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MTech in Product Design & Management
If you are an early or mid-career IT professional looking to know more about product management or someone toying with the idea of a start-up, here’s a thoughtfully curated postgraduate degree program for you! A product or solution that ticks the right boxes for a market requires a delicate balance of architectural as well as product vision. When product managers lay out product roadmaps with little understanding of technical specifications or engineers build solutions with zero pulse of the customer in mind, the situation is far from optimal. While companies have focused on clear communication between the two streams, an […]
Gandhi Jayanthi Celebrations
The Cultural Wing of Students Life Committee (SLC) celebrated Gandhi Jayanthi on 2 October. Inaugural address was given by Prof. P J Narayanan. This was followed by a talk by the invited speaker Prof Madhu Prasad on Work/Craft as the Medium for Learning: Liberating Education for Social Change, Q&A session and events by students. Dr. Indranil Chakrabarty was the faculty coordinator of the event. Prof. Madhu Prasad retired from the department of philosophy, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. Other than being a popular and admired teacher of philosophy, she has been an activist for more than five decades, […]
Psychological First AID
Ms. Tanusree Mustafi gave an online talk on Psychological First AID on 9 October as part of the Community Well-being series organized by the Campus Mental Health and Wellbeing team. Sessions have been planned for the 2021 monsoon semester. Psychological First Aid is an initial disaster response intervention with the goal of promoting safety, stabilize survivors of disasters and connect individuals to help and resources. PFA is delivered to affected individuals by mental health professionals and other first responders. The purpose of PFA is to assess the immediate concerns and needs of an individual in the aftermath of a disaster, […]
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Student Spotlight
October 28, 2021
Positivity, A PhD and A Patent
Life can often get in the way of individual pursuits. But for Salma Khan who sailed through marriage, childcare, vivas, and then work, her first hiatus came only with the birth of her third child. Her comeback to academia as a PhD aspirant has been nothing short of spectacular. Here, she talks to us about her research that is pending patent approval and other things that make her tick. When Hyderabad-born and bred Salma Khan tied the matrimonial knot while pursuing her engineering degree, giving academics a backseat was not even an option. “In fact that was one of the […]