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Last Saturday, a scarlet drone circled in the air, descending to only 5 m above reclaimed land along the west shore of Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province. It was the maiden flight of the SNUGL, an unmanned aerial vehicle with a GPS receiver made by Seoul National University research team. Prof. Kee Chang-don and students of SNUs School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering developed technology which allows unmanned aerial vehicle to take off and land by using only GPS. It took six years, 200 test flights and five crashes to make their dream come true.
On May 10, the research team attended a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Sonoma, California. Many scientists were surprised when Prof. Kee announced, We succeeded in starting and landing of unmanned aerial vehicle with only a single GPS receiver without inertial sensors. Five hundred aerospace engineers and airline staffers looked as if they couldnt believe it.
Inertial sensors are prohibitively expensive devices to sense information about the UAVs motions, and it was considered impossible for an aerial vehicle to lift off and land automatically without one. Many experts looked astonished when the research team showed video footage of the UAVs successful takeoff and landing. Kees team did it by developing technology that can calculate the drones motion including tilt based on GPS information like location, altitude and speed.
More : english.chosun.com
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TIRUCHI: V. Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, BHEL, Tiruchi Complex, was honored with the 2005 Engineer Best price through the centre of the city Tiruchi the Institution of Engineers (India). This distinction has been, by the President of the Institution of Engineers, C. Velayudham, while the 38th Engineers Day celebration, MAM College of Engineering, Siruganur, most recently in the vicinity of here.
Mr. Gopalakrishnan was the Recognition Award for his contribution to the revolution of information technology BHEL, his efforts to promote relations between the industrialized countries and monitoring implementation BHEL by his innovative ideas and to anticipate.
Shanmuganathan, the director, MAM College of
Indian Institute of Technology here is setting up a Centre of Excellence in Nanotechnology in its campus to undertake state-of-the-art research in the subject.
Funded by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), a similar centre of excellence will also be set up at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
"The total cost of the project is Rs 99.8 crore spread over five years, shared equally by both the institutions," the Chief Investigator for the Prof Ramgopal Rao said.
"Though both the centres will have some areas in common, the team at IISc will focus more on the materials aspects of nanoelectronics
Siddhartha Jariwala is a B Tech from the Delhi College of Engineering. He worked with Escorts for five years and his last designation was as a manager.
Today, Jariwala is pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme from the Department of Management Studies (DMS) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Delhi.
Ditto is the case of Divyaman Srivastava who did B Tech from the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, joined Telco in 1995 and finally quit the organisation in 2001 to pursue MBA from the same department.
These are no isolated cases as B-schools in the country are witnessing a
NEW DELHI: Hit by a high turnover rate, Indian Railways (IR) is perhaps soon poach engineers from the private sector and the process of work on projects throughout the country. IR needs manpower to support major projects such as dedicated rail freight corridor (DRFC) and high-speed corridors for both cargo and passenger carriers.
The Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering (IRICEN) will soon be recruiting engineers from private companies. In addition, a new course will be in the curriculum of training to negotiate on the road. According to the officials, many foreign participants are also happy in the program.
Until
One hundred thirty schools from 11 countries on five continents battled for the prestigious SAE Foundation Cup during the annual event May 15-20.
The UW-Madison Formula SAE Racing team poses with their championship trophy.
Sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers, Formula SAE is a collegiate engineering competition in which students design, build and race a formula-style racing car. The competition is divided into two portions: static and dynamic events. The static events consist of a business presentation, a cost report and design judging, representing real-world scenarios that the students will encounter during their careers. In the dynamic events,
The government has three technical institutes to manage the resources put in place emergency training centres of public and private engineers in the coming years.
Speaking The Telegraph, the Secretary of State for Disaster Management, Jayant Munigela, said they had chosen BIT, Mesra, Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad and the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur, for the establishment of the centres . Until the end of 2007, the Centre plans to railroad over 10000 engineers on the state of disaster and risks associated with earthquake-resistant buildings, he added.
The Government of In the meantime, is planning to promote
Does an MBA degree really help engineers
At the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), year after year, more than 90% of their students are engineers. That they are more adept at cracking the tough entrance exams with their mathematical bent of mind is a different story altogether.
So much so, today it is has become commonplace for an engineer from even the lowliest of colleges to display a masters in business management (MBA) tag.
So is an MBA a must for an engineer? Or is it just herd mentality?
Its all about money as it ups your stakes in the job market. Its
Hong Kong team wins WFU elevator competition
Students from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology took top honors in Wake Forest University's annual MBA Elevator Competition for their plan for a device that distinguishes between acute bacterial or viral infections.
The Hong Kong team is the first international competitor to enter the seven-year-old event, during which budding entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to judges in a two-minute elevator ride meant to simulate the need to be clear and concise when dealing with investors.
A team from Wake Forest University also made the finals with its pitch for AudioFusion, which
Beginning this fall, a master of professional studies in engineering management degree is being offered at Penn State Harrisburg. The program combines business and management principles with engineering study for engineers in the workforce.
The intent is to help engineers do some fine-tuning and make them better managers, said Richard Young, director of MBA programs and a professor at Penn State Harrisburg.
The program is a cooperative effort between the School of Science, Engineering and Technology and the School of Business Administration. Students will take 15 credits in business and 18 credits in engineering.
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The Department Mechancial Engineering of the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C) is an all-India workshop on the theme "Coordinate measuring machines and computer-aided inspection (CMM) in collaboration with the Institution of Engineers (India) Centre local Calicut from June 14 to 16 on ICT-C-Campus, near Kozhikode.
In an interview with journalists here Thursday, Jose Mathew and PB Dhanish, coordinators of the workshop, so that the workshop, the latest developments of the art measurement and control computer. Rendu, researchers, Mustafizur Rahman, a professor at the National University of Singapore, an expert in micro-nano-fabrication and metrology; N. Ramakrishnan, Professor, IIT Bombay, an expert
MBA Tag Clouds
