CAMPUS CONNECT

Program Overview

Program Announcement September, 2010

Overview
Infosys 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 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 and enabled over 4981 faculty in technical and soft skills through various faculty development programs. As of August 2010, about 100,000 students trained by Campus Connect. Campus Connect is also working with policy making bodies to include industry centric electives, including behavioural skills in engineering institutions to make a student 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 reach 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 in 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. The students can access and work on these, to give them a look and feel of the approach and application of knowledge to real life problems. We invite college professors on sabbaticals to the Infosys campus, to pursue mutual research areas of interest. In addition we have been doing Aspirations2020 a Programming contest platform for students of engineering colleges to prepare themselves to become smart professionals. This contest will encourage the spirit of competitiveness and accelerate learning through extracurricular activities, within the student community. In short we build relationships. Program Announcement September, 2010

Contents
Overview ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Contents ...................................................................................................................................... 3 Program information ...................................................................................................................... 4 Background .............................................................................................................................. 4 Campus Connect Conclave........................................................................................................ 4 Campus Connect Road Shows ................................................................................................... 5 Faculty Enablement Program (FEP)............................................................................................ 6 Student Project Bank ................................................................................................................. 7 Industrial Visits - Spark .............................................................................................................. 7 Foundation Program (FP) Roll-out .............................................................................................. 8 Faculty Sabbaticals ................................................................................................................... 9 Industry Electives ...................................................................................................................... 9 Technology Seminars / Webinars ............................................................................................. 10 Sponsorships for Research Paper Presentation ......................................................................... 11 Soft Skills Program.................................................................................................................. 11 Benefits and Incentives................................................................................................................ 13 Program Governance .................................................................................................................. 13 Communication and Promotion..................................................................................................... 14 Frequently Asked Questions ........................................................................................................ 15 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 are 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, while serving their customers. The need for industry-academia partnership has been strongly felt and this is required to enhance the readiness of a fresh engineering graduate workforce and to make engineering students industry-ready. Campus Connect is an industry-academia collaboration program to align engineering student competencies with industry needs. Infosys, in this 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.

Campus Connect Conclave

The purpose of this Conclave is to bring together the target engineering college Management contacts under one roof to discuss the need and actions for Industry-Academia collaboration. The expected outcome of the conclave is for a large percentage of colleges committing to the Campus Connect program with a definitive implementation action plan. Highlights 1. Event hosted and managed by Infosys Program Announcement September, 2010

2. Workshop style participation 3. Pre-conclave orientation program 4. Topics covered include Address by Infosys Management, Infosys background presentations, Context setting by invited speakers, Ideal industry-academia relationship, current realities of industry and institutions, Campus 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

Campus Connect Road Shows

The purpose of the Road Shows is to communicate value and benefits of the Campus Connect program to the partner- college faculty, and students. The expected outcomes of the road shows are 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 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

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Faculty Enablement Program (FEP)

Campus Connect team periodically conducts Faculty Enablement Program (FEP) to train the partner college faculty on FP course delivery and industry oriented courses (e.g. Business intelligence, Building Enterprise Applications, Mainframe systems, etc.). The faculty experiences the training system, courseware and methodology as used at Infosys and hence is completely equipped to roll out the training program at their college. The purpose of the Faculty Enablement Program (FEP) is to bring together the multiple engineering college faculties under one roof to discuss the coverage of Foundation Program (FP), to get an exposure to industry-oriented focus areas and plan actions for roll-out in respective colleges. The expected outcome of the event is to plan actions out of these learning in respective colleges in areas of elective courses, student projects and applied research. Highlights 1. Event hosted and managed by Infosys or a partner college 2. Typically, One week program 3. Workshop style participation 4. Topics covered include Address by Infosys management, Infosys background presentations and context setting by invited speakers 5. Five Foundational Computer Science courses: Introduction to Computer Systems, Operating system, Problem Solving Techniques, Programming & Testing, Relational Database Management Systems and sessions from practitioners 6. Involves extensive pre-work by participating faculty 7. Real life case studies/ problem solving approaches 8. Significance of tools and Industry tools exposure 9. Integrated project design and development 10. Practitioners sessions 11. College specific FP roll-out action planning and familiarization with Campus Connect portal resources. 12. Roll-out plan presentations by work group leads 13. Socializing and networking events 14. Campaign management approach to event 15. Presentation of Participation Certificates 16. Group photo 17. Customized artifacts for Peer Enablement at colleges for Sustainability

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Student Project Bank

The purpose of the Student Project Bank is to make available simple software project definitions suitable for pre-final / final year engineering project work. The components include system specifications, student kit that provides guidelines, and faculty kit providing validation inputs. The documents are provided in MS word file formats that are easily downloadable from portal. Highlights 1. Near- real-life projects simplified to suit academia 2. Free downloads 3. Student and Faculty kits 4. Projects can be modified for implementation 5. Covers a wide variety of subjects including e-business, IT Infrastructure and industry applications 6. Involves usage of concepts from various FP modules to provide an integrated learning 7. Project evaluation sheet for faculty 8. Integrates quality and project management concepts 9. Authored by Infosys project analysts/ leads 10. No commitment needed to use the projects

Industrial Visits - Spark

The purpose of Student Industrial Visit is to demystify the image that students would have on the working of an IT business enterprise. Infosys Spark Program is a 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 nearly 50-200 students along with members of faculty visit nearest Infosys DC and spend 56 hours and observe 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 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 and conducted by Infosys volunteers. 4. Special batches for women, rural institutes and Govt. institutes. Program Announcement September, 2010

Foundation Program (FP) Roll-out

The core of the Campus Connect program is the Foundation Program Roll-out at the college premises. This FP Courseware represents the Intellectual Property and experience of Infosys in training thousands of entry level engineers from heterogeneous backgrounds and disciplines to deliver worldclass projects to global customers. The purpose of the FP Courseware is to provide a unique set of teaching aids, consolidated training material to the college faculty to help them make students IndustryReady. Since the inception of Campus Connect, Campus Connect partner colleges have experienced Foundation Program 1.0 (comprised of 8 courses), Foundation Program 2.0 (inclusive of Client Server Concepts) along with process improvements from email based model to Portal based tracking. The enhancements on the Foundation Program offerings and processes are based on the changes in the Foundation Program at Infosys Global Education Centre and the 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 in year 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 the 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. 9. Detailed presentations by lesson Assignments, Case studies, Student notes

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11. FP Deployment guide 12. Recommended semesters to start are: 5th to 7th 13. Colleges will provide facilities 14. Typical batch size of 60-75 15. Project Assessment framework

Faculty Sabbaticals
The purpose of the 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 significant 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
The purpose of Industry electives is to co-design new academic courses in order to align the competencies set of students with future workplace demands. Outcome based learning approach is implemented for the industry electives which are credit / non credit based courses in the curriculum. The customized programs for the students, which are based on learn and apply, enables students to Program Announcement September, 2010

have special interest to round-up their general education. This also facilitates faculty to create learning channels with Industry. The following electives have been successfully running 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 - Elective by the academia. 3. Collaborative Syllabus Design. 4. Content Aggregation. 5. Faculty Enablement for Rollout. 6. Rollout for identified streams / branches.

Technology Seminars / Webinars

The purpose of the Technology Seminars / Webinars is to leverage the global projects experience of Infosys to create awareness about the use of IT in different industries among students. The expected outcome of the seminars / webinars is a measurable increase in the ability of students to relate IT concepts to IT usage in business. This will also serve the purpose of keeping the faculty informed about the latest developments in the area of information technology usage. Highlights 1. Seminars conducted in the respective colleges 2. Event design and participation by regional Infosys DC 3. Typically half-day to full-day event 4. Road show collateral could be used 5. Active participation of college faculty and Management 6. Infosys will not fund college cultural festival etc. 7. Facility to publicize on Campus Connect portal and update News Program Announcement September, 2010

8. Regional DCs decide on number of events based on local capacity 9. For Webinars, college should have Hall with proper audio, internet connection, speaker phone etc.

Sponsorships for Research Paper Presentation

The objective of the Sponsorship is to encourage faculty and/or students to enhance their learning in the field of Computer Science/ Information technology. Under this program faculty and/or students whose research paper is selected for presentation in forthcoming reputed peer reviewed conference or industry forum will be provided financial assistance. The expected outcome of the sponsorship is the commitment of faculty, students and college to continue applied research and utilize them in solving business problems. Highlights 1. College Management to notify Infosys Campus Connect team 2. Needs to be related to Computer Science / IT 3. Full details of conference/ forum needs to be known 4. Infosys will perform credential checks before acceptance 5. Sponsorship subject to internal evaluation of benefits 6. Infosys will part support for the conference, typically registration related 7. Early planning and prior approval is essential 8. News published on Campus Connect portal 9. College must acknowledge the sponsorship

Soft Skills Program

The purpose of the Soft Skills Program is to bridge the gap commonly noticed in engineering students in the areas of communication, team work, corporate and corporate work culture and so on. This is a program delivered in multiple modes. One of the modes includes the collaboration with alliance partners at a cost. CC Soft Skills team has been integrated with the Global Business Finishing School (GBFS) team in Mysore. This has helped leverage the research and content developed at GBFS and incorporate it into the syllabus that is rolled out in CC partnered colleges. This new CC Soft Skills Syllabus, Version 2.0 is called STAR PRIME. STAR stands for Savvy, Team Work, Articulation and Responsible. The STAR PRIME syllabus contains the following modules: a. Business Communication Skills b. Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Skills Program Announcement September, 2010

c. Campus to Company d. Group Discussions, Presentations and Interviewing Skills e. Entrepreneurship Skills. 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 w. r. t their areas of need. For e.g., colleges which are already strong in grammar are given the option of focusing on Communication Skills module, 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 including 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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Benefits and Incentives

College 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. The College management is able to attract better students and faculty to the college because of its association with industry. The college will get multiple opportunities / incentives based on the performance at the end of the program implementation. 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. The faculty will receive an honorarium and a grant. 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 financial budget. The following diagram illustrates the program team organization.

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Communication and Promotion

Campus Connect Portal Campus Connect portal is the nodal point for program information delivery. It hosts a variety of resources such as: 1. FP courseware 2. Student Projects 3. Campus News & Events 4. Skill UP (soft skills corner) 5. Tips and Tricks 6. Newsletter 7. Volunteer Infoscions log-in 8. Effective English 9. Links to NPTEL Open Courseware 10. Link to BITES e-portal Logo and Posters Dedicated logo has been designed for branding the Campus Connect program. Banners are also available for display during Campus Connect events. Video Clips & Pictures The core group has archived the key note addresses of the Infosys Management in various occasions. Presentations Standard Campus Connect presentation is also available.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is Campus Connect? What are the objectives? Campus Connect program is an Infosys program to help increase Indias competitiveness in the knowledge economy. Campus Connect aims at evolving a model through which Infosys and engineering institutions can partner for competitiveness, enhance the pool of highly capable talent for growth requirements in the Information Technology (IT) space. It is aimed at creating an effective means of backward integration into the supply chain by going into the college campuses from where the IT industry gets its people for its growth. 2. What is the goal of Campus Connect? The goal of Campus Connect is to build a sustainable partnership with engineering education institutions for mutual benefits. 3. What is the criteria to join the program? The exact criteria will change from time to time. A variety of parameters are involved. Some of them are the College should have good standards, students have a good record, Infosys should have been visiting the college in the past, the college should be a trend setter in the region. If the Institution is either Deemed or Autonomous, then they can opt for Industry Electives too. 4. What are some of the activities that Campus Connect initiates? A variety of programs are being implemented under the Campus Connect program. a) Seminars and faculty workshops for colleges: This will give an industry perspective to the faculty. b) Aligning the college curriculum with industry requirements and working with educational bodies for implementing it. c) Publishing Infosys courseware on the web: This will give students and faculty access to courseware designed by us. The courseware adds to the existing college courseware and highlights the integrated, systems way of looking at hitherto discrete topics. This is the courseware we use to prepare our new recruits for global industry ready standards. d) Sabbatical for Professors: Professors can pursue areas of research interest with us, and also add to the intellectual content. 5. How is Infosys making this exclusive for the participating colleges? a. Facilitating to the faculty in order to introduce industry oriented courses b. Sabbaticals for the faculty c. Sponsorship of events in the colleges d. Technical seminars by expert Infoscions in their campuses e. Allowing industry visits by students of the college to Infosys campuses 6. What kind of sabbatical projects are provided to the professors? Projects that require expert inputs and have some element in conceptualizing, defining and prototyping the solution. The outcome may be a paper, a prototype, or an analysis that has mutual value. 7. What are the components of a student project in the project-bank? There are three documents for a student project. One is the project description document, giving details about the functional components, milestones, hardware/software requirements, references etc. Then, there is a students kit consisting of the templates to use for the project (requirements specification, database description, test-plan etc). Finally, there is a faculty kit which is visible only for the faculty logins. This contains some points on the evaluation strategy at each milestone of the project. 8. What kind of help will be provided by Infosys for these projects? Program Announcement September, 2010

The idea is to make the project descriptions and kits detailed enough for the students to carry on the project. In general, Infosys will not be involved in those projects in the way of assistance, monitoring, evaluation etc. However, if some volunteers Infoscion want to offer help to the students, they can do so either through mails or through the discussion forum in the portal or over calls. 9. What is the Campus Connect portal for? The portal is an important element of this program. It serves several purposes like providing Infosys courseware, providing student projects and sabbatical projects, fostering discussion among the faculty/students/ infoscions through a discussion forum, program administration modules for college points-of-contact, hosting important news and events related to the program.

Program Contacts:
Infosys Development Center Bangalore Bhubaneswar Infosys Point of Contact Anoop Singh Trupthi A Narayan Swati Jain Bhupesh Deka Nirmalya Chaudhuri Sumesh Khatua Manisha Neeraj Garg Anuradha Verma Renu Vadhvani Veerappaji Bittanakurike Shivanna Abhishek V Paul Srinagesh Chatarajupalli Sudheer Reddy K. Bhanu Prasad TV Rithesh Kumble Vani K N Soudamini Patil Swapnil Diwakar Pande Hari S. Email ID Anoop_Singh@infosys.com TrupthiA_Narayan@infosys.com Swati_Jain06@infosys.com Bhupesh_Deka@infosys.com Nirmalya_Chaudhuri@infosys.com Sumesh_Khatua@infosys.com Manisha@infosys.com Neeraj_Garg02@infosys.com Anuradha_thakur@infosys.com Renu_Vadhvani@infosys.com Veerappaji_S@infosys.com Abhishek_Paul01@infosys.com Srinagesh_C@infosys.com SudheerReddy_K@infosys.com Venkata_Tolety@infosys.com Rithesh_Kumble@infosys.com Vani_kn@infosys.com Soudamini_Patil@infosys.com Swapnil_Pande01@infosys.com Hari_S@infosys.com

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