Strengthening Industry Institute Collaboration and Its Outcome

Abstract

For the development of any Technical Academic Institution, better interaction between Technical Institutions and Industry is the need of the hour. These collaborations allow us to know industry needs and quality to be maintained inside academic institutes. Eventually, this allows us to make curriculum changes, adding value added courses and students get exposure to industry skills and subsequently to placements. With the advent of globalization and opening up of Indian economy to outside world, competition among industries has become tough. Industry also needs help from academic institutions to solve their engineering problems and also right people with right skill set. Looking at the rapid pace of advancements in technology, there is a need to prepare our students to the requirements of industry by exposing them to newer technologies and engineering methodologies. These objectives can only be achieved well by bridging the gap between industry and the academic institute. To strengthen in this direction, Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology has taken a plan of establishing few Centers of Excellence (CoEs) in 5 years to enhance the technical skills of the students. To inculcate self learning among students, institute has also planned for a good number of certifications. And to do all these things, we felt the need of establishing an Industry Institute Cell (IIC) and bringing the plans into action under this banner. In this journey, the college is able to make three Centers of Excellences in its own premises, which are unique in themselves. They are Lean Center of Excellence in manufacturing practices for Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics Engineering students, Qlik Center of Excellence in Data Analytics and Virtusa Center of Excellence in Software Testing for Computer Science and Information Technology stream of students. This paper will throw light on the journey of establishing these three CoEs, making hundreds of students certified and their outcomes.