to adapt to any environment in the industries or institutes of higher learning. The students have to give seminars and thus they are able to develop good communication skills. The graduates of this college are confident, progressive and have an earnest desire and eagerness to learn new concepts, skills and can apply this knowledge wherever and whenever required. The training exposes the students to working of the industries and therefore these students are an asset to the various industries. Product Development is taken up as a project in B. Sc. (Hons) Food Technology III year to improve the creativity and analytical skills of students. This year the Food Technology students have developed various new products such as Mint Jelly, Legume based buttermilk, watermelon rind jam, bitter gourd chutney, pineapple sauce, tamarind RTS, Gun powder, instant potato halwa mix, banana bar and amla spread. These products have been highly appreciated and have generated lot of curiosity in the industries who have been visiting the college. This year two of our novel food products Tamarind RTS developed by Shikha got the IInd prize and that developed by Sweta got the consolation prize in IFCON ’09 an International Conference held at CFTRI, Mysore.The students of instrumentation do a project on Good Laboratory Practices (GLP). The students of electronics do various projects such as they make electronics toys or fabricate simple electronic gadgets. The students of biomedical science and computer science carry out a project in IInd year and final year respectively.
The college also conducts seminars with the industries from time to time so that we can redesign our courses according to the needs of the industries. The Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Oriented Program being in the college helps the college to conduct short term programs for the students .This year one short term course, “Lead Auditor course in Food Safety Management Systems”, was organized by Food Technology department in collaboration with CECOP and Quality Council of India.
In collaboration with CISCO, the Cisco Networking Academy Program (CNAP) is being run in the college and the college has set up a CISCO Local Networking Academy Centre since September 2002. Our Local Academy is running the program at no profit basis as most of our students are from middle and lower income group. We have conducted several workshops, seminars and retooling sessions for the students to train them for interview, communication, writing skills and personality development. In all total 90 students have graduated from our academy, and I am glad that many of them are well placed in companies like HCL, Hughes, Infosys,Tech Mahindra,Satyuam ,Wipro etc. We have also started CISCO Certified Enterprise Network Technician (CCENT) one year programme which runs on CISCO Discovery curriculum. The students can enroll for this program as an add on course.
Many of the graduates of this college are placed in senior positions in industries such as Ranbaxy Laboratories, Jubiliant Organosys, World Health Organization, Dabur, Dominnos, CII, FICCI, Coca-cola, Pepsi, Artech, HCl, Infosys, Wipro, Export Promotion Council, APEDA, Institute for Genomics and integrated Biology, TGCA,Tata Energy Research Institute(TERI) ,Globonics Technologies etc.More than 160 companies are training these students and more than 100 have placed them. The college has strong Alumni which meets every year which makes the present students aware of their career prospects. One of the major achievements of the college was that two of our students, Ms. Priyamvada Bisht and Ms. Jessy Moza of III year, represented the college in Women's Education Worldwide Student Leadership Conference, 2008, at Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges, South Hadley, MA and Northampton, MA, USA. From June 10-13, 2008. They were fully sponsored by the Mount Holyoke College USA. They have taken up a Project on “Eradication of Anaemia among girls in India”.
The students who enter the portals of this college are trained in such a manner that they can adapt to any corporate sector or institution of higher learning.
I wish the new entrants of the college the very best in all their pursuits.
PRINCIPAL
Dr. S. Lakshmi Devi
