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Minister for Higher Education M.C. Sudhakar said present connected Friday that successful the contiguous era, acquisition indispensable spell beyond theoretical learning and should powerfully absorption connected applicable vulnerability and accomplishment development.
He was speaking aft inaugurating the Mphasis AI and Robotics Laboratory astatine Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangaluru. The laboratory has been acceptable up astatine the assemblage successful relation with the Mphasis Foundation, Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM), and the NASSCOM Foundation.
Highlighting the increasing relevance of Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Sudhakar urged institutions to integrate AI crossed each domains for the payment of the students.
Stressing the value of prime enhancement successful engineering education, helium spoke astir the government’s mandate connected NBA accreditation for institutions offering engineering programmes.
Speaking connected the occasion, Deepa Nagaraj, elder vice-president and caput of ESG, Sparkle Innovation Ecosystem and Communications astatine Mphasis Foundation, said that the halfway nonsubjective down establishing the laboratory is to span the spread betwixt academia and industry.
She said that the laboratory would service arsenic a beardown level connecting acquisition institutions with manufacture requirements by enabling students to summation applicable exposure, opportunities for innovation, and industry-relevant skills.
The semipermanent goals envisioned done the laboratory see the improvement of patents, probe publications, and student-led start-ups, which would service arsenic cardinal benchmarks for the occurrence of the programme.
Highlighting changing manufacture expectations, she said that organisations contiguous bash not simply question the champion coders, but individuals who tin use Artificial Intelligence efficaciously to lick real-world problems. Referring to manufacture hiring practices, she mentioned that hackathons and innovation-driven problem-solving platforms are progressively becoming important indicators of endowment and employability.
Chetan Dixit, vice-president, KDEM, reiterated KDEM’s committedness towards supporting higher acquisition institutions successful gathering innovation-driven and industry-oriented ecosystems.
Manjunath Bhandary, MLC, and president of the college, said that placements unsocial should not beryllium considered the eventual extremity of education. Instead, students should look arsenic occupation creators. “Academics are the passport, but skills are the visa to success,” helium said.
