Role of IBM Community Student Ambassador and Blue Scholars in IBM Academic initiative process at K.L.N.College of Engineering

Every year IBM plays a significant role in

improving the quality of an Engineer through

its IBM software Centre of Excellence. Since

IBM provides all the software and resource

materials, students get much exposure and

scope to know about the latest trends and

requirements in the IT industry. IBM also

focuses keenly on blue scholars who

successfully completed two IBM

certifications and IBM TGMC project

submission.

The benefit of IBM certifications and blue scholar certificate are enormous. Students get

much insight about the latest tools which help them to complete their regular academic

project. This kind of industry recognized certifications will enable the student to perform well

in their campus placement. These kinds of extracurricular activities will attract the employer

to select the students.

Since 2004 K.L.N. College of Engineering is focusing more on IBM Initiative activities.

Every year our college receives outstanding contribution award in TGMC for more number

of registrations. Our students won the first prize in TGMC contest during the year 2007 and

2008.The exclusive club run by the IBM student ambassador and Blue scholars namely

“ISOFT CLUB (IBM Software Club) cater the needs of the students regarding IBM tools.

The activities of this club are reviewed periodically by the faculty coordinators

N.Lakshminarasimman, Professor and R.Alageswaran, Associate Professor of CSE

department. Mr.Himanshu Goyal, Country Manager and Mr.R.Saravanan, Regional manager

personally reviewed the activities of IBM COE on 8th April 2011 at K.L.N.College of

Engineering, Pottapalayam. The following activities and the roadmap were presented by the

student Ambassador and blue scholars.

I Details of Certification programs Three certification programmes were conducted during the year 2010-2011 as per the following details. S.No. Course

Name Trained Certified

Students Staff Students Staff 1. DB2 106 19 103 19 2. RAD 109 13 84 13 3. RFT 83 10 80 10

II Blue Scholar Certified Students: Totally twenty students got IBM Blue Scholar certificates through IBM COE @ KLNCE. The list of Blue Scholar certified students is as follows.

III Activities of IBM Student Ambassadors Final year students Mr. Premkumar of CSE

and Mr. Ganesh Babu of IT departments have

been selected as student ambassador for IBM

Centre of Excellence. They have already

completed the following activities with the

help of blue scholars.

S.no Student Name Department 1 T.K.Hindumathi CSE 2 V.J.Nagalakshmi CSE 3 B.N.Karthika CSE 4 T.R.Mathanlal CSE 5 M.Harini CSE 6 V.Prem Kumar CSE 7 G.Veeramani CSE 8 S.Satheesh Kumar CSE 9 T.Siva CSE 10 R.HemaMalini CSE 11 P.JaiShree CSE 12 D.Karthika CSE 13 M.Priyanka CSE 14 R.Gayathiri Devi CSE 15 G.Kiruthika CSE 16 M.V.Priyanka CSE 17 N.Ram Kumar CSE 18 P.Thanga Pandi CSE 19 R.Mirunalini EIE 20 C.Dharmendran CSE

S.no. Activity Name of the Topic No. of

students benefited

1. Awareness about IBM tools

Rational, DB2 120

2. Awareness about TGMC

Advantages of TGMC in students point of view 360

3. Project Management

How to do TGMC project 120

4. TGMC Tools and Resources

DB2,RAD, RFT and resource materials 60

IV Knowledge Dissemination All the blue scholars are divided into groups

to give awareness about the IBM

certifications, TGMC and other basic fundas

in programming languages. This method of

practices made the student to face the

certification exams as well as placement

interviews with more confidence. Each team

leader of TGMC project team was given

training to prepare their SRS, project and

presentation. Moreover blue scholar also developed insight knowledge in their allotted topics

for the presentation. This will definitely increase the fundamental knowledge of particular

blue scholar.

V Placement Episode

Every blue scholars and IBM Certified students enjoyed their technical as well as personnel

interview. Almost all the interviewers thrilled about the extracurricular activities carried out

by the students like IBM Certifications and TGMC project. Most of the questions were

towards this part during the interview where in all the students handled the situations very

well. The ounce of practices and the amount of confidence made them to do well in the

interview. The result yields tones of happiness to most of the families who waited for their

first graduates get placement in big corporate.

VI Road map of COE

All the blue scholars clearly explained about

the activities they had done and how they

helped to their juniors in shaping their skills.

Also they personally explained about the

benefits of blue scholar certifications and

experiences during their interview process.

Based on the suggestions and

recommendations by the IBM executives and

other members, the following activities have been planned.

1. More number of students should be motivated for IBM Blue scholar certificates.

2. Enough training should be given to students

regarding TGMC Project.

3. IBM student ambassadors and ISOFT club

members should take more initiatives to

impart more training in fundamentals before

commencement of every IBM Certifications

as well as placement.

4. Few commercial projects should be done

with the help of blue scholars in IBM COE.

5. More staff will be trained and involved in IBM certification courses and TGMC Projects.