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BLUEPRINT News Letter by Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay
Volume 5 : Issue 1
April, 2013
Content….
Editorial Board Editors Namrata Singh Suryansh Shrivastava Articles Suhani Shorewala Kritin Joshi Dhawal Desai Saubhagya S Rathore Prateek Deogekar J R Achyutan
Outline and Design Shahbaz Haidar
Special Thanks to Jaymin Kotecha , Vishal Khatri & Anuj Shah
8 Pages
Placements@civil.iitb.ac.in Suryansh Shrivastava Placement season is one of the most important yet branches during placements. We tried to investigate trying period in a student’s life. This period is filled the ground reality. While speaking to Placement with emotions ranging from euphoria, frenzy to Manager Anuj Shah about the same, he revealed sometimes despair & something different. Most of torment. Many exit this the consult & finance Department Of Civil Engineering epoch, satisfied, a few 80% companies are open for all others, not that lucky. the Departments. Roughly 60% % Placed With an ever increasing one fourth students placed in out of intake of candidates by 40% the top 5 finance & consult Registered our institute, the 20% companies recruiting at IITB students Placement Team (PT) were chosen from Civil 0% does have its work cut Department. 25% share Btech Mtech DD Phd out for finding jobs among all numerous guaranteeing the satisfaction of students studying departments is a considerable number. Some may in the most prestigious Engineering College in India. argue that the total students placed in such top 5 Ranked 30th by the QS World university rankings in companies are very few and the reality for the rest 2012 our department of Civil Engineering should of the students is quite different. The above results command a similar position in the placement were brought up in front of the Head Of the scenario. Is the above a ground reality? You will get Department to which he responded by saying that a clearer picture as you go through this article. the results to our survey is quite surprising and that A noticeable feature of our department’s placement he’ll try to bring this issue in the notice of other was that out of 53 BTech students placed, only 5 have taken up Core Engineering & Technology profile jobs. The rest have gone on to take jobs from Exams prepared by Students who filled the Survey other sectors. Compared to 72% BTechs being placed last year in our department, 69% out of the 16% 4% CAT registered students have been placed till yet. We UPSC conducted a survey for this year’s placed t students 43% GATE of our department. We asked the students if they 18% GRE considered that CPI was a major criteria in influencing the job offers they receive. As expected 19% about 82% of the students agreed to this fact. But does it really affect a student getting placed. Lets faculty members. have a look.On further conversation with the PM we tried to gather the major problems, students from our Placed Students CPI Distribution department face during the placements season. 4% One major problem during placements is not having a sound background in the basics of core courses CPI>8 taught in our department like making BMDs, SFDs 34% CPI 8 to 6 etc. For purpose of preventing such cases the 62% CPI<6 Department Placement Coordinators are responsible for organizing preparatory activities like tests, buddy talks (Alumni talks) etc. A good suggestion form his side was the organizing of refresher lectures by professors from our From the Pie Chart, we can see that as the CPI went departments to brush up the basics concepts. Such down the number of students placed went down. lectures have been taking place in Chemical But students also mentioned that CPI was not the Department. He also suggested students to be in only basis of their selection. Communication skills, touch with seniors to have a general idea of the PORs, projects, analytical and mathematical skills placement period. student’s knowledge and interest in the job & the We hope to have brought up some much needed company etc. were other major criteria for light to the present placement scenario of our selection. department. Through all the interviews and Now we wanted to know from those; who want to research we have come up with only one conclusion go for further studies, which exams were they —even if sometimes it may matter ,which preferring. Most popular among them came out to department a student belongs to, but at the end all be CAT. Most of the students started preparing for comes down to his preparation for placements and these tests form the starting of their 7th semester. his resume. Another striking feature of this survey was that Wishing the present batch good luck for the more than 70% of the students believed that there placements!!! is not an equal opportunity for students of all