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6 A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY Tapping the Talent A techno centric world is constantly sustained by a technically competent workforce. In a rapidly developing technological environment, there is a need for professionals who can meet the ever rising challenges. How can this be done? Many students focus on the prescribed syllabus which imparts only the basics. They do not connect themselves with the dynamics of the industry. For many is the belief “My teachers know everything I need to know to be an engineer. Their job is to tell it to me in lectures, and my job is to soak it up and then repeat it on exams. If I can do that, I've learned it." This can in no way make a student a professional. By the time they graduate, they are not ready for the real time industry needs. Many lack the basics and most of them do not have practical exposure. NASSCOM report says that about 83% of the Indian engineering graduates are not employable. They lack the skills required by the industry. In most cases there is lack of clarity on what the industry requires and the courses to be designed that would make the students industry ready. The problem as we see is not unemployment but unemployability. To meet the requirements of the society several IT BPO majors recruit youngsters and train them accordingly. Generally, MNCs go to Tier I colleges for potential employees. Students from tier III colleges also form a potential talent pool. It is precisely here that Mission R &D is actively involved. It was established by eminent people from industry -Mr. Srini Koppulu and Mr. Perraju Bendapudi , both veterans in the software industry. They bridge the gap between the present day academia and the industry. Both Mr. Perraju and Mr. Srini Koppulu opine that there is talent beyond the Tier I colleges. There is untapped Dialogue with Mr. Perraju Sri Perraju Bendapudi is the Partner Architect, Microsoft India R&D. He started his career at Microsoft as a Senior Developer in Microsoft Operations Manager reporting. Subsequently, he became the Developer Lead to Service for Unix. He has also been the Development Manager for the Windows group at MSIDC. As the Principle Architect, he worked on the verification platform and binary based static driver verifier. As a partner Development Director, Perraju garu worked on server and high scale services of Live mesh and azure caching and integration services. Before joining Microsoft Mr. B. Perraju worked as a Staff Engineer for Verilog and compiled simulation in Synopsys. He graduated from IIT Kanpur in 1993. He has more than 80 patents to his credit. Currently, he is a lead mentor in Microsoft Azure accelerator mentoring startup companies for Azure. His area of expertise is compiler, High Scale Services and runtimes, Cloud Computing, Big Data and Machine Learning. Please tell us about your life and academics. I was born in Vizag. I come from an academic background, my father was the Controller of Examinations at Andhra University and my mother, a school teacher. I did my engineering in CSE from IIT Kanpur. When I was in my first year of Ph.D, my father passed away and I shifted to a job in T & C, Hyderabad. I worked as a staff engineer in Synopsys and later joined Microsoft. What are the greatest achievements in your life? I am the seniormost technical contributor in Microsoft. I have been with Microsoft India development centre for the past twelve years. The Institution of Mission R &D is also a significant achievement. I got as many as 80 patents and several awards. Could you walk us through your journey to Mission R &D. The thought actually came to Srini Koppulu. One of my relatives worked as faculty in Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women. He helped and encouraged us to impart training at SVECW through Mission R &D. Shri Vishnu Educational Society gives a lot of importance to education and inculcates values. That is what makes it a successful society. The vision is clear to the students and parents. What is the purpose and motto of Mission R &D? Our purpose is to train in three stages: 1. To get talent from all engineering colleges and transform them into exceptional talent for product development roles. 2. To involve a significant number of women students and employees in product companies. 3. Providing top talent to start up companies. How is Mission R&D related to or different from academics? We don't interfere with the academic calendar. We actually train them in the aspects of industry needs for jobs. R &D students can go to any company from Day one as a professional worker. Two BVRIT students were placed as professionals directly instead of trainees and they produced excellent results. What motivated you to start Mission R &D? Our goal is to increase the talent pool of students from engineering. Who is your role model? It is different in different stages. Five years earlier, Bill Gates was my role model and a mentor. Now, the two significant role models are Abdul Kalam and Narendra Modi. Their thoughts are simple and straight forward. What are the companies that you target to give training? We don't give training to companies. We just train third year students and they go for placements. We do not support any company. How do you find the quality of students? During the last three years, the students were very good. In fact they are improving year by year. This is my experience with SVECW, VIT or any other college. Seeing their results, the others are improving which I found to be very inspiring. The reason for my continuation is for the Talent pool. Generally, it is the cream among the students that come to you. What is the advice you give to average students? My opinion is that people need to spend time on particular skill rather than on so many things. In large companies, people are mediocre and IQ is average. They work hard and in addition to that they care for humans. Thus, they become successful. Not using yourself and your abilities is mediocre. What do you feel about teaching? It is a noble profession. Education became expensive to children. Jnana distribution has to be done without selfishness. From Mission R &D, we can train teachers who can train their next generation. Teaching is like a tree. It is great profession. It you are a wrong teacher you will spoil many children. It is very complicated. How do you feel about the journey with Shri Vishnu Educational Society? Shri Vishnu Educational Society has always been our trusted partner. Without them, we would not have done Mission R &D and taken the graph of R &D to this stage. Though it is a small thing, after the completion of the training of the first batch, this is the only society that immediately asked when the next batch is starting. They also make sure that the faculty is involved in this mission. Students are also encouraged a lot. Mission R &D is no different from SVES. From day one they were there with us. What is your message to the students ? We believe that especially in CSE and IT, the way to learn is through the way of build and learn. So my message is “Build”, that is the way you can learn, don't read it by theory. Be sincere and have passion towards the job. We have to learn by 'build and learn'. Learning how to learn is important. We have to update ourselves.
ISSUE <strong>08</strong> APR 2015 7 Gratitude for Success Madhurima, IV CSE, (2011-15 batch) VIT K. Adithya Varma, IV CSE, (2011-15 batch) VIT This is Madhurima of IV CSE, VIT, Bhimavaram. Currently, I am an intern at Kustommade, which offered me a job with a package of Rs. 6 lac. per annum. I was placed here after undergoing training under the esteemed supervision o f M r . P e r r a j u Bendapudi, a proficient programmer of Mission R&D, VIT. There are many reasons for achieving this. As a CSE student, I always had a passion for coding. My college helped me take it to the next level, by forming a CSE club in our campus. The atmosphere that college provides is just mind-blowing. The objective of this club is to make the students capable of product development. To develop products, many skills are required which are incorporated in the course. It teaches us principles of professional coding, managing time, how to present our ideas, sharing experience with students across the state etc. I learnt a lot about how to learn. Constant learning is the focus here. It is not only through college activities but also with help of other activities like Mission R&D, ATL, cultural fests, etc., VIT makes sure that students have an exposure to both the technical aspects and theory. I'm always indebted to my faculty and friends for this success. I sincerely thank the college for the support of our Management throughout this journey. To get a good job in a corporate sector that pays well and allows one to follow one's dream and passion is scare to find but it has become a reality for me now as I got placed i n K o n y. B e i n g a Computer Science undergraduate, I have always been passionate about technology and learning innovative things that broaden my horizon. Thanks to Vishnu Institute of Technology which is not just my college but also my second home and thanks to Mission R&D for helping me turn my dreams into reality. As I walk down the memory lane, I realize that my college has been instrumental in motivating me and making me stretch my limits. Learning was a two way process where not only do we share knowledge but also witness its evolution into wisdom and practicality. My college has always been a platform where we can get a great aid in propelling our scope and giving us as many opportunities as possible and as a part of this, our college tied up with Mission R&D. Throughout this journey Mr. Perraju Bendapudi (fondly called Peri Sir) took personal care of all of us and mentored us individually enabling us to reach out to higher realms. To sum up, my journey so far has been enlightening, energizing and has enabled me to rediscover myself. Paying ATribute FOUNDER'S DAY Celebrations On 15th of October, BVRIT paid homage to its founder Chairman, Padmabhushan Late Dr. B V Raju on his 94th birth anniversary. Sri K V Vishnu Raju, Chairman SVES, Sri Ravi Chandran Rajagopal, Vice Chairman SVES, Dr. Ch. Venkateshwarlu, Principal BVRIT, Deans, staff and students offered floral tribute at his memorial in BVRIT Campus. As usual, on that day, clothes were distributed to the poor too. Research Front The following grants have been sanctioned to the faculty of Chemical Engineering at BVRIT Narsapur: Dr. Ch. Venkateswarlu, Principal BVRIT Narsapur, has been sanctioned Rs. 50,00,000 for his FIST proposal by the Department of Science and Technology. Dr. R. Kishore Kumar has been sanctioned Rs.2,55,000 for his project titled, “Self cleaning & Antireflection coatings on glass surfaces” by the University Grants Commission (UGC). SVES has a longstanding tradition of supporting larger communities that it connects with – from education, health, drinking water, large scale development of employability skills, to assistance during natural calamities such as earth quakes and cyclones. FREE BREAKFAST - A Noble Initiative Free Breakfast Scheme was started on the Founder's Day, keeping up the noble tradition of the Founder Chairman at BVRIT, Narsapur on 15th October, 2014. It is first of its kind among the colleges in the combined states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. It is the offshoot of our Chairman, Sri K.V.Vishnu Raju's noble intention to help students coming from a long distance to the college. According to this scheme, students and staff can avail the facility of nutrition rich breakfast every day. It enables them to overcome exhaustion due to long hours of travel to college and gives them the required energy to successfully accomplish their tasks at the college. It specially helps the students to be more focused on their respective subjects in the classrooms and lab after having a healthy breakfast and perform better in studies . The engaging environment also encourages students to develop their social skills, besides growing academically. Thus, it is conducive to good teaching and learning. It is being executed with the support of Sri Kanta Rao, DGM , Sri Bapi Raju & his team. Mrs. P. Archana Rao has been sanctioned Rs.2,55,000 for her project titled, “Chemical industry effluent treatment using visible photo catalytic nano materials” by UGC. Ms. R.J. Bhargavi has been sanctioned Rs.2,35,000 for her project titled “A Case Study of Arsenate / Fluoride / Mercury removal by Titanate nanofibres” by UGC.
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