Director Interview- Manoj Madhavan Kutty, SRM Sonepat

Aspirants aiming to get admission at SRM Sonepat must know about the college, its facilities, placement statistics before joining the institute. To help the students, Careers360 conducted an interview with Manoj Madhavan Kutty, Administration & International Relations, SRM Sonepat.

Manoj Madhavan spoke about the SRM Sonepat admission process, infrastructure, internships, placements and much more. These details about SRM Sonepat will help the students in making a well-informed decision of choosing the college. Read the full interview of Manoj Madhavan Kutty, SRM Sonepat below.

Careers360:Tell us something about the SRM Sonepat; when it was set up?

Manoj Madhavan Kutty: SRM University, Delhi-NCR, Sonepat is a thriving campus where brilliant, committed, and creative people come together to learn, work, live, and achieve. SRM University, Delhi-NCR, Sonepat was established under the Haryana Private Universities Act 2006 as amended by Act 8 of 2013. SRMUH offers over 65 courses in the field of engineering, management, commerce, science & humanities, hotel management and law. SRMUH follows industry 4.0 oriented curriculum and pedagogy for the holistic development of the students.

SRM University Delhi NCR, Sonepat has an established Incubation center, which is approved by MHRD and therefore follows the nomenclature: Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC). At the Incubation center we provide an atmosphere to the students for learning by doing on the most advanced technologies. Students are trained from the basic level of technologies to an advanced level by providing necessary technical support, space, monitoring, training, networking and other benefits. Student’s project ideas are funded and are monitored at different levels on their performance. Technical fests and project based competitions are held at campus level to promote the competitive spirit among the students. The selected teams are encouraged to participate at national / state level competitions such as hackathons and innovation summits, etc. Incubation center also organizes technical competitions such as the Science Olympiad which is open to all nearby schools and colleges to facilitate innovation among young minds. The selected students are invited to the campus for advanced level training.

Following are the training and workshop conducted for the academic year 2019-20

1. Arduino hands-on training.

2. Workshop on Remote Car making.

3. IoT with NodeMCU - hands-on training.

4. Workshop on Drone Making.

Students from the Incubation center have participated in the following national level competitions and their achievements are tabulated.

Careers360: What is the vision and mission of SRM Sonepat?

Manoj Madhavan Kutty:

Vision

SRM University Delhi-NCR, Sonepat, Haryana aims to emerge as a leading world-class university that creates and disseminates knowledge upholding the highest standards of instructions in Medicine & Health Sciences, Engineering & Technology, Management, Law, Science and Humanities. Along with academic excellence and skills, our curriculum imparts integrity and social sensitivity to mould our graduates who may be best suited to serve the nation and the world.

Mission

• To create a diverse community campus that inspires freedom and innovation.

• Promote excellence in educational and skill development processes.

• Continue to build productive international alliances.

• Explore optimal development opportunities available to students and faculty.

• Cultivate an exciting and rigorous research environment.

Careers360: Tell us something about the SRM Sonepat admission process?

Manoj Madhavan Kutty: Admission process at SRM University, Delhi-NCR Sonepat Campus is based both online and offline. Students applying for admission have to appear in the online entrance exam. And before exams students can register for seats.

Applicants must clear the SRMHCAT, a common test for UG, PG, and PhD aspirants conducted every year. The University follows UGC guidelines when it comes to eligibility. For instance, the university accepts at least 50% marks in the previously qualified education to even apply at SRM Sonepat. The screening process involves the SRMHCAT score followed by GDPI. Students can also benefit from the scholarships being provided to the deserving based on a rank-based counselling system like the way it is done in IP, DU, or IITs. JEE, CLAT, SAT, NCHMCT council exams are also accepted. A range of scholarship schemes which is based on merit, means, sports, domicile (for Haryana students) including our exclusive #SRMcares COVID-19 scholarship

Careers360: What kind of infrastructure can students expect at SRM Sonepat? Please elaborate?

Manoj Madhavan Kutty:

• World-Class Infrastructure

• Air-Conditioned Classrooms, Hostels

• Hi-Tech Course-specific and integrated laboratories

• Well-equipped traditional and digital library

• Auditorium and Conference Halls

• Transportation

• Safe and secured Hostel

• Indoor & Outdoor Sports

• Hi-Tech laboratories for continuous practice and experimentation

• SRM-Siemens Centre of Excellence (SSCoE), SRM-BOSCH Centre of Excellence (SSBoE)

C4D Laboratory

• A special centre for Drug, Design Discovery & Development, C4D laboratory is engaged in developing new drugs, vaccines for effective health management.

Careers360: There is a lot of stress that is being made with regard to interaction with the industry as well as companies that recruit. What are the steps being taken by SRM Sonepat in this direction?

Manoj Madhavan Kutty: The steps for the same are as follows:-

1. Arrangement of Expert Lectures

2. Webinars for students from the higher officials of the Companies (CEO, CXO Level)

3. Industry visits for students to gain the knowledge of real time work in industry.

4. Live Projects for practical knowledge

5. Mentor Mentee Program

6. Industry oriented Program in collaboration with IBM, Xebia and TCS.

7. India’s First University powered by NASSCOM’S Future Skills platform- an online learning solutions.

Careers360: Internships are now mandatory as per AICTE guidelines. Does SRM Sonepat help students with this? If yes, how?

Manoj Madhavan Kutty: Yes, we are having contacts with more than 500 companies for the internship and we coordinate with the companies for the internship of the students. We provide internships to the 2nd year and 3rd year students for 04 to 06 weeks as per the norms of university. We also provide internships to the final year students in their last semester. They can join as interns in the company and the company provides them an appointment letter after the successful completion of their internship after six months.

Careers360: Please share placement statistics with information on the average package, highest and lowest package, number of students placed and details of companies that have recruited SRM Sonepat students?

Manoj Madhavan Kutty: The details are below-

Total No of students placed: 186

Companies are as follows: