ATTENTION STUDENTS OF
ENGINEERING (Electrical / Electronics / Instrumentation ) ,
COMPUTER SCEIENCES
AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY .
EVERY STUDENT DREAMS TO REACH A GOOD JOB / CARRER IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY. NO DOUBT THAT IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
PARENT SPEND A LOT OF MONEY IN EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN SO THAT THEY LEAD A PROPSEROUS LIFE. THEIR DREAM AND EFFORTS SHOULD NOT FAIL
CAUTION - STUDENTS SHOULD BEAR IN MIND THE FOLLOWING:
1. THE NUMBER OF FRESH GRADUATES RECRUITED BY THE INDUSTRY IS A SMALL FRACTION OF STUDENTS COMINGOUT SUCCESSFULLY FROM COLLEGES.
2. IN THIS COMPETITION, THOSE WHO ARE THE BEST IN THE FOLLOWING GET A JOB. OTHERS SPEND MORE MONEY IN UNDERGOING SKILL TRAINING BEFORE THEY GIVEUP SERACH. THEN THEY TAKEUP JOBS THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE ENGINEERING EDUCATION,
WHAT SHOULD A STUDENT POSSESS TO WIN A JOB IN IT INDUSTRY?
1. MARKS IN THE UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION NEED TO BE HIGH, MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES SEEKS TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES WITH VERY HIGH SCORE. SOME DO NOT ALLOW STUDENTS WITH LESS THAN 75% SCORES (STARTING FROM 10 TH STANDARD CONSISTENTLY). THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SLIGHTLY RELAXED IN OTHER COMPANIES RECRUITING FRESHERS.
2. KNOWLEDGE IN THE MAIN SUBJECTS SHOULD BE GOOD. THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR CLEARING WRITTEN TESTS AND SUBSEQUENT SELECTION PROCESS - DURING PERSONAL INTERVIEW.
SHORT-CUTS LEADS TO FAILURE.
3. THIRD YEAR AND FINAL YEAR PROJECTS ARE VERY IMPORTANT, STUDENTS SHOULD INVEST A SUBSTANTIAL TIME IN PROJECT WORK ABD ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE RELATED TO THE PROJECT.
SO BUYING PROJECTS MAY HELP FULFILLING THE ACADAMIC REQUIREMENTS. BUT WOULD LEAD TO FAILURE TO CONVINCE THE RECRUITERS THAT IT IS YOU WHO DID IT.
IT TAKES A FEW MINUTES - SAY THREE TO FIVE QUESTIONS TO FIND THAT OUT.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND SELF CONFIDENCE
4, EVEN AS YOU HAVE A GOOD EXAMINATION MARKS AND GOOD PROJECT WORK, ANY DIFFICULTY IN COMMUNICATING WHAT YOU KNOW CAN DAMAGE THE CHANCES OF GETTING A JOB.
What an Engineering / MCA Student can do
to find an employment immediately after leaving the campus?
SPEND A COUPLE OF HOURS A WEEK, IN YOUR CAMPUS TO TO TEACH YOUR JUNIORS AT THE COLLEGE.
SHARE YOUR LEARNINGS WITH YOUR FELLOW
STUDENTS..
WHAT SHOULD A STUDENT DO WHILE IN THE COLLEGE ?
ELECTRONICS / ELECTRICAL STREAM STUDENTS:
(1) PRACTICAL : LEARN ALL ABOUT MAKING A REGULATED POWER SUPPLY FOR ELECTRIC SYSTEM WITH GATES / MICRO CONTROLLER SYSTEMS. BUILD ONE.
THEORY: READ AND PREPARE EXTENSIVE NOTES ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF POWER SUPPLY DESIGN. COMPILE AND LEARN ALL ELECTRONIC REGULATOR ICs AND SOLUTIONS.
(2) USING DISCRETE COMPONENTS / OPERATIONAL AMPLIER ICs, BUILD OSCILLATORS, AMPLIFIERS,, FILTERS, MODULATOR / DEMODULATORS.
(3) PRACTICAL: PLAY AROUND WITH ARM CORE MICRCONTROLLERS,. RABBIT CONTROLLER MODULES, TRYOUT C CODES, INTERFACE IT WITH SEVERAL DISPLAY DEVICES, SUCH AS Alpha Numeric LCD, Numeric and LED Displays, various SENSORS, SD/MMC CARD, KEYPAD,
READ APPLICATION NOTES FOR A GIVEN MICRO CONTROLLER PRODUCT. FROM THE MICROCONTROLLER MANUFACTURER MANUFACTURER's SITE / URL
WITH VERY SMALL GUIDANCE FROM PEOPLE WHO WERE DEVELOPERS IN THE INDUSTRY, ONE CAN NOT ONLY MAKE A GOOD PRODUCT BUT WITH ASSOCIATED THEORITICAL KNOWLEDGE AROUND THE PRODUCT, WIN A GOOD JOB AS WELL.
NOTE: IT IS POSSIBLE, YOU MIGHT HAVE STARTED A GOOD PRODUCT, TO DESIGN.
THE FINAL OUTCOME AFTER A LOT OF EFFORT MIGHT BE UNSUCCESSFUL.
THERE IS NOTHING TO WORRY AS LONG AS YOU HAVE LEARNT FROM SUCCESSES AND FAILURES.
Computer sceince & IT
Learn C, C++, Java, dotnet from Tutorials in the net.
Walk through the (C, C++)codes available in internet.
Learn through free tutorials on XL programming.
Shell scripting,
PYTHON, PHP and PERL - scripting.
Download and install one of the free down loads of Database.
Develop data base applications for one or the other services.
Learn all about linux,
embedded linux,
Linux porting to embedded controllers.
How many of the assignment above each student shall have?
When more number of assignments one undertakes, it increases his chance to a very good career. Put your best efforts
and devote as much time as it is humanly possible.
(Mail me : natarajan.naga@gmail.com)
For more project ideas and suggestion for internet links / URLs, to learn. contact me in the above mail ID.
Sample boards / embedded applications developed by students of eee / ece using NXP (Philips) ARM Core controller (32 bit) are shown below.
Suggestion:
Just walk into a nearby manufacturing Industry / service personnel and findout what devices / solutions could make their work easy or comfortable. You will hit upon very good ideas.
A recent event:
(1) Two young and dynamic students approached me for suggesting a good project.
I advised them to visit the Food Retail outlets like Nilgiris, Reliance More etc and figureout:
(1) What is taking-stock? Why it is done?how do they do it?.
(2) How frequently it is done?
(3) Finally the method they use, the man power involved and the comfort level of their process.
The boys were initially unhappy with my suggestion. Soon they got convinced. They were in for surprise when they came back with their results. We sat together to evolve a solution based on
NXP arm controller which can be seen in the photo .
They boys did developed the board (with very little help from me).
They developed a hand-held solution that would have no strain on the employees and would take just a couple of hours instead of eight hours. Deploying more units, they can complete it even within an hour or 30 minutes.
They demonstrated just one event of collecting the data with a hand held barcode reader attached to the controller board and entering quantities with key pad. True, they could have done much more. The complete product if they could have allocated a month or more.
This was presented this project / product in their College along with other student projects. The principal and a team of evaluators, after hearing how the students arrived at their problem-solution pair, gave away Rs 5000 on the spot to the students as a mark of appreciation.
With such an approach the students would become very good solution providers. There should be creativity, novelty and truly reflect their intellectual abilities reflecting in their project work..
More importantly, the Student;s ability to LEARN should be amply demonstrated.
Unfortunately the students have no practice in learning.
The Education system is meant to enable a person not-only fast but from various sources.
Unfortunately our Education system has lost its way.
Education is an Institution run by knowledgeable and based on
knowledge. Unfortunately it has become an institution of faith and run exclusively on faith. There is a lot of commonality between Temples which are run on Faith and Education Systems in our country. I wish, it is changed for good sometime soon.
Click here to read A Satire in Tamil on our current education system,
