Why summer training?

Summer Training has been added in the course curriculum of engineering student's after they complete 2nd year and 3rd year of their course work. Before describing WHY you should do summer training I would like to describe WHY you should not do it?

WHY YOU SHOULD NOT DO IT? 1. Certificate: Most of the student's do it for the sake of the certificate where as having just a certificate without knowledge is similar to have a GUN without bullets. So think twice these certificates are useless if you can not defend it, or rather harmful for your career. 2. College needs it... The other category of student's do it because their colleges needs a certificate, In fact the real reason for forcing you to submit a summer training certificate is to motivate you to undergo this training.

WHY YOU SHOULD DO IT? 1. The main reason is to get the exposure of real working of Industry. So that you understand what type of projects are developed in Industry and how many skills are required to execute a simple single project. 2. Applying the knowledge learned in college while doing projects 3. To set the goal or the domain in which you would like to work after graduation 4. To acquire one additional advanced skill which is not taught in college course work

What you must do? 1. Make a clear project plan and execute atleast one project 2. Understand the complete "Making of Project" 3. Create a nice presentation and deliver a talk on this work 4. Identify at least 10 companies where you can get into after doing this project 5. Add this project in your CV and update it in all job sites including Linkedin

+ There is a lot more other fine details... The author is Director of Incise Infotech Pvt Ltd and architect of www.oahoye.com To give your comments you can drop a message @ info@incise.in