300 attend talk on emerging trends in engg & mgmt

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, January 24

Having organised only webinars for the past nearly 10 months, an offline conference was held at Lyallpur Khalsa College Technical Campus on Saturday.

The conference was held on ‘Emerging trends in engineering and management’ in which more than 300 faculty members from India and abroad, i.e. Ghana, South Africa, Kenya and Australia participated and exchanged their ideas and views on the topic.

Dr Ajay Kumar Sharma, Vice-Chancellor, IKG-PTU, Kapurthala, was the chief guest of the day. Dr RK Gupta, Vice-Chancellor, Agarsen University Solan, was the guest of honour. Dr Ajay Kumar Sharma said the conference came at the most opportune time as the entire world was on its heels to fight the pandemic. During this period of lockdowns and inactivity, such forums harness hidden knowledge and creativity of scholars to contribute to the pool of education in the fields of engineering and management.

In his key note speech, Dr Sonia Singh, Director, Toss Global Management, UAE, said, “Emerging technologies have the ability to put a positive impact on our society and offers exciting new teaching options for teachers and new learning options for students. It can enhance the learning process and outcome by making many difficult topics much easier to cover, minimise the learning time, eliminate the risk, and reduce the cost effective. Universities should increasingly look at emerging technologies and use them for the higher order skills to offer flexible, more effective, low-cost educational environments to the students.”

Dr Upasana Singh, senior lecturer, University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa, highlighted the benefits of ‘Big Data Analytics: A Paradigm shift in Management and Technology’.

Dr Inderpal Singh, HoD, management, and Dr Pooja Dhand, HoD,CSE, coordinated the conference and presented the valedictory report, in which they highlighted that more than 100 papers were presented by research depicting the emerging trends in management, computer science, civil engineering, electronics and communication engineering, mechanical engineering and applied science.

Dr RS Deol presented a vote of thanks to the dignitaries and paper presenters. He stated that in current scenario curriculum and pedagogy is to be designed as per the need of industry. Earlier, the conference started with the lighting of lamp by Balbir Kaur, president governing council, of the college.