SDFS - Skill Development Finishing School

CCIP Cell

CCIP- Competitive Coding Improvement Program, is a new initiative of KIET for fulfilling the need of current trends in hiring freshers in big IT companies. Nowadays all IT companies are focusing very much on coding skills as well as other skills of students.
Organizational Structure of CCIP Module The organizational structure of the CCIP module is shown below-

Role and Responsibility of members - CCIP Module

Role of Resource Person -
• Creating and uploading question set on HackerRank
• Providing technical guidance to students during doubt clearing sessions
• Provide technical training to departmental coordinator regarding HackerRank/GitHub/LinkedIn

Role of Respective Department
• Department will be responsible to record attendance and maintain discipline of the doubt clearing session.
• The Department will ensure that the students submit their problem solutions on HackerRank, share their code on GitHub and share their learning on LinkedIn.
• The Department will motivate and ensure the 100% participation of students in coding series as well as doubt clearing session.

Appreciation to students as per their involvement

Training Module
• Consistency certificates for 100 % participation in throughout the semester
• Star performer certificates for performing better than average
• Achiever Certificates for performing best in throughout the semester
• All certificates will be issued department and semester wise

Competitive Module
• Top Three students will be awarded by certificates and cash prize at institute level
• Top Three students will be awarded by certificates and cash prize at department level

CCIP for Session 20-21

• Introductory classes on Python will be organized by resource persons for core branches for second year students
• From 4th and 6th semester same CCIP modules can be introduced to all students

Modus Operandi

• Coding Problems will be published on HackerRank per week.
• Students should submit the problems on Hacker Rank within given time period.
• Two lectures per week will be scheduled for doubt clearing session for the problems published in previous week.
• Students will get the regular attendance for attending the doubt clearing session.

Minor Specialization Cell

• Each department should select their own minor specialization area as per their faculty strength and based on industry requirements and student’s needs.
• These minor specialization courses will be offered for interested student of all departments.
• Minor specialization will be offered in summer break.
• Evaluation work cum Certificate distribution will be performed in 6th semester.
• MOOC courses should be offered to students during semester.
• During semester, all students should work in Excellence Centers (CoEs), Department and Innovation Clubs as per their selected minor specialization.
• Minor specialization course duration will be 6 weeks (180 hrs.) in summer break. The suggestive distribution will be:
  • 45 hrs. Training
  • 45 hrs. Practical
  • 90 hrs. Project Work
• Departments will appoint a faculty coordinator for coordinating the minor specialization course.
• Respective Department will be fully responsible for successfully running their minor specialization course.
• Each department will design their own syllabus for their minor specialization and this syllabus should be approved from Board of Studies (BoS) of respective Department.
• Syllabus should be practical oriented and based on industry requirements.
• Syllabus should be planned for two parts. First part should be basic or fundamental that should be offered in 1stsummer break and 2ndpart should be advanced that should be offered in 2ndsummer break.
• Department should train or arrange their faculty member as per their selected minor specialization area.
• Inter-Department expert faculty members group should be formed for teaching the respective minor specialization.

Modus operandi:
• Finalization of minor specialization areas
• Finalization of Faculty Coordinator from each department
• Finalization of formation of Inter-Departmental expert faculty members group
• Finalization of Syllabus & MOOC Courses (if possible) and its approval from respective Department Board of Studies (BoS).
• Timetable for summer break

Finishing School Cell

The Finishing School at KIET has been created with a view to provide final polishing touches to the students across all domains just before appearing for their recruitment process and getting hired as a professional in the corporate world after earning the ASSET (Aptitude + Soft Skills + English + Technical Proficiency) Certificate within a period of 4 – 8 weeks. The number of hours invested during this program will be counted as a part of the students’ internship, and hence considered to be mandatory.
As soon as the student ends the pre-final year exams, he/she will undergo a mix of external third-party training and an in-house training, to meet the following objectives –

• To groom students as per the company standards
• To hone the skills of the students in three verticals viz., Aptitude (QA + LR + VA), Soft Skills, and Technical Skills in tandem with the current industry needs
• To prepare the students for Recruitment for mass recruiters
• To provide students with the “ASSET" certificate for readiness towards recruitment drives

Modus operandi

• All students will undergo a 17-days training that will be imparted to them as follows –
• A 2-day input on Soft Skills – tips on Resume Writing, Group Discussions, and Personal Interviews from the faculty of H&S Department – Training Wing.
• A 10-day input on Aptitude (QA + LR + VA) / Cognitive Assessment by an external 3rd party vendor.
• A 5-day input on Technical topics useful for recruitment tests by an Industry expert, Alumni, or an Expert Faculty from our Institute. The two days will be given to problem solving and coding skills and remaining three days will be given to branch specific technical training. Respective Departments will be responsible to conduct the branch specific technical training for three days.
• On completion of this training, all the students will appear for the first placement readiness test (PRT-1), based on the pattern of the major mass recruiters, that will have sectional cut-off, so as to identify the problem area of particular students.
• Those students who qualify the PRT-1 will appear for a mock panel interview round with a technical resource person (Industry expert/Alumni/Institute Faculty) and an in-house HR expert / Soft Skills Trainer (number of days required may vary according to the number of students that qualify PRT-1), will be conducted parallel to the refresher being run for the students who fail to qualify PRT-1.
• Those students who qualify the interview will gain the ASSET Certification.
• Those students who are unable to qualify the interview process will get one-on-one mentoring sessions with a Soft Skills Trainer.
• Those students who are unable to qualify PRT-1, will get a one-week refresher/doubt removal session that will be conducted by in-house resources on their domain of improvement and then appear for PRT-2 that will be conducted on similar lines to PRT-1.
• Those students who qualify the PRT-2, will appear for a mock panel interview (technical + HR – here the resource persons would be internal) .
• Students who qualify the interview will gain the ASSET Certification.
• Students who are unable to qualify the interview process will get one-on-one mentoring sessions with a Soft Skills Trainer.
• Those students who are unable to qualify PRT-2, will again undergo a one-week refresher/doubt removal session according to their improvement area, and then appear for a final PRT-3 based on similar lines as PRT-1.
• Those students who qualify the PRT-3, will appear for a mock panel interview (technical + HR)
• Students who qualify the interview process will gain the ASSET Certification.
• Students who are unable to qualify the interview process will not be awarded the ASSET Certification.

Modus operandi for the SCHOLAR BATCH

• Those students who qualify PRT-1 with an above average score in all the sections and also perform well in the interview process will be considered as the premium/scholar batch of students who will be eligible for better job profiles/packages.
• These students will be imparted special training for the remaining duration of the summer break to prepare them for the better profiles/packages (resource persons from the industry / alumni / faculty to be used as per requirement).

Modus operandi for Capsule Trainings of selected companies

• After receiving the relevant information regarding the next recruitment drive from the CRPC Department, and taking the number of days available for the recruitment process to commence, a company specific training would be organized as per its recruitment pattern.
• The duration of the training and the requirement of resource persons for the training would be dependent on two variables – first, is the number of days available, and second is the number of students eligible/registered for the process.

Faculty Skill Enhancement Policy

Policy Document for Faculty Skill Enhancement Program (F-SEP) Module The objective of this skill enhancement policy is to motivate the faculty members to undergo various training programs and enhance & update their knowledge and skills in the field of their specialization.