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SDFS - Skill Development Finishing School

About SDFS

The changing demands of the Industry require more emphasis on coding as a culture, industry-based project and soft skills. The Institute is already working on these aspects in a distributed manner but coding as a culture in core engineering branches is not properly addressed. So, a separate vertical named Skill Development & Finishing School is created to address these industry demands and align these distributed activities.

CCIP Cell

CCIP- Competitive Coding Improvement Program, is a new initiative of KIET Group of Institutions for fulfilling the need of current trends in hiring freshers in big IT companies. Nowadays all IT companies are focusing very much on coding skills as well as other skills of students.
Organizational Structure of CCIP Module The organizational structure of the CCIP module is shown below-

Role and Responsibility of members - CCIP Module

    Role of Resource Person -
  • Creating and uploading question set on HackerRank
  • Providing technical guidance to students during doubt clearing sessions
  • Provide technical training to departmental coordinator regarding HackerRank/GitHub/LinkedIn
    Role of Respective Department
  • Department will be responsible to record attendance and maintain discipline of the doubt clearing session.
  • The Department will ensure that the students submit their problem solutions on HackerRank, share their code on GitHub and share their learning on LinkedIn.
  • The Department will motivate and ensure the 100% participation of students in coding series as well as doubt clearing session.

Appreciation to students as per their involvement

    Training Module
  • Consistency certificates for 100 % participation in throughout the semester
  • Star performer certificates for performing better than average
  • Achiever Certificates for performing best in throughout the semester
  • All certificates will be issued department and semester wise
    Competitive Module
  • Top Three students will be awarded by certificates and cash prize at institute level
  • Top Three students will be awarded by certificates and cash prize at department level

CCIP for Session 20-21

  • Introductory classes on Python will be organized by resource persons for core branches for second year students
  • From 4th and 6th semester same CCIP modules can be introduced to all students

Modus Operandi

  • Coding Problems will be published on HackerRank per week.
  • Students should submit the problems on Hacker Rank within given time period.
  • Two lectures per week will be scheduled for doubt clearing session for the problems published in previous week.
  • Students will get the regular attendance for attending the doubt clearing session.

Minor Specialization Cell

  • Each department should select their own minor specialization area as per their faculty strength and based on industry requirements and student’s needs.
  • These minor specialization courses will be offered for interested student of all departments.
  • Minor specialization will be offered in summer break.
  • Evaluation work cum Certificate distribution will be performed in 6th semester.
  • MOOC courses should be offered to students during semester.
  • During semester, all students should work in Excellence Centers (CoEs), Department and Innovation Clubs as per their selected minor specialization.
  • Minor specialization course duration will be 6 weeks (180 hrs.) in summer break. The suggestive distribution will be:
    • 45 hrs. Training
    • 45 hrs. Practical
    • 90 hrs. Project Work
  • Departments will appoint a faculty coordinator for coordinating the minor specialization course.
  • Respective Department will be fully responsible for successfully running their minor specialization course.
  • Each department will design their own syllabus for their minor specialization and this syllabus should be approved from Board of Studies (BoS) of respective Department.
  • Syllabus should be practical oriented and based on industry requirements.
  • Syllabus should be planned for two parts. First part should be basic or fundamental that should be offered in 1stsummer break and 2ndpart should be advanced that should be offered in 2ndsummer break.
  • Department should train or arrange their faculty member as per their selected minor specialization area.
  • Inter-Department expert faculty members group should be formed for teaching the respective minor specialization.
    Modus operandi:
  • Finalization of minor specialization areas
  • Finalization of Faculty Coordinator from each department
  • Finalization of formation of Inter-Departmental expert faculty members group
  • Finalization of Syllabus & MOOC Courses (if possible) and its approval from respective Department Board of Studies (BoS).
  • Timetable for summer break

Finishing School Cell

The Finishing School at KIET Group of Institutions has been created with a view to provide final polishing touches to the students across all domains just before appearing for their recruitment process and getting hired as a professional in the corporate world after earning the ASSET (Aptitude + Soft Skills + English + Technical Proficiency) Certificate within a period of 4 – 8 weeks. The number of hours invested during this program will be counted as a part of the students’ internship, and hence considered to be mandatory.
As soon as the student ends the pre-final year exams, he/she will undergo a mix of external third-party training and an in-house training, to meet the following objectives –

  • To groom students as per the company standards
  • To hone the skills of the students in three verticals viz., Aptitude (QA + LR + VA), Soft Skills, and Technical Skills in tandem with the current industry needs
  • To prepare the students for Recruitment for mass recruiters
  • To provide students with the “ASSET" certificate for readiness towards recruitment drives

Modus operandi

  • All students will undergo a 17-days training that will be imparted to them as follows –
  • A 2-day input on Soft Skills – tips on Resume Writing, Group Discussions, and Personal Interviews from the faculty of H&S Department – Training Wing.
  • A 10-day input on Aptitude (QA + LR + VA) / Cognitive Assessment by an external 3rd party vendor.
  • A 5-day input on Technical topics useful for recruitment tests by an Industry expert, Alumni, or an Expert Faculty from our Institute. The two days will be given to problem solving and coding skills and remaining three days will be given to branch specific technical training. Respective Departments will be responsible to conduct the branch specific technical training for three days.
  • On completion of this training, all the students will appear for the first placement readiness test (PRT-1), based on the pattern of the major mass recruiters, that will have sectional cut-off, so as to identify the problem area of particular students.
  • Those students who qualify the PRT-1 will appear for a mock panel interview round with a technical resource person (Industry expert/Alumni/Institute Faculty) and an in-house HR expert / Soft Skills Trainer (number of days required may vary according to the number of students that qualify PRT-1), will be conducted parallel to the refresher being run for the students who fail to qualify PRT-1.
  • Those students who qualify the interview will gain the ASSET Certification.
  • Those students who are unable to qualify the interview process will get one-on-one mentoring sessions with a Soft Skills Trainer.
  • Those students who are unable to qualify PRT-1, will get a one-week refresher/doubt removal session that will be conducted by in-house resources on their domain of improvement and then appear for PRT-2 that will be conducted on similar lines to PRT-1.
  • Those students who qualify the PRT-2, will appear for a mock panel interview (technical + HR – here the resource persons would be internal) .
  • Students who qualify the interview will gain the ASSET Certification.
  • Students who are unable to qualify the interview process will get one-on-one mentoring sessions with a Soft Skills Trainer.
  • Those students who are unable to qualify PRT-2, will again undergo a one-week refresher/doubt removal session according to their improvement area, and then appear for a final PRT-3 based on similar lines as PRT-1.
  • Those students who qualify the PRT-3, will appear for a mock panel interview (technical + HR)
  • Students who qualify the interview process will gain the ASSET Certification.
  • Students who are unable to qualify the interview process will not be awarded the ASSET Certification.

Modus operandi for the SCHOLAR BATCH

  • Those students who qualify PRT-1 with an above average score in all the sections and also perform well in the interview process will be considered as the premium/scholar batch of students who will be eligible for better job profiles/packages.
  • These students will be imparted special training for the remaining duration of the summer break to prepare them for the better profiles/packages (resource persons from the industry / alumni / faculty to be used as per requirement).

Modus operandi for Capsule Trainings of selected companies

  • After receiving the relevant information regarding the next recruitment drive from the CRPC Department, and taking the number of days available for the recruitment process to commence, a company specific training would be organized as per its recruitment pattern.
  • The duration of the training and the requirement of resource persons for the training would be dependent on two variables – first, is the number of days available, and second is the number of students eligible/registered for the process.

Faculty Skill Enhancement Policy

Policy Document for Faculty Skill Enhancement Program (F-SEP) Module The objective of this skill enhancement policy is to motivate the faculty members to undergo various training programs and enhance & update their knowledge and skills in the field of their specialization.

SDFS Activities
S.No.Event NameDateReport Link
1FDP on Recent Trends in AI & ML for Smart Computing8th July 2024 to 12th July 2024Detail Links
2FDP on Object Oriented Programming using Java19th Feb 2024 to 1st March 2024Detail Links
3Workshop on Academic Leadership11th August 2023 to 12th August 2023
4FDP on Data Analytics in collaboration with Lagozon Edutech Pvt Ltd3rd July 2023 to 21st July 2023
5Faculty Development Program on “Data Structures and Algorithm”20th March 2023 to 24th March 2023
6Biannual Codathon KICCS-D-HACK 23.526th February 2023 and 28th February 2023
7Expert session on “Importance of Competitive Coding"29th December 2022
8Expert session on “Fundamental & Advance Concept of Data Structure and Algorithms"26th December 2022
9KICCS-D-HACK 22.4- for Batch 202424th September 2022
10Orientation session on “Roadmap to Crack Product Based Companies"8th April 2022
11Program on the topic “Software Industry impact on IT and what kind of work TCS does: an exposure on the current trends of the software industry” by TCS at KIET on19th February 2022

Department of SDFS organized a workshop on Academic Leadership on from 11th August 2023 to 12th August 2023
For getting more about the workshop, please click here.

FDP on Data Analytics from 3rd July -21 July 20233

The Department of SDFS organised a two-week FDP on Data Analytics in collaboration with Lagozon Edutech Pvt Ltd from 3rd July -21 July 2023. The topic of FDP was Data Analytics using PowerBI and Qlik Sense. There were 27 participants in the FDP. The detailed report is can be found by clicking here for your kind perusal.

Department of SDFS organized a Faculty Development Program on “Data Structures and Algorithm” from 20th March 2023 to 24th March 2023

Department of SDFS organized a Faculty Development Program on “Data Structures and Algorithm” by Programming Pathashala. From the Programming Pathashala team, one of the co-founder “Mr. Vivekanand Vivek”, Ex-Amazon, was the speaker of the One-week FDP.
During the one-week FDP from 20th March 2023 to 24th March 2023, faculty members from the computing branches participated and got benefitted from the delivered content. The objective of the sessions was to give insight of:

  • Better understanding of the DSA concepts
  • Approaches used in competitive coding
  • Optimization methods of the existing problems
  • Interviews questions in Higher package companies
The felicitation program of the FDP was held on 3rd April 2023, in the presence of another co- founder of the programming pathashala, Mr. Anoop Garg. During the felicitation event, all Head of the departments were present with Head (CRPC) and his team. The event was started with the opening remarks by Dr. Ajay Kumar Shrivastava, Head, SDFS, where he highlighted from the first step towards the idea of the FDP, how the things had happened, how the leadership supported and the criteria of faculty nominations for the FDP was decided. Further, Mr. Anoop came and shared how the Programming Pathashala started and the team formed. Mr. Anoop gave some motivational real-life examples which inspire him for Learning and Teaching. Faculty members were privileged to attend the FDP, and they shared their experiences. Prof. Prashant Aggarwal (MCA) was highly impressed with the style of Mr. Anoop and Mr. Vivek, that how beautifully, both co-founders cum teachers delivered the content, give examples to teach students, especially in soft pitch variation and polite manner. In addition to this, Prof. Prashant Agrawal appreciated the teaching methodology of trainer and Prof Anurag Mishra (CS) also gave the example of the Mr. Vivek’s teaching methodology.
Prof (Dr) Adesh Pandey (Head ITSS & IT) requested all the faculty members who participated in the FDP to pass-on the learnt concepts and earned skills to the students. Prof. Tripathi (Head, MCA) was influenced with the content delivered in the FDP and shared the feedback of FDP in the hall as he received the feedback from his faculty members. The hall was filled with the positive and inspirational vibes. Mr. Arvind Sharma (Head, CRPC) added the cherry on the top of the cake and thank Mr. Anoop & Programming Pathashala team.
During the certificate distribution to the faculty members, the Head of the Departments of CS, CSE, IT, CSIT, CS(AI-ML), MCA, CRPC were present with Mr. Anoop. The event was ended with a group photograph and with the high tea.

KIET CCIP-SD&FS has organized biannual Codathon KICCS-D-HACK 23.5 on February 26th and February 28th, 2023

Real Learning comes when the competitive spirit has ceased., KIET CCIP-SD&FS has organized biannual Codathon KICCS-D-HACK 23.5, which is held, in two rounds on February 26th and February 28th, 2023. The event welcomed batch 2024 and batch 2025 students, including MCA first-year students, with separate events being organized for each batch.
Approximately 1000 students registered, and 449 students took part in round one. Following the results of round one, the top 140 students from both batches (70 from each batch) were invited to participate in round two on February 28th, 2023 in physical mode. The department winners were selected based on round one, while the institutional winners were selected based on round two (physical round). The total prize money for the event was increased to Rs 90000 this year, with the college administration increasing the institutional prize money for first, second, and third places to Rs 5100, Rs 3100, and Rs 2100 respectively.
The CCIP training module for ODD Sem 22-23 consisted of an 11-week B.Tech. 5th Sem and a 21-week CCIP training module for B.Tech. 3rd Sem. The department coordinators and resource persons worked hard to encourage student participation in weekly exercises and the college-level Codathon.

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