Chennai-based engineer Pravin Kumar has been announced as the national winner for India of the prestigious James Dyson Award 2023 for his innovation Mouseware, a movement-based technology designed for people with upper limb disabilities. By using the power of head movements, this technology enables control of smart devices, allowing individuals to effortlessly interact with digital devices.  He will receive prize money of approximately …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) India Private Limited has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) to support space-tech innovations through cloud computing. This collaboration will give space startups, research institutes and students access to cutting edge cloud technologies that accelerate the development of new solutions …

Recent advances in instrumentation, data analysis, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools like Deep Learning (DL) hold great promise for structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridges and other structures. These technologies make it easier to detect, measure, understand, and even predict the evolution of defects over time. This, in turn, enables more effective planning of renovation or repair work, ultimately reducing maintenance …

Mpower, a mental health initiative by the Aditya Birla Education Trust, after introducing COPE (Counselling and Outreach for Peer Empowerment), designed to offer much-needed support and resources for tackling mental health challenges within the student community, kick-started an awareness drive on the issue of suicides. On World Suicide Prevention Day, students from colleges spanning six states staged impactful street plays …

In an extraordinary display of talent and expertise, a dedicated team of students from SVKM’s NMIMS Indore Campus’ School of Technology Management & Engineering (STME), under the visionary leadership of Sam Varghese, a third-year MBA Tech student, has achieved a remarkable milestone by securing a place among the top 5 winners at the prestigious Kavach 2023 Cyber Security Hackathon, an …

Prof. Rajnish Kumar, faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has been recognized with the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. The Award is being given for his exceptional contributions to fundamental understanding of the nucleation and growth of clathrate hydrates, CO2 sequestration in solid hydrates and methane recovery from marine gas hydrates. …