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Campus Connect Program Overview
Campus Connect Program Overview
Campus Connect Program Overview
PROGRAM
CAMPUS CONNECT
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Program Overview
Overview
Infosys Technologies Ltd. launched Campus Connect, an industry-academia partnership initiative, in May 2004, with
60 colleges. The initiative was aimed at deepening the industry-academia bonds and building a strong foundation
for the future needs of both academia and the growing IT industry. The nationwide initiative, now global and in
its sixth year, focuses on creating industry-ready IT professionals, by aligning engineering talent with the needs
of the industry. As of August 2010, we have partnered with 395 colleges in their pursuit of excellence. We have
trained 76,446 students through our Foundation Programs (generic courses), 22,657 students in soft skills,
totalling over 100,000 students nationwide. We have enabled over 4981 faculty in technical and soft skills through
various faculty development programs. Campus Connect is also working with policy making bodies to include
industry centric electives, including behavioural skills, in engineering institutions to make students industry-ready,
when s/he graduates.
Campus Connect is present wherever Infosys has a presence in the nine Development Centres in India. In addition, the
program has also reached out to students in select countries such as China, Malaysia, Mexico and Singapore.
What do we do?
We enable faculty through seminars and workshops in colleges to give them an industry perspective.
We publish Infosys courseware on the Campus Connect portal. Our courseware adds value to the existing college
courseware and highlights the integrated, systems way of looking at hitherto discrete topics. This is the courseware
we use at Infosys to prepare new recruits to global industry-ready standards.
We share with our partner colleges our bank of industry projects and case studies to enable students to appreciate
the application of knowledge to real life problems.
We invite college professors on sabbaticals to the Infosys campus, to pursue mutual research areas of interest.
We organize Aspirations2020 – a programming contest for students of engineering colleges to prepare themselves to
become smart professionals. This contest encourages the spirit of competitiveness and accelerated learning through
extracurricular activities within the student community.
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Contents
Overview 2
Contents 3
Program information 4
Background 4
Campus Connect Conclave 4
Campus Connect Road Shows 5
Faculty Enablement Program (FEP) 5
Student Project Bank 6
Industrial Visits - Spark 7
Foundation Program (FP) Roll-out 7
Faculty Sabbaticals 9
Industry Electives 9
Technology Seminars / Webinars 10
Sponsorships for Research Paper Presentation 11
Soft Skills Program 11
Program Governance 13
Program Contacts 16
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Program information
Background
The Information Technology industry is growing at a healthy rate with businesses heavily dependent on IT applications
for their operations. More and more enterprises are utilizing IT outsourcing as a strategic means to achieve business
goals such as cost reduction, business innovation and competitive advantage. India has become a global hub for IT
services export and has witnessed exponential growth of employment opportunities.
The IT services industry is, by nature, ‘people-centric’ and the demand for quality manpower is rising continuously.
Quality manpower is essential to remain ahead of competition in the global market place. It is not uncommon that
each of the major players is recruiting over 10,000 entry level engineers each year in the recent years.
IT service majors have noticed certain skill gaps in fresh recruits from engineering colleges. The need for industry-
academia partnership has been strongly felt and this is required to enhance the readiness of engineering graduate
workforce and to make engineering students industry ready.
Infosys, through the Campus Connect program, shares with academia its mature technology training methods,
courseware, student project samples and other such learning resources that have been developed, practiced and
perfected over the last 17 years.
The Campus Connect program has several program components weaved together to create synergy for effective,
fast-paced learning; namely, Conclaves, Road Shows, Faculty Enablement Programs (FEP), Industrial visits through
Spark, Sabbaticals, Foundation Programs, Soft Skills Capsule Roll-out, Sponsored Events and Seminars.
Highlights
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Connect program offering, MoU review, college specific action planning and familiarization with Campus
Connect portal resources.
5. Action plan presentations by work group leads
6. Socializing and networking events
7. Campaign management approach to event
8. Formal communication of MoU, Point-of-contacts, core team and interfacing DC
The expected outcome of the road show is student and faculty signing up to portal and various programs offered in
the college.
Highlights
1. Road show is initiated jointly by college and Infosys
2. Half day program held at college premises
3. Display of Campus Connect posters and banners
4. Campus Connect presentations to faculty and students
5. Address by college management
6. Plan announcement
7. Presence of college alumni / Infoscions
8. Campus Connect portal demo
9. Socializing and networking events
10. Campaign management approach to event
The purpose of the Faculty Enablement Program (FEP) is to bring together multiple engineering college faculty under
one roof to discuss the coverage of Foundation Program (FP), to get an exposure to industry-oriented focus areas and
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plan actions for roll-out in respective colleges. The expected outcome of the event is to implement this learning in
respective colleges in areas of elective courses, student projects and applied research.
Highlights
Highlights
1. Near real-life projects simplified to suit academia
2. Free downloads
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The Infosys Spark program is one day exploratory program for students from different age groups and segments from
high school to degree and engineering colleges of urban and rural areas. Spark is an extraordinary program that aims
to raise the aspirations of students.
A group of students along with members of faculty visit the nearest Infosys DC and spend the day observing the IT
services delivery environment. The well planned event exposes them to corporate work culture, learning environment,
Infosys background, services offered to global customers and enables them to learn about leading edge technologies
through short lectures.
Highlights
1. Typically one day event at Infosys DC campus for students and accompanying faculty members from Schools,
Degree colleges and Engineering Colleges
2. Participation by Invitation only.
3. Event agenda customized to target audience.
4. Event designed and conducted by Infosys volunteers.
5. Special batches for women, rural institutes and Government-run institutes.
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purpose of the FP courseware is to provide a unique set of teaching aids and consolidated training material to the
college faculty to help them make students industry ready.
Since the inception of Campus Connect, partner colleges have experienced Foundation Program 1.0 (comprised of 8
courses), Foundation Program 2.0 (9 courses, inclusive of Client Server Concepts) along with process improvements
from email based model to portal based tracking.
The enhancements to the Foundation Program offerings and processes are based on the changes in the Foundation
Program at the Infosys Global Education Centre and feedback and inputs received from the Campus Connect Partner
Colleges.
FP 3.0 is the latest version of Foundation Program offered by Infosys Campus Connect since 2009. FP 3.0 offers a
set of FIVE courses and Integrated Project along with newly incorporated ways of assessing students’ performance.
Integrated Project is a crucial component of FP 3.0.
The duration of FP Rollout is now 55-65 contact (typically classroom) hours with dedicated 25-32 lab hours for
Integrated Project development.
Highlights
1. Covers essential generic topics
a. Introduction to Computer Systems
b. Operating Systems
c Problem Solving Techniques
d. Programming & Testing
e. RDBMS
2. Complete batch tracking using Campus Connect Portal only.
3. Course outline and lesson plans
4. Pre-test is included in the FP 3.0 deployment process
5. ONLINE assessment model is incorporated for FP certification
6. Revised certification policy for Foundation Program 3.0
7. Detailed description of Course Design
8. Detailed presentations by lesson
9. Assignments, Case studies, Student notes
10. Available for download and CD distribution
11. FP Deployment guide
12. Recommended semesters to start are: 5th to 7th
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Faculty Sabbaticals
The purpose of faculty sabbaticals is to leverage the leading-edge technology knowledge of specialist faculty members
to develop state-of-the-art industry solutions. The expected outcome of the sabbatical is an IT solution or approach
that has a significant cost savings or performance improvement or significantly enhances solution attractiveness.
The sabbaticals are sponsored by Infosys. Faculty member will work out of Infosys Development Centre (DC) for a
term ranging from 2-3 months.
Highlights
1. Associated with nearest Infosys DC, full-time
2. Not specific to Infosys HQ
3. Currently applicable for India based partnering colleges
4. Two-three month long program
5. Infosys will host faculty for the project duration including travel and stay
6. Has definite Statement Of Work and Deliverables
7. Does not involve any training by Infosys
8. Limited to one member of faculty per annum per college
9. The member of faculty will be compensated for effort
10. The member of faculty needs to complete project, report and obtain sign-off
11. NDA needed, confidential and proprietary to Infosys
12. Preference is given to “advanced” partner colleges who are already practicing Campus Connect Program
Industry Electives
In keeping with its long term goal of aligning engineering education with the needs of the industry, Campus Connect
collaborates with universities to design industry oriented electives. Outcome based learning approach is implemented
for the industry electives which are credit / non credit based courses in the curriculum. These customized programs,
which are based on “learn and apply” models, enable students to learn about latest trends in the industry and
understand and cope with future workplace demands. They also facilitate faculty to create learning channels with
the industry.
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The following electives have been successfully implemented by various universities/institutions across the country.
1. Fundamentals of Information Technology / Systems
2. Internet and Web Technologies
3. Business intelligence & its applications
4. Introduction to Mainframe systems
5. Introduction to Aircraft / Automotive design of systems
6. Building Enterprise Applications
7. Soft skills
Highlights
1. Collaborative identification of key areas for development of industry electives.
2. Ownership and implementation of the industry-oriented elective by the academia.
3. Collaborative syllabus design.
4. Case studies and lab guides based on live industry projects
5. Content aggregation.
6. Faculty enablement for rollout by subject matter experts.
7. Webinars/seminars for students with industry experts to facilitate greater interaction
8. Rollout for identified streams / branches.
Highlights
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Highlights
1. College Management to notify Infosys Campus Connect team
2. Paper must be in the field of Computer Science/IT
3. Complete details of conference/forums needs to be communicated to Campus Connect team
4. Infosys will perform credential checks before acceptance
5. Sponsorship subject to internal evaluation of benefits
6. Infosys will partly support the conference, typically with registration related fees
7. Early planning and prior approval is essential
8. News published on Campus Connect portal
9. College must acknowledge the sponsorship
The Campus Connect soft skills team has been integrated with the Global Business Finishing School (GBFS) team
in Mysore, which is responsible for the training needs of entry level graduates. This has helped to leverage the
research and content developed at GBFS to incorporate it into the syllabus that is rolled out in partnered colleges.
This new CC Soft Skills syllabus, Version 2.0 is called “STAR PRIME”. STAR stands for Savvy, Team Worker,
Articulate and Responsible.
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After successfully launching the new SS syllabus “STAR PRIME V2.0”, the SS team has now begun the process of
customizing the offering. Colleges are being mapped with respect to their areas of need. For e.g., colleges where
students are already strong in grammar are given the option of focusing on the module on Communication Skills, and
those that already have a communication program as part of the syllabus utilize the other modules from STAR PRIME.
The option of choosing a part of the offering has to be signed off both by the college SPOC and the SS anchor after
due diligence.
The assessment process is being strengthened by inclusion of knowledge tests (K- Tests) along the lines of the tests
in GBFS to further enhance the quality of the training delivered. This is in addition to the online English tests that
have already been deployed.
Highlights
1. Fee based program delivered by experts in the field
2. Available for partner colleges in India
3. Infosys endorsed curriculum and alliance partners to deliver
4. Typically, activity based learning followed by group / individual developmental assignments
(DAs) by students
5. Recommended spread of the program is over 4 months
6. Recommended semesters to start are 3rd to 7th
7. Colleges will work with alliance partners directly
8. Colleges will provide facilities
9. Typical batch size of 45 - 60
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First and foremost, the college has been able to enhance the ‘employability’ of the students. Next, the students
will have better exposure to industry requirements and practices. The college management is able to attract better
students and faculty to the college because of its association with industry.
Faculty
The college will pass on the benefits received from Infosys to the involved persons including faculty as per the
college norms.
The faculty involved will be provided with industry oriented artefacts for the respective courseware that they would
be offering. This includes case-studies, prototype projects and similar teaching aids. In addition to this, faculty may
be sponsored for sabbaticals at Infosys, for duration of two-three months in one of the Infosys’ centres in mutually
agreed areas. Faculty could also benefit through sponsorships for research papers.
Students
The main benefit to the student is enhancing employability and increasing the industry readiness for the IT industry.
Outstanding performance in the Infosys screening examination will also make such students eligible for early
association with real-life projects, if applicable, and other special opportunities.
IT Industry
First and foremost is the alignment of the IT services needs with the college curriculum. In addition, Industry partners
directly benefit from this partnership with the availability of well-rounded engineering graduates who understand
and are exposed to the software development process and collaborative work environment. The IT enterprises may
benefit from reduced training time resulting from industry aligned curriculum and soft skills training.
Program Governance
Campus Connect is supported by strategic initiative governance model with well defined roles, responsibilities, core
processes and budgets. The following diagram illustrates the program team organization.
Education &
Research Dept, Core Core Program
HR, group group Director,
Development from Direct from Head of the
Center Head, Infosys College Institution,
Project Teams TPO, Faculty
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Program Contacts
Infosys Development Centre Infosys Point of Contact Email ID
Bangalore Anoop Singh Anoop_Singh@infosys.com
Trupthi A Narayan TrupthiA_Narayan@infosys.com
Swati Jain Swati_Jain06@infosys.com
Bhubaneswar Bhupesh Deka Bhupesh_Deka@infosys.com
Nirmalya Chaudhuri Nirmalya_Chaudhuri@infosys.com
Sumesh Khatua Sumesh_Khatua@infosys.com
Chandigarh Manisha Manisha@infosys.com
Neeraj Garg Neeraj_Garg02@infosys.com
Anuradha Verma Anuradha_thakur@infosys.com
Renu Vadhvani Renu_Vadhvani@infosys.com
Chennai Veerappaji Bittanakurike Shivanna Veerappaji_S@infosys.com
Abhishek V Paul Abhishek_Paul01@infosys.com
Hyderabad Srinagesh Chatarajupalli Srinagesh_C@infosys.com
Sudheer Reddy K. SudheerReddy_K@infosys.com
Bhanu Prasad TV Venkata_Tolety@infosys.com
Mangalore Rithesh Kumble Rithesh_Kumble@infosys.com
Mysore Vani K N Vani_kn@infosys.com
Pune Soudamini Patil Soudamini_Patil@infosys.com
Swapnil Diwakar Pande Swapnil_Pande01@infosys.com
Trivandrum Hari S. Hari_S@infosys.com
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