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Latest News |
| 18th
Aug 2010 / Times of India / Pune Edition |
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Now, a module to help engg grads prepare for campus
interviews
Pune: The Computer Society of India (CSI) has developed
a 24-hour module for the final year engineering students
that will help them prepare for industrial training.The
objective of the module is to brush up students in course
fundamentals taught for four years, so that at the time
of placement interviews, they are ready with the basic
knowledge of their job.
The module will be implemented at the Cummins College
of Engineering and either at the D Y Patil College in
Pimpri or another engineering college in the vicinity
on pilot basis this year.Meanwhile, the University Board
of Studies will introduce the module in all colleges in
the following year. According to the CSI, once implemented,
the module will enhance the percentage of placements in
the colleges.
Shekhar Sahastrabuddhe, vice-president, Pune chapter of
CSI, said, We conducted a survey among industry people
and realised that the freshers, recruited through campus
interviews, are mostly weak in their fundamentals. They
often tend to forget some of the fundamentals that have
been taught over the four years of their degree course.
But these are useful for professional practice.Hence,
the module.
The module has been designed after considering inputs
from the industry on what students lack and what should
they know when they join the industry. The module will
be conducted only for final year students during the final
phase of the academic year.
Sahastrabuddhe said, Campus placements usually begin by
end of December or latest by January. We plan to introduce
this module in December so that their knowledge is brushed
up just before they take on their job.
According to Sahastrabuddhe, the course will enhance placement
percentage to 80 to 85 per cent from the current 70 per
cent placement that takes place on an average. When we
spoke to the industry stakeholders, they told us that
the students usually show good academic results, but thats
not enough to recruit them. If they are equipped with
the fundamentals, the industry will be more than willing
to take such students on board.Once the fundamentals are
brushed up, there are more chances of recruitment.
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