Activities of the Finishing School
The Finishing School has well structured training programmes for making fresh engineers industry-ready, by aligning their engineering talents with the needs of the industry.
Programme highlights:
Communication Skills
The 'Language Lab' conducts a 30hr-course for first year students, to improve English language proficiency. This programme is handled by faculty members trained by 'Sutherland Technologies'. The activities include essay competitions, vocabulary tests, word games, spelling tests and so on.
Presentation Skills
This is imparted in multiple modes, by individual and group activities. Precis writing, presentation of a current topic to a group and seminar presentations are some of the skills imparted in this programme. Leadership
To improve the poise and confidence of the students, there are Student councils, Department associations, and other Professional bodies active in the campus. Student group leaders and various club representatives are encouraged to take leadership in various co-curricular and extra curricular activities. A monitoring group consisting of the Project Director, Principal and Heads of Departments sets targets and guides them.
Industrial orientation
Visits to industries and talks by invited industrial personnel are arranged to expose the students to the real life situations.
General Awareness
Students are encouraged in the active use of Library and Internet lab, by assigning them with small projects on current affairs in business, commerce or industry. Television set will be provided in a convenient place to watch the news bulletin in the noon interval and evenings up to 6 pm.
Training and placement
SJCET is a partner college of 'Campus Connect', the industry-academia partnership initiative of Infosys. The programmes under implementation in the college are :
Foundation Program
To give an IT industry perspective to the students of all branches, the following generic topics are covered as classroom sessions :
a. Computer Hardware & System Software Concepts
b. Programming Fundamentals
c. RDBMS
d. System Development Methodology
e.Analysis of Algorithms
f.Object Oriented Concepts
g.User Interface Design
h. Web Technologies
i. Client/Server Concepts
Soft Skills Program
The purpose of Soft Skills Program is to bridge the gap commonly noticed in engineering students in areas of communication, team work, corporate work culture and so on.
The following is the list of Soft-Skills courses of the programme :
a. The Art of Communication
b. The Hidden Data of Communication
c. Discussions, Decisions and Presentations
d. In the World of Teams
e. Adapting to Corporate Life
Year-wise Activities
I Year
- Learning Skills Development Classes
- Yoga and Meditation Training
- English Communication training classes
- Counselling services to identify and deal with personal and study-related problems of students
- Leadership initiative by dividing students into groups of 10 and assigning tasks to them
- News paper reading exercises
- Breaking the Ice (getting to know each other) exercise
- Behavioural Science - building up good relationships
III Semester
- Training in English continued
- Initiation to internet usage
- Magazine reading, summarizing, presentation
- Starting of Group discussion
- Industrial visit No.1
- Presentation skill development initiatives
- Initiation of socially relevant activities like NSS, Blood donation etc.
- Infosys ‘Campus Connect program’ commencement
IV Semester
- Personality Development Programme No.1 by outside experts
- Departmental Association activities
- Professional Society activities
- Presentation skills development continued
- Socially relevant activities continued
- Arts and Sports activities encouraged
- Various club and cell activities like Women in Development cell, Traffic Safety club, Design & Innovation club, Environmental club.
V Semester
- Aptitude test training
- Resume preparation
- Small projects
- Industrial visit No.2
- Personality Development Programme No.2 by experts during semester break after V semester
- Group Discussions continued
VI Semester
- Training on How to Face Interviews
- Mock Interview sessions
- Expert talks on industry related topics
- Training on Building Self-confidence,
- Self-esteem and Positive attitude
- Stock Market awareness
- Event management
- Arts and Sports activities continued
VII Semester
- Entrepreneurship skills training
- Other employability skills
- Industrial Visit No.3
- Internet and journal reading
VIII Semester
- Infosys Campus Connect program continued
- Arts and Sports activities
- Feedback on Finishing School activities
- Suggestions for improvement
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