Students urged to update themselves about the developments

Mangalore, September 25: Doctoral programmes have a profound effect on the undergraduate and M Tech level education as teachers will be armed with knowledge of much higher level and greater analytical capabilities, said Prof M M Sharma, Emeritus Professor of Eminence ICT (Deemed University), Mumbai.

Delivering the eighth annual convocation address at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) at Surathkal near here on Sunday, he said innovative teaching is triggered thorough doctoral programme and in Applied Sciences the research at Doctoral level has many additional imperatives.

He said the utility of research invigorates the rigors of academic research rather than causing distraction. “We need to link the research to the needs of the industry,” he said.

He said, “We have immense opportunities and have extraordinary entrepreneurial skills in our genes”

Urging the graduating students to update themselves about the developments, Mr Sharma also said that it was necessity to keep abreast with current literature too.

Speaking on the occasion, Sushil Chandra Tripathi, Chairman of the Board of Governors of NITK said that a paradigm change in the way engineering problems were analysed and solved is required so as to address impacts of growth in human population and globalisation.

There is a need to redefine, restructure and reorganise the technical and engineering systems and organisations so as to ensure sustainable development, he said.

Prof Sandeep Sancheti, Director of NITK, said that the institute has 36 ongoing externally sponsored R&D projects along with internally funded projects. The institutes has generated a revenue of Rs 13 crores and Corpus funds stands to a total of more than Rs 40 crores, he said and added that the revenue earned through consultancy and testing has reached Rs 1.7 crore.

NITK has active MoUs with industrial giants such as IBM, BOSCH, Robert BOSCH, Accenture, MRPL etc. Three students were offered more than Rs 65 lakh and more than 10 students had received salary offers of over Rs 20 lakh per annum from Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, National, Tata Consultancy and Bajaj Auto.

As many as 490 students of various engineering streams including Doctoral thesis, MBA, MCA, M Tech, B Tech were given the certificates.