sunday.Girls won 13 first ranks in 19 streams of Bachelor of Engineering (BE)/Bachelor of Technology (B.Tec ..

 If you thought evaluating a postgraduate (PG) student is tougher than the one in school, disparity in remuneration for paper checking may surprise you.Payment to check answer books at Panjab University (PU) for even PG courses is way lower than ..

Vignan's Lara Institute of Technology and Science will introduce a new course in M. Tech (embedded systems) in the academic year (2012-2013), following the approval of All India Council for Technical Education. The intake for the course is 18 sea ..

Fluxus-2012, a three-day cultural-cum-technical fest of Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT-I) began on a warm note from Thursday.Kicking off the event on Thursday, A K Balasubramanium of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited delivered a lectur ..

 The students and administration of IIT- Madras are at loggerheads over restrictions being imposed on night life in campus. While students say the new regulations amount to moral policing, the administration maintains that the measures — s ..

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University is going to begin three regular courses –­- M. Tech in Food Processing Technology, PG Diploma in Radiological Physics and PG Diploma in Educational Management from this academic year.“All thre ..

The Rajasthan Technical University  (RTU) will conduct a common entrance test for M Tech courses for admission to its affiliated colleges from the coming session aiming to remove the discrepancies involved in the admission process.In the existin ..

Faculty and academicians of IIT-Madras may soon unveil new technologies for supercritical boilers used in power generation thanks to the collaborative research of state-owned equipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) with the institution.&l ..

Assam Autism Foundation has collaborated with the design department of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati ( IIT-G) to provide a special learning device for autistic children. The project is in its initial stage.Shabina Ahmed, founder of Assam A ..

Six months after ministry of human resources  and development formally launched Aakash tablet, barely a few hundred units have reached the hands of students. The manufacturing of the device has been stopped and now the ministry and Datawind, the ..

Engineering studies are a distant dream for many who might have the aptitude, but not the moolah to afford the tuition fee. Jamia Millia Islamia’s Faculty of Engineering and Technology (FET) provides a ray of hope to such students. An annual fe ..