Tribune News Service
Ropar, June 29
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, has joined hands with the Punjab Skill Development Mission (PSDM) to impart classes on artificial intelligence (AI) and data science through a certificate course.
Faculty members of the department of electrical engineering, Rohit Sharma and Satyam Agarwal, have been awarded the project by the PSDM for one year.
Owing to the lockdown, schools and higher education institutions faced challenges in moving their operating model to online overnight, as most of them followed a classroom-led delivery model. This resulted in an overarching dropout rate among students in Punjab and India as a whole.
The course is designed to cater to the demand and need of data scientists and AI workforce in near future.
Students applying for the course need to qualify Advanced Data Science Aptitude Test (A-DSAT) on IIT-Ropar online quiz platform.
The test can be taken by any candidate, who passed Class XII in any stream with minimum 55 per cent marks in mathematics.
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