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‘DRESTEIN’ AT SAVEETHA
Posted on: 08/Sep/2010 1:44:45 AM
‘Drestein` a three-day national-level technical fest has got under way at Saveetha Engineering College here on Tuesday. Thousands of students from various engineering colleges across Tamil Nadu are participating in it. Jayanthan Solomon Thomas, Asia –Pacific Oracle University practice director, was the chief guest. In his address to the audience he urged the students to gain expertise over. He said that an industry-ready engineer was the one who would be ever ready to learn new things and that he would be able to adapt well to any new environment. He was appreciative of many projects show cased in the fest.
. While students from Prist University have developed an SMS-based controller that will help people regulate electrical appliances through texting, a group of girls from Kongu Engineering College have designed an energy-saving street light system that is aimed at reducing power consumption by regulating the dimness of light according to the time.
Pearson Education India president Vivek Govil emphasised the importance of keeping pace with the world that was changing fast and the need for thinking of ways to get ahead of it. “It`s a strange anomaly that while on the one hand, companies are trying hard to recruit the best people, there are many young people vying for the best jobs. It`s very much possible to fall into the trap of complacency,” he said.
Saveetha Engineering College Principal R. Venkataswamy said than a national symposium of this sort facilitated a healthy exchange of information and interaction among people with different ideas.
Exebot – a workshop on robotics, touted as a ‘spa for robotrix` had mechanised cars playing football and humanoid mechanical creatures set to compete in wrestling. Workshops, paper presentations and project displays on coding, ‘cloud computing` and ‘basic hacking`; programmes on multimedia and design; discussions on business and management issues; group discussions and presentations on various non-technical topics are part of the fest.
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