Tech students should turn entrepreneurs: Offi cial

MYSORE: Students passing
out of engineering colleges
should explore way
to turn entrepreneurs than
merely looking for a job, M
N Vidyashankar, Principal
Secretary, Department of IT,
BT and S&T, said.
He said this will help bring
newer technologies as the
young techies-turned-entrepreneurs
will be able to look
to bring them to the country
from abroad.
Speaking after inaugurating
the Centre for Nano-
Technology at Institute of
Engineering (NIE), he cited
the example of Taipei, the
capital of Taiwan, which,
despite being one fourth the
size of Bangalore city, had
made astounding progress in
the fi eld of IT and electronics
hardware.
Speaking about the advances
made in IT&BT because
of which the lifestyle
of people have changed vastly,
Vidyashankar said akin to
the payment of bills made
easy through the mobile
phone technology, in future
it will be easier with ‘special
technology’
through satellites.
Explaining about the
progress attained through biotechnology,
Vidyashankar
said that cotton, which used
to be imported eight years
ago, is now being exported,
thanks
to BT seeds.
NIE Principal G L Shekar,
speaking on the occasion,
explained about two projects
- ‘Characterisation of composite
materials and application
of nano-materials for
sustainable energy’ and ‘Development
of CIGS-based
nano-materials for photovoltaic’s
-which have been
housed in the Centre.
Its primary objective is to
characterise structural and
mechanical properties of
nano-materials for various
applications.
It is a research centre for
Physics, Chemistry and Mechanical
Studies, he said.