Advanced
courses in engineering are updated in light of the changing IT landscape by
striking a balance between emerging technologies and maintaining a strong hold
on the basics
Technology
education today integrates the understanding of technology with a focus on
innovation. To maintain their relevance, engineering programmes are frequently
updated in light of the ever-changing IT ILLU STR landscape by striking ATIO N
a balance between emerging technologies and maintaining a strong hold on the
basics. While there has always been a broad bifurcation into hardware and
software in advanced studies, institutions offer several specialisations that
students can choose from. This is partly driven by the need to align themselves
to new demands for combined skills by industry and partly driven by a marketing
strategy. One has AR to be careful to read the fine print before choosing an
option.
Most
Indian institutions use generic titles for the MTech discipline. The course
provides students with an understanding of fundamental concepts and the ability
and skills to apply the knowledge. It also exposes them to the research
process. Re search brings to stu dents the ability to dis cover solutions by ap
plying knowledge to specific problems. This ability, once acquired, can be used
in many ways.That is why technology product and software companies the world
over look for professionals with good fundamental training and fair project
exposure.
Ultimately,
it is not just the name of the degree, but what the student has actually done
during the course of study that counts. An advanced stu dent is often defined
by his or her thesis area.
For
example, computing technology now branch es into every aspect of life, with
research thesis in areas such as compu tational biology, bioin formatics,
medical ro botics, computational linguistics, cyber securi ty and more.
(The
author is director, IIIT Hyderabad) g -As told to Dipal Gala .st > For the
complete story, visit s http:www.educationtimes.com
Source: TIMES OF INDIA-13th February,2017
