VOICE, an official club of SGGSIE&T in collaboration with Pracheta held a series of seminars called the Youth Empowerment Seminars on the 6th and 7th October, 2023 wherein we called distinguished speakers from the corporate and academic world to share their wisdom, experiences and knowledge on current technology trends and career prospects in this rapidly changing world of information and technology. This was the second time in 3 years we were holding such a series of seminars but this time it was bigger and better. We were extremely fortunate to have the event started with Dr Chile felicitating our delegates and motivating the students to take maximum advantage of such opportunities.
Following were the series of seminars that were conducted for the benefit of the student community:
Cloud computing is a current buzz word in industry. In this talk Mr Awasthi covered Cloud computing from a technical perspective and the research opportunities that lie ahead in future related to Cloud Computing
Spintronics utilizes the electron's spin to create useful sensors, memory and logic devices with properties not possible with charge based devices. Prof Chandrashekar discussed the concept for a solid-state memory based on advanced spintronic concepts which promises as much as a hundredfold increase in the capacity of solid state memories, rivaling the capacities of hard disk drives but with no moving parts.
Dr Chaudhary explained the ways in which the radioactive elements are used for various purposes in the nuclear reactor. Himself being from BARC, the most sought after institution that many students aspire to get through, he shared his personal experience and gave very valuable students to students to crack the exam for entrance into BARC
One of the most keenly and sought after seminars Mr Sawale shared his experience and success formula to the students when preparing for GATE.
Development engineering hinges on the understanding that creating sustainable systems around a technological intervention requires more than just engineering prowess—it requires knowledge of aspects like local economics and business to understand financial viability as well as ethnography (i.e., systematic study of people and their behaviors and culture) and interviewing practices to understand the community. While the traditional focus on “hard” skills is changing as engineering programs evolve, emphasizing the need for students to develop communication and entrepreneurial competencies is core to development engineering. The most exciting part was Mr Shinde also provided internship opportunities for students to work with him if they were interested.
Dynamics of Structures and Earthquake engineering is an essential research topic of Civil Engineering. To understand the dynamic behaviour of structures, vibration testing is necessary. The aim of Dr Mohans talk was to bring awareness to the students on the importance of vibration testing of civil structures.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper “A Theory of Human Motivation” in Psychological Review. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow used the terms "physiological," "safety," "belonging and love," "esteem," and "self-actualization" to describe the pattern through which human motivations generally move. The goal of Maslow's Theory is to attain the fifth level or stage: self actualization. Mr Suram very beautifully after establishing Maslows law very scientifically explained that it is not required to go through the various stages as described by Maslow in order to attain self actualization, one can directly go to that stage. The students were also made to do an activity in order to assess their overall personality.
This was an online seminar from the US by Mr Anshu Raina guiding the students on various options to study in abroad. This was a very interactive session as many students came and asked many relevant questions
With the increased computational power and evolution of compact device technology, microphone array is being used from hand held devices like mobile phones to large scale defense equipments. Applications like hands-free communication and surveillance utilize microphone array signal processing techniques. Compared to single channel signal processing methods, high interference suppression can be obtained using microphone array. Sound source localization is a central problem in microphone array signal processing. In this talk, Dr Kumar beautifully demonstrated as to how we could overcome this problem.
