TN Engineering Colleges to Introduce 5G Courses in UG, PG
The 5G service was launched in India in October 2022 with a few companies, who were successful bidders, providing the network services with the available resources. As per a report, engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu are all set to introduce 5G courses in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Read here for more details.
Tamil Nadu engineering colleges to soon start full-fledged 5G technology courses in undergraduate and postgraduate streams. The 5G services were launched in India in October 2022 and this is for the first time, 5G courses are going to be introduced in engineering courses.
Earlier, the technology was available to a few companies only who were successful bidders.
A senior official from the Directorate of Technical Education (DOTE) said, “5G is a separate technology and soon the All India council for Technical Education (DOTE), which is preparing a syllabus, will soon introduce various full time course on 5G tech to meet the industrial requirements," as reported by DT Next.
“At present, only few private institutions offer 5G part-time courses. The introduction of full-time courses would create more job opportunities for engineering students,” he explained.
“Recently, AICTE also organised online session for faculties in association with Skill Development Unit, Department of Telecommunication (DoT), and establishment of use case labs in engineering colleges. Experts from National Telecommunications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation and Training (NTIPRIT) Research and Development and innovation cell of DoT shared their experiences and expertise on development and promotion of 5G technology in the country, ” said the official.
“UG courses in 5G technology will have hands-on projects related to the industrial needs. The PG programme is likely to be advanced where learners will be able to establish 5G networks using open source tools available in the market,” he added.
As per the report, during the first phase, the faculties will be given training by setting up use case labs in colleges, which would be used for creating 5G mobile apps.
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