The TI India Innovation Design Contest’s deadline is coming up in just a few days! Here are a few a quick tips and tricks to fine tune your proposal before you hit send!
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Proposal Abstract: Begin your proposal with a sharp summary of your idea. Your abstract could cover the problem faced by customers, your innovative idea, value propositions, how you would reach out to potential customers and any other necessary… |
As the deadline for the India Innovation Challenge Design Contest (IICDC) 2016 is approaching, we wanted to help our participants benefit from the experiences of the last year’s contestants. And who better to speak to than Rakshit Ramesh, Karthikeshwar Varma & Anoop Kulkarni, winners of the 2015 TI IICDC? They came up with an idea to address a serious problem of road accidents in India and impressed the judges with their…
Karthikeyan Krishnamourthy is an Analog Integrated circuit (IC) designer working on verification at TI, but he started out as a design intern at TI’s office in Freising, Germany. As an intern turned full-time TIer, Karthik shares a few tips and tricks to getting the most out of an internship with TI.
Before I offer tips and tricks, I can certainly say that an internship at TI is one of the best things that happened…
It’s back to school time. Your first few weeks are probably spent getting acquainted with your instructors, learning the syllabus of your courses, deciding which organizations to join, and generally trying to balance it all. And to top it off, the big...
The next generation of STEM innovators in India will come from our engineering student community who wants to build solutions to local as well as global problems. These students want to chart their own course, pursue their own ventures and aspire to innovate for the future and change the world with their ideas.
The TI India Innovation Challenge Design Contest (IICDC) is a platform where these young engineering students…
Meet Chris Sarli. He is an applications engineer on the Power Design Services team for Texas Instruments and a graduate of the University of Florida.
Chris recently shared his thoughts on TI’s newest training tool for university students and professionals, the TI Power Management Lab Kit series (TI-PMLK). We snagged a couple minutes of his time to ask Chris five things about what it’s like to be a power engineer…
“Increased interest in alternate energy resources has driven the need to introduce electrical and computer engineering students to material related to efficient energy conversion, energy management and power systems”* .
The Texas Instruments University program recently introduced the Power Management Lab Kit series, a collection of power management labs targeted specifically for engineering students and based…
Nicola Femia is a faculty member at the University of Salerno in Italy. Author and co-creator of the TI-PMLK (Power Management Lab Kit), Dr. Femia shares his experience with power management education.
Power management is an impactful area of study for our world as every electronic system utilizes a power source to operate. But, before students can dig their hands into creating the technologies of the future, they must…
Are you ready to become the master of the putter? Patience young one. Thanks to the electrical and mechanical engineering students who have joined forces at Rice University, end successfully your golfing quest you will, with the smart putter.
Part of Rice’s Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) program, these undergrads have been working since 2013 to bring hardware, software and mechanics together to create a fully integrated…
From self-driving cars to drone delivery systems, the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and drone technology means more and more vehicles are becoming autonomous. But it’s not just vehicles.
We’re moving to a world of automating routine tasks that not only make our daily lives easier (butler robot anyone?), but also perform life-saving tasks like search and rescue. That’s the inspiration behind…
If we want to one day travel to Mars, our best hope is through humans and machines working together in new and unique ways to accomplish what might have seemed unimaginable before in space exploration.
This is a firm belief of Alvar Saenz-Otero, principal research scientist and director of MIT’s Space Systems Laboratory. Over the past 17 years Alvar’s team, in conjunction with NASA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research…
Today, the industry is growing at a rapid pace and with it, the technology used is changing as well. To be on par with the growing industry trends, engineering students need to learn and grow by experiencing the changes in technology and working with...
The Analog Education Drive 2015 initiated by the TI university program in India has created an opportunity for engineering students at the industry threshold, who are fueled by passion for technology and charged to power the world. The exposure and the...
With various government initiatives like Digital India and Make in India, the technology sector has seen tremendous growth. This presents a huge opportunity for universities to set their students apart by adapting advancements made by the industry and incorporating it into the course curriculum. Progressive universities like JNTU-Anantapur and RGPV, Bhopal in India are moving past redundant curriculum and are looking at subject…
Thousands of young engineering students from hundreds of colleges across India start their journey every year to create innovative solutions for pressing societal and industrial challenges and strive to build a better tomorrow. The TI India Innovation...
The European University Program held its 2nd TI European Academic Symposium at the BMW Welt in Munich, Germany on November 2nd and 3rd. University educators and TI experts from across Europe had the chance to meet, share experiences and discuss educational aspects of today’s new technologies. As part of its annual student competition, the TI Innovation Challenge (TIIC) European Design Contest, the company awarded…
Earlier this fall, excitement was palpable at the School of Management, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal in India. It was the day of Lakshya Foundation’s Hackathon 4.0, where students were deep into designing and building solutions for various problems, with TI as the technology sponsor and Internet of Things (IoT) as the theme.
Earlier this fall, excitement was palpable at the School of Management…
If we continue to consume energy at the rate we do, our future is in the hands of those students who have a passion to help us find new solutions to seemingly hopeless power problems. 
Thankfully, the future looks bright with the next generation of power engineers. We recently had the chance to meet the brightest of these students at the North American Power Symposium (NAPS).
In partnership with the Interstate Renewable…
To follow is a story which originally appeared on McCombs Today about our CEO Rich Templeton's recent visit with students at UT Austin. Templeton shared his life experiences and lessons he's learned along the way about ethical business practices, making mistakes and becoming a leader. Below you can catch clips from his speech and learn how you want to shape your career.
Richard Templeton, Chairman, President and…
Last week we commemorated the 30-year partnership between TI and the Georgia Institute of Technology with a celebration of our recent $3.2M gift toward a new maker space lab and plaza. In the spirit of #ThrowbackThursday, we are taking a look back at this rich history and how it has resulted in industry (and student!) innovation. Here are the 5 ways Georgia Tech and TI fuel world innovation.
5. Georgia Tech was the birthplace…
*This blog originally posted on Think.Innovate. See the original post here.
Imagine a device that wirelessly translates sign language to a computer. 
That’s what Lu Sun, a computer engineering student at the University of Texas at Dallas, has been doing for much of the past year – spending most of her time inside the four walls of a campus lab in the Texas Analog Center of Excellence. And with help from TIers…
