Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Oct 27: Bhargava College of Engineering and Technology, Samba organised two days workshop on robotics programming in association with IIT- Bombay, here today.
This is the first of its kind in institution of Higher Learning in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Introduction about robotics through e-Yantra lab set up initiative. Aim of workshop was to create eco-system at Colleges/ Universities to teach embedded system and robotics in effective way to catch up 10T based projects.
Director MS Baloria in his welcome address mentioned about the need of learning robotics and embedded programming in higher education.
Prof. Ashok Sharma coordinator of workshop briefed the participants about need of embedded system in the era of smart cities.
Krishna Lala, Senior Project Manager e-Yantra from IIT- Bombay presented detailed overview of entire project and benefits related to same. She addressed the Heads/ Participants to set up labs for better teaching learning process in regards to 10T based aspect.
This workshop was very useful and about 20 Heads/ Principal and 120 faculty members from reputed organization attended the workshop.
The Chairman of Bhargava College of Engineering and Technology Sh. Prakash Sharma expressed his full support for such initiatives and he declared that BCET Samba will set up first Robotics Lab in State and BCET will offer access to this lab for all academicians and when they need without any financial burden.
Managing Director of the College, Sanjeev Sharma also thanked the participants for coming to college for attending the Workshop.
Akriti Mahajan presented vote of thanks.