Engg students must align with goals of Viksit Bharat: CSIR director
Dharwad: Stating that technology is growing rapidly and has improved everyone's life, N Kalaiselvi, director of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) called upon engineering students to align themselves with the goals of 'Viksit Bharat' by adapting to new and emerging technologies.
Addressing the fresh graduates at the seventh annual convocation of Indian Institute of Information technology, Dharwad held on its campus on Friday, she said that there has been a stellar achievements of India in science and technology, and exhorted graduating students to see that the newer technology is used for the betetrment of society.
Kalaiselvi reminded the students about the investments made by their parents, teachers and society at large, to ensure their success as graduates from a premier national institution, and urged them to fulfill their ambitions and become worthy citizens of the country.
She further stated that this is a knowledge-driven era and only those possessing exquisite skills have a fair chance to excel. Lot of emphasis has been laid on providing skills to the young workforce and therefore the students along with academics should adapt skills in shaping their career, she said.
Shridhar Vembu, chairman of the board of governors, cautioned the students about the paradigm shift in information technology and other areas due to artificial intelligence.
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He asked them to be vigilant and adaptable to newer technologies and challenges ahead. He detailed an analogy of coders being akin to handloom weavers, weaving code by hand as of today. Once powerful coding machines like powerlooms in the past arrive, the landscape will change and very few coders will be needed, so IT professionals will have to find other innovative jobs, he said.
SR Mahadev Prasanna, director, IIIT Dharwad, gave a bird's view on the achievements of the institute.
Amrit Anand of electronics and communication engineering with 9.73 CPI, secured the President of India gold medal and Institute Gold Medal while Prerana Bhat of data science and artificial intelligence and Kartik Avinash of computer science engineering won the Institute Gold Medals. Arsh Desai was presented the Director's Medal while Ms Enduri Jahnavi received the Best Outgoing Girl Student medal.
A total 256 graduate degrees and one PhD degree were awarded during the ceremony.
As many as 132 students from computer science and engineering, 69 students from data science and artificial intelligence (DSAI) and 55 students from electronics and communication engineering were conferred degrees.
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