The Centre for University Industry Collaboration (CUIC), Anna University, Chennai in collaboration with BSNL, Tamil Nadu Circle will offer a seven-day Certificate Course in Mobile Communication for the final year students of various disciplines in Vickram College of Engineering from 30.11.09 to 06.12.09.
The BSNL, Tamil Nadu Circle, has evolved the course content in consultation with the CUIC of the Anna University, Chennai. This course, which is specially designed for the benefit of students studying in various engineering colleges affiliated to Anna University across the state, will give tremendous insight into the latest trends in mobile technologies.
The course covers areas such as radio wave propagation, unique features of CDMA Global System of Mobile (GSM) architecture, various interfaces involved in switching network, mobility, call processing etc. The training comprises three days awareness program in the form of lectures and two days for the practical exposure in BSNL Lab followed by a two-day training programme in competence development. At the end of the training programme, a joint certificate from AU-CUIC & BSNL-TN will be given to the participants.
Review of the programme organised by ELCOT in Trichy
Mr.M.Ezhil Arasan (Training and Placement) attended a special programme organised by ELCOT on 2-11-2009 at Trichy. The programme aimed at empowering the students with the knowledge of the 'Expectations of the IT industry' was organised in collaboration with the Anna University Trichy. It was presided by Mr.Damodaran-Director of AU-Trichy and co-ordinated by Dr. Santosh Babu-Managing Director ELCOT.
It was planned in this programme to conduct various Inter-Collegiate competitions like quiz, debate, paper presentation, essay writing, etc., for the Pre-Final and Final year students by which the students can be updated with the expectations of the IT companies. It was also proposed to call CEO's of various core companies to have discussions with the participants by which the students can clarify their doubts and become employable. The details about the competition will be send to all the colleges shortly.
As a prelude to the workshop on Faculty Empowerment Programme to be conducted in our college from 23rd Nov 09 to 27th Nov 09, a Pre-Workshop Session was held on 4th Nov 09, in which faculty members from 3 engineering colleges – Pannai Engineering College, St. Michael Engineering College, & Vickram College of Engineering, participated. All the participating teachers were directed to do their on-line registration in the format devised by Wipro. This 5-Day Workshop on Faculty Empowerment Programme is going to be conducted by experts from Wipro Technologies Ltd., in collaboration with Anna University. It is launched with the conviction that Faculty Empowerment will ultimately lead to empowerment of students in terms of their employ-ability.
The inaugural session was addressed by Mr. Veerendra P. Pillarisetty, Manager, Academic Relations, Wipro Technologies Ltd. In his speech, he observed that the teaching faculty members have to explore all avenues to make the classroom activity interesting, through interaction with students. Learning should not be teacher-oriented, but student-oriented. Teachers have to work smartly with the students. Hard work is taxing, but smart work is interesting and participative. Teachers should not drain out all their energy in classroom teaching. On the other hand, through inspiring students, and by presenting the subject quite imaginatively, learning activity should be made more participative and interactive. A teacher is a facilitator and must facilitate learning. Learning is to be made more interactive and activity-oriented otherwise process of learning becomes a dull exercise.
Teachers must conserve 70% of their energy for their professional development, like publishing papers, making presentations at seminar, writing books, working for their doctoral studies, etc. Only then, there can be growth in the career of teachers and liveliness in their classrooms. It is not only subject knowledge, which students of today are expected to possess, but more competencies. Teachers impart knowledge to students, through imaginative presentations, but do the same, by caring to develop competencies, such as self-confidence, courage of conviction, technical skills, creativity, soft skills, etc.
Our Principal Prof. M. Palanikumar spoke of the days, when teachers were adored and respected as fountains of knowledge and wisdom. He opined that teachers of today should cultivate the habits and values of the eminent teachers of the past.
Mrs. Prithima was the organizer of the event. Prof. V. Jeyapaul Sathiasaran welcomed the guests. Mr. R. Chandrasekaran spoke of the benefits of Mission 10X in making teachers more effective and successful. The function came to an end with the vote of thanks proposed by Mrs. Sheeba Rani.
Vickram College of Engineering and Aruna Alloy Steels Pvt. Ltd., are planning to sign an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) based on which three best students of first year Mechanical Engineering would be selected for the Foundry Engineer Trainee Programme. The training programme for those 3 selected students would get scheduled during summer holidays for three years right from the first academic year.
For the year 2010, Three students are selected and they are R. Yogeswaran (B-Batch), Gokulnath. A. (D-Batch) and T. Parthasarathy (D- Batch). These three will have a valuable opportunity to be part of this Prestigious Foundry Engineer Trainee Programme. This arrangement with the reputed Aruna Alloy Steels Pvt Ltd is expected to nurture the students for Application based Learning. After the completion of their degree, keeping in view of their performance in the in-plant training, Aruna Alloy Steels Pvt. Ltd could also offer them placements.
Congratulations - Yogeswaran, Gokulnath and Parthasarathy.
A two-day training programme was organized for the benefit of final year & pre-final year students of Mechanical Engineering & final year students of Electrical & Eletronics Engineering with the help of experts from National Power Training Institute (NTPI), Government of India -- Shri V.K. Sinha, Director, NPTI, Southern Region, & Shri M. Ravichandra Babu, Deputy Director of NPTI, Southern Region. The function commenced at 9.30 a.m., on 30th September 09 with prayer. Our Chairman Shri M.K.S. Sreenivasan, welcomed the gathering. He explained that power is a major crisis that the world faces today. A nation''s prosperity is assessed in terms of per capita power availability. In this respect, Norway tops the list of nations in the world. He added that employment oppurtunities are surplus in the power sector all over the world.
Shri V.K. Sinha, in his keynote address, explained how power sector is a vital industry, which will keep growing in the years to come. It is a sector, where there are quite a lot of openings for young engineering graduates. It is an industry which will never find a decline as in the software – an industry which graduates can depend upon for their career development. He also explained that there are quite a number of training courses offered by NPTI – short-term programmes as well as long-term programmes on Power Plant Engineering. Mostly graduates who undergo these training programmes are placed in comfortable positions with attractive salary and perks.
Shri M. Ravichandra Babu, made a powerpoint presentation about Thermal Power Plants in our country with pictures of their installations. He gave a detailed description of Switchyard Equipments, Boilers, Turbines, Generators, and the Auxiliaries of Thermal Power Plant. The afternoon session was handled by Shri V.K. Sinha. He talked about the boilers and the process involved in generation of power through steam. He drew diagrams and explained to the students the different processes involved in boilers, turbines, generators, and condensers.
On the second day, the morning session was handled by Shri V.K. Sinha, who dealt with Turbines and Auxiliaries of Thermal Power Plant. He explained in detail with diagrams how steam in a state of superheat makes the turbines work. He showed the different stages of process involved in conversion of water into steam in the boiler and the turbine.
In the second sesson, Shri M. Ravichandra Babu touched upon the principles involved in generation of electricity with the use of generators employed in Thermal Power Plant. He showed with diagrams how the turbo-generators functioned.
After the completion of the training sessions, there was a brief valedictory function organized in the conference hall, which was presided over by our Principal Prof. M. Palanikumar. The following 10 students gave their feedback of the 2 Day Training Programme on Power Plant Familiarization.
S.No.
Name of the Student
Department
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
G. Devajith
Paul Mathew
Peter Mathew
Jibu Chacko George
Robin Abraham
M. Ramachandran
N. Senthilkumar
S. Sukumar
M. Mohamed Imran Khan
M. Muthumari
III B.E.(Mech)
III B.E.(Mech)
III B.E.(Mech)
III B.E.(Mech)
III B.E.(Mech)
IV B.E.(Mech)
IV B.E.(EEE)
IV B.E.(EEE)
IV B.E.(EEE)
IV B.E.(EEE)
The programme came to an end, with the vote of thanks proposed by Mr. M. Ezhil Arasan, from the Placement & Training Department.
Entrepreneurship Development Program: The Motivation Campaign for Entrepreneurship was organized for the benefit of the final year students of our college, pertaining to three departments – Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Electrical & Electronics Engineering. Our Chairman & Founder Mr. M.K.S. Sreenivasan, presided, and appealed to the students to entertain the thought of starting their own industrial organizations, after a few years of industrial exposure. Becoming an entrepreneur is not only adding to one's own prosperity, but strengthening the fabric of our economy, as also serving the society at large.
Chief Guests, Sri M. Kathiresan, Circle Head, & Deputy General Manager of Indian Bank, & Sri B.T. Bangera, Managing Director, Hi-Tech Arai Pvt Ltd., Madurai. Sri M. Kathiresan inaugurated the programme. In his keynote address, he listed the values to be imbibed in order to become successful entrepreneurs. Sri B.T.Bangera shared his personal experiences, and urged the students to be more competitive and daring to take on the challenges that arise in any entrepreneurial attempts. He insisted that students should cultivate healthy attitude to life and strive hard to offer quality products or services in the market.
In the afternoon, two resource persons addressed the students – Mr. Ramesh, Asst. Director, MSME Development Institute, Chennai, & Mr. R. N. Iyengar, Consultant, Ma Foi Training Academy, Madurai. Mr. Ramesh explained to the students that MSME is a central government body training the young graduates in entrepreneurial skills. Mr. R.N. Iyengar identified the entrepreneurial skills and explained how to develop them. After the awareness session, an aptitude test was conducted for identifying the entrepreneurial skills in the students.
On 24-9-09, there was a Selection Committee which interviewed the shortlisted candidates. Of these, 11 were identified to have good proposals to start enterprises of their own. The selected students are
1) R. Manikandan
2) M.Balan
3) R.Selvam
4) S.Sukumar
5) S.Arul Kumaran
6) M.Dinesh Kumar
7) M.Pradeep Kumar
8) I. Vaindu Kannan
9) N.Senthil Kumar
10) T. Solomon
11) L. Sivanarayanan.
These 11 students will be given six week training on development of entrepreneurial skills by experts from MSME Development Institute, Chennai during the semester holidays.
I am happy to state that our partnership with Oracle on the Workforce Development Program (WDP) has been extended for the academic year 2009-10. We are one among the few Engineering Colleges/Universities in the country who has this prestigious partnership with Oracle.
I hope the students benefit from the courses.
It is equally important that you appear for the Oracle Certification Exam after the course.
