Technology Education Colleges
Established in the year 2000 on 29th of August St. Thomas’ College of Engineering & Technology is approved by the AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) and is under WBUT (West Bengal University of Technology). This college is situated in Kolkata and more precisely at 4, Diamond Harbour Road.
Courses Offered:
The college offers engineering bachelor degree in four different disciplines approved by AICTE. It offers the four streams namely Electronics & Communications Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering. The strength of each of the department is 60 each.
Infrastructure:
The college has an admirable infrastructure. The area of land of the college is approximately about 5.276 acres. This institute was established with a goal of providing valuable education to its pupils and this is reflected in the infrastructure. The discipline among the students is stupendous. The classrooms are modernized, a well furnished library with a books catering to all the students’ needs and high tech laboratories with all the modern equipments for different scientific purposes is present. The indoor outdoor sports facilities are superb.
Admission Procedure:
A candidate should qualify either WBJEE or AIEEE (quota is 10% of total intake) with a good rank to get admission.
Eligibility Criteria:
The candidate seeking admission must have at least 50% aggregate in his/her HS or equivalent. Also they must qualify one among WBJEE or AIEEE.
Placement
Many companies of international repute recruit students of the college during campus interviews each year. The names of some can be mentioned as ITC InfoTech, Satyam Computers, I-Flex Solutions, CTS, Peobrics and HCL Technologies.
Contact:Details:
St. Thomas College of Engineering, Kolkata
4, Diamond Harbour Road
Kolkata: 700023
Website: www.stcet.org
Phone: +91-033-24481082, 24941568, 24481081, 24482904
Fax: +91-033-24482914
By Josh Fischman
Wired Campus
January 10, 2010, 07:20 PM ET
Las Vegas — “Getting technology tools into the hands of every student and family should be standard practice. It isn’t now,” said the U.S. under secretary of education, Martha J. Kanter, addressing a mix of technologists and educators at the HigherEd Tech Summit here, part of the giant salute to gadgetry known as the Consumer Electronics Show. Nor are best practices for professors to use technology to improve learning standard, Ms. Kanter said: “We are losing ground. We have a lot of work to do to make faculty comfortable with technology and ways to use it.”
But the under secretary was less specific about how the Obama Administration was going to help this happen. Ms. Kanter, who pushed technology programs when she held leadership positions at California community colleges, did mention the Education Department had $350-million for a grants program in best-practices innovation, but did not offer details about how and when such grants would be offered. Some technology executives in the audience noted that private industry was doing a better job of identifying and distributing best-practice modules than the government.
Ms. Kanter, however, was adamant that the administration was focused on quality in online courses and new ways to assess them. “We’ve burdened people with onerous reporting requirements that have little to do with quality,” she said. “Let’s put out a call to our professors. They can tell us what is working and what is not.” George R. Boggs, president of the American Association of Community Colleges, said that his group was helping to prepare a report on quality endpoints.
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