Margadarshi is a unique program which is offered by Amrita School of Engineering across schools pan India. Br. Anand Shenoi, Chairman- Admissions, Amrita School of Engineering & Mr. Methil Krishnan Kutty, Chairman – Career Competency Development, Corporate and Industry Relations, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham are the brains behind this program.
In a conscious effort to promote gender equity within the institution and achieve a near equal male to female ratio in all programs offered by the institution, the speakers focused exclusively on encouraging women students to apply for STEM courses. They discussed in detail about the opportunities for women in core engineering courses such as Mechanical engineering, civil engineering, etc where traditionally there have been a significantly lesser number of female students.
Speakers then addressed the reservations and fears that parents have with regards to letting their daughters pursue on-campus degree programs. The safety and security features available on the campus, and various policies and redressal cells, based on UGC regulations, that are in place to ensure their safety was discussed. Special mentoring schemes that are in place to promote equal participation of women students were discussed in detail. They also highlighted how independent hostel living experience leads to holistic development which then helps them to face challenging situations in the workplace in the future.
The topics covered under Margadarshi are as follows:
Amrita University believes that mentoring can be an incredibly useful tool to encourage women’s growth and help them realize their full potential. There is a range of mentoring schemes or programs that include a mentoring aspect, available to both staff and students.
CIR Functions:
| FUNCTIONS | ||
| LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
CIR has been conducting training in the three major areas of Life skills – Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal and Communication Skills and Soft Skills…»» |
SOFT SKILLS
Training in the area of Soft Skills is offered to students of Engineering, Management, as well as other disciplines like Computer Applications, Social Work, and Arts & Sciences…»» |
VERBAL & COMMUNICATION SKILLS
CIR has been conducting training in the three major areas of Life skills – Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal and Communication Skills and Soft Skills….»» |
| QUANTITATIVE AND LOGICAL REASONING SKILLS
Quantitative tests are conducted by companies as part of the recruitment process to assess the candidate’s decision-making abilities,…»» |
CORE COMPETENCY TRAINING – TECHNICAL SKILLS
Plan, coordinate and execute core technical training across all engineering branches for B.Tech, MTech and MCA students. The technical domains would include:…»» |
HIGHER LEARNING INITIATIVES
CIR has been conducting training in the three major areas of Life skills – Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal and Communication Skills and Soft Skills….»» |
| FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Many companies who recruit from Amrita, often send students to other countries for training and projects…»» |
CAREER GUIDANCE
Students often seek to clarify their career goals while in the campus. Some of them have career goals that need alignment inputs…»» |
PLACEMENTS
CIR strives to achieve excellent placement of students each year….»» |
| ENGINEERING
Placement for students of engineering, arts, science and allied courses are handled by one group of experts with Head-Placement at the top…»» |
MANAGEMENT
In order to fulfill the career aspirations of the students, it was found necessary for them to have expert assistance in specific areas, beyond their regular academic training…»»
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CORPORATE RELATIONS
The Corporate Relations function has to be all-encompassing as it has to serve varying needs of multiple disciplines and centre of the University…»» |
| CORPORATE COMMUNICATION
Corporate Communication is being undertaken by CIR on behalf of the university with the sole objective of impacting visibility in print and electronic media through regular write-ups like features, event reports, etc….»» |
CORPORATE TRAINING
CIR has evolved specific corporate training programmes covering areas like leadership development, organizational development, change management, stress management,…»» |
AMRITA CENTRE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Developing entrepreneurship skills amongst students has gained ground in recent times. Most futuristic models of education are focused towards creating graduates who would not just take a job,…»» |
| Faculty Name | Designation | Area |
|---|---|---|
| Ms. Sunitha Kumari R. | Manager-L&D (Soft Skills) | Soft Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Ms. Shruti Jayakumar | Learning and Development Faculty- Soft Skills | Soft Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Ms. Darsana V | Faculty – Soft Skills | Soft Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Ms. Indira Namboodiripad | Faculty – Soft Skills | Soft Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Ms. Vineetha S. H. | Faculty(L&D-Technical) | Technical, Career Competency Development |
| Ms. Sravanthi Shivanathuni | Faculty L&D (Technical) | Technical, Career Competency Development |
| Ms. Megha S. Gopi | Faculty – Technical Skills | Technical, Career Competency Development |
| Ms. Sugeetha K. | Senior Manager – Verbal & Communication Skills | Verbal Skills |
| Ms. Anjali B. K. | Assistant Manager- Verbal & Communication Skills | Verbal Skills |
| Ms. Kuladevy E. | Deputy Manager, Verbal and Communication Skills | Verbal Skills |
| Ms. Pamila. H. | Verbal and Communication Skills trainer | Verbal Skills |
| Ms. Sarvamangala. A. | Faculty (Learning & Development- Verbal & Communication) | Verbal Skills |
| Ms. Rashmi Verma | Faculty (Verbal) | Verbal Skills |
| Ms. Anuja P Sobhan | Faculty – Aptitude Skills | Aptitude Skills |
| Ms. Chinju N. | Faculty – Aptitude Skills | Aptitude Skills |
| Ms. M. Anitha | Deputy Manager – Learning & Development (Aptitude) | Aptitude Skills |
| Ms. Madhu Menon K. B. | Head – Learning & Development (All programs) | Soft Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. Unnikrishnan M. | Head – Learning & Development (UG) | Soft Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. R. Krishnan | life skills coach | Life Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. N. R. Mohanan | Advisor (Career Planning and Competency Development) | Career Competency Development |
| Mr. Raghu Pradeep Nair | Senior Soft Skills Trainer | Soft Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. Shiva Ramakrishnan | Faculty in L&D for Soft Skills | Soft Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. Jithesh M. | Chief Manager L&D | Soft Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. Rahul Anand | Faculty (L&D) Soft Skill | Soft Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. N. N. Menon | Centre Manager | Soft Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. Kiran Kumar B. | Faculty – Soft Skills | Soft Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. Balachandar S. | Faculty – Soft Skills | Skills, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. Bhaskaran Venkataraman | Head – Learning & Development (Technical) | Technical, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. A. HARI RAM | Faculty (L&D) Technical | Technical, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. Ranganadhan N. S. | Faculty – Technical | Technical, Career Competency Development |
| Mr. Krishnan T. E. | Deputy Manager L&D (Verbal and Communication) | Verbal Skills |
| Mr. V. Suresh | Trainer in Verbal and Communication | Verbal Skills |
| Mr. Krishnan R. | Faculty – Verbal Skills | Verbal Skills |
| Mr. C. Santhoskumar | Senior Manager in Learning & Development (Aptitude), | Aptitude Skills |
| Mr. Choodamani N. | Faculty, Learning, and Development | Aptitude Skills |
| Mr. Sankaranarayanan B. | Assistant Manager in numerical Aptitude training | Aptitude Skills |
| Mr. Jaiganesh | Faculty- learning & development (Aptitude) | Aptitude Skills |
| Mr. S. Manickavasagam | Faculty -Learning and Development (aptitude) | Aptitude Skills |
| Mr. Harsha S Vijayakumar | Faculty – Learning & Development (Aptitude) | Aptitude Skills |
| Mr. Narayanan R.S. | Faculty – Aptitude Skills | Aptitude Skills |
| Academic Year | # of women students in the Institute | # of women students mentored | % of women students mentored |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | 9812 | 8056 | 82% |
| 2018-19 | 9375 | 7556 | 81% |
| 2017-18 | 8990 | 7175 | 80% |
| 2016-17 | 9213 | 7360 | 80% |
Team Shakti is a group of budding young female minds who have joined together for the cause of bringing about a change in the field of cyber-security. Established as a Capture The Flag team, the team works tirelessly to spread knowledge and make a contribution to balance the prevalent gender gap in the field.
Team Shakti works on the principle of team peer mentoring where the senior members mentor the juniors. Members support and help each other ultimately making the entire team stronger.
Since its foundation in 2019 by Shri Vipin Pavithran, Team Shakti has been recognized to be the only CTF team in India that exclusively comprises female students.
India is in the middle of massive growth and there is a revolution in the winds for women’s empowerment and entrepreneurship. Women in the community, however not only lack access to practical training opportunities but also need a supportive environment to develop and push their ideas forward. Amrita University enables this through many women’s mentoring programs that are open to the general public.
AMMACHI Labs (Amrita Multi-Modal Applications and Human-Computer Interaction) is an academic and research center at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham that brings an interdisciplinary approach to addressing societal challenges. We create innovative educational tools and skill development solutions to help uplift entire communities. In our commitment to rural villages of India – the very communities that stand to benefit the most from skill development – we are as excited about our continuing development of community outreach solutions as we are about our focused R&D for CHI, robotics, and automation, haptic technologies and applied robotics.
Amrita CREATE, the education-technology research lab of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, provides tablet-based, technology-driven education in remote villages areas through its rural educational program called Amrita Rural India Tablet-enhanced Education (RITE). Working under Amma’s strategic vision, RITE serves to bridge the increasing technology and education divide between urban and rural areas of India. Amrita RITE advocates for education and awareness-building from early childhood to achieve holistic development, and is now active in 41 centers in 21 states across the nation, benefiting both children and adults, including ethnic and indigenous groups.
AMMACHI Labs (Amrita Multi-Modal Applications and Human-Computer Interaction) and CWEGE (Center for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality) of Amrita University use a Problem Driven Iterative Approach to research, design, and implement technologies, for the purpose of solving social problems leading to inclusive development of under-served communities.
AmritaSREE (Self-Reliance, Employment & Empowerment) is a network of Self Help Groups managed by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham & its parent trust Mata Amritanandamayi Math that is based on the training of women to shift them from dependence to self-reliance, building trust and confidence between members. The projects are imbued with the entrepreneurial spirit and cover many areas of action, skill-development, and vocational training programs. Empowerment through loans is also facilitated to individual members to promote community growth.
