KMIT’s Industry Institute Collaboration Council

Engineering education @ KMIT

The 21sth Century emerged as a time for change in engineering education. In response, Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology has introduced innovative programmes to reform the engineering education. Among the new standards for engineering is innovative education across disciplines, team learning, undergraduate research and industry collaboration. One of the major efforts is to promote a learning atmosphere where faculties serve as mentors and coaches; that is, they move from simply imparting knowledge to helping students discover knowledge. Industries/Sponsors provide a mentoring role and act as a resource.

What is Mission CLI³C?

Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology’s - Mission CLI³C (Council for Learning Initiative through Industry Institute Collaboration), an innovative and unique concept for an engineering institute, has been set up with an objective of bringing industry and academia close to each other. An industry Institute Partnership forms an important activity for any academic institute as its stakeholders (students) will get an opportunity to interact with the real world. A successful interaction can make the Industry realize that Academia has more to offer by way of solving their short term and long term technical problems, provide a manpower resource pool with good industry orientation and a source for updating the knowledge sets of its personnel.

The Mission CLI³C is headed by the director of the institution has taken steps to promote and de-bottleneck such interaction. To ensure proper visibility for the institution and to increase the interaction of the institute with the industry, KMIT is integrated with Teleparadigm Networks Pvt. Ltd., An STPI registered software development Company and Genesis Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a pioneer in IT education & training. The associative partners add their valuable industry and global experiences to the mission CLI³C.

Objectives of Mission - CLI³C

• Act as a resource centre for faculty, students and Industry.
• Involve students in various industry oriented activities like Research and In-company Training Programs, Industry visits, Guest lectures, CEOs Forum, Quizzes, Personality Development Programs, Corporate get-togethers, Alumni interaction, Summer Training etc
• Develop close links between Industry-Institute by interaction programs.
• Help students to build the strong relationship with the industry professionals and understand the corporate world better through Continuous interaction with the industry. This also helps the students to develop themselves as per the industry needs.
• Guide students by counseling them to choose an appropriate career depending on their aptitude and interest.
• Implement R&D programmes, sponsored and joint R&D projects from industries, in the Institute.
• Organize guest lectures on latest technological advancements, evaluation of project work and workshops from industrial experts in the Institute.

TRISHUL - The student Benefit:

We at KMIT prepare students to become pioneers of the industry. With the growth of various IT companies, there is a need of manpower in great numbers in the information technology sector. It is a universally acknowledged fact that the academic curriculum alone is insufficient for making the students employable immediately after the completion of the course.

To address this need precisely, KMIT brings TRISHUL, a state-of-art programme for students that supplement the academic curriculum. This programme is headed by a professor with independent charge and each activity is represented by a nominated faculty member. TRISHUL includes several value-added programs through which students get training and guidance for softskills, Domain Knowledge and industry recognized Certifications from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle.

Features of TRISHUL programme:

• An industry oriented and state-of-art programme
• focused training modules for each engineering branch
• training for International Certifications (Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle)
• behavioral training programs to bring about an overall development like
• improve self-esteem & confidence level
• develop better presentation skills
• learn to communicate well & participation in GD's
• Mock personal interviews

TRISHUL Syllabus:

Live Projects:

To supplement the theoretical inputs, in an engineering program of undergraduate level, students must work on live projects in industry so that he/she is able to see practical situations in the context of conceptual frameworks learnt during the classes. His / her ability to apply theoretical concepts to real life technical issues thus improves.

Mission - CLI3C encourages students take up such ongoing assignments along-with their regular studies. It also organizes industry visits for students in consultation with concerned faculty. It helps them find organizations where they could work and also helps in formulating the projects and facilitating them through faculty and industry guide interacting on the technical issues and guiding the students on meaningfully completing the assignments.

The students are benefited due to exposure to current industry practices, updation is possible as and when changes occur in technology, teaching faculty gets sensitized to the latest practices leading them to blend practice with usual theoretical teaching methods.
                  

The approach:

At the end of every year, the students are encouraged to participate in the industry grade projects for a period of about 5 - 8 weeks. This gives them an opportunity to apply the theory to practice. The student gets an opportunity to show his / her latent capabilities. Each student group is assigned a faculty guide who supervises the project undertaken by the student.

At the end, students submit a written project report, which is evaluated normally by a panel of experts.

The KMIT student gets:

• Exposure to the complications of a real-world engineering project.
• The ability to apply critical, analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• The project management skills.
• The opportunity to address multiple objectives, accomplish multiple goals and communicate effectively with diverse constituents