Two-day Technological Lecture Series
C.R. Muthukrishnan, Principal Advisor of Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai, delivering the Dr. Nalli Kuppuswami Chetty Endowment Technological Lecture at the Bharathiar University in Coimbatore. India needs a non-linear model of growth to deliver more business with lesser number of people, said C.R. Muthukrishnan, Principal Advisor of Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai.He was inaugurating a two-day technological lecture series, organised by the School of Computer Science and Engineering of the Bharathiar University under the aegis of the Dr. Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetty Endowment. He spoke about trends in the use of human resources in organisations. ‘The attitude of training students is not yet built into our organisational systems. Changes are called for so that organisations are not seen as following a set trend, but as anticipators of change,” Mr. Muthukrishnan said.
Regarding the expectation of the industry from students, he said, ‘Industry needs students with knowledge of application, capacity to work as part of a team and a quest to learn’. ‘We want them not only to be competitive enough, but also have the capacity to learn themselves. They have to be active learners,’ he added.He said organisations should be willing to encourage the innovative ideas of students. They should be given room to develop the idea further up to a level of a product presentation. ‘It is irrespective of whether it is successful or not’. Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam said the Information Technology companies should work hand in hand with institutions to make the students industry-ready.
‘We have finishing schools for preparing students for facing the professional world. But contribution is required from the companies in the form of revamping of syllabus and curriculum.These companies should prepare curriculum banks for all students to enable a student from any discipline to know a component of IT.’ He stressed that even students of IT should know only 50 per cent of IT. The rest 50 per cent should be inter-disciplinary to enable them to adapt to any kind of workplace because the work opportunities in the IT sector were not as much as before. D. Mangalaraj, Director (in-charge) of the school, and A.M.S. Selvan, representative of the Endowment, spoke.
