College to Career Program:
Government of Gujarat signs Memorandum of understanding with Microsoft and TCS to enhance academic excellence in the state.
With a view to provide the State-of-the-art “Software Development Training” under the above program through BISAG SATCOM facility to the students of various Engineering/MCA Colleges in the State, the Government of Gujarat (Department of Education and Department of Science and Technology) took an initiative for a collaboration with the following leading agencies:
• M/s. Microsoft Corporation Ltd.
• M/s. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
During interactions almost every college/institute appreciated this idea of providing State-of-the-art knowledge through SATCOM. Accordingly, remaining institutes were approached for establishment of receiving systems.
Overall monitoring and review of this project shall be done periodically by the Department of Education and Department of Science and Technology and over all co-ordination is being done under the guidance of the Managing Director, GIL.
It is expected that more than 3000 students shall participate in this program at a time.
Mode of executing program: BISAG’s SATCOM channels
Question/Answer: Phone, Fax, e-mail.
Areas Covered: Java Technology and .Net Technology and C++
Advantages:
• Industry Institute interaction will help in harmonizing the requirement of industry and the study end at the Institute.
• Employability of the participating students is likely to increase manifold.
• Practical in the laboratories of the college/institutes.
• Over a time the availability of human resources in this area may also help in bringing investments in IT sector.
• It is also expected that faculty shall also be benefited.
Every college is identifying a coordinator, through whom interaction shall be made.
C2C@CITC:
Microsoft has selected two Faculty members (Ashwin Makwana and Gaurang Panchal from Computer Engineering) from CITC is performing duty as Track Faculty for .Net Technology by Microsoft.
Ashwin Makwana, Gaurang Panchal, Parth Shah and Amit Thakkar are working as Facutly coordinator for C2C program for various track i.e. .Net, Java and C++.