Skill And Personality Development Programme Centre

About the Skill and Personality Development Programme Centre (SPDC)

The Institution has created a Skill and Personality Development Programme Centre (SPDC) as a central facility that will conduct skill and personality development training for the benefit of SC/ST students of our Institution. The SPDC is sponsored by AICTE under the scheme AICTE Quality Improvement Scheme (AQIS) for the year 2019-2020. This scheme provides opportunity to SC/ST students in the Institute to reorient and empower themselves in the light of emerging employment opportunities at all levels.

Objectives of SPDC:

• To provide training, support and guidance for SC/ST students of various disciplines on the lines of international level.
• To empower the SC / ST students by training them in skills like personality development and soft skills to compete with the other students for industrial employability opportunities.
• To improve skills of SC / ST students by facilitating them to enhance their academic knowledge in emerging areas.
• To inculcate the skill sets like Communication, Problem-solving, Creativity, IT skills, and Teamwork.
• To organize open house events and competitions among students.

Faculty

Dr. N. Prakash, Coordinator – SPDC
Associate Professor
Department of Information Technology
B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai – 600048
Email: prakash@byt.digital/wordpress/crescent

Dr. R. Priyadarshini, Co-Coordinator – SPDC
Assistant Professor (Sel. Gr.)
Department of Information Technology
B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai – 600048
Email: rpriyadarshini@byt.digital/wordpress/crescent

Dr. A.K. Reshmy, Co-Coordinator – SPDC
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Applications
B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai – 600048
Email: reshmy@byt.digital/wordpress/crescent

S. Subhashini, Co-Coordinator – SPDC
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineeering
B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai – 600048
Email: subashini@byt.digital/wordpress/crescent

Focused Areas of SPDC:

• Communication skill is very much necessary to convey the ideas and exchange the information and it will be achieved by organizing various orientation programmes.
• Problem solving skills is needed to deal with process of finding solutions to complex challenges. Problem solving skills will be improved by conducting lecture hours and online mode training.
• Teamwork is essential to develop interpersonal skills and leadership qualities in students and it will be achieved by organizing project competitions and team activities.
• Creativity is the use of imagination and ideas to create something new. Creativity helps students to come up with newer ideas. Creativity skill will be improved by developing various conceptual models in different disciplines.
• Provide training on latest programming languages with hands on sessions.

Benefits to the students from the SPDC:

• Students of SC / ST sector will have increased employment opportunities.
• Enable the youth to obtain respectable job opportunities.
• Improve productivity and knowledge of the students.
• Students will get strong academic knowledge on their discipline to compete with the industry trends.
• Obtain proficiency in English language.
• Improve communication skills, both written and verbal and focus on personality development.
• Imbibe proficiency in programming languages by developing technical skills.
• Strengthen the aptitude and problem solving skills.
• Students will be able to attend any competitive exam with high level of confidence.

Expected Outcome of the SPDC:

• Students of SC / ST sector will be professionally trained and will emerge as knowledge experts in different disciplines.
• Students obtain 100% placement.
• Students can solve the technical problems.
• Students can communicate effectively and thrive well in the team based activities in their career.
• Students can excel in the quantitative aptitude and qualitative skills.
• Students develop confidence to appear in competitive examinations.

Events Organized

Sl.No	Name of the Event	Resource Person	Date	Video Link
1.	Inauguration of SPDC	Er. C. Shanmugam, IES, Former Director, Central Electricity Authority, Ministry of Power, Govt. of India	05.08.2020	Inauguration of SPDC
2.	Engineers Day Celebration Hands on Session on “Kubernet”	Er. AnanthaKrishanan, Technical Specialist Genesis Telecom Lab, Chennai	15.09.2020	Engineers Day 2020
3.	Awareness of Central Govt. Jobs and Examination.	Dr. A.Satish, IRSE M.E (IIT) , M.Sc., MSW, MIE, MPM, M.B.A, M.C.A, M.A (Psy) Dy. Chief Engineer/Designs, North Frontier Railway	05.10.2020	Awareness of Central Govt. Jobs and Examination
4.	Three-day Soft skills Training –Series I	Ms. T.N. Brinda, Corporate & Institutional Trainer	14.10.2020 to 16.10.2020	Day 1 – 14.10.20 Day 2 – 27.11.2020 Day 3 – 16.10.20
5.	Webinar on Knowledge Economy	Sri Lakshmi Kantham IAS (Retd.)	09.11.2020	Webinar on Knowledge Economy
6.	Soft Skills Training – Series II		21.11.2020 28.11.2020	Day 1 – 20.11.2020 Day 2 – 27.11.2020
7.	Webinar on Lateral Thinking	Mr. R. Pari, Freelance Technical Consultant	24.12.2020	Webinar on Lateral Thinking