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Vol.–2, # 08

Nov - 2015

Editor’s Point – MISSION Employability!

It is fashion to talk about poor EMPLOYABILITY of Engineering graduates and the necessity of Industry-Academia collaboration. Educationists representing some of the private universities at the level of VC shared valuable experiences in a summit on higher education of CEGR that will not percolate to the institutions under technical universities run by the state governments.

MSME Conclave in the state of UP honoured over 50 entrepreneurs under various categories and now ASSOCHAM is seeking nominations for a similar event at national level. While the category of awards lists – Innovation, Green Business, CSR, Fair Business Practices and Cost Competiveness, there is NO reference to role of MSME in supporting the ACADEMIC set up.

Living with the system and syllabus, the students will have to choose a path where COACHING has no place. Free advice has no meaning but groups of industry and some of the institutions must come forward to have an open house on a blueprint proposed by IBF. Let us make a beginning. The mechanism is not simple and may vary widely based on the participants but can we give a chance to MSME, say in the name of CSR?

IFTM University in association with Minerva Consultants conducted a meaningful dialogue with HR heads from industry in a day long interaction “MANTHAN” that stressed attributes of Employability as Knowledge, Skill and Attitude but something more needs to be experimented on ground. Interested? share with vngrover@gmail.com

ROBOTIC Surgery : a Miracle of Engineering !

Photo: Gregory Fischer/WPIInside an MRI scanner, where a plastic and piezoelectric robot goes to work on a prostate. (Courtesy: IEEE Spectrum)

Robotic surgery helps perform minimal invasive procedures guided by real-

time scans from a magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, machine. The only

problem is space inside MRI scanners. What’s more, these machines use

very strong magnetic fields, so metal is not good to be placed inside there, a

restriction that is certainly a problem for robots.

Now researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) are developing a MRI-compatible robotic surgery

tool that can overcome these limitations. The system isn’t made of metal, but makes use of plastic parts and

ceramic piezoelectric motors that allow it to work safely inside an MRI.

The robot, developed by WPI in collaboration with Brigham and Johns Hopkins University, also boasts a

low-noise control system that doesn’t cause electrical interference. “Essentially, the device moves around

the MRI bore without affecting image quality,” according to Gregory Fischer, a professor of mechanical

engineering at WPI whose Automation and Interventional Medicine Robotics Lab led the research.

The tool is being tested on human patients undergoing prostatebiopsies at Boston’s Brigham and

Women’s Hospital. The radiologists can use real-time MRI images to guide the movement of their robotic

assistant, which they believe will provide unprecedented accuracy. (If you’re wondering how it works, here’s

a descriptive line from a journal article that the researchers had published. Over a dozen men have

participated in clinical trials assessing feasibility and safety of robot-assisted prostate biopsies.

The typical biopsy that doctors perform to check a man for prostate cancer is far from a precise procedure,

says the trial’s principle investigator Clare Tempany, a radiologist and director of the National Centre for

Image Guided Therapy at Brigham. Typically a physician targets the prostate, which is the size of “a

small peach or plum,” she says, by placing a grid guide between the patient’s legs. Then the doctor inserts

needles through the skin and into each quadrant to get tissue samples. “This is somewhat disparagingly

called ‘the blind biopsy,’ ” says Tempany. “There’s no lesion targeted, it’s just: ‘Let’s push a bunch of needles

in and see what we get.’ ”

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Vol.–2, # 08

Nov - 2015

Engineers’ Guide for the Month!

1. Struggling STARTUPS:

SID TALWAR speaks - At Lightbox, we work with entrepreneurs to build teams and products in India. Prior to Lightbox, I founded Evolv, a training company and started a restaurant called “The Hungry Monkey” in Delhi. It has become easy to start a company. Thousands are starting companies every month but all aren’t going to work. Some will die. Only those with the right teams, and the right mentoring, will succeed.

2. TATA Steel will commission a 3 million ton steel plant in Kalinganagar by Dec 2015. It will start selling

half a million ton of HR steel from this plant in 2015-16 and add another million ton in 2016-17. Tata

Steel has 9.7 mtpa capacity at Jamshedpur and Kalinganagar is new GREENFIED project of company.

3. MSME Conclave: micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) have significant contribution to national economy but there are segments facing hardships that are partly due to poor productivity and obsolete technology. This is where joining hands with engineering students could benefit both. Ispat Bharti Foundation offers services to build a BRIDGE between the two STAKEHOLDERS.

4. TTK Healthcare Ltd will partner with PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (PSG IMSR), Coimbatore, Colorado State University and The Ohio State University to develop low cost prosthetic heart valves for India. The research partners aims to develop low-cost replacement heart valves that promise to be superior to current mechanical and tissue-based heart valves and are expected to reduce patients need for medication to prevent blood clots. The consortium is supported by a two year joint grant from the

National Institutes of Health (NIH) in US and Department of Biotechnology in India. Courtesy Business Standard dated Oct 08, 2015

5. GHG & Environment – For every ton of cement produced, the process creates approximately a ton of carbon dioxide. Around 5 billion tons of portland cement is produced in the world. It is the grey powder that mixes with water to form the "glue" that holds concrete together. For every ton of cement produced, the process creates approximately a ton of carbon dioxide, all of which accounts for roughly 7% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions.

Gaurav Sant, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the California Nano Systems Institute at UCLA, has worked for the solution as part of his

research. The suggested process will give off no carbon dioxide, The research was supported by the National Science

Foundation and conducted in the Laboratory for the Chemistry of Construction Materials in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, availing facilities of several associated laboratories and UCLA's department of chemistry and biochemistry.

Interested to know more? Search at Google. It talks about simple compounds of calcium that anyone with basic knowledge of Chemistry can understand. We shall give details in HINDI version that requires an annual paid membership of Rs150/-

A Challenge that gives opportunity for INNOVATION

The Battery technology has failed to keep pace with an increasingly smarter smartphone. The handset

manufacturers are resorting to workarounds, such as making the phone frugal on energy to shrinking the rest

of the hardware so that there is space for a bigger battery.

Feedback

It is a laudable effort to make the students aware about the industry. The students can be guided by using the

experience of a seasoned professional like you. However I feel it would be more valuable if it can

accommodate a bit more information to assist students from all the fields of technology.

- HARSHIL RASTOGI, B TECH (CSE): 2011-2015,ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad Message through LinkedIn

Compiled by Virendra Grover, Puja Mehta and Kirti Chopra for IBF