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Best technology Careers for The Near Future

8th April 201613th April 2016 CADD CENTRE

Education and skill development will never really come to an end when it comes to Information and Technology. Therefore, providing an updated account for the state of the technology industry is quite difficult. The rapid rise in technology has generated a boom in the career opportunities and job profiles across the IT industry. With the use of technology in our everyday life, the IT industry experienced a major spotlight in the past few years. This has led to many job opportunities in the field of analysis, design and IT Architecture. Some of the prominent technology based careers that are growing:

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT:

An architect maintains control over the architectural life cycle parallel to the software development of the project. A software architect’s most prominent work is during the requirements and design stages of a project, but also an architect proactively monitors the adherence of the implementation of the chosen architecture during all its iterations.

UX DESIGNER:

A UX designer is someone who designs the look and feel of a software. He decides how will the user interact and use the application and is responsible to design the best interface to make the application more usable.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER:

The job of a Software Development Manager is a bit tricky as it involves keeping his or her team on track for the project. Other than managing the team under him, he has to deliver the right project, the right time to the customer. And to achieve this goal, he has to make sure everyone knows their both short and long term goals and know how to achieve them.

ANALYTICS MANAGER:

An analytics manager’s work id to analyze customer and operational data. He or she also produces analysis, which is accurate and can be relied on to a high level of confidence.

QA MANAGER:

Once the project is developed, it needs to be tested for functionality and quality. The primary job of a Quality Manager is to test that the project is up to the mark and meets all requirements of the clients maintaining proper functionality and quality of the product.

DATA SCIENTIST:

A data scientist is someone who advocates, evangelizes and build data-fuelled products that helps the customers to improve the overall outcomes. This professional will provide insights into leading analytic practices, design and lead iterative learning and development cycles, ultimately producing new and creative analytic solutions that will become an important part of the core deliverable.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER:

Software Development and Engineering will be another vibrant career in the near future. A software developer is a person who carries out development of any software by writing well designed, efficient and testable code. He tailors and deploy software tools, processes and metrics.

MOBILE DEVELOPER:

With the world gone mobile, every industry from Hospitality, to Medical to Travel eCommerce, every business now has their own mobile applications. Almost every functionality that a website is capable of, is now present right inside your pocket. And thus, increased the demand of mobile apps. Mobile development, has therefore become one of the most prominent career options in the development sector.

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT:

A solution architect can be said as the leader of the development team. The primary responsibility of this person is to help in converting the requirements of the customers into the architecture and design of the real project.

PRODUCT MANAGER:

Product manager is also someone who works above the product development team. He is the responsible person for the entire life cycle and development of the product. This professional determines the market requirements of the project and delivers a product that the market requires.

Renewable Energy Inventions 2015

9th March 20169th March 2016 CADD CENTRE

Energy in any form is something that we humans need every day to carry out any and every work. With technologies grabbing a rapid rise in developing the products and services, the need for a rich energy source is an obvious demand. In this world of energy, all we need is a Holy Grail power source that is clean, inexpensive, with no emissions and which stays forever.

We recently witnessed some of the inventions that have grabbed attention and made people more optimistic about the future of energy. These energy inventions may change people’s perspective towards technologies that can generate as well as utilize energy in best and optimum manners, as there can be. Not only these will make life easier, but also they will help us take care of our planet better. Some of the amazing energy inventions of 2015 that can change the future of the energy and power sector can be:

The Solar Outlet
The Solar outlet is a complete revolution for its comfort and practicality. This device on one side has solar panels and a suction cup that makes it capable to adhere it to any glass (a car window or at home). The devise absorbs solar radiation and converts it to electricity. The other side of the device has the traditional outlet that can be used for anything. The Solar Outlet is highly portable and can be carried in pockets wherever you go.

Portable Solar Kitchen
The portable solar kitchen can be a perfect solution for people who love food at the outdoors. The GoSun Kitchen is a device that uses solar energy to reach a temperature upto 370oC. The device is capable to cook anything you want it to within 20 minutes. The portable kitchen lets you bake, boil and fry food consuming 90% of the solar energy which is captured through the reflectors.

Portable Solar Laptops
Solar energy is making portable computers even more portable by setting them free from the traditional electrical connectivity. SOL is such a portable computer, or you can say a laptop that does not need an electrical power supply to be charged and used. The laptop uses solar energy to work which can be absorbed through the solar panels attached at the back side of the laptop.

The system operates on open source Ubuntu Linux operating system and also has a very low price. The device is hassle free and can be charged in just 2 hours. This computer was basically designed for improving education in the developing countries, but it can also be used by travelers or people who work outdoors.

Solar Air Conditioning
Air Conditioners are the ones which are the major generators of CO2 in the environment. Looking to this LG is the brand which came up with Air Conditioners that are powered by solar energy. These air conditioners are capable of reducing approximately 212 kg of CO2 in 10 years. The appliance combines solar energy generated by its modular cells to produce energy up to 70 watts per hour. This device will also increase user’s savings up to 35 to 50 % on a monthly bill. Although the Air Conditioner costs double the usual ones, it pays for itself in a few years of use.

Tree Shaped Wind Turbines
A French company, New Wind is installing tree shaped wind turbines in Paris, France. These trees are used to exploit small air currents flowing along streets and buildings. The company admits that these turbines have low efficiency as compared to the traditional wind turbines, but also believes that these can be more viable and less intrusive than those.

Pepsi’s New Green Pet Bottle
Beverage bottles are one of the major pollution causing agents for the environment. PepsiCo, being one of the top food and Beverage Company in the world since 2010, is now working on developing environment-friendly bottles. Recently, the company developed world’s first plastic bottle that is made entirely from renewable and plant- sourced raw materials. These bottles, when compared to other plastic bottles, leaves less carbon trace on the planet.

The Spherical Sun Power generator
A German company Rawlemon, has created a spherical sun power generator called the Beta.ray. The technology blends spherical geometry principles with a dual axis tracking system, allowing twice the yield of conventional solar panels in a comparatively smaller surface area. The design of the Beta.ray is fully rotational and suitable for inclined surfaces, walls of buildings or anywhere with an access to the open sky. The Beta.ray is equipped with a hybrid collector to convert electricity as well as thermal energy.

Conversion of Waste Heat to Electricity
The modern world has seen development with rapid Industrialization. And this industrialization has led to a huge rise in temperature. Millions of industries across the world are generating heat in their everyday process that is wasted. Some of the researchers took this pretty serious and doing research to convert this wasted heat energy into electricity. The team claims that Thermoelectricity can convert heat directly into electricity in a device that has no moving parts. This eventually leads to eradication of Ozone depletion materials protecting the earth’s environment.

Solar Stereo Speakers
Devotec Solar Sound to Stereo Bluetooth Speakers are the next generation speakers that are completely wireless. They use Bluetooth to connect to any music systems and smart phones. These wireless speakers lets you enjoy music anywhere in the sun. These wireless portable speakers are powered by solar cells and you need to do is to simply keep them in the open sunlight and enjoy instant and clear resonant music wherever you want.

The new Super Bacterium Doubles the Hydrogen Gas Production
The primary use of Hydrogen gas today is for manufacturing chemicals, but future predictions about Hydrogen gas says a lot about using it as a vehicle fuel in combination of fuel cells. The present methods of Hydrogen gas production have a major issue, i.e. the hydrogen exchange with respect to raw materials is low. To resolve this issue, researchers have discovered a new bacterium that is capable of producing twice as much hydrogen gas as the bacteria currently use. The use of these bacterium show amazing results proving how excellent these bacterium are for this purpose through a complete biological production of the hydrogen gas.

PV Cell Prototype Generates Electricity from IR and UV Lights
Researchers at the Kyoto Institute of Technology have been working upon solar energy absorption. A little diverged from the original path, they are working to trap the visible as well as invisible Sun rays to generate electricity. They are making efforts to create a new Photovoltaic cell that is capable to capture visible, Ultraviolet and infrared rays from the Sun. The team believes that this cell will be hugely efficient for solar power conversion.

All these inventions will not only change our lives, makes things easier, but ultimately lead to a clean and hygienic environment. Utilizing the natural resources to convert them in to an energy sources is one of the major advances we are going to make. These inventions will not only make us leaders in the field of Science or Technology, but also will help improve our health and the surrounding.

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AutoCAD Electrical 2016

7th March 20169th March 2016 CADD CENTRE

AutoCAD electrical is a powerful product from Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping. This AutoCAD software is a highly tailored tool which is designed to create and modify electrical control systems. The tool contains all the functionality of AutoCAD along with a comprehensive set of tools for automating control engineering tasks, such as designing circuits, numbering wires and creating bill of materials.

Some of the key feature sets of AutoCAD Electrical are as under:

1. Location View Tab on Project Manager: The Project manager now has a Location view Tab that provides a complete view of the devices and wiring contained in the current project. The components in the tab are organized by installation and location values with features such as:

•   View Catalog, description and rating information.
•   View the component pin values by expanding the device
•   Surf to a selected component by a right click

2. AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor Interoperability: Users can now link an AutoCAD Electrical Project to an Inventor Project. The link lets users to exchange data between 2D and 3D designs. Users can use the Location View tab once the project is linked to view both the AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor Components with data.

3. Default Wire Sequence: This feature provides default wire sequencing for wire networks with multiple components. AutoCAD Electrical performs a sequence of steps to determine wire connection sequence ensuring the sequence is well designed.

4. Wire Number Attribute Support: Users can edit the wire number attributes from the Edit Wire Number Attributes Dialogue box. The fields in the reports are:

•   Wire To/ From
•   Component wire List
•   Terminal Plan
•   Connector Plug
•   Cable To/ From

5. Insert Connector: AutoCAD Electrical maintains Insert Connector dialogue box across sessions of the tool. Once the default settings are set, the user is not needed to set it again.The tool supports two groups of settings, one for metric drawings, and another for imperial drawings. The tool uses the appropriate settings automatically based on project active drawings.

6. Annotate One-Line Components: The designers may want to annotate a one-line component based on a panel or schematic component already inserted while working on a one-line diagram. A new option is available to make it easier which filters a list of components based on whether there is already a matching one-line symbol present.

7. Schematic Terminals: The tool provides options to hide the tag strip, location and installation attribute values if the users inserts schematic terminals using the Multiple Insert commands.

All these new set of features helps designers to build electrical circuits and boards more efficiently and quickly with AutoCAD Electrical 2016.

Booming Infrastructural development is turning Geotechnical Engineering

5th February 20165th February 2016 CADD CENTRE

Booming Infrastructural development is turning Geotechnical Engineering one of the most highly paid, Easy- entry and In-Demand Job

Geotechnical Engineering deals with engineering activities of earth and materials. Being a part of civil engineering, it is also used across industries such as petroleum, mining, or any other engineering activity related to construction.

As every building needs a foundation, Geotechnical Engineers are always in a great demand wherever there is a construction project carried out. Geotechnical needs should be integrated with construction and architecture activities during a construction project as these methods proposes the civil engineers to lay firm foundations for the building making them strong against any or every threat.

Geotechnical Engineering is the science that explains the mechanics of rock and soil and its applications for construction purposes. It includes the analysis, design and construction of foundations, structures, buildings, slopes retaining structures, embankments, tunnels, roadways, levees, landfills and wharves and other systems that are made of, or supported by soil and rock.

Challenges that Geotechnical Engineers face

Civil engineering is constantly striving to build bigger and bigger structures; Geotechnical engineers constantly develop new techniques to make the underlying ground support for those structures. Longer and higher bridges carrying traffic, skyscrapers and huge buildings, all these are structures that need a firm support to with stand all natural environments, traffic and natural disasters.
New challenges in foundation designs are yet to be faced as mankind is moving forward with long tunnels, higher bridges, speeding highways and more skyscrapers and all this achievement can only be attained having high technically trained professionals.

With all these civil engineering futures, there will and always been a greater need for a Geotechnical engineer. This is a field that will seek innovation with a solid engineering background.

Career Requirements

Students and individuals seeking a career in the field of Geotechnical Engineering can attain high goals possessing requirements such as:

Degree Requirement- A bachelor degree, although some employers prefer a graduate degree in Civil Engineering.

Entry Level Work- A study about the basic structures is carried out at entry level before moving towards more detailed Geotechnical engineering. The candidate, after graduating, work with the CAD software to design and test structural models for construction purposes. The candidate also takes soil and rock samples to analyze and develop Geotechnical reports to receive construction specifications.

Gain Experience- As the new hired candidates gain experience, they are assigned more complex projects. As they gain expertise, they’ll become a lot of concerned in complicated comes. Geotechnical engineers might analyze specifications for bridges, develop support systems for tunnels and assess property problems for dams.

Attain a License- All the firms need engineers to be authorized, whereas necessities vary by firms, licensure typically includes finishing associate degree, licensed engineer program, showing four years of documented work expertise and clearing a state examination.

Faculty graduates could contemplate taking a state – licensing examination on the basics of engineering. Those that pass the examination area unit are remarked as engineers-in-training (EITs).

Job Prospects in India

There is a vast demand for civil engineers in India and it’s conjointly expected to induce a lift because the country is now empowered to upgrade its infrastructure with an increase in economic and political clout within the world. The career opens plenty of opportunities across various government departments.

There square measures open equally smart opportunities within the personal sector for civil engineers. A significant gap for qualified civil engineers is additionally in the defense force wherever they will build important contribution to the protection of the country.

Geotechnical Engineering with CADD Centre

CADD Centre is offering a variety of certifications and courses under its various programs for Geotechnical Engineers to shine their career in the field of civil engineering and Geotechnical engineering. Courses are offered in various combinations as well as standalone versions of world’s most popular CAD/CAE software products such as AutoCAD, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, 3ds Max, etc.

CADD Centre’s Master diploma programs are offered with an addition course on concept in project management and planning. CADD Centre offers courses such as Master Diploma Program, Professional Program, Diploma Program as well as Standalone Versions.

CADD Centre also offers training and certifications for AutoCAD civil 3D software which is an engineering design and documentation solution which supporting Building Information and Modelling work flows. With all these civil engineering futures, there will and always been a greater need for a Geotechnical engineer. This is a field that will seek innovation with a solid engineering background.

MX Road is another program which candidates learn to build rapid and accurate designs for all types of roads. It is widely used by Civil and Geotechnical engineers and storm drainage/ water/ sewer system designers for accurate and specialized assistance across projects.

The CADD Centre helps candidate’s master features of Civil 3d which is one of the most important software solutions for Geotechnical Engineering purposes:

DESIGN
Design concepts are built for corridor designs, gravity pipe networks, pressure pipe networks, bridge modelling, rail track layout, etc.

ANALYSIS
For advanced mapping functionality, using dynamic model and developing civil design models and visualizations analyzing soil and rock formations.

DOCUMENTATION
These certifications not only master candidates in designing the structures for constructions or doing environment analysis, but also, they will master the art of proper formal documentation.

These certifications and courses will help candidates create professional structures, helping turn their ideas into an actual design. They help to produce detailed plans to aid obtain municipality approvals for subdivisions and land developments.

As a developing country, India has witnessed a rapid growth in the economy, and with this, the construction industry has brought cheers to youth seeking to build career in Civil and Geotechnical engineering making its infrastructure more vibrant.

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Look through feature set for Revit Architecture 2015

4th February 20164th February 2016 CADD CENTRE

Specifically built for Building Information Modelling (BIM), Revit empowers construction and design professionals to bring ideas from concept to construction with a coordinated and consistent model based approach. Revit Software delivers BIM tools for architectural design, MEP Engineering, Structural engineering and construction, enabling coordination between various disciplines.
All software tools and programs always have requests to improve to bridge efficiency or technical gaps. With Revit 2015, Autodesk took note on all the feedbacks and acted on those, making Revit a version the users will be pleased to have. Following are some of the significant changes Autodesk took to reform Revit 2015 for Architecture.

Visualization Improvements

Sketchy Lines- This is a most awaited feature of Revit 2015. Revit can now, in all views, replicate the effect of hand sketching. Users will be able to set the jitter and extension controls with simple clicks to soften the appearance of the Revit Model for situations where a subtler image is needed.

Anti-Aliasing- Revit 2015 has been improved to remove the jagged lines you always hated. The new Revit 2015 allows all the views to use this feature and this works in an amazing manner.

Family Parameter Improvement

Tooltips- Many times Rivet experts create complex families and define parameters that control these families. Unfortunately, most Revit users are not supervised by their BIM Managers helping them understand how or what each parameter is doing. With Revit 2015, users are now provided with notes on each parameter defining how it works and how it should be used.

Scheduling Improvements- Schedulers in Revit are powerful tools to manage, display and quantify Building Information with quality control elements in the model. Now users can directly import images into Revit Content using Image Type (Type Parameter) & Image (Instance Parameter). These parameters are useful for either loadable families like furniture, light fixtures etc. or system families such as floors, walls, ceilings, etc.

Usability Improvements

Multiple Trim/ Extend Selection-In the previous versions of Revit tool, made users select individual items to extend or trim while using Trim/ Extend tool. Revit 2015 now allows users to select all the elements using a window that needs to be extended.

With the previous versions of Revit, the task of drawing revision cloud was a work full of hassle with all the clicking required to place each arc segment. Revit 2015, now allows users to use the basic drawing tools, including lines, arcs, eclipses and rectangles to quickly define boundaries for the Revision Cloud.

Tag Behavior- Users began to rely heavily on tagging elements as Revit experienced improvements in the past. The previous versions of Revit had a tedious method to tag elements, catering to that, Revit 2015 has introduced tag leaders that behave like text. The angled segment adjusts automatically while moving them in views to the tag’s placement.

These are some of the new improved feature sets that are incorporated in Revit 2015 keeping in mind the reviews and feedbacks and requests from the active Revit users. Hopefully these changes will greatly impact all Revit users making their workflow better.