Category: Education

Impact of GST in Education and Training Sector!

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Education and Training Sector in India is among the key priority areas of government. Government’s focus towards education sector is well reflected through various exemptions in Service Tax and Value Added Tax.

However, it’s hard to accommodate every concern of an educational and training sector. In contrast to certain exemptions, the education, and training sector has borne the burden of indirect taxes in certain situations. Prescribed courses by IIM have been exempted under GST. In addition, the specific services such as transportation of students, catering, and security in pre-school education and higher secondary education have been exempted under GST. Though, the courses and educational services would encourage the GST exemption, education institutions still have to bear GST burden for the following procurement:

  • Services such as renting, telecommunication, and purchase of goods will continue to remain as an input tax cost for educational institutions.
  • Training Services by commercial coaching institute will have to bear GST the rate of 18%.
  • Foreign entities organizing educational training events in India that is attended by local or overseas participants will become liable to bear GST.

Now, it calls for education and training sector to keep a close watch on GST along with the subsequent exemptions and their related clarifications.

Intangible Soft Skills: An Engineers Key to Stand Out and Succeed

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Today’s era is the era of engineers. The field of engineering is very vast and provides a lot of opportunities. So far there has been a simple career formula for peaceful life.

 

Peaceful life = Bachelor’s degree + Experience + Pension + Retirement

 

However, the formula is not applicable in the current competitive world. Apart from technical skills, the companies look forward to additional skills in every candidate. Soft skills are one among those important additional skills.

 

Is Soft Skill Really Important?

There is no doubt that soft skills really matter to an engineer. There have been several cases where extremely talented engineers have failed in teamwork, client communication or maintaining professionalism. Studies found that people with soft skills outperform those who only rely on technical skill. Therefore, employers value engineers who master both technical and dynamic skills.

 

Mastering Soft Skill

7The basic thing to understand is the way work is done in any engineering environment. The way work is done today has also become a critical factor. The engineering field includes highly mobile teams and handling multigenerational workforce and projects. On a daily basis, engineers encounter fresh graduates as well as highly experienced professionals. Employees need to bridge the gap between such differences and efficiently communicate with all the individuals encountered during their work. On a global basis, projects require a high level of collaboration. An engineer might have to work with other members working miles away. Several differences might stand as an obstacle in any global project such as

  • Language
  • Culture
  • Time zone
  • Working hours and many others.

An employee without the right soft skill will find it hard to adapt to such project which might affect both the individual and the employers.

In the world of project-centric work, only the employees with intangible skills can dodge various pitfalls throughout the lifetime of the project. The employers look for candidates who can

  • Successfully complete a job which will highly depend on the tangible skills of an individual
  • Skilfully manage any project is a skill that every employer looks in a candidate
  • Handle complex projects rather than just be a part of it are more preferred

Whether you are looking for an engineering role or trying to move up your career, marketing your soft skills as an asset will pitch your capability and help you to achieve your goals. It is a differentiator that will put you in the spotlight.

 

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Support Women Engineers – The World Needs Them!

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Women with the desire, skills, and ability can enter and succeed in any stream or profession that she wishes. However, it is depressing to find that most of the women after attaining their qualification in technology and science make a U-turn, not to return. Recently, many organizations all around the world have launched campaigns and taken initiatives to increase the women in the engineering field. The world needs women with higher capabilities and problem-solving skills. Here, are the ways to encourage and attract women towards the engineering field:

Promoting Girls towards the Sector in Early Age

Several organizations are into the practice of promoting girls in the sector by encouraging them to choose right subjects. They are also dedicated to inform and explain the rewarding opportunities available to women in the sector. There are organizations who invite a huge number of female graduates and provide them with essential training and remarkable career options.

Creation of Flexible Work Culture

Women are usually surrounded by family responsibilities to look after. So, it is significant to ascertain flexible working environment which will act as a key to attract women in the engineering sector. Since we have technology that works beyond the geographical boundaries and people work to meet the need of employers sitting in any part of the world. Thus, it is possible to offer women with flexible work culture to give a boost in their career options and involve women in the very important sector.

Arrival of More Engineering Campaigns

It is also possible to encourage women towards the sector through targeted campaigns such as The Institute of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) award namely, Young Woman of the Year in the UK where women are rewarded as the supporting partners. Involvement of such popular campaigns will increase women interest and action towards Engineering. In addition, business and schools can collaborate and work towards raising women awareness in engineering.

Eradication of Discrimination and Biased Behaviour

Recruiting of women would easily take place if they were present on selection panels. Elaborately, women usually do not appear for job selection or are not present to get shortlisted. All form of prejudiced thinking should abandon to make sure no discrimination takes place and women are able to make their way to better opportunities.
There is much of work involved in guiding girls and explaining them career-enhancing jobs in the field of engineering. Therefore, the complete engineering field must be widened and should direct the jobs to them so that, female population is present in the suitable number at all the levels.

What are the Six Home Building Technologies of the Future?

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Technology seems to overpower our lives today and is likely to scatter in all sectors. Not only digital business but also residential construction is adopting technologies in a quick way. It is hard to find someone who is not using technology in order to comprehend routine tasks. Therefore, you can find engineers and builders to be using technology to its full potential. The future construction industry might incorporate the following technologies

  • Drones

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The drones are assumed to be small and remotely controlled copters. However, these flying vehicles also have auto-pilot feature. They not only possess the capability to transport materials but also have the ability to carry humans. The future drones are expected to have a high level of intelligence with fully robotic functionalities and capability to do real work.

 

  • Autonomous Trucks

By the year 2040, the autonomous trucks are expected to change the home building experience completely. These trucks will auto-load, auto-dispatch, and auto-offload. Daimler has already started testing self-driving trucks. The test showed that autonomous trucks reduced 7 percent of fuel consumption and consumed less road space.

  • Robots

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Robots have already started taking over some of the industries, and it will soon take over the construction industry too. With the use of construction robots, the need for the human crew to complete hard labor work will easily get eliminated. Haridon X, a robot is expected to be commercially available very soon. It has the capability of laying 1000 bricks approximately in just one hour.

 

  • 3D Laser Scanning

3D laser scanning will play a very important role in the construction industry. The technology could help in site planning, real-time structural analysis and much more. It wouldn’t be a surprise of the 3D laser scanning technology replaced the building inspectors.  Incorporating this technology will improve design, security, and cost.

  • Augmented Reality

According to experts, the wearables for augmented and virtual reality will reduce in size and could be as small as contact lenses. This technology will help you inspect job sites from almost anywhere as it will create full-scale and true-life models.

  • 3D Printers

China successfully 3D printed homes and large-scale structures in 2015. By the year 2040, the construction industry might witness 3D printers, printing almost everything. This technology has attracted the industry because it has the capability to print new shapes, reduces cost, and allows remote construction.

The above technologies are expected to replace time consuming man resource completely. With the rapid growth in the technology, it is impossible to predict what new technology might change the future of construction.

AECOsim Vs Revit Architecture

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Many organizations have been using Building Information Software (BIM Tools) across teams of engineers, project managers as well as cost consultants in designing infrastructures. Revit and AECOsim are two renowned BIM tools in the market. Choosing one among the two is a difficult task.

 

Why Revit? Why AECOsim?
  • Revit is easy to use and thus to master it takes a short time.
  • The “seamless” interaction has made Revit an industry standard.
  • With a good customer support, Revit is often ahead of AECOsim.
  • Being an industry standard, Revit holds more employment opportunities.
  • AECOsim is more robust and has more capabilities compared to Revit.
  • Coordination with navigator becomes easier with AECOsim.
  • The software and training expense are cheaper than Revit.
  • Unlike Revit, AECOsim is more interoperable and scalable.

 

Both the products have been designed to offer supreme designing capabilities. However, when it comes to market reach, they have their own strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, the selection of the right tool depends on the field of work and the requirements.