04-07-2025
Engg students told to align with goals of 'Vikasit Bharat'
Stating that technology is growing rapidly and has emerged for everyone's benefit, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Director N Kalaiselvi called upon the engineering students to align themselves with the goals of 'Vikasit Bharat' by adapting to new and emerging noted this while delivering the convocation address at the seventh annual convocation of Indian Institute of Information Technology held on its campus here on that there have been stellar achievements of our country in Science and Technology, she exhorted graduating students to see that the newer technology is used for the betterment of reminded the students about the investments made by their parents, teachers and society at large to ensure their success as graduates of a premier national institution and urged them to fulfill their ambitions and become worthy citizens of the stated that this is a knowledge-driven era and only those possessing exquisite skills have a fair chance to excel.A 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 of Governors Chairman Shridhar Vembu cautioned students about the paradigm shift in Information Technology and all other areas due to Artificial asked them to be vigilant and adaptable to newer technologies and challenges ahead. He detailed about 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 also mentioned the schools he was running in rural Tamil Nadu where he taught children self-confidence, self-discovery and self-respect, and appealed to students to imbibe all these to be successful in Director S R Mahadeva Prasanna gave a bird's eye view on the achievements of the the convocation, institute topper Amrit Anand from Department of ECE bagged the President of India Gold Medal and also Institute Gold Bhat from DSAI and Karthik Avinash from CSE received the Institute Gold Desai was presented the Director's Gold medal, while Enduri Jahnvi was adjudged the best outgoing girl student.A total of 257 students received their degrees in three disciplines, including 132 students in Computer Science, 70 in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, 55 in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
