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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

05/09/2023
CONCLAVE ON ACADEMIC INNOVATIONS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT -
MINUTES OF MEETING
L&T has conducted Conclave on Academic Innovations in Project Management on September 1st, 2023
[Friday] at Chennai .The speakers has discussed with the following points in the meeting.

S.No. Speaker Keypoints Description

Mr. Uday Yedur,
1 Partner Success Manager, Overview of PMI
PMI India
Mr. R. Ganesan,
2 Head Corporate Centre, Real time projects
L&T Construction
Dr. K. N. Satyanarayana,
3 Director,
IIT Tirupathi
 PMI, a proud legacy dating to 1969 is a for–
purpose organization working in nearly every
country around the globe to advance careers,
strengthen organizational success and enable
project professionals with new skills and ways
of working to maximize their impact.
 PMI provides Interactive Digital Academic
Resource library to change the way students
learn, and make them apply project management
skills in their lives.
 KICKOFF is a free, interactive 45-minute
project management course and digital toolkit
for students from PMI.
 PMI student portal allows students to become a
PMI member.
 Despite the older tools students are asked to
make real time projects.
 Project based learning can be implemented in the
classrooms as assignments which engages them
in solving a real-world problem.
 Professional certification courses provides
students with the opportunity to develop and
enhance specific skills relevant to their chosen
field and also make them more competitive in
the job market.
 Video-based learning should be incorporated in
collages, which increases learner engagement
and participation compared to typical text-based
courses.
 It is the responsibility of teachers to provide
students an integrated understanding of important
concepts and key ideas is important which allows
Usage of Tools
the students to deepen their knowledge.
 E-learning tools should be correlated in an
effective way in teaching.

Dr. K Jain Professor,  Life skills are important for students as they
4 Coordination
IIT Bombay enhance self-esteem, managing emotions,
 handling failures, communication and
interpersonal skills and much more.
 Coordination in workplace is essential as it
reduces conflicts, delays and indifferences.
 Students membership with a professional
organization is significant which adds many
benefits such as networking, free access to
Dr. K. Kesavaswamy,
resources, scholarship and loan opportunities.
5 IT, Education and HR Membership
 Soft skills are important for students as they play
Professional
a crucial role in forming good rapport with batch
mates, building a network with seniors and
establishing trust.
 77% of the devices already featured a form of
AI. AI is already disrupting almost every
industry and impacting every business process.
Prof. VTCS Rao,
 GPT is one of the largest and most powerful
6 VP & Dean, L&T IPM & Keynote Address
language-processing AI models.
Chairman PMI AAG
 Kirkpatrick’s four levels (reaction, learning,
behavior and results) of evaluation should be
used by the teachers to evaluate the students.

PREPARED BY HOD/CIVIL PRINCIPAL

Mr. V. PRAVEEN JESURAJ
Assistant Professor, Civil Dept.