After two years nail-biting, management and engineering students are finally breathing easy. India Inc is back on campus and is absorbed nearly 50 percent more students than any other during the last year.

Enterprise Information Technology (IT) sector, banks and financial services, industry and services are the largest employment agency.

Tata Consultancy Services, for example, plans to recruit 4000 students in MBA and engineering schools, compared to 2500 last year. Engineering major Larsen & Toubro requirements increased by 600 to 800 students this year.

However, Pay-packets are not negligible. Back 12 months, and the stage in the university campus was quite different.

“ During the last year, we were to require companies on campus to come, this year they Come Knocking,’’said Abbasali Gabula, chairperson, external relations, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research. Although the SP Jain official courses will begin in the first week of February, they have already been approached by 80 companies.

Ditto for Gurgaon-based Management Development Institute (MDI). “ Last year, 45 companies were on campus, but this year, 105 companies have shown interest,’’said Dr. Pritam Singh, director, MDI.

Walk in IIT Powai’s make-do canteen, coffee-Shack, and the variation in students’ mood is sensitive. He is happy, relaxed faces compared with the nervous, frightened of last year.

“ The number of nuclear industry (manufacturing), who come to campus this year is higher. Otherwise, the large computer companies have been recruiting,’’says Professor Gupta NC, PROFI-In-Charge of placement, IIT, Bombay.

“ I had to appear for seven rounds of interviews, but I finally received my dream company ITC,’’smiles IITian BTech (electric) Nalin Agrawal student. With a package of Rs 7 lakh per year under his belt, he has reason to rejoice. Nearly half are already batchmates its meeting of the plum jobs, while 30% want higher studies.

The dotcom boom of 2000 has been a dream for a period of MBA students and engineering schools, most of whose students receive two to three job offers. The party’s degree a year later, it was difficult to maintain, even as many have been dismissed.

Whether in India or does not seem to be a hot issue discussed these days, but “brilliant time” seems to be here in Delhi University’s Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

The SGF has experienced a remarkable placement season this year with the national average wage crossing R 7 lakh per annum.

Improvement of investment have also seen, for engineering students at IIT. In India provide more SGF up Rs 13 lakh, the highest international package proposed by the trade in raw materials a company $ 65000 The average salary this year is Rs 7.3 lakh per annum, from Rs 6.88 lakh last year.

With the recruitment process has just ended has been, and all 76 students in various national and international corporations, the mood in the SGF seems optimistic.

Nearly 100 students-enterprises involved in the recruitment of this year. While recruitment takes typically more than a week, students say this year, all the seats were delivered on the first day.

“The investment process has just passed and there has been a phenomenal season. More than 40 companies came the first day.

“Indeed, we have again a number of companies that we visit later, given that the whole lot was already in place,” said Nidhi Monakar FMS student.

“It was a balanced mix of finance, marketing and consulting companies. The increasing presence of information technology companies (25 per cent of all stages) is also a new and interesting developments” said the dean of the FMS VK Bhalla.

At the other end of the city, “factor welfare” is also experienced by students from IIT Campus. The students say that a large percentage of engineering students last year have already been placed.

The Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Finance Officers and other Top leaders of the industry is talking hundreds of students from the Technical University Visvesvaraya (VTU) EDUSAT Saturday of each draft VTU workshop at Bangalore .

The objective of the initiative, after the VTU Vice-Chancellor, K. Balaveera Reddy, a better understanding of industry trends, requirements and critical success factors for students.

He said that the VTU, efforts to undertake programmes in which companies such as Infosys, IBM and Microsoft, for different facets, technology and industry trends, especially information technology ’s industry.

The VTU-EDUSAT network consists of a teacher-end “composed of a studio and an uplink Erdfunkstelle. The studio, which has its origin live or delayed conferences, is in relation to Erdfunkstelle uplink. Presentations ( visual images and sounds) on satellites, where she beamed back on Earth and cover a vast territory.

One of 2.5 metres for the antenna has an uplink speed of 2 Mbps. Music conferences have been deposited in the classrooms in colleges of engineering. There are 100 classrooms, of which 50 are interactive and 50 non-interactive.

1.2 metre antenna is installed in each college. From the interactive classroom, students can interact with the subject experts in teaching the end of a satellite link language (64 kbps return channel). The non-interactive classroom “Receive-only” structure and students can become familiar with the issues of experts on a telephone line or mobile phone or the Internet.

EDUSAT is a project of the Indian Space Research Organisation, in which 100 of 118 institutions of higher education in engineering at the VTU have been networked with a studio in Bangalore. This makes VTU the one and the biggest “Connected” university in the country.

Come May and Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) is a certificate program in network management (Linux), in conjunction with Nettech, Bhubaneswar-based network engineering companies for students.

More than 250 of technocrats Orissa, Jharkhand, West Bengal and other northern states, participating in the program. Companies located in Bhubaneswar, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with XLRI the implementation of the training.

Head of the XLRI? No information systems department, Ashish Kumar Pani, is also the coordinator of the program said? The programme aims to build a base of technical know-how with regard to Linux and Linux-based solutions available on the market. There is a lack of adequate training opportunities for Linux in the country. The XLRI-Nettech tie-up would certainly be in favour of engineering students.?

Pani said candidates for the certificate course is to pay Rs 6000 and should have been online for simulated laboratory examination, the real test of skills and capabilities to Linux, an operating system advanced computer.

Factice candidates have a shadow on the most violently competitive entrance test in the country.

Two Common Admission Test (CAT) candidates were arrested in Chandigarh by a team of police of the city after a complaint from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta.

The engineering students, as Gaurav Midha and Narendra Singh, found in the DAV College, the examination centre for equipment provided false information on their application forms CAT. The police consider whether the duo are part of the racket.

“We found that certain anomalies in applications and services alerted Thakurpukur police station about one-and-a-half-months,” said Asish Bhattacharyya, President (visits) in IIM Calcutta. “We want the ‘consideration of any transparent system, “he added.

The applications in which exceptions were found in Chandigarh, one of the cities where the test is under the jurisdiction of IIM Calcutta. Varanasi, Bhubaneswar, Jamshedpur, Patna Guwahati and others are some of the cities where the test of competence of the joka Institute.

“The two candidates are arrested and Sonepat in Mohali Punjab. A team on their way to Chandigarh four days,” said Praveen Kumar, Superintendent of Police of South 24-Parganas.

An officer of the team, said: “We discovered the IIM authorities of his investigation. Midha and Singh have been placed in detention, she had written after the test. ”

Both were in a court of Chandigarh. The judge issued the transit of detention. Midha and Singh is Alipore court Monday.

Kumar said the arrest would detect other players physician legal responsibility: “Our first task is to discover the names of those who had paid Midha and Singh for the test. The duo is also lead us to d other candidates dummy. ”

Earlier this year, a racket Fake field candidates on the status of the common examination (JEE) was busted. Officers of the Division detective had arrested 21 people, including the applicant and JEE dummy candidates.

Thereafter, the sample revealed that the dummy candidates took advantage of the multiple-choice question paper format.

In order to ensure that dummy candidates in the next year, the municipality has decided reception on board, the issue of model. Applicants must answer questions give a short answer, 2008.

“It is important that steps be taken back and the system is cleaned. Corrupt Practices should not be allowed, crawling in an area as important consideration,” said a student does CAT for Sunday.

Bend pressure from the Directorate of Technical Education, Maharashtra Academy of Engineering, finally decided Thursday, roll-back of the annual fee for its students, as the Justice Committee Jahagirdar recommendation.

A council, the college student who was said as Rs 65000 annual fee is reimbursed an amount of R 8000

The Academy, a sister concern Maharashtra Academy of Engineering and Educational Research, ie Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT) in the city, recharging station students an amount of R 65000, vis-à-vis de Justice Jahagirdar recommendation of the Committee annual fee Rs 57000 .

Mae’s Executive Director Sunil Karad, contacté, confirmed the roll-back, and said that students are perceived tax Shikshan Shulka Samiti, headed by Justice Jahagirdar. “The surplus is repaid as soon as students,” he added.

College principal NG Joag had justified the current prices and said that the judicial Jahagirdar commission ceiling of Rs 57000 only the costs of courses and development of sinking and no other expenses, such as students, welfare, medical care, fresh studies, business and investments information , Etc

The college’s Roll-Back decision is the reaction of students protesting the slopes of a fee structure and performance, because opinion by the Directorate of technical training, on Wednesday to ask the administration to explain how it may levy an additional amount as the game justice Jahagirdar Committee.

While this is the first example, where engineering students in the state openly have protested the fee structure, DTE officials, this is a positive sign.

“The students must be immediately for such questions to our Recalling, in particular in the context of the prevailing situation, where private universities have protested the implementation of the recommendations Justice Jahagirdar Committee on fees,” said one senior official of the Directorate.

They call themselves Team Yantrikz ? a group of students pursuing mechanical engineering at the Indian School of Mines (ISM) in Dhanbad, but thinking big, striving to compete, and struggling for originality. Yantrikz member Nitin Modi, a third year student, recalls advice that a senior student gave him about college competitions. Go ahead, the senior told him, surf the net, read text books, scan journals. But when you get a problem, construct your own solutions.

So when they got an opportunity to participate in an undergraduate engineering competition, the Yantrikz team members decided to devise novel ways to design a low-budget, four-seater car. The result is Phoenix, a 573-cc car with a petrol engine. It?s only a design, but Phoenix bagged the first prize last week at Mind Advantage, the first auto industry technical paper contest for engineering students organised by the Minda group that make instrument panels, security systems and connective systems for automobiles.

Modi and classmates Rajeev Jain, Samarth Nehrotra and Karamveer Tanwar designed a car with identical front and rear zones, the headlights built into the dashboard, and the roof built out of canvas or leather. ?A family car with the feel of a convertible,? says Modi.

Ironically, Modi may not have been designing cars if he had got his first choice in the IIT JEE exam. ?The top course on my list was paper and pulp engineering at IIT Roorkee ? I guess I had this fascination to get into an IIT,? says Modi. ?But I?m lucky I got into mechanical engineering at ISM. I now realise that the branch is more important than the institution,? says Modi. He says he knows friends at IIT Kharagpur who are pursuing chemical engineering, but thinking of software careers.

Modi and Jain who picked up the first prize were among five finalists to present technical papers before automobile experts. The Yantrikz members admit that they only have a design and quantitative cost estimates still need to be worked out.

The contest was an attempt to draw out innovative ideas from engineering colleges across the country. Several weeks before the final, colleges were asked to send written papers as part of the initial screening process to pick the finalists.

The contest wasn?t a cakewalk. The judges were inquisitive. The finalists had to answer questions about their own projects as well as general automobile technology issues ? from emerging materials used in cars to the economics of exploiting biofuels, an alternative to conventional petrol or diesel. One team was even cautioned that downloading stuff from the Net wasn?t going to get them the prize. The presentations had to be quick and slick.

Finalists Tushar Sethi and Reuben Buthello from the MHSS College of Engineering in Mumbai proposed new instrument panels with colours and sounds to warn car drivers. The speedometer dial, for instance, would turn amber when the speed exceeded 80 kmph, and bright red when it crossed 120 kmph. An audio prompt would also signal the driver to slow down. Similar colour-and-sound systems could also be incorporated into the fuel gauge and engine monitoring systems, says Sethi.

Talent is a fine thing, the best grist for a Nation’s corn mills, as everyone would agree. But not all our talented people are going places. And why? Because despite oodles of talent and requisite qualifications, they are unable to market themselves.

Sure talent would speak for itself anymore. Articulation of one’s abilities has become more important than the abilities of themselves. And with English becoming the language of business over the world, “Spoken English” has emerged as the focus area.

Hardly surprising then that spoken English institutes offering courses should have started mushrooming everywhere. In Bhubaneswar, where there were barely two or three such institutes only five years ago, as many as 50 or more have come up since.

Tutorials”include the home and the number could even touch 500,”claims of Pragyan A Patnaik, which has started offering three-month course two months ago. Going by him, have been such Institute like”proliferating paan gutkha and shops.”

And what are the enrolments like? ”At an average of 10 per institute, at least 5000 students should be taking classes right now,’’says Patnaik, whose institute has around 15 enrolments English spoken in the race.

S Nayak Sure of Success begs to differ though. According to him, while the institutes have been mushrooming, are not encouraging the enrolments. His Institute currently has 25 people, the majority aspiring MBA and engineering students.

Typically, the institutions offering such a course it would club with those on personality development with an eye on group discussions and interviews that are a part of the selection process. The courses are understandably fluid, with much left to deliver to the faculty. Naturally, the majority of institutes, there is hardly any audio or visual aid being handed out. For at Rs course fees ranging from 500 to 1500 for three to five-month courses, there is a limit to how much can give an institute away.

Course instruction and coaching schools, which have mushroomed again in the last few years, are making merry. For a student with basic fascinated spoken English is an added business opportunity, though educational institutions are almost catching up The Biju Patnaik University of Technology has recently introduced a course on communication in the engineering curriculum. Thus, the margins while may be limited for those offering such courses, certainly the numbers are growing.

But just what is spurring this growth? Peculiarly, the crowd of talent, as an increasing number of people bring similar academic qualifications to the table and there are not enough about jobs. Faced with the numbers, but prospective employers can not leave it to the candidates to prove their worth at the very first-interface

BANGALORE: Consulting and investment banking, the clause of the most favoured nation for the class career from 2006 to Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), with 26% of the burden to accept offers of employment of students in these fields.

After stopping a recording by maintaining employment for a greater supply reached $ 1.93000 (IIMs highest among all countries), the curtains fell to the final shutdown of the investment with IIMB.

Although 70 percent of the party had substantive engineering students, has chosen a totally different career after two years of courses IIMB PGP, with McKinsey and Co, the largest placement agency in the placement of this year.

You picked up nine for foreign students as an artist. Other sectors that saw the number of outlets were available for students (15%), finance (16), information technology (13%), operations and general administration (6%).

KHARAGPUR: More than 350 well-placed IIT alumni in the US are ready to send aid to their institute and this could run into a few hundred million dollars. But there is a problem.
“Most of the time we keep sending aid without knowing what the institute actually wants,” said Deb Parvati, who deals with Technology in Medical Education in the University of Stanford and is also the president of the IIT Foundation in the USA. This due to lack of dialogue between the authorities and the institute train students.
Deb was speaking at the concluding session of the year long golden jubilee celebrations of IIT Kharagpur.
Deb, however, pointed out that over the past 10 years some worthwhile contributions have been made to the institute by the Foundation in the form of the Vinod Gupta School of Management - the first management school in the IIT chain, the GS Sanyal School of Telecommunications , the VLSI - a state of the art laboratory for electronics and telecommunications engineering students and finally, the linking of every student’s hostel room with computers.
“But we can contribute much more. I am sure there must be lots of ideas that are not being implemented because of paucity of government funds. ”
“The Foundation wants to give shape to such ideas. We want to keep the dollars flowing, but in return we want the dialogue to be on. There is no point donating water coolers in dozens when the institute actually requires something else! “Deb said.
She stressed that the Foundation is keen to be part of the institute’s annual planning meets to help out with strategic planning.
She gave the example of an Anjan Bose IIT Kharagpur alumni from the department of electronics and telecommunications engineering, who is now in the University of Washington.
Bose is ready with funds to help out the institute. The Los Angeles alumni group of the Foundation has also been contacting her regularly asking if they could start sending aid, she said.
She invited the students and teachers to be in touch with her and start the much needed “dialogue” on the needs of the institute.