| Thursday, October 25, 2007
‘No progress without instruments’
Tiruchengode: Instrumentation, an important branch of engineering,
needs a push and colleges should give more importance to this
branch, said Vikam Kumar, director of the National Physical
Laboratory.
Participating in the ‘National Symposium on Instrumentation’
held on Wednesday at the K. S. Rangasamy College of
Technology, near here, he said, “The multi-disciplinary
branch needs a push, as it has not received the due attention."
He suggested that the college start a course in instrumentation.
To substantiate his statement, he said, “In this country,
particularly from this belt, we export a lot of textile goods
but not textile machinery. We continue to import machinery which
is probably because of not giving importance for instrumentation
engineering." Dr. Kumar, who is also the president of the
Instrument Society of India, said it was a multi-disciplinary
field.
"It is not electrical engineering, electronics engineering,
mechanical engineering, nor physics or chemistry but it is all
a combination of disciplines," he said He also added that
every discipline required instruments. “There can be no
progress without instruments," he added. College Principal
PSS. Srinivasan, Chairman K.S. Rangasamy and others spoke.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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