University perspective
dl.eletsonline.com | December 2017
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What are the interventions Mody
University is taking for skilling
and enhancing employability of the
students?
India, as an emerging and highly dynamic country,
has a demographic dividend with around 65% of
its population aged 15 to 35. In this scenario of
a young India, imparting professional education is
a key factor to meet the aspirations of this young
population who has global exposure arising out of
the intervention of information and communication
technologies.
mody university is a premier university dedicated
to professional Empowerment of women through
Nurturing Excellence in them. mody university has
taken numerous initiatives for achievement of the
above goal. Various programmes, in general, and
its master of business Administration programme,
in particular, have contemporary industry oriented
course curriculum skilling its participants. Inspired
learning environment and innovation oriented
pedagogy embedded with continuous business
and industry exposure coupled with business
simulation Exercises enhances the employability of
its participants.
What are the initiatives Mody
University has undertaken in Student
Startup domain?
mody university is one of the few universities in
India which runs master of business Administration
programme in the exclusive domain of Family
business and Entrepreneurship. this programme
is designed to meet career requirements of not
only the subsequent generations of scions, but
also young women who aspire to venture into
entrepreneurship. In this programme, mody
university offers several start-up and Incubation
avenues for its participants. to promote
entrepreneurship several workshops and seminars
in association with successful entrepreneurs are
regularly organized for participants.
Many countries have started
introducing Artificial Intelligence
(AI), Coding etc., in the curriculum.
What initiatives is the Mody
University undertaking to make
students competent with the
emerging technological trend?
Various universities have started courses on
Artificial Intelligence and machine Learning which
allow computational models that are composed
of multiple processing layers to understand
representations of data, thereby dramatically
improving speech Recognition, Visual object
Recognition, object detection, medical diagnosis,
prediction and many other domains, especially
for huge amount of processing requirements
which are not possible by traditional computers
and human beings. machine learning is an
incredible breakthrough in the field of Artificial
Intelligence. For this reason, mody university, in
association with Ibm, is successfully running its
b. tech. (Computer science and Engineering) with
specialisation in big data, Cloud Computing and
Internet of things, which are basic requirements
for handling huge amount of data for machine
Learning. the curriculum lays special emphasis
on Advanced technology (like machine Learning
and deep Learning) and Applications (in Image
processing and data Analysis, etc.) of big data,
Cloud Computing and Internet of things.Internship plays a vital role in
enhancing students’ employability.
Highlight the initiatives Mody
University has undertaken to facilitate
internship for students to provide
them hands-on experience within a
corporate working environment?
the mbA and engineering programmes of the
university have been designed in such a way that
budding managers gain exposure to contemporary
concepts, practical issues and challenges faced
in the corporate and business world. to equip
participants with contemporary business and
industry exposure, a set of pedagogical tools are
used which inter alia include role play, in-depth
situational analysis, business simulation and
analytics, and real life projects in several courses
within the domain of various functional areas of
management and engineering.
Apart from this, an 8-week summer Internship
in leading corporate houses is an inherent part of
the course curriculum. this provides participants
ample opportunities to have hands-on experience
of corporate working environment along with
handling business problems. In the second year
of the mbA programme, participants undertake a
one-year long dissertation project through which
they acquire in-depth industry understanding
under close supervision of the faculty members of
the college. summer Internship and dissertation
project are two very powerful tools that enhance
employability of the university’s participants.