“IT ScReW”: STUDENTS’ CREATIVE RESOURCE ENRICHMENT WINDOW
Foundation: To nourish and develop the quality of IT students, the student community has come up with an idea of constituting new Clubs. The idea was further discussed broadly during the “Mango Wave”s hour on 23.02.2017, which was an initiative to share knowledge for the transformation of individual/group under the Waves of Mango Tree.
It was decided to integrate all ideas proposed by the students under a single umbrella. The student community named it CREW, to make it more specific for the intended goal, a committee headed by Head In Charge, re-coined it as “IT ScReW” with an elaboration “STUDENTS’ CREATIVE RESOURCE ENRICHMENT WINDOW” for the acronym.
An integrated platform where, activities enhancing student development, by means of freedom to take decisions, opting crew based on interest and working together. Head In Charge Prof. Shiju George took the responsibility as Coordinator and initiated to identify the set of CREWS under “IT ScReW”. With the joint approval on 24/03/2017, during the department meeting, lists of coordinators for CREWS were also identified. Finally, a meeting was organised with the whole IT student community on 28/03/2017 to announce and share the support for students’ initiative.
OBJECTIVES:
Total nine CREWS were listed in the table. Each one of them plays an important role to set specific path during the course in student’s career. It enables students in the following ways:
- To improve technical skills by online learning and content generation.
- To bridge the gap between industry and academics.
- To do online projects.
- To become a successful Entrepreneur.
- To write proposals and apply for funded projects.
- To know about IT companies, opportunities and placement.
- To develop basic and advanced software language skills.
- To know more about latest trends through add-on courses.
- To promote research by attending conferences and publications
- To exhibit their talent, nourish it by participating in various contests.
All the objectives will be fulfilled with the CREWS identified.
| CREWS | COORDINATOR & ASSISTANT |
| MOOC & Khan Academy courses, Spoken Tutorial, Digital Content Generation, Multimedia-Centre, Animation and Web development. | Prof. Joms Antony Mr. Haris Xavier, Mr. Renjithkumar P. G. |
| Entrepreneurship Activities, Incubation start-up Training, Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp. Hardware and Networking. Incubation Internship (30 days- Full Time) - every semester. Training for getting funded projects. | Prof. Thomas Varghese Mr. M. Aneesh, Mr. R. Harikrishnan |
| Funded Projects: Guidelines, Govt., Panchayath, I2U, OIC, Techtop, Women’s Cell, Research help in Security, Student Development Program, and Alumni Interaction Cell. | Prof. Midhuna Jyothi R. Ms. K. P. Jyothikumari, Mr. Haris Xavier |
| Placement Cell: Brochure, finding IT opportunities, Higher Studies, Govt Jobs, Invitation to companies. | Prof. Melbin Varghese John Mr. Haris Xavier, Ms. K. P. Jyothikumari |
| Programming Language: Aptitude skill improvement training, C, Python, Database Projects, Moodle & DSpace implementation, Research in Big Data Analytics, Conferences, Funded Projects. | Prof. Sandhya Ramakrishnan (HOD –IT) Mr. M. Aneesh , Mr. R. Harikrishnan |
| ADD-ON Courses: GATE, Android & IoS Application Development, PHP, Java, R- Programming. | Prof. Sunil Zacharias Ms. K. P. Jyothikumari, Mr. Haris Xavier |
| Technical talks and webinars on latest developments in IT, industry collaboration (State & abroad), in-house internship, workshops, seminars, personality & conduct development, Mango Waves, R&D: Centre of Machine Learning | Prof. Shiju George Mr. M. Aneesh, Mr. Renjithkumar P. G. |
| NPTEL, Conferences and Journals: Paper Presentation, Publications in Journals. Project support: Identifying area, design, implementation and installation | Prof. Saumya Sadanandan Mr. Renjithkumar P. G., Mr. M. Aneesh, |
OUTCOMES:
- Demonstrate an understanding of online course and generate digital content.
- Transform conventional thoughts with technical skills to become an entrepreneur.
- Analyze the trends, support and participate actively in recruitment process.
- Demonstrate the acquired knowledge via development of software applications in lab and participation in various competitions.
- Demonstrate research work via conference and publications.
- Define and demonstrate co-curricular and extra-curricular skills.
- Demonstrate aptitude skills and personality traits leading to placement.
- Help in identifying best technical groups and resources for online and in-house training.
- Identify and participate in alumni interaction to bridge the gap by means of sharing resources.