SIPP 2013: Summer Internship (Training) Program with Project is an innovative summer internship program that exposes talented undergraduate students to research. It is an attempt to provide the enthusiasts a complete platform in the field of Robotics, Embedded System & MATLAB. With increasing technological competence, students need to dip into the real technological scenario and assimilate as many skills possible, to get ready for the real race. SIPP is an answer to this. Hands-on-sessions will expose them to the minuets and the starkest problems encountered while building a projects.Students have the opportunity to get mentored by industry experienced engineers. The program introduces aspiring engineers to the dynamic resources and opportunities available in the industry.

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Some time back, I happened to stumble across this youtube video by a professor from Harvard Business School (HBS) – Professor Deepak Malhotra. He had been addressing to the 2012 Harvard MBA about to graduate students. And I must say, the speech is so power packed and unique in itself in terms of thought dimensions, that one can easily be left wondered after listening to it, about, how simple our life is and how far we can really reach just by simple introspection and practices. His speech really stimulates ones inner core to ask those rudimentary questions and detect those subtle feelings and thoughts that make each and every one of us ‘unique’ in himself/herself. It is tough to describe all about whatever he said, but, I have tried to put some of the many good point of hiss, acting as a narrator on his behalf.

Consider life to be moving at a normal pace. You are making decent bucks, have a good job, good future prospects, and a whole lot of opportunities after graduating from here. And then one odd day, you come across a person from roadside. He is a person, whose life is absolutely doomed, has to struggle very hard to meet his eating requirements, has undergone famine experience, ha no stable livelihood source. And he asks you – Are you really really happy with your life? Are you satisfied with whatever you are doing and would continue doing it till the end? What would be your reply to these questions? How would you tackle them? If, after graduating from a university of such repute, where, any other person would crave to reach and be amongst the few chosen ones on the planet to get access to some extraordinary opportunities, then probably some injustice has been done to an another candidate, who could have really been happier after coming here, and charted out a great life. If the answer to the above questions is ‘YES’, then I suggest you to quit early and start looking for a work, which makes you happier and satisfied. Also, keep quitting until you find the work, which you really really want to do and feel like doing for rest of the life. So, Quit Early, Quit Often.

We often mention and talk about a person being genius, being brilliant. And the most revered aspect is mostly in terms of studies, analysis of numbers, number crunching and similar aspects. Instead, the more appropriate question is – ‘what are the person’s geniuses or what is he/she really good at?’ Our societal setup measures a person’s talent only in terms of constrained fields, mostly in studies and that too embraces successes and kicks failures. A good or brilliant performance is hardly acknowledged. And this results in the vanishing of some really potentially good talent that could have bloomed in some next generation persona like lady Gaga, Lance Armstrong, etc.

Lastly, after graduating from here, stay in touch with your professors, your mentors, friends, etc. Infact, try to get in touch with even those teachers, who had taught you in school and undergraduate days of college. They might not be very smart as you are, you might have hated some of them very badly, but then, they have been somewhere responsible in the  making you what you are today. They do deserve some credit. And all they want to hear from you is a simple ‘Hi’. They are not asking for more. They have seen more life than you have and so are the best mentors, who could have an answer in your life’s most distressful situation. So, stay in touch with your Professors.

P.S  -  I suggest all to go to the link – (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D73mm29XXAw) and watch the complete video. It’s very enlightening and provides some great learning’s and let you reflect on personal attributes and wants of life. 

 Ankit Kedia

Online world has gone a sea change over the ages. With the powerful juggernaut of broadband powering of masses, the digital shopping experience has unfolded itself totally into a new dimension. Whether it is about buying the latest new album, video games or the looked after software by the geeks, digital commerce has seen an unwavering upsurge in the number of users each day. 

While, this means that for many companies and individuals, the physical space taken up by media is almost non-existent. it now lives on a PC hard drive or inside your smartphone as music or as an app. But there are other factors that should be taken into account when thinking about how we, both as individuals and as businesses, are going to adapt to a future where very little media will still come in a physical format outside our hard drives.

Digital Ownership

From anyone’s perspective, the main problem that arises, is the sense of ownership. There are a lot of concerns about just how much you actually own digital files. Lose the account you bought/downloaded your files with, or your files, and you might lose them forever. While that’s no different to snapping a disc, there’s something reassuring about physical backups and the pleasing absence of DRM protection on an old-fashioned CD.

If you are a company that deals in media or software, it’s worth thinking about offering both solutions to your customers, or at least considering analyzing your position on DRM and looking at a solution that won’t result in mass piracy. Don’t think that this means your output is worth nothing, but a properly considered approach to what customers can and can’t do with the files they’ve purchased will avoid people creating illegal workarounds that lose you money, all to have a more convenient, reasonably priced experience.

Handling Digital Piracy

This is the crux of the digital issue – piracy. Buy a CD and you could manually make copies of it for your friends, but even making ten could take an hour. The same process digitally would take a couple of minutes on average in 2013, with everyone getting their music at the same time. Piracy is convenient, and of course free – while ‘free’ can’t be beaten, perhaps the right approach to trusting your customers and even approaching the piracy community with a peace offering will put you and your company in a better position. You will want to avoid the situation so many large companies find themselves in after taking a hard-line approach that sees retaliation in the form of hacking and increased piracy.

A New “Digital” Landscape 

Not long ago we discussed the concept of the entrepreneurial spirit on this blog , and it’s in our entrepreneurs and our start-up businesses that we will find changing over time. Trying to vastly change the course of a large company is quite often, trying to steer a ship the size of the Titanic away from a nearby iceberg. However, a speedboat can navigate easily around it because it’s small and adaptable enough. So, businesses must be able to re-orientate and adapt to new the requirements demanded by dealing with digital products and services in 2013.

But whether you’re a big or a small business, or even just a consumer, remember – many companies are trying new and exciting ways to deal with a world going digital. It’s a buyer’s market right now, and also one that’s open to companies experimenting with how they deliver their products. Digital does have its risks, but they can be managed, and even exploited if circumvented correctly, so don’t be afraid – be ambitious.

About the Author (Guest Posts)

Jimmy Wentz is a budding freelance tech writer, gadget and gaming enthusiast, and social media junkie. He regularly writes article in this space and the latest news in the tech, gaming, and the social media world.

Creativity is a unanimously coherent demand of corporates pan globe. It is that catalyst, which requires little and gives back wonderful results. Creativity is what leads to the evolution of a start-up and it is through the intelligent manifestation of creativity that it grows.

After IQ there was a great buzz about EQ. The latest trend setter is CQ or the Creativity Quotient. The concept draws parallels from its predecessors and still manages to be a unique field of interests for top corporates. A large number of the Fortune 500 companies are now looking forward to employees who are self-driven and motivated to put ideas into action, but before that they require the dreamers. This is where an employee’s creativity quotient comes handy.

To up the CQ companies are now roping in Creative Directors. These heads are responsible for a creative team which brainstorms new and interesting solutions to age-old problems. The implementation is altogether a different avenue but these dreamers lead to unconventional answers to conventional questions. And they pay good!

The real question is : How to be creative in a corporate environment? With the advent of two-way communication this has been made easy. Everyone has latent creative potential. All one has to do is look for answers to the problem one faces in everyday situations in one’s corporate life and implement those answers by giving prior information to one’s supervisor/senior. In this manner, your CQ will not just be recognized but also appreciated.

Introduce a little creativity and say Good Bye to your boring routine corporate work life!

Shivangi Singh

Whether you’re a student, an intern or an employee; Leadership is one quality that takes you places. It not only ensures success but also promises better interpersonal and professional relations. Leadership means to take charge. It translates into taking control and being responsible for your work and personal conduct. It means bidding adieu to a careless attitude and staying away from the blame game. Leadership if improperly applied can be taken as arrogance and therefore, care must be taken.

In a corporate scenario, one needs to be extra careful about the image one potrays to the world. The impressions can make or break one’s career. Leadership qualities are brought out in difficult situations. Ask yourself: Do you stand out of the crowd? Do you take a stand when you knwo you’re right? Do you mark your boundaries well? If you do, then you are a leader.

The importance of a leader was recognized and so, no organization functions without leaders with titles. These can be your CEO, supervisors, seniors or managers. These are people who control and coordinate how things function on a daily basis in the office. In other words, they take charge of the situation and if anything goes wrong, they take the blame. Their aim is to set up an example in the workplace through their attitude, behaviour and work ethics. A leader can only be as efficient as his/her followers so, every employee takes part in the overall leadership.

It is important to be confident and keep your calm. A cool-headed leader is a well-received one. Be kind to others but strict on yourself. Being disciplined is the first step towards uplifting leadership.

Remember: It doesn’t matter what position you hold, the only thing that really counts is how far you will go from where you are today!

Shivangi Singh

Teacher’s day, 5th day of September, has always been really special to the Indian people. It highlights the importance of a teacher in the national context. It is a day that reminds us of the invaluable contributions our beloved teachers have made to our life. Most people today would certainly agree to the fact that wherever they stand today, there has been a major contribution of their teachers in this success. Our history also reflects the immense importance of a teacher in our life. But where do our teachers stand today?

Teaching today in India is not a preferred career path anymore. There are only a handful of people who really want to be teachers. Most of our bright young minds aim to be engineers, scientists, doctors, etc. Lack of quality teachers is one of the prominent reasons why our education system has not been successful. We need to examine the reasons behind this lack of quality teaching in India and provide a real solution to it. Let us have a look.

First of all, the most important fact is that the teaching is not a highly rewarding career(in terms of monetary returns). This means that people come into teaching only because of desperation, when all other doors are closed or due to immense love for teaching.

Secondly, teachers in India don’t command the respect an engineer or a doctor has in the society. This is one of the major factors which is pushing our younger generation from teaching the future of India.

So it is absolutely clear that although we in India aim to improve our education system, we are not focusing on the pillars of this system i.e. our teachers. Teachers are the sculptors of our tomorrow and to have a wonderful tomorrow we need to have amazing teachers. Let us see what we can gain from the teaching systems around the world and how we can imbibe it into our own system.

A look at the education system of Singapore, Finland and Poland (all countries having highly successful education systems) can give us amazing inputs as to how we can achieve our dream of a shining India.

1. High Salary: Teachers in these countries show immense pride and commitment in their job, and they are adequately paid for fulfilling their duties. This develops a major interest in mind of a student to take up teaching after completing his/her studies.
2. Social status: These countries pay a special attention to their teachers and due to this the teaching profession is highly respected. The social status of a teacher is equivalent to any successful engineer or a doctor.
3. Rigorous recruitment process: A special attention is paid to a fact that only those persons are qualified to become teachers who have been in the top 1/3 rd quota of their class while studying. This ensures that only brilliant minds are teaching the upcoming generation whereas in India we usually find that those who don’t land any job usually end up teaching. This is one of the greatest failures of our education system. Furthermore, after being selected for the job the teachers are sent to specialized teacher training centers to hone their teaching skills, a tradition seen rarely in India.
4. Mentoring: A major stress is given on mentoring newly recruited teachers. When a new teacher is recruited, he/she is assigned a mentor who guides him/her in teaching strategies. This ensures that the teacher is provided proper assistance and guidance to improve his/her teaching skills further, ultimately benefiting the children

These are only some of the features which we can introduce in our own system.  I believe that some of these are already a part of our education curriculum but the execution has not been proper. We need to understand this very clearly that no education system can be better than the quality of its teachers. So the teachers have to be world class if we have to bring up a golden generation buzzing with innovative ideas and thoughts. At last, let us all give our big thank you and respect to our beloved teachers because they are truly special.

 - Dilmil singh soach

What we can learn from our ‘own’ ancient education system

Education is today the most important gift we can give to our children. The most important factor which gauges any country’s future success is its talent pool of young and talented people. The fact that Indian students have ranked a lowly 72nd in the Global Education Survey conducted by PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) doesn’t show much of promise in our students. It is indeed a matter of shame that we ranked 2nd last out of the 73 countries that participated. So it is, beyond doubt, that our present system of education is not up to the world standards and we need to make serious efforts to improve this situation in the future. So where to start?

India has always had a wonderful tradition education and learning from the beginning of time. So, it is with immense pride that we look back at our “own” education system which once spread the light of knowledge in the world when other civilizations didn’t even exist on the map. Let us have a look and see what we can derive from our rich heritage and how we can imbibe the learnings into the present system of education.

In ancient India immense focus was provided on education, such that a child spent a part of his life with his teacher in an ashram where he learned about himself and the world around him. This “Gurukul System” of education was highly effective. According to the ancient Indian theory of education, the training of the mind and the process of thinking are essential for the acquisition of knowledge. Ancient Education System in India had three simple processes -  Shravana, Manana and Niddhyaasana.

1) Shravana : It means to listen to the words of wisdom which the teacher spoke.

2) Manana : It implies that the student needs to interpret the meaning of the lessons imparted  by the teacher so that they may be understood fully, reflecting upon what has been heard (shravana). This process was to remove any doubts about the knowledge that was received via shravana.

3) Niddhyaasana : It means complete comprehension of the knowledge that is taught, so that the student may live the knowledge and not merely explain it by word. It was believed that knowledge must result in realization and not merely a collection of facts.

It is no doubt that our ancient education system was a great success, but unfortunately today we are in a very poor condition. There is no link between the teacher and a student anymore. The teacher student interaction has been limited to classrooms and the critical bond of growth has been broken. The respect for the “guru” has been lost. Secondly, our students have actually forgotten to think critically(manana). Nobody bothers to explain to the student the true meaning of what he is being taught and the rote learning is on its way up the hill, but this situation is leading us to a serious problem of lack of innovative and creative minds. The growth of mind is impossible without the process of critical thinking(manana). Thirdly, the present education system just focuses on factual learning rather than practical learning. There is no working system wherein a student can practice what he is being taught or put his own ideas to work. The true knowledge always comes with experience and it needs to be understood seriously in tackling this problem.

So, we need to understand that our education system needs a revamp and we have to be the leaders of this change. We have to imbibe the seed of creative and analytical thinking into our children, so that they can be successful in their future endeavors. Let us build a beautiful tomorrow by starting today. 

 - Dilmil Singh Soach