Hyderabad: The Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK), in collaboration, will soon offer a certificate course for graduate engineering students in aviation cybersecurity. The plans for introducing such a course are in the pipeline, according to the Singapore-based Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Eric Leong. TASK, the Telangana State government run organisation, had entered into a MoU with Embry-Riddle in 2016 for skill development to students pursuing degrees in aeronautical studies.
Leong, in a chat with Telangana Today at the TASK premises here in Begumpet on Tuesday, said there is a shortage of people with the required cybersecurity skills in the aeronautical industry. The proposed course would make graduate students of aeronautical engineering more employable, he added. Leong, the manager, professional education and training at Embry-Riddle, is in the city currently along with Kim-Chua, an instructor, for the in-classroom training of about 20 engineering students for their final presentations and evaluations of a four-week coursework in technical writing.
This is the first course after TASK and Embry signed the MoU with the entire course provided free of cost to the students. Chua said the technical writing course was designed to increase competence among students in this genre of writing. “We want to ensure that students are familiar with this type of writing and the audiences they are writing for. This equips them with real workplace requirements.” The current course, she said, has been designed to reflect actual working conditions by ensuring collaborative work with the students working in groups on different projects.
They also have been trained on how to brief others on their projects and make presentations as it would happen in the real-world workplace. One of the students who are about to finish the course, Devi Shailaja, a fourth-year student, said she chose to pursue aeronautical engineering because she was fascinated with aeroplanes and flying objects. “I plan to continue with a Masters degree. The technical writing course has been very helpful. We have learnt how to write for different audiences and different requirements of such reports,” she said.
Echoing her sentiment, M Nikhil Gupta, a final year aeronautical engineering student said one of the important things they learnt during the course is not to plagiarise. “In India, it is very common to ‘cut and pastes’ reports. We learnt that when we write reports we should not do that and if we use any information or material from the work of others, we should give them due credit,” he said.
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