Careers 360 - September 2020

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In the September 2020 issue of careers360, We cover region wise public & private ranking of engineering colleges in India.

HOW THEY SHOT UP

Despite initial struggle, the eight second-generation IITs set up in 2008 have matured in under a decade. Careers360 looks at how they did it.

7 mins

Tech Rescue For Engineering Courses In Covid-19

Public engineering colleges, including the IITs, had to organise fundraisers, use online labs and reorganise teaching to hold a semester online due to COVID-19.

5 mins

STAYING RELEVANT BY UPSKILLING ONLINE

Why upskilling is not a matter of choice anymore but of survival.

4 mins

THE COST OF CLOSING DOWN

Shutting engineering colleges has cost cash-strapped state universities large chunks of revenue.

4 mins

AIR, WATER, SOIL: ENGINEERING COLLEGES AND THE ENVIRONMENT

State engineering colleges are working to address environmental challenges in their backyards.

5 mins

BACK INTO THE FOLD

How a government programme is helping women in science and tech who have faced a career break get back on track.

4 mins

NEW IDEAS, OLD PROBLEMS

What happened to the projects that won prizes in the Smart India Hackathon?

5 mins

BEING AN EXCEPTIONAL TEACHER

Most engineering programmes hope to achieve what Jayashri Ravishankar does. Ravishankar, who teaches at Australia’s University of New South Wales, has found a way to keep a very large and diverse student body engaged by developing “research-led and professionally relevant” strategies that have now been adopted elsewhere. An electrical engineer with a special interest in renewable energy and micro-grids, Ravishankar earlier taught at Anna University, Tamil Nadu for a decade. In 2019, she received a citation from the Australian Awards for University Teaching for ‘Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning’. It acknowledges her as one of “Australia’s most exceptional university teachers”. She spoke to Careers360 about how engineering must be taught so that students are engaged and come out job-ready.

4 mins

TOWARDS A BIO-DEGRADABLE PLASTIC

A team of three students at NIT Raipur created a material out of starches that could potentially be a substitute for plastic.

4 mins

EXPLAINER: THE FIGHT OVER OBC RESERVATION

A court battle is on over OBC reservation in the AIQ seats in state medical colleges. What is the controversy about?

5 mins

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