e-mail Issues and Solutions (Advisory)

This advisory is specifically for the student generation of today. Everyone uses multiple online identities for e-mail and social networking. Many of you do not use multiple sign-in nor use multiple browsers to manage your various accounts simultaneously, thereby missing e-mails sent to other accounts or sending professional emails from accounts you did not originally intend to use.

 Remember to use your "Firstname Lastname" (e.g. "Sunil Baskar" in my case) and the actual email address specifically the name part of 'name@domain.ext' should be professional and not a pet name or nickname by which professional conversations cannot be addressed to you in future. I use firstname.lastname@domain.ext as sunil.beta@parisuthamtech.co.in to make access easier.

Read on for the Twelve Commandments of using e-mail effectively.

PITS Shines at Anna University Zonal Athletics

Sports has been one of the focus areas of PITS, in our process of creating the complete human being - sound in both body and mind, following the motto of our Institution 'Towards Excellence.'

We congratulate the Ladies and Gentlemen who are pursuing their Engineering Courses in PITS and have been spending hours of practice on the field working day after day, to improve their own 'Personal Best.'

These achievements have not been from a single day's effort, but from perseverance of the athletes to which we owe all these results.

Among the Gentlemen at PITS, the following have scored accolades in Athletics.

S Saravanan (1 Yr)                    1st Place    High Jump
P Karthick (4th Yr ECE)            3rd Place     100m Sprint
M Santhosh (3rd Yr EEE)          3rd Place     Long Jump

Indian Economy and Education

Attempts at Correlating Indian Education and Economy have always been difficult. The needs of the Industry are increasing in terms of the number of people needed. Too many myths cloud Higher Education creating a fog of uncertainty. This however is the situation of 'needs', while the actual solution available to satisfy true Industrial needs has not equated.

Is it the system of education that is affecting this? Is it the 'Future Shock' that this generation of youngsters are facing that is exposing them to a mass Attention Deficit situation? Is the cultural shift in India in a critical phase of transition where parents still support their children who have grown up enough to support themselves, thereby stalling the transition to self-driven, self-supporting individuals? The questions we could ask are innumerable.

Robotics for you

At PITS the "Tech Cell", through "Tech Brigade" brings you opportunities to work on projects all through the calendar year. We also help you work on Robotics and achieve what you previously had never thought was possible.

Min7 designed by Ng Bent Kiat

Now, we have also started advisories and instructions to final year students who are about to participate in projects on 'processes', Project Planning, Project Tracking and Execution akin to a professional firm.

"Ng and Min7 won this year due to the speed of the robot, which has to be seen to be believed. It managed to navigate the maze in just 3.921 seconds, which is also a record. Check out the video below to see just how fast Min7 is."

For all the geeks out there, this is probably one sweet news to digest and tough challenge in creating a faster Micromouse for solving mazes faster than ever before.