Abhyuday, Counselling, Welfare, Training & Placement Activities in NMAMIT
Abhyuday, the department of Counselling, Welfare, Training & Placement originated with Student Counselling services 28 years ago in 1990. After a five year study of the origin of student problems, NMAMIT began working on creating a healthy atmosphere on campus by several path breaking programmes for their well being & progress. Several training programmes to enhance employability of students also emerged.
Abhyuday has a VISION of seeing an NMAMITian as a happy, healthy, articulate, enthusiastic person who is socially & ecologically conscious, ethically upright, a team player, technically competent, eminently employable and a universal citizen. All of Abhyuday’s strivings and practices lead there.
Campus recruitment through the years
Employment opportunities through Campus recruitments at NMAMIT (situated in a rural setting), began painstakingly, in 1994, with Kirloskar Snydergeneral as the first company to visit campus, recruiting two students. Wipro selected two in 1995. By 2000-01, over 150 students were selected for jobs on campus. The year 2004-05 saw more than 248 students getting selected with 100% placement for Civil engineering students. Trends kept changing.
In 2009-10, 37 companies recruited 314 on campus; in 2010-11, 64 companies recruited 593 students. In 2011-12, 774 students were selected by 45 companies. Several of our students in 2011-12, had the good fortune of two or more campus offers. 447 students were selected by 61 companies in 2012-13; 49 companies recruited 440 students in 2013-14; 577 students were selected by 66 companies in 2014-15; 81 companies recruited 664 students in 2015-16; 784 selections were made in 2016-17.71 companies recruited 660 students in 2017-18. Placements for the 2018-19 batch is going on with 537 selections and 37 internships offered by 47 companies from August 2018. Placements continue till students graduate in July 2019. Students not successful in placements, are assisted for a year after graduation, through ‘off campus’ initiatives/ referrals and pool drives. NMAMIT has an impressive placement record of over 80 well-known companies assisting in placements, annually.
Over 150 companies assist us by providing industrial exposure/internship to our students. 5 - 10% of our students pursue higher studies in the country or outside, preparing for it while on campus.
Campus’ selected students of 2018-19 batch till January 8, 2019
Campus Recruitment Policy
Abhyuday follows a policy of permitting only those students who have very good academic scores to go for a ‘Dream’ or ‘Core’ option once placed in a service based company that recruits people in large numbers. This is shared with students as they enter the campus as freshmen. Many choose to make consistent efforts to achieve academic proficiency. A student with 8.25 CGPA, selected by a large recruiter is permitted to apply for a ‘Dream’/ ‘Core’ company and once selected by a core company, he foregoes the previous offer and remains with the Dream company. While this has been a rule, in 2016, keeping with the times, we made amendments, to include very prestigious brands as ‘Super Dream’. A student selected by a Dream Company becomes eligible for a ‘Super Dream’ company if he clears a series of tests and interviews in college.
The recruiting companies’ feedback about our students has been good. Consistently pragmatic, professional and ethical stand of the department ensures a positive image for the college. The department works to sustain a meaningful, synergistic, long standing relationship with helping organizations, well wishers & visiting companies.
Placement App developers
Students, a MAJOR Resource
The department considers the students a major, unfailing, reliable resource. It promotes volunteering in students by giving them opportunities to reach out to help others in need. The students develop compassion, competence & leadership. The ‘receivers’ become ‘givers’ eventually. Several avenues for personal growth are provided to students to work with juniors/peers who need guidance & assistance, formally or informally; through training in orientation programme for freshers; being ‘Pride of NMAMIT’ where class toppers help the first year students with suggestions and guidance; through Peer assistance – clarification of doubts in difficult subjects/ teaching them the fundamentals of a subject; through structured classes in C programming, Data structures; by being a ‘buddy’ whenever a need arises; and through a guided programme, ‘Crack the Campus’, an endeavour of bright, ‘giving’ senior students to introduce all pre final years to aptitude tests & the processes of campus selections. ‘Pride Abhyuday’ has begun in 2017 where students selected by Super Dream companies, oriented interested juniors to dynamic programming from first year upwards.
Training for FOP Volunteering
Peer Teaching
Several clubs have been formed by igniting the initiative of students; helping them structure and run it while guiding them to ensure that it serves the purpose it comes into existence with, e.g. Kalanjali, the Dance club; ClicZ, the Photography club; Aura & Hands of Hope, the reaching out to the needy club; Grey matter, the Quiz club; Thorana, the Event management club; Stereo Club for Music; Taaleem, the Theatre club, Annadana for hunger free India and Rachna, the Art club. SACA, a soft skills & Communication Association run by students to help peers, juniors & seniors is very popular in building confidence in students; Yuj for Life, active from 2015, was founded by Shreeha Govind- mechanical Engineering whose leadership is imprinted on the juniors who have taken over. The team has been working in the hostels and college to improve the ‘well being’ factor in students, to improve concentration, deal competently with stress, dysmennhorhea, asthma etc.
Authorcraft, the Creative writers club came into existence in February 2018 under the Abhyuday banner with Shrawan Thapa (ECE) as the founder President. This semester the team has been engaging in creative pursuits on a weekly basis (Saturday afternoons) with events like ‘What would you do?’ ‘Open Mic’; ‘Blossoms’, ‘Wits for scripts’, slam poetry, Stand -up comedy etc.
A short Kannada film 'Kalachakra' won the second place at the NITK short films contest in 2018 and it had the three clubs - ClicZ, Isiri and Taaleem working together.
Abhyuday focuses on ensuring the participation of the first year students in all its initiatives so that they do something meaningful besides studies. This is especially important because most of the students give up creative/ recreational pursuits during their pre university days.
Abhyuday initiated a Primary preventive programme- Mission Prerana for Change as a Value addition for all the Physics cycle first year students in 2013. It was held every Wednesday afternoon for 150 mts in the open air auditorium - Sadananda, with a band of committed Prerana faculty & Volunteers who assist in facilitation of the planned syllabus for 500 students at a time in groups of 25. It aims to fulfil the vision of Abhyuday.
Mission Prerana for Change @ Induction was held for 875 first year students in the first fortnight of August 2018 with the active assistance of 15 trained faculty facilitators and 32 first year teachers. The programme was designed and executed by Prof. Shalini K. Sharma, head, counselling, welfare, training & placement, a mental health professional with 28 years of close professional association with adolescents in engineering schools.
Mission Prerana @Induction’ Syllabus was as follows:
Vision and Mission of Abhyuday; Employer Expectations; Critical thinking; Lateral/Creative Thinking; Logical Thinking, Professionalism; Effective study practices; Sleep & Learning; Stress; Higher studies & Career options after graduation; Inspirational Audios/ videos/Presentations; Eco preservation; Anger management; Inputs on why Nicotine, Alcohol, Cannabis & why need to be avoided despite temptations; Awareness on LGBTQIA; 90 minutes of activity based Gender sensitisation for boys; and a power packed Self defence session for girls; introduction to beneficial clubs on campus; address by campus selected students; introduction to the Indian Navy by an alumnus; Practical demonstrations on Super brain Yoga to enhance cognitive abilities; exposure to debates; concept of living in co operation, collaboration & harmony; appreciation of diversity; humanism which were participatory in nature.
Abhyuday shares it’s knowledge and experience with others through an Annual immersive Workshop
A four day’ workshop for teachers & administrators of Institutes of higher education, on ‘Understanding our adolescents, Suicide prevention and Introduction to Therapeutic Counselling’ is being held annually in July 2011, 2012, 2013, June 2014, July 2015, May 2016, 2017 and 2018 as a National and State level workshop with 50 participants.
The objective is to share our experience of developing a healthy campus atmosphere - attitude towards adolescents by understanding ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ adolescent behaviour; acquire basic counselling skills; identify & promptly refer those in need; manage various psychiatric disturbances in young people (with compassion, without stigma) and minimize problems in young people and facilitate maximize growth.
Abhyuday’s Activities enabling student growth and development
- Individual / Group Counselling
- Conscientizing students to the realities of life to be civilized citizens
- Training students to be peer helpers
- Spotting talent & encouraging leadership
- Enabling growth in students by guided volunteering
- Extra Coaching in English for needy students
- Working with the under privileged to enhance self esteem
- Identifying students needing remedial help with academics
- Enabling peer/senior' teachers in Math, C programming, Data structures, CAD etc
- Programmed senior’ assistance at an individual level for other problems
- Creation of Student friendly Volunteers
- Educating through internet/ intranet portals, FB pages on issues of relevance
- Designing & Conducting training programmes that serve a ‘PREVENTIVE’ purpose
- Activity based day long Orientation programme to provide anticipatory guidance & enable employability with the help of trained good samaritan student volunteers for BE freshers, lateral entry & M.Tech students
- Preparation for corporate life through sessions on etiquette and ethics
- Enabling industrial exposure to students
- Enabling student mentorship by industries
- Organizing training programs for students with the help of alumni, reputed companies, friends of NMAMIT
- Communicating with employers, organizing pre-placement talks & recruitments on campus
- Organizing Industry visits for students
- Facilitating industrial training/ internship for students
- Pooled campus drives to assist neighbour colleges
- Facilitating interaction with alumni/ enabling alumni mentoring
- Preparation for higher studies & the armed forces
- Initiation/support of Student development activities & clubs
- Working with industries to strengthen faculty’ competence
- Faculty induction & development programmes
- A semester long programme, ‘Mission Prerana for Change’ for first years to equip them for a fulfilling, productive professional life
Core Team Abhyuday
Branchwise Recruitment for the year 2018-19 as of date
| Branch | Total Number Recruited |
|---|---|
| Civil | 04 |
| Mechanical | 24 (+82 for internship) |
| E&E | 38 (+5 for internship) |
| E&C | 152 (+6 for internship) |
| Computer Science | 236(+8 for internship) |
| Information Science | 82 (+1 for internship) |
| Biotechnology | 01 |
| MCA | 54 (+3 for internship)) |
| M.Tech. - CCT | -- |
| M.Tech. - VLSI | (+1 for internship) |
| M.Tech. – CS | 02 (+2 for internship) |
| M.Tech. – PE | -- |
| M.Tech – SE | -- |
| M.Tech - CNE | 03 |
| MBA | 109 |
| Total | 705(+108 for internship) |
Branchwise Recruitment for the year 2017-18 as on 14th September 2018
| Branch | Total Number Recruited |
|---|---|
| Civil | 19 (+2 Internship) |
| Mechanical | 62 |
| E&E | 30 |
| E&C | 182 (+ 1 Internship) |
| Computer Science | 268 ( + 3 internship) |
| Information Science | 66 ( +1 internship) |
| Biotechnology | 16 |
| MCA | 15 ( +3 internship) |
| M.Tech. - CCT | -- |
| M.Tech. – MECS | -- |
| M.Tech. - VLSI | -- |
| M.Tech. – DEC | -- |
| M.Tech. – CS | 01 |
| M.Tech. – PE | 01 |
| M.Tech – SE | -- |
| MBA | 106 |
| Total | 766 (+10 Internship) |
Branchwise Recruitment for the Year 2016-2017
| Branch | Total Number of Selections |
|---|---|
| Civil | 30 (1 Internship) |
| Mechanical | 99 |
| E&E | 47 |
| E&C | 251 (1 Internship) |
| Computer Science | 260 (3 Internship) |
| Information Science | 57 |
| Biotechnology | 17 |
| MCA | 15 |
| M.Tech. - CCT | 01 |
| M.Tech. – MECS | -- |
| M.Tech. - VLSI | 02 |
| M.Tech. – DEC | - |
| M.Tech. – CS | 03 |
| M.Tech. – CNE | - |
| M.Tech. – Energy Sy. | - |
| M.Tech. – PE | 01 |
| M.Tech – SSE | 01 |
| MBA | 120 |
| Total | 904 + 5 Internship |
Branchwise Recruitment for the Year 2015-2016
| Branch | Total Number Recruited |
|---|---|
| Civil | 27 |
| Mechanical | 127 |
| E&E | 48 |
| E&C | 162 |
| Computer Science | 169 |
| Information Science | 44 |
| Biotechnology | 07 |
| MCA | 66 |
| M.Tech. - CCT | -- |
| M.Tech. – MECS | 02 |
| M.Tech. - VLSI | 02 |
| M.Tech. – DEC | 03 |
| M.Tech. – CS | 04 |
| M.Tech. – CNE | 01 |
| M.Tech. – Energy Sy. | - |
| M.Tech. - PE | 02 |
| Total | 664 |
Branchwise Recruitment for the Year 2014-2015
| Branch | Total Number Recruited |
|---|---|
| Civil | 17 |
| Mechanical | 96 |
| E&E | 38 |
| E&C | 140 |
| Computer Science | 132 |
| Information Science | 59 |
| Biotechnology | 15 |
| MCA | 55 |
| M.Tech. - CCT | -- |
| M.Tech. – MECS | 04 |
| M.Tech. - VLSI | 05 |
| M.Tech. – DEC | 10 |
| M.Tech. – CS | 04 |
| M.Tech. – CNE | - |
| M.Tech. – Energy Sy. | 01 |
| Total | 576 |
Branch wise Recruitment for the Year 2013-2014
| Branch | Total Number Recruited |
|---|---|
| Civil | 15 |
| Mechanical | 63 |
| E&E | 32 |
| E&C | 117 |
| Computer Science | 111 |
| Information Science | 46 |
| Biotechnology | 11 |
| MCA | 14 |
| M.Tech. - CCT | -- |
| M.Tech. – MECS | 04 |
| M.Tech. - VLSI | 10 |
| M.Tech. – DEC | 07 |
| M.Tech. – CS | 05 |
| M.Tech. – CNE | 05 |
| Total | 440 |
Corporates who have been assisting NMAMIT through recruitment over the Years
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Contact Information:
Prof. Shalini K. Sharma, M.SW, M.Phil ( NIMHANS),
HoD, Department of Counselling, Student Welfare, Training & Placement,
NMAM Institute of Technology
Nitte – 574 110
Karkala Taluk,
Udupi District,
Karnataka, India
Tel: 08258 281240 (D)
08258 – 281263/64 Extn: 330
Email: placement.nmamit@gmail.com
Mr. Bharath G. Kumar, M.B.A
Lead – Placements
NMAM Institute of Technology,
Nitte – 574 110
Karkala Taluk,
Udupi District,
Karnataka, India
Tel: 08258 281240 (D)
08258 281263/64 Extn: 330
Mobile:+91 9902414602
Email: placement.nmamit@gmail.com
placement.nmamit@nitte.edu.in