Trivandrum - Education and Research Thread

[Tri Man]

Originally Posted by BabuCS

Not sure how this will improve any academic standards .. may be they are looking to improve on how money can be shared in an easier way!
KU must hire young and quality faculty members to improve academic standards and abolish political representation in its admin and student affairs.

In my opinion,KU must revamp its reseach program,...of pure science and arts.Do more paper presentations,collaboration with various national and international universities,offer international student and faculty exchangeo programs,....For example detail research on Travancore,Sree Padmanabhaswami temple could have brought the univ. Dept. to limelight last year.Despite having own observatory,it is not doing major research in astronmy.The number of national or international seminars conducted is less.It can collaborate with other govt research institutes so that they bear partial fund required.
The Karyavattom Campus should be made an integrated township. Repeated creation of new Universities as spin off from KU has dwindled its quality teaching resource.

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[RajeshVR]

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[25Dude25]

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[umasathyakam]

Originally Posted by Ajaypp

The whole idea is to have synergy between different groups of faculty and students. That said, I fail to see what student politics have to do with academic standards?

Surely, this can change the way all the depts. used to function.....more administrative flexibility will come.....

Anyhow, as UoK is a very large body in itself, bringing uniformity and coordination in administration is a challenge.....One way is to autonomise some reputed colleges like MG college, Mar Ivanious, St. Xavior's college etc....so that the admission and examination related administrative work will be reduced to an extent.

I don't understand why these colleges are still under the control of university, when Tamil Nadu has most of it's reputed colleges as autonomous...

The University, on the other hand, should concentrate on doing cutting edge research and development through these schools and it's campuses.

The CET, premier engineering college of Kerala has a brilliant set of undergraduate students while there are no research groups of students as well as faculty to do relevant research.

Since top brains are attracted to UoK in engineering by entrance xams, why not they become a prominent university of world class standards????

[karunakaranashok]

[QUOTE=umasathyakam;88631362]
The CET, premier engineering college of Kerala has a brilliant set of undergraduate students while there are no research groups of students as well as faculty to do relevant research.

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The above holds pretty much true for all Indian technical institutions including the IITs .

[Travancore]

Originally Posted by umasathyakam

The University, on the other hand, should concentrate on doing cutting edge research and development through these schools and it's campuses.

The CET, premier engineering college of Kerala has a brilliant set of undergraduate students while there are no research groups of students as well as faculty to do relevant research.

Since top brains are attracted to UoK in engineering by entrance xams, why not they become a prominent university of world class standards????

Just bcos top brains are attracted does'nt mean anything...We are decades behind when it comes to learning technologies at our institutes ...Exposing the faculty itself to latest trends, More industry interaction etc is what is really required...And the system of education has to be purely beyond exams papers.. I still rem.. we had far better access to technology ( read IT/ Comps) in our Engg hostels than in the campuses...And i believe the IT application / based innovation is where we should really focus on.

[ajithv]

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Once the hypersonic technology based transportation vehicle being developed by DRDO gets ready, one can travel to the United States and other western countries in about two hours, said Tessy Thomas, project director, Agni, the first-ever woman director of an Indian missile project.

Interacting with students and young women scientists at the Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) here on Friday, she said extensive research was going on to develop thermal protection materials such as carbon composites, and nickel/copper-based super alloy for these hypersonic technology vehicles.

Technology has made rapid progress, she said. Paddy cultivation in deserts, minimally invasive surgeries, magnetic bullet high speed trains, etc are all part of this advancement.

She also told the students that there were two types missiles -- Tactical and Strategic. Tactical ones are short range missiles with fast dynamics, such as Akash. Strategic ones are long range ballistic missiles with nuclear weapons carrying systems with a payload of 48 tons and up to 18 metres long.

The missile systems in the country include surface-to-surface ones such as Prithvi and Agni; surface-to-air such as Akash and Patriot; air-to-air missile Astra, air-to-surface Sea Eagle, and anti-tank missiles Nag and Cobra. Recently we have also developed the Brahmos supersonic cruise missiles, she said.

Noted material scientist Dr Lakshmi S Nair from the University of Connecticut Health Center (US) spoke of the challenge of developing bio-degradable polymers in tissue engineering for medical devices to support tissue re-generation of cartilage, bone grafts and ligaments. This is a US Army funded project. She is in the city as part of the Indo-US project on cell therapy, which began last year and is set to be completed by 2013. The project team has one research student from Amrita University in India and five students from the US.

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[umasathyakam]

[QUOTE=karunakaranashok;88633865]

Originally Posted by umasathyakam

The CET, premier engineering college of Kerala has a brilliant set of undergraduate students while there are no research groups of students as well as faculty to do relevant research.

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The above holds pretty much true for all Indian technical institutions including the IITs .

This situation is untill a few years back Bro....now IITs (Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kanpur, Kharagpur) and IISc, Bangalore are developing fast into new age engineering schools.....new technologies are implemented and research relevant to Indian society is being carried out...Govt. agencies like MHRD, DST, DIT, CSIR etc. are funding projects of societal benefit......Also, private institutes like SRM University, VIT University etc...are fast emerging as global Universities in frontier areas of research like nano sciences........

There is not a single institute in Kerala that does research in frontier engineering areas (IIST, IISER etc are not considered)........barring KU doing research related to optoelectronics and CUSAT on Photonics.

This is the reason why many people are going outside for postgraduate and research quality technical education. However, a point to be noted here is, Kerala has the best primary, secondary and higher secondary education system in the country. We have the most no. of English speaking students and most no. of CBSE schooled children in India.

So, at the same time, if we can make our higher education system into a pro-active one with a major role in the uplifting of societal standards, then we can say that we have a world class education system.......

[25Dude25]

Scientist from Trivandrum discovers new animal species



THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Malayali scientist SD Biju, working at the University of Delhi, has done it again. This time around, he has discovered a whole family of legless amphibians from Northeast India, with ancient links to Africa, a research finding that has just been published in a journal no less than the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.

News Courtesy: Kerala kaumudi and Indian Express

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[RajeshVR]

International workshop on disaster management in Trivandrum

The Revenue and Disaster Management Department and State Disaster Management Authority would organise a week-long exhibition and two-day international work shop on disaster management here from March 4.

National and international speakers will present papers and address invited delegates at the workshop on tsunami modelling, dam safety, landslides coastal protection, community-based disaster preparedness, governance and disaster response and disaster risk reduction.

About 50 organisations including armed forces, private organisations, international NGOs, State government departments and agencies, educational and scientific organisations, Central government agencies, and public sector undertakings will be participating in the exhibition.

Revenue Minister Thiruvanachoor Radhakrishnan told the media on Friday that Chief Minister Oommen Chandy would inaugurate the exhibition at Nisagandhi auditorium on March 4. Geraldine J. Fraser-Moleketi, Practice Director, Democratic Governance Group, UNDP, would deliver the keynote address.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/...cle2927776.ece

[RajeshVR]

Planetarium to celebrate science day

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Students from 64 schools and 46 colleges from across the state will participate in the National Science Day celebrations to be held here on February 28.

The two-day programme organized by the Kerala State Science and Technology Museum (KSSTM) at Priyadarshini Planetarium will begin with a 'sit and draw' competition on Sunday for school students of classes I, II, III and IV at the children's science park of KSSTM.

On Monday, noted science communicator Prof S Sivadas will deliver a science lecture on the topic 'making science learning exciting'. It will be followed by a quiz competition for college students. Participant teams for quiz competition should confirm their registration before 11am on February 27. In the evening, the valedictory function will be followed by a special laser show and night sky observation.

[25Dude25]

Two more engineering colleges in the district.

Vidya Academy of Science and Technology, Kilimanoor, Trivandrum



ACE college of Engineering and Technology, Poovachal, Trivandrum

[Kannan46]

Thanks Mr 25Dude25 for the beautiful picture of the Engineering College.
I hope that it refers to the Kilimanoor College.

I am happy to note that we have so many Engineering Colleges in and around the city.
Sure, the list of Medical Colleges has registered a growth in number, but I am sad to note that 2 proposals namely the Army Medical College at Pangode and the Reilway Medical College at Pettah have not materialized so far. In the case of the Railway Medical College, our esteemed MP Mr Tharoor is making good efforts to get it started where land is available and I am gratified to see that . I wish his efforts will succeed.

Cheers!!!

[25Dude25]

You are welcome Kannan46

[25Dude25]

Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum wins champion title the 7th time @ the Kerala University Youth Festival



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Courtesy: Mathrubhumi

Leading the tally from day one, the defending champions Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram, with 140 points, lifted the overall champions trophy of the Kerala University Youth Festival for the seventh time in a row here on Sunday.

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