Skill Development Programme – Infosys Foundations 5.0

Campus Connect (CC) is an Infosys industry-academia partnership program aimed at enhancing the IT talent in college campuses. MVJ College of Engineering joined with Infosys as a partner college by entering into an MOU on January 25, 2011, for enriching technical education. The program was started with the aim of evolving a model association with engineering colleges, to build a vibrant talent pool, which will be IT-industry ready.

The core of the CC program is the Foundation Program (FP), which will be conducted for pre-final year students of both IT and non-IT streams. It will help entry-level engineers from heterogeneous backgrounds and disciplines, to deliver world-class projects to global customers. The purpose of the FP courseware is to provide a unique set of teaching aids and consolidated training material to the college faculty, to help them make students industry-ready.

This academic year, the Foundation Program 5.0 is being rolled out, which is aimed at imparting the necessary knowledge and skills to a fresh entrant, to take up the challenges of a project work.

Courses Offered:

• Module 1: Programming Fundamentals
• Module 2: Database Fundamentals
• Module 3: Python DB Integration
• Module 4: Object-Oriented Programming using Python
• Module 5: Advanced Database Concepts

Number of students who have enrolled for the Course: 198

Sl. No.	Department	No. Of Students
1	Computer Science and Engineering	106
2	Information Science and Engineering	40
3	Electronics and Communication Engineering	50
4	Mechanical Engineering	2
Total		198

Faculty Involvement:

Batch	Day	Time	Classroom	Faculty	Dept.	Module
1	Wednesday	3:10 to 4:00 pm	251	Mrs. Santhiya M	CSE	Object-Oriented Programming using Python
2	Wednesday	3:10 to 4:00 pm	252	Mr.Vinay Pradeep	CSE	Object-Oriented Programming using Python
3	Friday	8:00 to 8:50 am	248	Mrs. Deepa Acharya	CSE	Object-Oriented Programming using Python
4	Wednesday	3:10 to 4:00 pm	227	Mrs.Shruthi	ISE	Object-Oriented Programming using Python
5	Wednesday	3:10 to 4:00 pm	248	Mrs. Kalaimathi B	CSE	Database Management System
6	Wednesday	3:10 to 4:00 pm	241	Mrs. Hymavathi	CSE	Database Management System

The classes were conducted by the above-mentioned faculty, starting from10/9/2018, every week, till the end of the semester. The training will continue during the next semester, followed by assessment and project development.

Outcome of the event:

• Imparting the knowledge and skills that are necessary for a student to take up the challenges of a project work.
• To build a vibrant talent pool, which is IT industry-ready.
• The projects that are included in the program will help to make the education system  practice-oriented.