Engineering colleges equip students with theoretical knowledge and some practical training in their respective branches. But when it comes to recruitment, employers often complain that a vast majority of the engineering graduates are not ‘job ready’.
Visakhapatnam being the largest city in AP and one of the major industrial cities in the country offers quite a number of opportunities for students to enhance their employability. Here is a golden opportunity for engineering students pursuing electronics and communications. The public sector telecom giant – Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited – is offering a unique opportunity to access its high security equipment to student interns.
The students, undergoing internship, come from different colleges across the country but the common factor is that most of them hail from Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts and come home for holidays and join the courses, which range from a couple of weeks to four weeks.
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The topics to be covered include: infrastructure, i.e., power plant, battery, engine alternators and air conditioning plants, electronic switching techniques, National Internet Backbone (NIB), theory regarding data communications, Internet Protocols, routing protocols, modems, servers, routers and cyber security beside a visit of NIB exchange and MLLN mode.
The students would learn theory regarding transmission like PCM, Optical Fibre Cable structure and design, principle of working, splicing techniques and different types of testing instruments besides a visit to these systems. They would also be exposed to mobile communication technologies like BTS, BSC and media gateway apart from lessons on wireless communication, revolution in GSM/CDMA technologies, antennas, RF cable laying and termination and optimisation of mobile network. “I came to know about the course from my friends and am using my summer holidays to enhance my skills,” said B.V. Akhil of SRM University in Tamil Nadu, who joined the four weeks course recently.
K. Lavanya of AITAM Engineering College, Tekkali, opined that the course would enhance her employability.
Students are selected for the Employability Enhancement Training Programme (EETP), provided by BSNL and approved by the AICTE, based on their merit. The EETP programme was sponsored by the the Ministry of HRD in the past but now the funding has been stopped.
There are three regular training faculty members: B. Srinivasa Rao, K. Surya Kumari and Bhagawan Prasad (all three Sub Divisional Engineers) apart from Field Expert Faculty M. Satya Prasad (optical fibre cables and systems, mobile communications and data communications), R. Ravi Kumar (optical fibre cables and systems) and R. Sridhar (National Internet Backbone) and data communications.
On completion of the training programme, a certificate would be issued to the student.
Interested students can log on to www.bsnlvisakhapatnam
trainings.blogspot.in for more details.
