News and Events: 2010-11

• Seminar on "Controlling Computers through Mobile", Date: 29th April 2011
  

  

  

  A seminar on "Controlling Computers through Mobile" was held on 29th April 2011. The seminar was delivered by Mr. Ramani Alpeshkumar Kalubhai, a student of MCA program at SRIMCA.

  The seminar was all about turning the mobile phone into a remote control that can control various applications on your laptop, PC or even servers. Explaining how it works, he told that the PC which you want to control remotely must be connected with Internet. Any email client program like Outlook Express needed to be configured on the machine. He has shown the various setting required for it and gave a live demo in which he shut down a laptop by just sending an SMS. The project was very much appreciated by faculties and students.

• Thalassaemia Detection Program - Red Ribbon Club, Date: 20th April 2011

  The institute has organized a Thalassemia Detection Camp on 20th April 2011 in association with Indian Red Cross Society, Ahmedabad. The objective of the camp was to bring the awareness about Thalassemia and Sickle cell diseases and about its prevention.

  The program started with a documentary film on Thalassemia. In the film the expert has given some basic information regarding Thalassaemia, its treatment procedure and preventive measures. Thalassemia is a genetic blood disorder. Thalassaemia can be major or minor. Thalassaemia minors are healthy in general. But people with Thalassemia disease are not able to make enough hemoglobin, which causes severe anemia. Hemoglobin is found in red blood cells and carries oxygen to all parts of the body. When there is not enough hemoglobin in the red blood cells, oxygen cannot get to all parts of the body. Organs then become starved for oxygen and are unable to function properly. People with Thalassaemia major needs frequent blood transfusions. They also need to take injections daily to bring down high levels of iron in the body, a direct result of all those transfusions.

  After the screening of the documentary film, Mr. Jay Jala, expert from Indian Red Cross Society took an interactive session with student. Information brochure were also distributed to the students.

  Total 146 students of first year MCA and MBA programs were tested for Thalassaemia. All other students of the campus have been already tested for the same.A counseling session was also arranged for the students who were tested positive for Thalassemia minor, sickle cell trait and hemoglobin anemia. Medical advice and medicine were given to the students.

• IBM - TGMC Outstanding Faculty Mentor for 2010: Ms. Jignasa Prajapati of SRIMCA, Date: 19th April 2011
  

  The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC) is organized by IBM every year. Under TGMC, projects are invited from across the country. Numerous students submit projects under the guidance of designated mentors. For the year 2010, the highest numbers of projects were sent under the guidance of Ms. Jignasa Prajapati. She had taken the initiative to encourage and guide the students to participate in TGMC 2010. Ms. Jignasa Prajapati has been identified as an Outstanding Faculty Member by IBM of 22 faculties from all over India.

  The Outstanding Faculty Mentors recognition is TGMC's honor for faculty of various colleges and universities. SRIMCA takes pride and appreciates the efforts of Ms. Jignasa Prajapati.

  For More Details, kindly visit the following link.

  http://www-07.ibm.com/in/university/greatmind/tgmc.html

• 100% Result in IBM Certified Asscciate System Administrator Lotus Notes and Domino 8 (LOT-847) Certification Examination, Date: 01st April 2011
  

  SRIMCA has organized four Days Certification Training Program on IBM Certified Associate System Administrator Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Certification (LOT-847) from 11-14 March 2011.

  The certification examination was conducted on 01st April 2011. Mr. Sami Shaikh from IBM has acted as proctor of this examination. Total 57 Students and 3 faculty members appeared in the examination and secured 100% result. Faculties/Students who have achieved this IBM certificate are:

  Faculty members

  1. Mr. DHARMENDRA G. BHATTI
  2. Dr. LALBIHARI BARIK
  3. Ms. CHETANA TAILOR

  MCA 4th Semester Students

  MCA 2nd Semester Students

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• An Expert Talk on "Consumer Rights" by Mr. Shishir D. Tambawala, Date: 23rd March 2011
  

  

  

  The session was on the topic of "Consumer Rights" addressed by Mr. Shishir D. Tambawala, Asstt. Controller of legal Metrology and Consumer affairs officer, Surat and Tapi Dist., to the students of MBA. His presentation was focusing on spreading awareness in society regarding consumer rights. Adding to that, he has highlighted some important preventive measures that every consumer has to take so that they can fight for their rights against the seller who have cheated them. He has enriched all by giving live examples and also given direction, how one should process when he/she may deceive by someone.

• Three Days Certification Workshop on IBM DB2 Fundamentals (302), Date: 22nd to 24th March 2011
  

  

  

  

  Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application has organized 3 days DB2 - 9 Fundamentals (302) Certification Workshop during 22-24 March 2011. The objective of the certification workshop is to provide an exposure to current trends in IT Industry, through IBM Academic Initiative. The 3 days certification workshop was conducted by Mr. Dharmendra Bhatti, Associate Professor, SRIMCA. As part of IBM Academic Initiative, total 59 Students benefited through this training program.

  The certification workshop was an effort to make students industry ready. During the three days, participants got in-depth knowledge of IBM's flagship Relational Database Product DB2.

  Day 1 (22nd March 2011)

  Mr. Dharmendra Bhatti has explained the various levels of DB2 Certification Examination and its importance. Initial discussion has spread awareness about various industry certifications among students. He has started with the first topic "The Relational Model". Comparison of various models and in-depth discussion on relational model was carried out in first session. In the second session Mr. Dharmendra has explain various DB2 fundamentals and Data Studio. In the third session trainer has explain working with databases and various database objects. In the last session Mr. Dharmendra has introduced Structured Query Language. On first day students performed hands on labs on IBM Data Studio and working with databases and various database objects.

  Day 2 (23rd March 2011)

  On second day Mr. Dharmendra has started with revision of topics covered on first day. First session was conducted on database transactions and concurrency. He has explained basic concepts and importance of transaction, various locks and isolation levels supported by DB2. In discussion of deadlock trainer has invited two students on the stage and demonstrated how deadlock occurs and its consequences. In the second session Mr. Dharmendra has explain how to implement security in DB2. He has talked about authentication and authorization. Further he also explained how to authorize using concepts of authorities and privileges. In the last session trainer has explained DB2 backup and recovery functionality. On second day students completed hands on labs of concurrency, security, backup and recovery.

  Day 3 (24th March 2011)

  On last day Mr. Dharmendra has started with revision of topics covered on second day. In the first session he explained DB2 PureXML. He discussed what is XML, its importance, welformed verses valid XML documents, XPATH, XQuery, SQL/XML etc. In the second session Mr. Dharmendra has discusses about DB2 programming fundamentals. He explained overall approach of DB2 programming and how to work with embedded SQL. In the third session trainer has discussed about certification process. All the participants have completed registration on http://ibt.prometric.com/ibm. Students were very curious about certification examination. Trainer has satisfied their all queries related to examination. On the last day students have performed hands on lab of DB2 pure XML and programming fundamentals.

  During the three days training session all the students enjoyed the lectures and lab sessions very much. Student got the conceptual and practical knowledge with great enthusiasm. Participants got knowledge in depth and simultaneously shaped up for certification examination.

• An Expert Talk on "Questionnaire Design and its Relationship with Data Analysis" by Dr. Gaurang Rami, Date: 22nd March 2011
  

  

  

  Dr. Gaurang Rami, Asst. Professor, Department of Economics, VNSGU, Surat delivered talk on Questionnaire design and its relationship with data analysis to the students of FYMBA. He explained various preventive steps that a researcher has to undertake to prepare good questionnaire. He also explained how good questionnaire would help in data analysis. The sessions were enriched by the real life examples supported to teach concepts of questionnaire design and problems that usually researcher makes in preparing questionnaire which lead problem for data analysis.

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Served as the "Resource Person" for "Innovation HR Interventions" Programme of ISTD, Vadodara, Date: 22nd March 2011
  

  

  

  As a part of the pioneering initiative of the Indian Society for Training & Development (ISTD), Vadodara to acquaint the delegates from Industry and Academia regarding the innovative HR practices and training methodologies, our Asst. Professor in HR & Internal Trainer - Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar was invited as one of the "Resource Person" for the Training Programme on "Innovative HR Interventions". Being the "Innovative Trainer Award Winner", Mr. Thakkar shared his insights regarding the need, relevance and increasing use of audio-visual aids as a part of training methodology across the globe. With several real life illustrations merged with research support from published literature, he focused on the use of very popular, enriching and equally result oriented training method - the "Movie Based Training Method". Being the pioneer to start this methodology at our campus, he mesmerized the delegates by sharing the pros & cons, the DOs and DON'Ts and tips and traps for using movie clippings as a part of your teaching &/or training methodology to make it more fruitful for all the concerned - the trainees, the trainer and the organization at large. In the presence of top ISTD officials, Mr. Thakkar could impress the 50+ esteemed delegates from renowned companies like Bank of Baroda, Thermax Ltd., IFFCO, ONGC, JMC Projects Ltd., JCT Electronics etc. and from leading management institutes, with his unique style of delivery, deep insights/clarity about the methodology and the energy level.

• An Expert Talk on "IT and Architecture - HUH!", Date: 19th March 2011
  

  

  

  Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application, Uka Tarsadia University, has organized an expert talk on "IT and Architecture - huh!" on 19th March, 2011. The expert session was conducted by Mr. Hemant Patel. Nearly 200 students and faculty members attended the talk.

  Speaker Mr. Hemant Patel did his B. Tech. from IIT Kharagpur and MBA from University of Lowa. He has been working in the IT industry for past 31 years in various positions like Application Development, Management, Infrastructure Engineering and Architecture. At present he is an IT Fellow of a leading aerospace company in the USA. He is having several certifications to his credit such as Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCSD), Microsoft Certified Data Base Administrator (MCDBA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - MCSE, Project Management - Project+, IT Architecture - TOGAF 8, ATAM Evaluator, OMG-Certified Systems Modeling Professional - Model User, OMG-Certified Systems Modeling Professional - Model Builder - Fundamental.

  The talk was based on the little known but very crucial aspect of IT that is IT Architecture. Based on the various reports and survey, the speaker Mr. Hemant Patel, has very rightly pointed out that IT Architect, whether it is system architect, security architect or solution architect, are the hottest IT job roles in the USA.

  Defining the IT Architecture, he said that it is an organized set of consensus decisions on policies & principles, services & common solutions, standards & guidelines as well as specific vendor products used by IT providers both inside and outside the Information Technology Branch. By taking a very live example of our own campus and campus portal, he explained what it really mean by IT Architecture, where it fits in the system development and deployment cycle, what development and deployment issues, mainly non-functional requirements, are addressed by it.

  Apart from the expert talk, it was a kind of career guidance session also. He discussed the role of an IT Architect and briefly described various skill sets that are required to become an IT Architect. At the end, an interactive Question-Answer session was held. The session concluded with the vote of thank to the speaker.

• Four Days Training Program on IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 System Admin Operating Fundamentals (LOT-847), Date: 11th to 14th March 2011
  

  

  

  

  Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application has organized 4 days IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 System Admin Operating Fundamentals (LOT-847) training program during 11-14 March 2011. The objective of the training program is to provide an exposure to IBM Lotus Notes Domino System Administration through IBM Academic Initiative.

  The 4 days training program was conducted by the corporate trainers Mr. Kunal Bhagat, Webtek Labs Pvt Ltd, New Delhi. As part of IBM Academic Initiative, total 65 Students and 3 faculty members benefited through this training program.

  The training program has shapeup students for the role of system admin. During the four days, participants got in-depth knowledge of IBM Lotus Notes Domino System Administration.

  Day 1 (11th March 2011)

  Mr. Dharmendra Bhatti, co-ordinator of the training program, delivered his welcome address. He has welcome Mr. Kunal with flowers and invited to start the training. Mr. Kunal was also greeted with flowers by IBM Student Ambassador Mr. Hiren Patel. Mr. Kunal explained following points: Introduction to IBM Lotus Notes Domino, Essential Concepts, Understanding Domino Environment, and Planning Domino Infrastructure. Trainer has explained what are IBM Lotus Notes and Domino?

  Day 2 (12th March 2011)

  Mr. Kunal conducted the following topics on second day: Installation and Configuration, Platform Support, Demo, Lab. Trainer has demonstrated installation and configuration with step by step explanation. Followed by this students have also performed installation and configuration of Lotus Domino.

  Day 3 (13th March 2011)

  Mr. Kunal discussed the following points on Sunday: Lotus Domino Security, Managing and Maintaining Domino Infrastructure, Lotus Domino Mail Routing, Lotus Domino Replication, and Demo and Lab. He has discussed about Hierarchical Naming, Domino Security Model, Various Access Control Mechanism in Domino, and Database Security Levels.

  Day 4 (14th March 2011)

  Mr. Kunal discussed the following topics on last day: Domino and DB2 Integration, Extending Lotus Domino Environment, Monitoring and Troubleshooting. Mr. Kunal has explain how to enables Notes applications, Why Domino & DB2, two supported configurations for Domino and DB2: local or remote, etc.

  During the four days training session participants enjoyed the lectures and lab sessions very much. Student got the conceptual and practical knowledge, with pleasant smiling trainer throughout all sessions. The trainer was very friendly with participants. He prefers knowledge sharing along with classroom teaching.

• An Expert Talk on "Human Relation and Communication - a Management Perspective", & "Use of Statistics for Research", Date: 10th March 2011
  

  

  

  

  The session was on the topic of "Human Relation and communication" - A Management perspective was addressed by Mr. Jacob, Chief manager- International Banking group, SBI, Mumbai. It has arrange for SYMBA students intended just because, very little time is now available with them to jump into corporate jungle where by the effective communication and managing and maintaining good human relation would be important aspects. The focus of the session on shaping ones' communication and effective managing and maintaining good human relation with mix of theory and practicalities by game playing.

  The another session was on topic of "Use of Statistics for Research" was addressed by Dr. Kiran Pandya, Prof& Head, DHRD, VNSGU, Surat. The participants were FYMBA, Sem.II Students (120). It is right time to address the students regarding the use of statistics for research because, just after few weeks they are going to handle out there summer research based project whereby application of statistics in research is almost important. The speaker rightly highlighted the basics of research, preparation one should make before jump into research, how systematically one can go for research. Adding to that, his focus was also on various tools , techniques and test which one can use in research by using software SPSS.

• SRIMCA Faculty - Mehul G. Thakkar Conducted 2 - Day Faculty Development Programme at the Charusat University, Date: 03rd to 4th March 2011
  

  

  

  During March 3-4, the renowned CHARUSAT University, Changa invited our Asst. Professor in HR & Internal Trainer - Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar for conducting "2-Day FDP on Effective Teaching Methodology" for training the Degree Engineering Faculty Members of the Faculty of Engineering & Technology. Serving as the one and only "Resource Person" for this FDP, Mr. Thakkar shared his thoughts that in the changed scenario of higher education, the teachers must be constantly changing & innovating, reinventing themselves at internet speed to stay ahead of the unprecedented changes in their respective knowledge domain and the continually shifting demands and expectations of the students & potential employers. And with the same objective - that is a step towards orienting and preparation of the faculty members for increasing their effectiveness through such FDP, he discussed several points/topics during the two days including the need and importance of ensuring "Student Motivation" - A key element for Effective Teaching, The principal factors that influence the "Students' Motivation", How to practice "Teaching without Lecturing", Imparting Value Education for Holistic Development & becoming Effective Teacher, How to Overcome Instructional Problems, Incorporating Innovative Teaching Methods and Maintaining Work-Life Balance... Through a mixture of methodologies, Mr. Thakkar could guide the august gathering on variety of issues concerning overall effectiveness of a teacher and received wide round of applause from more than 120 faculty members of the CE & IT departments of the Degree Engineering Institute.

• SRIMCA Rocked in VNSGU Semester V Examinations

  SRIMCA students performed outstandingly in VNSGU examination. Total above 250 students appeared in MCA 5th Semester VNSGU Examination which included 64 students of SRIMCA. The passing percentage of overall examination is 86.40% where SRIMCA has achieved 92.18% and secured 1st position in the VNSGU.

• Computer Society of India, Bardoli Student Branch Celebrated the 46th CSI Foundation Day at SRIMCA, Tarsadi.
  

  

  

  

  In line with its mission, to facilitate research, knowledge sharing, learning and career enhancement for all categories of IT professionals, while simultaneously inspiring and nurturing new entrants into the industry and helping them to integrate into the IT community, events related to Information Technology were organized.

  CSI Foundation Day Celebration was a day of learning with full of fun, excitement and cut-throat competition. The day started with quiz contest. Screening round of the contest was conducted through in which more than 12 teams were participated of different faculties like MCA, BCA and Engineering Department. By eliminating six teams the quiz competition started in Shrimad hall in front of audience with a technical question round and followed by image identifying round. In this round there were lots of surprise images of different personalities who contributed in IT development and logos of different company and product along with identifying the punch line of different reputed IT companies, which made it very exciting and live for both participants and audience. With the tough final rapid fire round of two minutes the competition came to end. With that the second competition of "Relay Race with C" started in which 20 teams participated. The program given to the participants was a real challenging task for them. After a very cut throat competition between all the 20 teams the judges finally declared the results for the competition.

  The winners for competitions were as follows:

  	First Place	Second Place	Third Place
  Quiz Competition	Jayesh Tanna (FYMCA Div. II) Mukesh Jain (FYMCA Div. II) Kiran Prajapati (FYMCA Div. II)	Mahesh Lalwani (SYBCA Div. II) Ashish Chawla (SYBCA Div. II) Brijesh Panchal (SYBCA Div. II)	Mayur Maroliya (SYMCA) Khusbhoo Patel (SYMCA) Kaushik Patel (SYMCA)

  	Winner	Runner Up
  Relay Race with C	Amit Parekh (SYMCA) Darshan Prajapati (SYMCA)	Burhanuddin Tyrewala (SYBCA Div. I) Ashwin Solanki (SYBCA Div. I)

  The event was scheduled and successfully held by the following Faculties:

  Quiz Competition	Relay Race with C
  Mr. Omprakash Chandrakar (MCA) Mr. Sandip Delwadkar (MCA) Mr. Amish Patel (MCA) Mr. Vikas Patel (BCA) Mr. Hardik Vyas (BCA)	Mr. Jitendra Nasriwala (MCA) Ms. Priti Prajapati (MCA) Ms. Jignasa Prajapati (MCA) Mr. Jitendra Upadhyay (BCA) Ms. Manika Verma (BCA)

• SRIMCA Celebrated Annual Sports Event, Date: 27th February to 01st March 2011
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  SRIMCA SPORTS COMMITTEE has organized its "Three Days Sports Competition - 2011" during February 27th to March 1st for which the students from faculties like MCA, MBA & BCA entered in it with "dare to win". It is one of the most important & eagerly awaited Campus Event. Sports included both indoor and outdoor games like chess, carom, volleyball, kabaddi, table tennis, cricket (boys and girls both). Center of attraction was boy's & girl's cricket match. Girls also contributed in boys dominating game like kabaddi with full enthusiasm & confidence. More than 300 students participated in sports day making one of the most memorable events of SRIMCA. Faculties also participated in sports events.

  List of winners in various games are as follows:

  	Boy's		Girl's
  	Winner	Runner Up	Winner	Runner Up
  Chess	Ashish Patil (SYMBA)	Jayesh Tanna (FYMCA)	Surbhi Shah (FYMCA - A)	Pooja Mistry (FYMCA - B)
  Carom	Dipak Sirvani & Sanjay Srimali (FYMBA - B)	Amit Parekh & Bhavin (SYMCA)	Dipika Chaudhari & Hetvi Thakor (SYMCA)	Pankita Naik & Khusboo Patel (SYMCA)
  Kabaddi	SYMBA	FYMBA - B	MCA	MBA
  Cricket	FYMBA - B	SYMBA	MBA	MCA
  Badminton	Akhil Verma (SYMBA)	Bhargav Patel (FYMBA - B)	Pankita Naik (SYMCA)	Radhika Desai (SYMBA)
  Volleyball	FYMBA - B	SYMBA
  Table Tennis	Darshan Shah (SYMBA)	Piyush Patel (FYMCA - B)

  These three Days of Sports Event were really a memorable experience for students as well as Faculties. The Cricket match between Winner Team and Faculty Team was a real battle & centre of attention, in which finally the student's team won the match.

  Organizing committee

  Mr. Amish Patel (MCA)

  Mr. Manish Pathak (MBA)

• SRIMCA Rocked in GTU Semester III Examinations

  SRIMCA students performed outstandingly in GTU examination. Total 2111 students appeared in MCA 3rd Semester GTU Examination which included 49 students of SRIMCA. The passing percentage of overall examination is 36.75% where SRIMCA has achieved 75.51% and secured 1st position in the state.

  Total 5104 students appeared in MBA 3rd Semester GTU Examination which included 51 students of SRIMCA. The passing percentage of overall examination is 42.45% where SRIMCA has achieved 62.75% and secured 7th position in the state and 3rd position in the Zone.

  75% SRIMCA students of each MCA and MBA have attained SPI greater than 7. SRIMCA recognizes outstanding results of following rankers:

  SRIMCA recognizes outstanding results of following rankers:

  MCA				MBA
  Rank	Name	SPI		Rank	Name	SPI
  1	Mubashshirah banu Mohammedamin Shekh	8.67		1	Imam Shahenazbibi Mehbub	8
  2	Ami Kalpeshbhai Desai	8.27		2	Manavadariya Sagar Amrutlal	7.56
  2	Khushbuben Yogeshbhai Patel	8.27		2	Kathiriya Chirag Madhubhai	7.56
  3	Hirenkumar Hasmukhbhai Patel	8.13		2	Surati Miteshbhai Bhikhubhai	7.56
  4	Hiralkumari Dipakbhai Prajapati	8		2	Desai Radhika Pradipkumar	7.56
  				2	Chadha Siddharth Pravin	7.56
  				2	Surati Manisha Manubhai	7.56
  				3	Ghumra Aftab Anis	7.44

• Three Days Training Program on IBM DB2 Fundamentals (302), Date: 25th to 27th February 2011
  

  

  

  

  Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application has organized 3 days DB2 - 9 Fundamentals (302) training program during 25-27 February 2011. The objective of the training program is to provide an exposure to current trends in IT Industry, through IBM Academic Initiative.

  The 3 days training program was conducted by the corporate trainers Mr. Satish Parante, Zensoft Services Pvt Ltd, Pune. As part of IBM Academic Initiative, total 60 Students and 5 faculty members benefited through this training program.

  The training program was a perfect example of making students industry ready. During the three days, participants got in-depth knowledge of IBM's flagship Relational Database Product DB2.

  Day 1 (25th February 2011)

  Mr. Dharmendra Bhatti, co-ordinator of the training program, delivered his welcome address. He has welcome Mr. Satish with flowers and invited to start the training. Mr. Satish explained the various levels of DB2 Certification Examination and its importance. He has shared following points:

  1. The Relational Model
  2. DB2 Fundamentals and Data Studio
  3. IBM Data Studio Lab (Hands On)
  4. Working with Databases and Database Objects
  5. Working with Databases and Database Objects Lab (Hands On)

  Day 2 (26th February 2011)

  Mr. Satish conducted the following topics on second day.

  1. Introduction to SQL
  2. Understanding SQL Lab (Hands On)
  3. Data Concurrency
  4. Data Concurrency Lab (Hands On)
  5. Database Security in DB2
  6. DB2 Security Lab (Hands On)
  7. DB2 Backup and Recovery
  8. DB2 Backup and Recovery Lab (Hands On)

  Day 3 (27th February 2011)

  Mr. Satish discussed the following points on Sunday.

  1. DB2 Pure XML
  2. DB2 Pure XML, Storing XML Data Made Easy Lab (Hands On)
  3. DB2 Programming Fundamentals
  4. Accessing DB2 Database from Applications Lab (Hands On)
  5. Course Review
  6. IBM Certified Academic Associate DB2 9.7 Database and Application Fundamentals

  During the three days training session participants enjoyed the lectures and lab sessions very much. Student got the conceptual and practical knowledge with great enthusiasm.

• SRIMCA Faculty - Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar won the "2nd Best Research Paper Award" at the International Conference on HRM, Date: 24th to 26th February 2011
  

  

  

  

  Adding one more feather to his rich cap of accomplishments, our Asst. Professor in HR - Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar won the "2nd Best Research Paper Award" at the 3-Day International Conference on HRM at Ganpat University, Mehsana organized in collaboration with the Victoria University of Australia. Out of 129 researchers of prestigious academic institutions and renowned corporate houses from across the world, Mr. Thakkar received this award for his paper entitled "Assessment of Quality of Work Life (QWL) of Paramedical Staff". The delegates as well as the eminent judges publically appreciated the depth of the content, conceptual clarity, the research methodology and more importantly the inimitable style of presentation. In total, he presented 4 Research Papers at this International Conference, and with this award, one more time; he has made us feel proud. It is also noteworthy that this Award Winning Paper was co-authored by Ms. Payal Mahida, one of the proud alumni of our institute with MBA (HR) Specialization.

  Along with this, Mr. Thakkar also encouraged and inspired the MBA (HR) students of our institute - Ms. Himani D. Rajput, Mr. Aftab A. Ghumra and Mr. Mehul M. Hariyani who enthusiastically participated in the Conference and enriched themselves with the invaluable insights shared by the eminent experts from renowned academic institutions like IIMA, Nirma University-Ahmedabad, CEPT University-Ahmedabad, Victoria University-Australia, Pandit Deen Dayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar and top notch corporate heads from Adani Group, Excel Industries and many more. After prize winning performance of Ms. Himani D. Rajput in the National HR Seminar at Himatnagar in October, 2010; this is the 2nd time when our MBA (HR) students participated in the International HRM Conference under the guidance of Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar.

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Conducted Executive Development Programme (EDP) at Essar Steel LTD., Hazira-Surat, Date: 14th February 2011
  

  

  

  It's a matter of immense pride for us to acknowledge that our Asst. Professor in HR - Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar was recently invited as a Trainer at the renowned ESSAR Steel Ltd., Hazira-Surat to train and develop their Executives & Engineers. This was the 2nd time when he was invited by this prestigious organization. In his result oriented Executive Development Programme on "Business / Client Communication" , he focused on understanding the dynamics of communication process, the barriers, learning how to overcome them and emerge as an effective communicator. He emphasized that it's all about communication - that's the key to win others / clients. With several role plays of real life business situations, he made them clear that "what you speak" is surely important; but "how you speak" is even more important. So, one must understand the power of positive body language and assimilate the same while communicating. The highly interactive programme assisted the participants to achieve breakthrough thinking and explore the tremendous potential within and communicate effectively.

• National Conference on Technology Driven Society & The Annual Inter Collegiate IT & Management Students meet on, Date: 11th to 12th February 2011
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  The NCTDS 2011, National Conference on Technology Driven Society and PRAYAAS, Annual Inter Collegiate Students meet of IT and Management students was organized at Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application (SRIMCA) of Maliba Campus, Uka Tarsadia University, Bardoli on the 11th and 12th of February.

  The National Conference was inaugurated with prayers and lamp lighting ceremony in the gracious presence of renowned people of the IT industry, CSI and management members of the University. Dr. P. Thrimurthy - President, Computer Society of India was the chief Guest of the event, Shri Bhagubhai Patel, President of the event and BPKM, Shri Kiritbhai Patel - Secretary, BPKM , Dr. D. R. Shah - CEO, UTU were the honoured guests. Among others were Dr. Manohar Chandwani, Key Note Speaker, Dr. Naren Burade, Chairman, CSI, Surat Chapter, Dr. N. L. Kalathia, Dr. Bankim Patel, Director, SRIMCA and all other Directors of the Maliba campus.

  Dr. P. Thrimurthy, in his message to the participants and students, said that the need of the industry, market and the society at large is to find solutions to issues and problems. It is not the level of technology but the analysis of the need and accordingly provision of solution, which is important. Addressing the IT and Management students, he advised them to exchange their level of skills and integrate the same for analysis to solve issues and to create new platforms. He also gave them insight and idea of new projects that could be undertaken by the students in their local vicinity, village and town. He made them aware of the platform available in CSI and the resources that could be utilized.

  The key note address of the conference was by Dr. Manohar Chandwani , Professor and Director, Department of Computer Engineering, Institute of Engineering and Technology, Devi Ahalya University Indore and also a key member of CSI.

  As many as 137 research papers were received from nationwide, and 53 of them were selected for the proceedings. Around 75 participants attended the conference thereby fulfilling the objective of the institution to bring together researchers, professionals, academicians having expertise in latest technologies to share their knowledge with the society.

  The experts' talks of the event were conducted by Mr. Tejas V. Sura, Co-founder of the Mumbai Chapter of Project Management Institute, USA, Mr. Nikunj Patel from Patni Computer Systems Ltd., Dr. Rajendra M. Sonar from IIT, Mumbai and founder of iKen Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Technology Business Incubator and Mr. Sachin Maind on the topics of Value of Project Management for the New Generation; Software as a Service; Next Gen BI using Knowledge-based Approach; Quality assurance- general and software respectively.

  PRYAAS 2011, the IT and Management students meet had participation from more than 20 different Institutes across the state and as many as around 200 participants. The two day event had eleven different IT and Management contests including paper presentations.

  The IT contests included - Relay Race, Code Complete, Ride Begins with Pride, Animation and project Presentations. The Management contests included Biz Quiz, Role plays, Scene and mean, online simulation game of trading "stock 20-20", advertisement making contest "ADicitive" and Treasure hunt.

  Both post graduate and undergraduate students of IT and Management from as many as 20 Institutions across the state participated in the various contests with a lot of zeal and vigour. The students had an opportunity to interact with each other and learn and share their experience. It boosted their confidence level and ignited the spirit to compete leading to learning.

  The event concluded with a lot of enthusiasm and the spirit of keeping it up. The participants of conference, paper presenters and winners of the contests were given their trophies and certificates in the presence of key personnel of the University management team including Shri B. U. Patel, Shri Nalin Joshi, Shri Kiritbhai Patel and Dr. D. R. Shah. The management members of the Uka Tarsadia University look forward to more such events in near future for enhancing the process of knowledge base exchange. The valedictory function was concluded in the gracious presence of the management members of UTU and the academic team of SRIMCA.

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Honored with National Level "Innovative Trainer Award" by the ISTD, Date: 05th to 06th February 2011
  

  

  Recipient of several awards and recognitions, our Asst. Professor in HR - Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar has crossed one more milestone by securing the prestigious National Level "Innovative Trainer Award". As a part of the hitherto attempt of the Indian Society for Training Development (ISTD) - the apex National Level Association for Training & Development; to encourage talented individuals contributing to the domain through innovative training methodologies, Mr. Thakkar won this award for his unique "I" Methodology of Training - the New Age Training Tool" as well as his pioneering contributions in the Training & Development field.

  During his presentation in the 2nd Round for this Award, Mr. Thakkar vividly explained, exemplified, demonstrated and convinced the Jury Members comprising of seasoned professionals from industry and prestigious academic institutions like IIMA; about his unique training methodology, content delivery based on Synergogy approach of training and intelligent use of ancient wisdom to impart the desired learning. In a presentation-discussion-interview of 70 minutes, he was also asked to train the jury members through his "I" methodology, which was very well delivered by him and publically appreciated by the expert members during the Award Felicitation Ceremony also. The jury members unanimously appreciated Mr. Thakkar for coming up with such a hitherto methodology of using the preaching of Vedas, Upanishads and Religious Epics to train and develop people and that too with the spices of the inherent masti and magic of the Bollywood Movies. In and all, Mr. Thakkar brought glory to the institute by winning this National Award from several nominees and big shots of renowned companies. This recognition has surely paved the way for him to become a distinguished personality from academic field with proven competencies as a trainer also.

  It is noteworthy that earlier in January, 2010 , he was also nominated for the "ISTD - Vivekananda National Award for Excellence in HRD & Training", wherein he secured a place in the Top 15 National Level Trainers ; at par with other 14 top notch corporate trainers as well as consultants in India.

• Guest Speech on Career Building by IAS Officer Mr. Pankaj Odhia, Date: 25th January 2011
  

  

  

  The campus students and faculty members had the opportunity to listen to the guest speaker- IAS Offcier, Mr. Pankaj Odhia. The session was honoured with the presence of Directors of all Institutes of the Campus along with Mr. B. U. Patel and Dr. Dinesh Shah.

  Mr. Odhia gave an insight to the students towards aspiring for the career as an IAS, IPS and IFS. In his words - The three "S" that are important for an individual are 'Security, Stability and Status'. The career gives all these three but what is most important is 'status'. The status of being in a position to make a difference, the status of being of help to the underprivileged, the ignorant people who have equal right to grow and participate in growth.

  His lecture was zealous and full of inspiring quotes and examples of real life and personal experiences. He quoted examples from life and work of Henry Ford and Stephen Hawkins. He emphasized the need for creating a positive environment and developing a positive attitude. Giving the example of - bumble bee, which aerodynamically shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee does not know so it goes on flying, he tried to convey the message of putting efforts without a feeling of failure.

  Giving further tips on career building, the Mr. Odhia emphasised reading newspapers regularly and also provided tips on reading it well. How one should be classifying the news as of being of international, national, regional and local level, and on how one could explore to gain knowledge beyond the news. It needed very little time of an individual to maintain the practise and keep oneself up-dated.

  He also encouraged the girls by making them aware of the reservations and relaxations available. He gave statistics on the dearth of IAS/IPS/IFS in our country in specific fields and areas. It was not scholarly skills but human and all round skills that are essential and academic excellence does not always indicate the success of an individual in this area.

  Concluding, he said that we should try the career option for our society at large and should plan accordingly. The students and faculty members had a thrilling experience in the brief encounter with Mr. Odhia.

• An Expert Talk on "Object Oriented Concept", Date: 24th January 2011
  

  

  Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application organized Expert Talk on "Object Oriented Concept" which was conducted by Dr. C. K. Kumbharana, HOD of Computer Science Department, Rajkot. In that session, he focuses on Object Oriented concepts. He relates the all concepts with real word example. So students are able to understand that very easily. MCA(4th Sem.) students attended this session.

• SRIMCA Faculty - Mehul G. Thakkar Served as the "Resource Person" for Teachers' Training Camp, Date: 24th December 2010
  

  

  We feel immensely proud in stating that our Asst. Professor in HR - Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar was invited as a "Resource Person" for training the Maths & Science Teachers of Surat District at the Teachers' Training Camp organized by the Surat District Secondary Education Teachers' Association. Serving as one of the eminent speakers for the 3rd time in a Teachers' Training Programme, Mr. Thakkar addressed the august gathering on "Stress Management" and "Innovative Teaching Methods". Through various illustrations from the day-to-day life of a teacher, he made them realize that stress is "SAD", that is, Self Acquired Disease. After analyzing various stressors, he also guided them on how to maintain work-life balance to live a healthy, happier and satisfying life, while contributing best to the society by imparting quality education. In his second talk, he encouraged the teachers to experiment with their teaching methodology and be creative to foster learners' motivation at the highest level. His insights on teaching the very famous "Pythagoras Theorem" were applauded by all the trainees including the high level officials of the association. More than 200 teachers unanimously requested to the association to have Mr. Thakkar more often in such training camps. Based on excellent feedback of all, he was also awarded as the "Best Resource Person of the Day".

• An Expert Talk on "Challenges of Human Resource Management in today's Context", Date: 16th December 2010
  

  

  

  This session of an hour was addressed by Mr. Alok Mishra, Manager - HR, ONGC. The participants were MBA and BBA students of the Institute. The focus was on "Challenges faced by Human Resources Management in Today's Context".

  Mr. Mishra specified the major challenges to be "Attracting right kind of talent in to the organization", "Retention of the talent" and "Management of human resources towards continual achievement of organizational goals and objectives."

  Giving practical instances of the challenge of attracting the right kind of people in to the organization, the speaker discussed the problems of availability and employability of available human resources, adhering to set parameters of recruiting, training the manpower, creating conducive working environment, managing the work culture diversity and other issues.

  The speaker also specified the need for the organization to focus on the need for "Learning" to happen in terms of using the tool of "Training" for implementing the same. The students were made aware of - the integrated approach of efforts of all facets of management for the success of an organization, the need for organizational objectives to melt down to all levels of operation, the relevance of cultural diversity and addressing the same. Answering the questions of participants, Mr. Mishra also brought in to notice the employment criteria for the Public Sector and the Private Sector and how the efforts are now moving towards skill based employment. The session was very interesting and the students gained very useful inputs.

• An Expert Talk on "NET Banking", Date: 13th December 2010
  

  

  Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application organized Expert Talk on "Net Banking" which was conducted by Dr. Dhiren Patel, HOD of Computer Science Department, Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahemdabad. In that session, students have gain knowledge about net banking, latest technology used in net banking and phishing. He also talked about virtual keyboard. All students of F.Y. MCA (1st Semester) attended the talk.

• Seminar on "Enterprises Resource Planning", Date: 07th December 2010
  

  

  

  

  Enterprise resource planning is now gaining lots of importance among the business community. It is now being seen as an important tool for managing resources of a company both internally and externally. It is being used both for many business applications and also for many manufacturing industries. Looking to the increasing importance of ERP implementation, Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application in association with Computer Society of India - Student Branch Bardoli organized a seminar on "Enterprises Resource Planning" on 7th December 2010.

  The seminar was conducted by Mr. Nilesh Mandani and Bhavin Gajjar. Mr. Nilesh Mandani is Managing Director of Dhyey Consulting, Baroda. He is a MCTS in SQL Server, Microsoft Business Management Solution Specialist - Dynamics NAV ERP. He is having expertise on .NET, SQL Server, Dynamics NAV ERP, CRM, SAP. He holds expertize on ERP & CRM and having depth knowledge on business operations.

  Mr. Bhavin Gajjar is CEO of Leap Techno Ways, Surat. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional in ASP.NET, having more than 5 Years of experience in ICT development, Consultancy & Training. He also runs the community user groups named DOTNETCHAPS and SURATDOTNETCHAPS.

  Objective of the seminar was to provide insight on ERP implementation and to make them aware about the real challenges encountered in any ERP implementation. Approximately 250 students of MCA and BCA of the institute actively attended the seminar.

  After the floral welcome of the speakers, the seminar started with the words of motivation from Mr. Bhavin Gujjar. He urged the students to take innovative initiative in their respective filed. Then he gave a brief introduction of two community user groups, DOTNETCHAPS and SURATDOTNETCHAPS, that provide an excellent platform to the students and IT professional to share their knowledge, discuss problems and their solutions.

  Later on, Mr. Nilesh Mandani took the charge of the seminar. After explaining what an ERP is, he told that to achieve the goal of an organization, it is very important to manage its resources efficiently and optimally. The most crucial resources are 6 M's, namely Man, Machine, Money, Material, Method and Market. He explained how ERP help the organization in managing these 6 M's. He, then, briefly discussed the functionality and modules of ERP. He has also discussed the ERP implementation process, challenges and risk in ERP implementation by taking some case studies.

  At the end of the session an interactive question answer session was held. The students were given attractive gifts, not only for answering the question, but also asking quality questions.

• Workshop on Advancee Network Administration, Date: 06th December 2010
  

  

  

  

  

  Today world has become a global village. The back bone of this global village is Network Technology. To meet the rapid changing demands and challenges, Network Technology is also changing very rapidly. Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application in association with Computer Society of India - Student Branch Bardoli organized a one day Workshop on Advance Network Administration on 6th December 2010 to keep the students updated regarding latest Network Technology being deployed in the ICT industry. Objective of the workshop was to expose the participants to the latest networking concepts, cutting edge technology and products along with the best industry practices in network administration.

  This workshop was conducted by the experts from Geo Integrators Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Pranav Mehta, Mr. Vinod Bhatheja, Mr. Mihir Tamakuwala along with their team of technicians. About 250 students of MCA and BCA actively participated in the workshop.

  After the floral welcome of the speakers, Mr. Pranav Mehra, Business Development Manager, has started the workshop with the recognition of the increasing importance of the networking in Industry. He has also demonstrated the implementation of some challenging Networking projects successfully undertaken by their company.

  The technical session was conducted by Mr. Vinod Bhatheja, Project Manager and Mr. Mihir Tamakuwala, Sr. Techsupport Engineer. In their session they discussed various networking concepts along with the way they are actually being implemented. Concept of managed and unmanaged switches, Configuration of managed switches, Spanning Tree Protocol, Designing of Network, VLAN Architecture, Wireless Technology, Working of Unified Communications are some of the topics covered in the session.

  The second session of the workshop was hands on practice. The team of technicians demonstrated various networking devices and explain its functionality and features. The participants also got hands on practice on establishing and administering computer network. They also worked on unmanaged switch and managed switch, UTP and Optical Fiber Cables.

  At the end, a live and interactive question answer session was held. The one day workshop was concluded with the expression of gratitude to all those who were directly or indirectly contributed in making the event a success.

• World Aids Day Celebration at SRIMCA, Date: 01st December 2010
  

  

  

  

  Red Ribbon Club of SRIMCA celebrated the "World AIDS Day" on Wednesday, 1st December, 2010, in the Common Prayer Assembly. The Red Ribbon Club Coordinator - Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar emphasized on the role of the youth of this youngest nation of the world in bringing awareness among the masses about this deadly dangerous AIDS. He also shared that we, as a country, can take lead in showing path to the world to bring an end to the spread of this HIV-AIDS pandemic. The FYMBA Student - Ms. Janki G. Thaker, while sharing her views, explained the history, causes and treatment scenario in brief. She also urged the students to be patient in all their dealings and thereby help in the fight against AIDS. Last but not the least, the GS - Mr. Chirag Kathiriya requested the students to be empathetic towards the patients suffering from AIDS and shared that it's the call of the hour that we, the students, become the "Guide Post" for many in the war against AIDS. All the students and faculty members also wore the "Red Ribbon" managed by Mr. Jigar Bhagat to symbolize their intentions to fight against HIV - AIDS.

• SRIMCA Pays Tribute to 26/11 Victims, Date: 26th November 2010
  

  Two years after 10 Pakistani terrorists killed many in an audacious attack on Mumbai, today, the Prayer Committee of SRIMCA paid tribute to the martyr and those killed on the direful night of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. Unlike the daily cheerfulness and camaraderie witnessed with initiatives like "Birthday Celebration", "Thought of the Day" and eventual surprises by the Prayer Committee Head; during the common prayer assembly in the early morning, the mood was solemn and quite subdued as the students of SRIMCA tried to pass on a strong message with 2 minutes silence that "Unity is Strength" and "United We Stand, and Divided We Fall". They prayed to the almighty for spreading peace and love throughout the world.

• One Day Picnic - Excursion to Pavagadh & Ajva Fun World, Date: 30th October 2010

  All work and no play / fun make the jack a dull boy. Yes, we, at SRIMCA, are well aware of the fact and in order to help the MBA & MCA students to get relief from over-stretched schedules and to have fun, the Tour Committee of SRIMCA organized a One Day Trip to the Biggest Fun & Entertainment Zone of Gujarat State - the Ajva Nimeta Fun World, and the historical site of Champaner - Pavagadh on 30th October, 2010. 3 buses with enthusiastic students from MBA & MCA with 6 faculty members and 6 support staff members left the Campus early in the morning with cheers in the air. Throughout the way to Pavagadh, the cheerful faces, anxious to explore the fun unlimited created the right ambience with dance, singing, chit-chat and when the gathering reached to the destination, their joys had no boundaries. After worshiping the Goddess Kalika Mataji at the soaring heights of Pavagadh; the group enjoyed exciting rides at Ajwa Fun World.

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Inspired the NSS Participants, Teenagers and Teachers at Ninat High School, Tarsadi, Date: 28th October 2010

  As a part of the NSS Camp of the Patidar Gin Science College, Bardoli, in their "Inspiration - Motivation Section", our HR Faculty Member Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar addressed the B. Sc. students of the college and the teenagers of Ninat High School along with their teachers. Invited as a "Motivational Speaker" for the 3rd time in such NSS camp, the session took off a flying start with a psychological game, acquainting the participants with the notion of "Changing Oneself". Considering the heterogeneity of the participants, sticking to the mother tongue and Hindi language, Mr. Thakkar ignited these young minds and shared several tips for their personal and professional life. The session was attended and enjoyed by a group of 40+ B. Sc. students, 50+ teenagers and the teachers of the high school where the NSS camp was organized.

• Highest Number of IBM Blue Scholar Certified Students Across India - a Milestone Crossed, Date: 25th October 2010

  The IBM Software Center of Excellence of SRIMCA has received an envious recognition at the National Level with 37 students of the Institute certified as IBM Blue Scholar till May 2010. According to the IBM Academic Initiative Newsletter Volume 2 (May-August 2010), students from only nine colleges/universities of India are certified as IBM Blue Scholar. SRIMCA is not only one of them; but is now also having highest number of IBM Blue Scholar Certified Students across India.

  IBM Blue Scholar is a program launched in 2010 to enable students to distinguish themselves from the crowd with a "Market-ready approach" coupled with "on-demand skills". They shall be the elite group; much in demand. IBM certified students are recognized by IBM business partners and customers as a valued skilled resource for placement. IBM certified students can post resume online at the Student Opportunity System. The probability that the student with the tag "IBM Blue Scholar" could be picked up by the best companies is high.

  To become eligible for a Blue Scholar certificate, a student needs to be certified on any 2 IBM software products and should have submitted a project in "The Great Mind Challenge Contest".

  In the year 2010 SRIMCA has organized four IBM Certification workshops: IBM Rational Application Developer [255], IBM DB2 Fundamentals [730], IBM Rational Functional Tester [842], and IBM Tivoli Directory Server [928]. Performance of SRIMCA was outstanding with an achievement of overall 87.78% result. In the year 2010, total 250 and 23 IBM certifications have been received by SRIMCA students and faculty members respectively.

• SRIMCA Students' Achievements in "Nexus 2010-11" at GRBS, Vapi, Date: 19th to 20th October 2010
  

  

  

  18 students of SRIMCA have participated in the Management Fest"Nexus 2010-11" organized by GIDC Rofel Business School, Vapi during 19-20 October 2010. Total 19 institutes from and outside Gujarat has participated in the fest. SRIMCA students have proved their mettle by winning prizes in many events. The details are as follows:

  1. Role Play (1st rank out of total 9 teams)	2. React to Act (1st rank out of total 24 teams)
  09MBA06 RADHIKA DESAI	09MBA16 CHIRAG KATHRIYA
  09MBA24 ROHAN DESAI	09MBA10 KIRAN GOLAKIYA
  09MBA10 KIRAN GOLAKIYA	09MBA22 MISHAL MODI
  09MBA22 MISHAL MODI	09MBA55 DARSHAN SHAH
  3. Treasure Hunt (3 rd rank out of total 43 teams)	4. Counter Stike (3 rd rank out of total 16 teams)
  09MBA54 BHAVESH VORA	09MBA02 SIDDHARTH CHADHA
  09MBA01 ASHISH BABARIYA	09MBA49 JENISH THAKKAR
  09MBA55 DARSHAN SHAH	09MBA26 ANANT PATEL
  09MBA36 RIDDHI PATEL	09MBA55 DARSHAN SHAH
  	09MBA46 MITESH SURTI
  5. Product Launch (Among top 5 out of total 23 teams)	6. Fashion Show (Among top 2 out of total 20 participants)
  09MBA21 SAGAR MANAVADARIYA	09MBA24 ROHAN DESAI
  09MBA04 NIRAV BHAVSAR	09MBA36 RIDDHI PATEL
  09MBA54 BHAVESH VORA
  09MBA01 ASHISH BABARIYA
  7. Print the Hint (Among top 5 out of total 23 teams)
  Team 1:	Team 2:
  09MBA48 MANISHA SURATI	09MBA04 NIRAV BHAVSAR
  09MBA27 ARPITA PATEL	09MBA29 KENI PATEL
  09MBA36 RIDDHI PATEL	09MBA24 RADHIKA DESAI

• SRIMCA Faculty - Mehul G. Thakkar Served as the "Resource Person" at the National HR Seminar at Himatnagar, Date: 16th October 2010
  

  

  

  We feel immensely proud in stating that our Asst. Professor in HR - Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar addressed the delegates in the National HR Seminar on "Critical Role of HR in Organizational Growth" at the D. L. Patel Institute of Management & Technology, Himatnagar on 16th October, 2010. Serving as one of the eminent speakers specially invited for this seminar, Mr. Thakkar delivered his presentation on the sub-theme of "Managing Employee Perceptions - Critical Role of HR". Experimenting with his versatile flavor, he made the delegates realize that people are the ultimate "backbone" of any organization and managing the perception of these "live wires" is of paramount importance for the role of a people manager. Using various illustrations from Bollywood to Cricket to Politics to real Corporate World, he effectively drove home the point that managing employee perceptions is an art that every HR person needs to master and also explained strategies for the same.

• Student of SRIMCA wins First Prize at National Seminar on Human Resource, Date: 16th October 2010
  

  

  The third semester students of MBA with Human Resource specialization participated in the National Human Resource Seminar on "Critical Role of HR in Organizational Growth" organized by the D. L. Patel Institute of Management & Technology, Himatnagar. One of our students, Ms. Himani D. Rajput won the first prize for her paper on "Why Should I Love Working Here - A Study of QWL (Quality of Work life)." There were in all twenty three papers presented by participants from different B-Schools., Ms. Himani D. Rajput won the 1st Prize for her contribution. The delegates as well as the judges acknowledged and appreciated the depth of the content, the research methodology and relevance of the paper in the present context.

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar - Qualified the "UGC - NET Examination", Date: 11th October 2010
  

  Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar, the Asst. Professor in HR has successfully cleared the "National Eligibility Test - UGC NET" Examination. UGC - NET is considered to be the toughest national level examination conducted by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. As per the result of the UGC-NET Exam conducted in June, 2010; only 3 candidates in HR, from the State of Gujarat have cleared the examination and one of them is Mr. Mehul Thakkar.

• An Expert Talk Organized in SRIMCA on "Fundamentals of Database Management System", by Ms. Rupa Mehta, Date: 09th October 2010
  

  

  

  To enhance student's knowledge and looking to the increasing market needs and importance of the Database Management System in the field of IT, Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application, organized a expert talk on "Fundamentals of Database Management System" on 9th October 2010 of two hour.

  The expert resource person was Ms. Rupa Mehta, B.E (Computer) & M.Tech. Assistant Professor, SVNIT, Surat, with having 13 years of teaching experience.

  Objective of the session was to explore the fundamentals of the Database Management and show them how it can be a ladder for their Successful Career. The session started with the introductory speech by Dr. Jatin Desai, Director, C.G. Patel Institute of Technology, and continued with floral welcome to Ms. Rupa Mehta. Then speaker took the charge and started with giving a very clear idea of about the Database and Database System. She continued her talk with advancing towards overall architecture and its components along with that schema and design phases of relation's. Finally she gave a comprehensive knowledge about the user's and query designing tools for manipulating the data in the database system. She also describes that how it can be helpful in their subject.

  The session was attended by 120 students of MCA 1st semester. The resource person shared views for the same and satisfied various queries of the audience. The expert session was coordinated by Mr. Amish Patel, Asst. Professor, SRIMCA.

• An Expert Talk on "Theory of Computation and its Applications" by Dr. Mukesh Javeri, Date: 09th October 2010
  

  

  Dr. Mukesh Javeri, Associate professor, Department of Computer Engineering, SVNIT, Surat delivered a talk on Theory Of Computation And Its Applications to the students of SYMCA. He explained various concepts and methods for developing machine. The sessions were enriched by the real life examples supported to teach concepts of computation.

• Industrial Visit for the MBA Students, Date: 09th October 2010

  To serve as the much needed bridge between the theory and its application in the corporate world, on 9th October, 2010; SRIMCA organized an Industrial Visit for the MBA students to Naranlala Pvt. Ltd., Navsari - a company that has 120+ years of proud existence.

  At the company premises, the students were fascinated to know about the glorious history of the land of the company premises; being gifted by the then his highness Sayajirao Gayakwad in appreciation of the excellent work done by the ancestors of the Naranlala Group way back in 1890. With Mr. Prakash Panchal, the Production Manager, they visited the production site also and understood the niceties of the process. Here, Mr. Maheshbhai Kansara - one of the pioneers of the company, addressed this group of intellectuals and advised them to believe in time management, planning and hard work. Then, they also went to Naranlala Campus - the educational initiative of the company and interacted with their students and faculty members. Throughout the day, Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar and Ms. Ekta Desai, Asst. Professor in HR served as the linchpin for facilitating the visit.

• "Current Industry Scenario" - a Conversation by SRIMCA Alumni, Date: 09th October 2010
  

  

  The Alumni Association of SRIMCA organized a talk on "Current Industry Scenario" by Mr. Dharmesh Thakor from Capgemini India, Mumbai. Mr. Thakor created awareness among the students of MCA, regarding the current software industry requirements, to enable the students to plan and prepare for their careers accordingly. He discussed specifically about the job market scenario and the expectations of the employers. More than 65 students of MCA - fifth semesters, attended the session.

• SRIMCA Students Placed in Top 3 Positions in National Summer Project Competition, Date: 08th October 2010
  

  S.V. Institute of Management, Kadi has organized National Level Summer Project Competition-"The Unassessable" on October 8, 2010. Total 84 institutes all over India have participated in the same with 135 projects. Two SYMBA students- Mr. Pratik Patel (09MBA34) and Mr. Anant Patel (09MBA26)'s work entitled "Islamic Investment: A Survey" and "Technical Analysis of Telecom Sector" has been placed among Top 3 projects in Semi Final Round of the Event.

• Introduction to Contents of Workshop on Increasing the Competency Level for Employability, Date: 08th October 2010
  

  

  

  The one and half hour of session involved addressing the issue of raising the competency level of the students. The focus was on three aspects of importance of language skills, soft skills and personality development. It was conducted by Mr. Dhananjay Singh- Team Leader of Globarena Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad with Mr. Sahil Siddique - Territory Manager.

  The session involved introducing the students to various skills necessary to enhance their employability as professionals. The emphasised employability skills were communication skills - written, verbal and body language, professional skills, soft skill, IT skills. It also included Corporate Skills of - goal setting, pro-activeness, problem solving, decision making, interpersonal skills, team roles, creativity and time management. Contents of Group Discussions and Interview, relevance of etiquettes were also mentioned.

  To stress on the relevance of the issue, facts from the industries with reference to attrition rate of employees, reasons for such trend, the expectation of the employers with respect to skills and attitude were discussed. A number of examples of interviewing, interpersonal skills and team efforts were provided. It served as a very interactive and productive session.

• "We for Everyone" - The Social Initiative by the Students of SRIMCA, Date: 01st October 2010
  

  

  

  

  

  

  The students of SRIMCA took the initiative to be the reason for someone's smile. They visited the Universal Welfare Trust of India - "A Special Care Centre for Slow Learners" and Vanprasthashram - "The Old Age Home" located at Bardoli.

  The activity started by the visit of a group of students to the locations and then followed by their emotions to make a difference, however small it may be. It lead to creation of the slogan - "Reduce your expenses, contribute to it, and be a part of someone's smile..." The slogan lead to contribution from almost all students of the Institute. Mr. Mishal Modi, Mr. Kiran Golakia, Ms. Riddhi Patel, Mr. Darshan Shah, Ms. Radhika Desai and Mr. Sagar Manavdaria coordinated the entire activity and were successful in collecting a generous donation. This was utilized for purchasing gifts for the Special Children and the Senior Citizens.

  A large group of student representatives revisited the locations with Faculty members. At the Special Care Centre for Slow Learners, they spent quality time by interacting with these special kids, understanding their social crisis and there need for only a little of support. Mr. Kishore Solanki - the Managing Trustee of Universal Welfare Trust of India guided the students to the entire program and their efforts to build a self sustaining life for these kids. The students observed the teaching methodology for such kids, they observed the efforts of the teachers and shared the experiences. They were impressed and in fact were motivated by activity of the kids. The children were actively involved in work of weaving rugs, making cotton thread, handmade artistic lamps, flower vase and other activities. The kids had organized a recreational programme for them. They showed their gratitude for the gifts presented which could be read in their expressions.

  At" Vanprasthashram" the students realized the crisis in the society which is leading our senior citizens to live a life of loneliness away from their own home, at a juncture where they have contributed their fullest to the society and near and dear ones. The students and faculty members took the opportunity to utilize the few hours to talk to each one of them, share their experiences and feelings and make them feel important as they are. Shri Anand J. Parekh, the branch manager of Bardoli Gram Vikas Cooperative and Credit Society coordinated and extended help in this entire activity.

  This effort of the students made them take the vow to make the world a better place for everyone and be a participant in resolving the social crisis of the society in days to come.

• Two Days Workshop on "Innovations in Education", Date: 25th to 26th September 2010
  

  

  

  

  

  

  A two day workshop on "Innovations in Education" was organized on the 25th and 26th of September 2010. It was organized for the Faculty members with an objective to provide an insight on the innovative methods of teaching, approaches towards student assessment and team building.

  Day 1: 25th Sept 2010

  Inaugural Session

  The inaugural ceremony began with the prayer and lighting of the lamp by the guests of honor - Prof. M. N. Patel, Principal, L.D College of Engineering, Ahemdabad, Dr. R. G. Kothari, Professor, Department of Education and Psychology, M. S. University and the Directors of Institutes of the campus. It was followed by the welcome ceremony addressed by Dr. Jatin Desai, Director, C. G. Patel Institute of Technology, Maliba campus, Gopal Vidyanagar. Thereafter, the audience was addressed by Dr. R. G. Kothari, Prof. M. N. Patel and Shri Nalinbhai Joshi, Tarsadia Foundation Trust, who shared his thoughts on the vision and objective of Uka Tarsadia University. This inaugural session was concluded by thanks giving from Dr. D. R. Shah, Campus Director and CEO, Uka Tarsadia University.

  The Workshop involved conduction of total six sessions spread across the two days - 25th and 26th. The speakers and the resource team comprised of Dr. R.G. Kothari, Dr. Dipti Oza, and Ms. Prerna Shelat from Department of Education and Psychology, M. S. University.

  Session 1: "Team Building - Activity"

  The objective of the session was to focus on the importance of team building based on the phenomenon of resource availability to each individual as a teacher and as a team member of the institution as a whole. Activity involved creation of heterogeneous teams of approximately 11 members in each, assignment of task to the team in the form of a puzzle to be solved. The 10 minutes activity lead to delighting experience of participants. Participants were asked to share their views lead by resource person Dr. Dipti Oza. This lead to an effective outcome of understanding the necessity of team building and its benefits, for achievement of individual and organizational goals. Dr. R. G. Kothari focused on how the concept of team could be used in teaching-learning.

  Session 2: "Team Building - Discussion"

  Discussion involved classroom teaching and approach of the teacher towards the class as a team. Dr. R. G. Kothari shared his valuable views with practical instances form his experiences. Ms. Prerna Shelat explained the various skills required by a teacher during classroom. A typical classroom situation was enacted by Dr. Dipti Oza, as a teacher, reflecting the behavioral patterns that a teacher usually could displays unknowingly during class-teaching. Participants were able to identify which among those were desirable and undesirable behavior.

  Session 3: "Skills of teaching"

  This session included thorough formal presentation of the earlier discussions. Thereafter participants were asked to answer three questions based on evaluation, its process and tools. The session was very interactive as participants were spontaneously stating and discussing the problems they face during teaching.

  Day 2: 26th Sept 2010

  Session 1: "Evaluation Tools"

  During this session, Ms. Prerna Shelat provided the conceptual clarity to evaluation, its process and tools. She clarified - types of questions, their nature and points of consideration while designing them. Thereafter, Dr. R. G. Kothari explained the importance of question bank and how to develop the same. He gave insight of the technical aspects of question preparation by focusing on the phases of collection of questions, pre-validation, post-validation and preparation of cards. He gave ideas to the participants for organizing workshops on developing question bank for their respective subjects.

  Session 2: "Developing Question Bank"

  This was an activity based session. The audience was now asked to form homogenous groups based on their area of teaching. They were assigned the task to develop few sample questions - essay type and multiple choices, based on the guidelines provided in earlier sessions. Each team participated in this activity and came up with their output in the form of structured questions. These questions were put forwards for discussion and analysis in the following session.

  Session 3: "Discussion - analysis of activity of previous session"

  The questions were analyzed. Participants could identify the crucial aspects that needed to be considered while forming a question. The relevance of a question to the learning outcome intended was focused. The aspects of time, marks, structure, length and language were also learnt.

  Group Discussion and Valedictory Function

  The session was kept open to discussion for feedback of participants with respect to duration, topics covered, speakers of the workshop and the learning that had happened in the two days. More than 180 teachers of graduate and post graduate courses had attended this workshop. The participants were satisfied with the organization of the workshop and they expressed their desire to look forward to more such activities in future. The participants and the speakers also appreciated the physical environment provided, the food and amenities taken care of and the efforts of the management in making this programme a success. The programme concluded with the distribution of certificates to the participants by Dr. R. G. Kothari, Dr. Dipti Oza and Ms. Prerna Shelat.

• Seminar on "Importance of Cloud Computing, Social Networking & Collaboration", Date: 21st September 2010
  

  

  

  

  As an IBM Software Center of Excellence, Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application has organized seminar "Importance of Cloud Computing, Social Networking & Collaboration" on 21st September 2010. The objective of the seminar was to provide an exposure to upcoming technology cloud computing.

  The seminar was conducted by the Mr. Dhirender Nirwani, Digital Media Specialist, developerWorks, IBM India Pvt Ltd, Mumbai. More than 100 Students and MCA faculty members have attended this seminar.

  Mr. Dharmendra Bhatti, coordinator of the seminar, delivered his welcome address. IBM Student Ambassador Mr. Hiren has welcome Mr. Dhirender with flowers. Mr. Dhirender has begun seminar by giving overview of Cloud Computing and its importance. He has shared following points:

  • IBM Smarter Planate,
  • IBM developerWorks,
  • Cloud Computing: What, Why, How,
  • Virtualization, Google Docs,
  • Social Networking, Collaboration,

  The seminar has opened a new career window for MCA students. During the seminar, participants got knowledge about new concepts. Mr. Dhirender has also discussed about industry expectations in cloud computing and how students can grab the opportunities. Entire seminar was highly interactive as student's active participation was rewarded with "developerWorks" goodies.

• SRIMCA Organized a Seminar on "Windows Presentation Foundation" by Professionals, Date: 16th September 2010
  

  

  

  

  To enhance student's knowledge and give exposure of Beyond Syllabus content, SRIMCA organized a seminar of Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF). The resource persons were professionals of TOPS Technologies, Ahmedabad.

  Mr. Yatrik Goswami, Manager, TOPS Technologies focused on scenario of IT market and Job availability in Gujarat for students opting Java, .NET, PHP, etc. as their career platform.

  Mr. Dipen Chaudasma, Software Developer, TOPS Technologies sensitized the students with basics of WPF that included topics like Overview of Expression Blend, XAML,etc.He discussed on how to a developer can now act as designer too with the help of WPF. For this he described out various layouts like Dock Panel, Canvas, Grid, etc. He shared with students about similarities and variations among ASP .NET3.5 and WPF. He added to how the controls of WPF are different from that of ASP .NET3.5. During the session, he also raised few questions that a student might face during his/her Job Interviews and described the ways to answer the same. He insisted that a student should learn atleast one framework of his/her domain that professionals use in industry.

  In the question answer session, students raised questions regarding technology as well as project and job opportunities. The resource persons shared their views for the same and satisfied various queries of the audience. The session was attended by 60+ MCA(5th Semester) students.

• Seminar on "Search Engine Optimization", Date: 15th September 2010
  

  

  

  SRIMCA and Computer Society of India - Student Branch Bardoli, have organized a seminar on "Search Engine Optimization" on 15th September 2010 for MCA(3rd & 5th Sem.) and MBA(3rd Sem) students. The seminar was delivered by Mr. Keyur Parmar, CEO, Ebizpromo, Ahemdabad. Mr. Parmar is having more than 7 years of experience in serving client for different services like web application development, internet marketing , SEO , consulting, turnkey business development, corporate training on internet marketing.

  The seminar was arranged with an objective to provide an insight on Search Engine Optimization. Seminar started with the overview of Internet Marketing. Mr. Parmar elaborated various advantages of Internet Marketing over traditional marketing. He explained how targeted Internet Marketing uses Search Engine Optimization and the working of Search Engine Optimization giving online demonstration. Finally he has given tips and demonstration for website design so that the website gets listed in the top rank by various search engines.

• An Expert Talk on "ZK AJAX Framework", Date: 07th September 2010
  

  

  Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application organized Expert talk on "ZK AJAX FRAMEWORK" which was conducted by Mr. Viral Patel, Software Developer, Algorhythm Tech Pvt. Ltd., Pune. In that session, students have gain knowledge about several topics like:

  • What is ZK framework?
  • History
  • Types of framework
  • User Interface Evolution
  • What is Ajax?
  • Challenges of Ajax Application
  • Why should we use?
  • ZK Component

  He had also differentiated types of framework like Server Centric and Client Centric. Discussion also included Windows based System and Web Based System and Cost Evolution. 56 students of MCA (5th semesters) attended the talk.

• SRIMCA Students Volunteered in Blood Donation, Date: 07th September 2010
  

  

  

  SRIMCA believes in Social welfare & imparts the same in students. As a outcome of this SRIMCA students namely Mishal Modi & Bhavesh Solanki have voluntarily donated their blood for the person in emergency at Sardar Smarak Hospital, Bardoli. The work of Siddharth Chaddha (Volunteer) is also appreciated as he provided transportation facility to the donator and made this blood donation possible in even in this heavy rainy season. We really appreciate their voluntary noble deed.

• IBM Tivoli Directory Server V6.1 [000-928] Examination Result, Date: 07th September 2010

  The certification examination on IBM Tivoli Directory Server V6.1 (000928) was conducted on 7th September 2010. Mr. ParmantapaDasgupta from IBM has acted as proctor of this examination. Total 75 Students and 5 faculty members appeared in the examination and all of them have successfully cleared it. This is one more excellent result SRIMCA has achieved as IBM CoE. Faculties/Students who have achieved this IBM certificate are:

  Faculty members

  1. DHARMENDRA BHATTI
  2. PRITI PRAJAPATI
  3. JIGNASA PRAJAPATI
  4. AMISH PATEL
  5. CHETANA TAILOR

  Student

  1.	PATEL YOGESHKUMAR KALYANBHAI	41.	JARIWALA MEKYUSH PRAVINCHANDRA
  2.	BARI PRIYANKA ISHWARBHAI	42.	RAVINDRABHAI NIMBABHAI SAIDANE
  3.	CHAVDA PRIYANKA ARJUNSINGH	43.	SHUKLA PARTHUIVKUMAR ASHVINKUM
  4.	DESAI HETVI JITENDRA	44.	BHAVSAR MAYUR MUKESHBHAI
  5.	DESAI HIMA PRAKASHBHAI	45.	DHIMMAR PANNA HASMUKHBHAI
  6.	GANATRA PRAJESHKUMAR PRAFULBHA	46.	MAHAJAN NISHTHA ARVINDKUMAR
  7.	GANDHI JIMI DHANSUKHBHAI	47.	47MAHIDA ARTIBEN KAMLESHSINH
  8.	GOHIL PRANAY JAYANTILAL	48.	MAROLIA MAYURKUMAR HARENDRAKUM
  9.	DESAI HIMANSHU HAKUMATRAI	49.	MULLA AFROZBANU MOHMEDHANIF
  10.	KAPADIA ANAND PANKAJKUMAR	50.	NAIK PANKITABAHEN BHARATBHAI
  11.	KHAN NAHID YAQUB	51.	PANCHAL NIKITABEN KANTIBHAI
  12.	MAGDALLAWALA SAMARATH NATWARBH	52.	PRAJAPATI DARSHAN KISHORKUMAR
  13.	MAURYA PREMILABEN RAJENDRAPRAS	53.	PAREKH AMITKUMAR KISHORBHAI
  14.	MORI CHIRAG ASHOKKUMAR	54.	PATEL BHUMI BALVANTBHAI
  15.	PARMAR KRUNAL KUMAR GUNVANTSIN	55.	PATEL HIRENKUMAR HASMUKHBHAI
  16.	PARAMAR KRUPALI PRABHUDAS	56.	PATEL KHUSHBU VINODBHAI
  17.	PARMAR VIJAYKUMAR RAMJIBHAI	57.	PATEL KHUSHBUBEN YOGESHBHAI
  18.	PATEL ANKURKUMAR PRAVINBHAI	58.	PATEL NEELAMBAHEN SUMANBHAI
  19.	PATEL BHOOMIKA AMRUTLAL	59.	PATEL MITUL RAJENDRAKUMAR
  20.	PATEL DARSHANKUMAR GHELABHAI	60.	PATEL ROMABEN ASHOKBHAI
  21.	PATEL HARDIK BHIKHUBHAI	61.	PATELVRUNDA DILIPBHAI
  22.	PATEL HIRAL PARKASHBHAI	62.	PRAJAPATI BHAVIN MAHENDRABHAI
  23.	PATHAN NADIAKHATUN FIROZKHAN	63.	PRAJAPATI HIRALKUMARI DIPAKBHA
  24.	PRAJAPATI NILESHBHAI MOHANBHAI	64.	SHAH MEGHAL JANAKKUMAR
  25.	RESHAMWALA HIREN JYOTINDRA	65.	SHARMA PUJABAHEN RAMCHARITAR
  26.	RINI ELIZABETH CHERIAN	66.	SHARMA SONAL VINODBHAI
  27.	SAIDANE NILESHKUMAR DEVIDAS	67.	SHEKH MUBASHSHIRAHBANU MOHAMME
  28.	SALUKE ARVIND SHANTARAM	68.	SISODIYA VIKRAMSINH RAJBAHADUR
  29.	SHAH ALOK BHUPENDRABHAI	69.	SMART VAIDEHI KEYUR
  30.	SHAH HARDIK MUKESHBHAI	70.	SHUKLA BHARGAVI DIVYAKANTBHAI
  31.	SHAH NEELAM SANJAYKUMAR	71.	REENA VASHARAMBHAI ANGHAN
  32.	SINGALA VIVEK NARENDRABHAI	72.	DIVYA NANUBHAI SIYODIA
  33.	SIDDHPURIYA NIKHILKUMAR YOGEND	73.	GODHWANIPOONAMBHAGWANDAS
  34.	SHAH MANISHKUMAR HASTIMAL	74.	THAKORHETVIJAYESHBHAI
  35.	TAILOR HITESH SHASHIKANTBHAI	75.	PATEL KSHITI BANKIMCHANDRA
  36.	TAILOR SHIVAM JITENDRABHAI
  37.	PATEL ANIKET JASHWANTBHAI
  38.	PATEL SUNIL GANESHBHAI
  39.	LAD AMITKUMAR DALPATBHAI
  40.	JAIN MEENA GOKULCHAND

  In the year 2010 SRIMCA has organized 4 IBM certification workshops.

  Certification	Workshop Dates	Certified Students	Certified Faculties	Result
  IBM Rational Application Developer [255]	15-18 February 2010	41	10	76.12 %
  IBM DB2 Fundamentals [730]	11-13 March 2010	72	1	76.84 %
  IBM Rational Functional Tester [842]	8-11 July 2010	62	7	100 %
  IBM Tivoli Directory Server [928]	25-28 August 2010	75	5	100 %
  Total		250	23	87.78%

• Scholarship to our Outstanding Students, Date: 06th September 2010

  We are glad to announce the scholarships to our students who have excelled in their examinations this academic year. These are cash scholarships in the memory of Laxmi Baa and Bachchi Devli for MCA and MBA respectively.

  MCA

  First position:	Ms. Sonam Patel	Cash scholarship of Rs. 3000/-
  Second position:	Ms. Khushbu Patel	Cash scholarship of Rs. 2000/-
  Third position:	Mr. Amitkumar Parekh	Cash scholarship of Rs. 1000/-

  MBA

  First position:	Ms. Shahenazbibi Imam	Cash scholarship of Rs. 3000/-
  Second position:	Mr. Sagar Manavadariya	Cash scholarship of Rs. 2000/-
  Third position:	Ms. Radhika Desai	Cash scholarship of Rs. 1000/-

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Inspired the M. Pharm. Students with a Motivational Training Session, Date: 06th September 2010

  Addressing the fresh fragrance of GPAT crackers - the fresh M. Pharm. students in their Orientation Programme, our Asst. Professor in HR - Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar inspired the gathering to pursue their career goals with passionate approach. In his Motivational Training Session on "How To Get Whatever You Want" , he appealed the M. Pharm. students to have clear career vision, a burning desire to achieve the same, a systematic approach and more importantly an achievement orientation backed by willingness to go beyond books and syllabus. He also urged the students to make best use of the available amenities and make the institute feel proud on them with sparkling success in all domains. 90+ M. Pharm. students along with the staff of Maliba Pharmacy College witnessed and appreciated the session.

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Conducted a Pre-Placement Module Workshop on "Winning the Interview", Date: 03rd September 2010
  

  

  

  

  To acquaint the students with the niceties of Interview Process - the biggest hurdle of the Corporate Selection Process, our institute organized a Workshop on "Winning the Interview" on 3rd September, 2010. This Career Management Workshop was conducted and led by the person who has initiated and institutionalized the concept of "Pre-Placement Module" across the campus, i.e., our HR Faculty Member Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar. During his unique offering, he focused on several issues related to interview setting like Creating Good First Impression, Fundas of Projecting Professional Body Language, Power Dressing, the Indispensable Home Work to be done and the Right Mind Set for the Interview. Through real life interview videos and Role Playing, he explained the participants about the likely questions, ideal answers, the body language and such other issues. 80+ Final Year students of MCA and M. Pharm. showed keen interest in digesting the much needed inputs and clarified their doubts before they jump into a real life interview to win the race of their career.

• Four Days Certification Workshop on IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.1 (000928), Date: 25th to 28th August 2010
  

  

  

  

  

  ShrimadRajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application has organized 4 days Tivoli Directory Server 6.1 (000928) certification workshop during 25-28 August 2010. The objective of the workshop was to provide an exposure to an untouched domain - Identity Management, through IBM Academic Initiative.

  The 4daysworkshop was conducted by the corporate trainers Mr.MayurSomwanshi, Zensoft Services Pvt. Ltd., Pune. As part of IBM Academic Initiative, total 78 Students and 5 faculty membersbenefited through this training program.

  The workshophas opened a new career window for MCA students. During the four days, participants got in-depth knowledge of IBM Tivoli Directory Server.

  Day 1 (25thAugust 2010)

  Mr. DharmendraBhatti, coordinator of the workshop, delivered his welcome address. Dr. Bankim Patel, Director, SRIMCA, has welcome Mr. Mayur with flowers and motivated participants. Class representative Mr. Vijay (MCA 5th Semester) and Mr. Hiren (MCA 3rd semester) welcomed Mr. Mayur with flowers.Mr. Mayurhas begun by giving overview of IBM Tivoli product suite and its importance. He has shared following points:

  • Introduction to IT Service Management and Industry standards,
  • Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITILv3) Framework,
  • Overview of IBM Service Management (ISM) Framework,
  • Introduction to Tivoli Software and Tivoli Security Management Portfolio,
  • Understanding the LDAP Protocol, LDAP Architecture

  Day 2 (26thAugust 2010)

  Mr. Mayur explainedfollowing topics on second day:

  • Concept of virtual machine, VMware client,
  • Prerequisite for TDS, Setting up a working Tivoli Directory server,
  • Understanding TDS schema, We Administration Tool, Command Line.

  Day 3 (27thAugust 2010)

  Mr. Mayurdiscussedfollowing points on third day:

  • Replication: Master-slave, peer-to-peer, advantages, how to install,
  • Access Control List: authentication, authorization, subject, object, group membership

  Day 4 (28thAugust 2010)

  Mr. Mayur discussed following points on fouth day:

  • Security Management in TDS,
  • Distributed Directory,
  • Logging Utilities in TDS.

  On last day trainer has discussed few sample questions with students. This has given a good idea about how to prepare for certification examination.

  During the four days training session participants enjoyed the lectures and lab sessions very much. Student got the conceptual and practical knowledge from Tivoli guru and excellent trainer Mr. Mayur.Trainer has also discussed about industry requirement and how students can grab the opportunities.

• Seminar on "Project Management: a Ladder of Successful Career", Date: 28th August 2010
  

  

  

  Looking to the increasing importance of the Project Management in the field of IT and Management, Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application in association with Computer Society of India - Student Branch Bardoli, organized a seminar on "Project Management: A Ladder of Successful Career" on 28th August 2010.

  The seminar was delivered by Mr. Bharat C Bhagat, a renowned Project Management Professional and Trainer, who is the Co-Founder and Former VP Education & Certification PMI Mumbai Chapter, Mumbai.

  Objective of the seminar was to explore the fundamentals of the Project Management and show them how it can be a Ladder for their Successful Career. The workshop started with floral welcome of the speaker Mr. Bharat C Bhagat and Dr. Sanjay Buch. Then speaker Mr. Bharat C Bhagat took the charge of the seminar and started with giving a very clear idea of project and operation. He defined the project as "a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result". Business Demand, Market Demand, Technological Change, Legal Requirements, Customer demand for new requirements or changes are some of the reasons for project initiation. Then he gave a comprehensive definition of Project Management. "It is an application of Knowledge, Skills, Tools & Techniques and Project activities to achieve Project objectives. He also describes that how it can be helpful in getting success in their career.

  The seminar was attended and highly appreciated by more than 200 students of MCA 3rd & 5th semester and MBA 3rd semester along with faculty members. They found the seminar very live and a good blend of technical knowledge and professional experience. The seminar was coordinated by Mr. Omprakash Chandrakar, Associate Professor and Counselor, Computer Society of India, Student Branch Bardoli.

• A Talk on "Career Planning", Date: 28th August 2010
  

  Mr. Bharat C Bhagat, a renowned Project Management Professional and Trainer, who is the Co-Founder and Former VP Education & Certification PMI Mumbai Chapter, Mumbai, gave an interactive talk on "Career Planning" for the first year students of MCA and MBA. In his very simple and pleasant way, he motivated the students to keep their aims high and goals very clear. He discussed about making and realizing Goals. He also gave various practical tips regarding connecting the career to the Life's Mission. He concluded the session with a quotation from Dr. A P J Kalam "Small aim is a crime. Thinking is the progress; non thinking is the destruction for the Individual, Organization and the Nation. Hence have a GOAL. He inspired the student to Aim and Work Hard for Developed India. The talk was coordinated by Mr. Omprakash Chandrakar, Associate Professor and Counselor, Computer Society of India, Student Branch Bardoli.

• SRIMCA Faculty Selected at I-Shou University of Taiwan, Date: 21th August 2010
  

  SRIMCA takes pride in quoting that its faculty Dr. Prashant Joshi will now be offering service to the I-shou University of Tiwan. The I-shou University ranks 54th among all the Universities of Asia. Dr. Prashant Joshi had graduated from M. S. University in Textile Engineering and done his MBA from Pune. He has completed his Ph. D. from the South Gujarat University under the guidance of Dr. Kiran Pandya.

  Dr. Prashant Joshi had applied for the post of faculty at the I-shou University, for which he was interviewed for an hour through video-conferencing. His Ph. D. thesis underwent a strict analysis and was found to be unique and outstanding; following which he was offered remuneration, higher than the usual, for his services of 8 hours a week. Moreover he has been provided with all amenities with respect to travel and stay. The Institution has provided lien to Dr. Prashant Joshi looking to his assignment and recognition.

  An example which amplifies the fact that sound knowledge and continuous updating in content delivery enables a faculty to get his recognition and value.

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Conducted 2 Confidence Booster TRG. Programmes at CGBIBT, Date: 20th August 2010
  

  

  

  

  To boost the confidence level of the new students, the prestigious C. G. Bhakta Institute of Biotechnology invited our HR Faculty Member Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar to conduct Training Programmes on 20th August. In the 1st module on "Reaching to Top through CAN DO Outlook", he shared that positive thinking and attitude is an extremely critical element for professional success. He made the participants realize that it is only they, who can change the things for them. Effectively using Stories as a medium of learning, he also emphasized on the need of Goal Setting, Avoiding the habit of Procrastination, Staying away from Negative Minded People and Believing in Self-Competition.

  In the 2nd programme on "You Can, If You Think", the participants witnessed some of the very famous personalities like Kiran Bedi, Sachin Tendulkar, Dhirubhai Ambani, Bill Gates and others, throwing the old paradigms and creating their own way. Through these "real-life" heroes, he emphasized that problem are bound to occur, as life is not a grand harmony. You will have to be consistently adapting yourself to the circumstances and maintain your can do outlook. Both the programmes were attended by 150+ M. Sc. (Biotechnology) and M. Sc. (Micro Biology) students.

• Orientation Programme, Date: 17th to 18th August 2010

  The Orientation Programme was organized with the objective to assist the new students of MCA and MBA in making a successful academic, intellectual and social transitioning in to the SRIMCA environment. The facets of the orientation included knowing about the Campus, Institute, senior students, rules and regulations, best practices and learning pedagogy. They were also made familiar to amenities like the Canteen, Hostels, Common Room, Computer Laboratory, Class Rooms and Language Lab.

  Day 1 - Tuesday 17th August 2010

  The formal Function

  

  

  

  

  The day started with the prayer "Bahu punya kera punj thi...". The distinguished guests Dr. N. L. Kalthia, Retired Professor in Mathametical Science, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, and Mr. Vinod Kuruvilla - Acting Branch Manager at Beacon Insurance Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai and SRIMCA Alumni inaugurated the function. Mr. Jitesh Parmar - Assistant Professor, SRIMCA and In-charge of the Orientation Programme enlisted the objectives and schedule of the two days programme. Dr. Kalthia asserted the youth about the present scope and opportunities available and challenges to be faced in the technology era. Mr. Kuruvilla shared his experience on practical corporate challenges and the need of creativity and self confidence in individuals to survive and succeed in corporate. Dr. Bankim Patel-Director of SRIMCA conveyed in his message the essence and need of inevitable hard work and dedication for the students. Mr. Omprakash Chandrakar- Associate Professor of SRIMCA concluded the formal function by extending his vote of thanks.

  Presentation on "About SRIMCA"

  Faculty Incharge - Mr. Mehul Thakkar, Ms. Jignasha Prajapati, Ms. Madhumita Ghosh

  

  

  The programme was followed with a presentation on "About SRIMCA" - detailing about the Institution as a whole, its Managing Trust, Resource availability, Faculty profiles, Education Enrichment Initiatives and Achievements of the Institute, the Faculties and the Students. The presentation was collectively handled by Mr. Mehul Thakkar and Ms. Madhumita Ghosh - Assistant Professors, SRIMCA.

  Quest for Motivation- Audio Visual Learning

  Faculty Incharge - Mr. Mulchandji Sen, Mr. Jitesh Parmar

  

  

  Mr. Jalaj Tyagi- Trainer and Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat delivered a very interesting session on "Quest For Motivation". The session involved real life examples of our freedom fighters - Mahatma Gandhi, Shahid Bhagat Singh and Netaji Subhashchandra Bose. The focus was on leadership qualities, self motivation and sacrifice. The audience had the privilege to view very rare video clips of the time of independence.

  Day 2 - Wednesday 18th August 2010

  The second day of orientation was devoted to the activities focused on Interactions and acquaintance with Senior students of both MCA and MBA.

  Race against Time - The One Minute Game:

  Faculty Incharge - Mr. Mulchandji Sen

  

  

  The basic objective behind these one minute games was to provide a platform to learn effective time management. The Games were played in three rounds; First Elimination cum general Round, Second Semifinal Round and Final round. All the students enthusiastically participated in these games. The winner from MBA was Mr. Darshit Shah and the winner from MCA was Mr. Nilesh Prajapati. About 128 students have participated in these games.

  Senior-juniors Interactions

  Faculty Incharge - Mr. Krunal Patel, Mr. Omprakash Chandrakar

  

  

  The Senior- Junior Interactions was intended to make new students get acquainted with their seniors who will be acting as their second guide. The Interaction started with Formal Group based introduction whereby all junior members and senior members introduced each other. To make the introduction more interesting and fruitful, in the next round, the juniors were called upon to recall the names of seniors - as many as they could, leading to a playful competition. Similar exercise was followed by seniors leading to a comfort zone of interaction between seniors and juniors.

  The Snakes Show

  Faculty Incharge - Mr. Amish Patel

  

  

  With the objective of environmental awareness and preservation the Team Prayas, Surat was invited to the institute. Prayaas is an NGO working with the mission to save the environment and to create awareness among the local people. Mr Mehul Thakor - the leader of the group focused on myths regarding snakes and appealed the students to actively participate in saving them, in saving the nature. He also provided vital information on types of snakes seen in local area, different techniques to deal with snake bites and remedial measures.

  Campus Visit

  Faculty Incharge - Mr. Sandip Delwadkar, Mr. Manish Pathak

  

  

  Campus visit was organized to make new students familiar with the campus environment. During the visit Senior students accompanied the new students and made them aware of locations and routes.

  After the visit, new students had many common questions of where to find what - answered. Be it the library, canteen, class rooms, language lab or place to board a bus.

  In all, we could achieve our objectives of orientation of new students to the institute.

  Other than personnel mentioned above, we had many helping hands in implementation of the programme, namely - Dr. Kalpesh Lad - Assistant Professor, SRIMCA for arranging High-Tea and Lunch on first day, Mr. Manish Pathak, Ms. Jikitsha Sheth and Ms. Priti Prajapati - Assitant Professors, SRIMCA for their contribution in overall conduction, decoration and execution of the formal function. Moreover, the senior students of MBA and MCA were actively involved in all activities - ranging from decoration, anchoring, game facilitators, Team for campus visit, food serving, interaction and participation.

• SRIMCA'S New Initiative: Joining Hands With Campus Recruit - an Online Job Portal for Enhancing its Placement Opportunities for Students, Date: 14th August 2010
  

  

  

  A team from www.campusrecruit.in - An online job portal, was invited at SRIMCA. Mr. Jobin John - Business Development Manager of campusrecruit - CR2 Tecnologies Ltd., has delivered the presentation cum talk on various job opportunities & other related services provided by them. Mr. Jobin has shown a magnificent picture of career path for MBA and MCA. As an outcome of this, SRIMCA students have shown their interest and hence it has been decided to join hands with campusrecruit team for enhancing its placement opportunities for students.

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Trained Teenagers, Parents and Teachers at Umbergaon Through 2 Training Workshops, Date: 13th August 2010
  

  

  

  

  With the objective of assisting the teenagers (10th & 12th Std. students) for making wiser career choices and also better prepare themselves through personality grooming, the Rotary Club of Umbergaon invited HR Faculty Member Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar for conducting training workshop. This has been the 2nd time when he has been invited by the Rotary Club of Umbergaon.

  In his first part on "Career Guidance & Management", he elaborated on the true meaning of "Career" and tried to clarify the myths associated with the concept. He also focused on the high felt need to have SWOT analysis before selecting any career option. He emphasized that at any point of time, the career options-choices are always more than what we know / think of. Through a presentation, psychological games and interactions; he facilitated thorough understanding of various career options available, the career development strategies, the Dos and Don'ts and so on.

  During his second half on "Personality Development", starting with his trademark methodology of using video clips and psychological games; he clarified that personality has nothing to do with exterior polish of an individual. He explained about various determinants of personality, various personality traits and how one can build great personality. His sessions, full of interactive games, outbound training activities and audio-visual presentations, mesmerized the participants as well as the office bearers of the Rotary Club. Along with this, he also guided the teachers and parents of these teenagers regarding creating conducive environment at school and home setting considering the effects of socialization process on their attitude and personality development. Both the training workshops were attended by 450+ students and teachers of 10 different schools of Umbergaon and nearby region, the parents and the office bearers of the Rotary Club.

• An Expert Talk on "An Experience with Quiznos Sandwich Store", New Jersey, USA., Date: 09th August 2010
  

  

  A talk by Mr. Sharad Patel B.E. (Elect), MBA, Has been arranged to Orient SYMBA students by his rich experience. A talk was started with his early over 30 years of working experience with Torrent Power Surat. Later he has equipped students with his experience with Quiznos Sandwich Store, New Jersey, USA. During his talk he has highlighted various points which a future budding managers needs to take into consideration, which he firmly apply in his work with Quiznos. During his talk, he has given various pillars for success in business for satisfying customers which he has applied.

• SRIMCA MBA Students Participated & Got Selected in Top 15 sip list, Date: 07th August 2010
  

  

  

  3 MBA students namely, Nisarg Shah, Mishal Modi & Ashish Babariya have participated in "A State Level SIP Competition - 2010" organized by M.H Gardi School of Management & C.C Gardi Institute of Management in Association with Gujarat Technological University (GTU). In this competition once again Nisarg Shah and Mishal Modi has excelled the name of the institution in this competition by securing their places in Top 15 SIP projects out of 101 from 37 various institutions all across Gujarat. We team SRIMCA congratulate them for their achievement.

• IBM DB2 Fundamentals (730) Examination Result, Date: 03rd August 2010

  SRIMCA has organized four Days Certification Training Program on IBM Rational Function Tester (842) from 11-13 March 2010.

  The certification examination was conducted on 03rd August 2010. Mr. Sami Shaikh from IBM has acted as proctor of this examination. Total 51 Students appeared in the examination and 78% have successfully cleared it. Students who have achieved this IBM certificate are:

  MCA 3rd Semester Student

  1.BHAVSAR MAYUR MUKESHBHAI	2.DESAI MIKEN VIRATBHAI
  3.DHIMMAR PANNA HASMUKHBHAI	4.MAHAJAN NISHTHA ARVINDKUMAR
  5.MAHIDA ARTIBEN KAMLESHSINH	6.MAROLIA MAYURKUMAR HARENDRAKUM
  7.MULLA AFROZBANU MOHMEDHANIF	8.NAIK PANKITABAHEN BHARATBHAI
  9.PANCHAL NIKITABEN KANTIBHAI	10.PAREKH AMITKUMAR KISHORBHAI
  11.PATEL BHUMI BALVANTBHAI	12.PATEL HIRENKUMAR HASMUKHBHAI
  13.PATEL KHUSHBU VINODBHAI	14.PATEL KHUSHBUBEN YOGESHBHAI
  15.PATEL NEELAMBAHEN SUMANBHAI	16.PATEL MITUL RAJENDRAKUMAR
  17.PATEL ROMABEN ASHOKBHAI	18.PATELVRUNDA DILIPBHAI
  19.PRAJAPATI BHAVIN MAHENDRABHAI	20.PRAJAPATI HIRALKUMARI DIPAKBHA
  21.SHAH MEGHAL JANAKKUMAR	22.SHARMA PUJABAHEN RAMCHARITAR
  23.SHARMA SONAL VINODBHAI	24.SHEKH MUBASHSHIRAHBANU MOHAMME
  25.SISODIYA VIKRAMSINH RAJBAHADUR	26.SMART VAIDEHI KEYUR
  27.SHUKLA BHARGAVI DIVYAKANTBHAI	28.SHETA PRADIPKUMAR GORDHANBHAI
  29. REENA VASHARAMBHAI ANGHAN	30.DIVYA NANUBHAI SIYODIA
  31.GODHWANI POONAM BHAGWANDAS	32.THAKOR HETVI JAYESHBHAI
  33.PATEL KSHITI BANKIMCHANDRA

  MCA 5th Semester Student

  1.PATEL ANKURKUMAR PRAVINBHAI	2.PATEL BHOOMIKA AMRUTLAL
  3.SALUKE ARVIND SHANTARAM	4.SIDDHPURIYA NIKHILKUMAR YOGEND
  5.TAILOR SHIVAM JITENDRABHAI	6.PATEL ANIKET JASHWANTBHAI
  7.SHUKLA PARTHUIVKUMAR ASHVINKUM

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Honored with "Accredited Management Teacher - AMT" Certification/Recognition, Date: 26th July 2010
  

  

  

  Recipient of several awards and recognitions, our HR Faculty Member Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar has crossed one more milestone in his bright career by securing the prestigious "Accredited Management Teacher - AMT" Certification/Recognition. On the basis of his academic credentials, experience in management teaching, pioneering contributions in the Training & Development field and his impressive presentation before the Jury Members, he has been honored with "Accredited Management Teacher" Certification by the All India Management Association (AIMA), New Delhi- the apex body of Management Professionals in the country. He has been conferred AMT Certification in the domain of "Human Resource Management"[as Core Area] and "Training & Development", "Behavioural Science" and "Life Skills" [as Subsidiary Area]. With this, he has become the "Second Academician & Trainer" in the entire State of Gujarat to be honored with such recognition in this domain.

  During his presentation in the 2nd Round for this Certification, Mr. Thakkar demonstrated and convinced the Jury Members comprising of seasoned professionals from industry and academia; about his unique teaching style, content delivery based on Synergogy approach of teaching & training and innovative modalities for building conceptual clarity among the students. During the Panel Discussion and Personal Interview rounds also, he succeeded in taking over the charge and impress the jury members with his trademark modality of fusion of classic ancient wisdom with modern management literature and inimitable style of using day-to-day real life illustrations to clarify important points. Based on the recommendations of the Jury Members, the awarding body of Centre for Management Services of the AIMA, New Delhi finally awarded this certification to him in recognition of his proficiency in Management Teaching and contribution to development of management pedagogy.

  It is noteworthy that earlier in May, 2009, he was also awarded the "Certificate in Management Teaching" by the prestigious Asian School of Business Management, Bhubaneswar, Orissa. This is really a proud moment for us and we wish that he climbs many more heights in his career and bring glory to the institute.

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Served as the "Resource Person" for the "GSPC Sponsored Refresher Course for Registered Pharmacist", Date: 24th to 25th July 2010
  

  

  

  Maliba Pharmacy College, Gopal Vidyanagar recently organized a 2-Day Gujarat State Pharmacy Council sponsored "Refresher Course for Registered Pharmacist" with the objective of keeping the registered pharmacists abreast of the latest happenings in their domain. The HR Faculty Member of our institute, Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar was invited as the "Resource Person". Serving as the "Resource Person" for such Refresher Course for the 2nd time after 2007, he delivered talk to 97 registered pharmacists on the topic of "Patient Counseling & Soft Skills for Registered Pharmacist". He guided the participants regarding the increasing importance of patient counseling in the present era, the process, the barriers and more importantly how they should be practicing it. Through various humorous real life incidences associated with Retail Pharmacy, he could make them feel the importance of soft skills like courtesy, empathy, professionalism, promptness etc. in their domains. He also made use of relevant video clips, role plays and incidental humor, which was unanimously appreciated by all.

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Conducted a Career Management Training Session for Pharmacy Students, Date: 20th July 2010
  

  Our HR Faculty Member and National Award Nominee Trainer Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar recently conducted a Career Management Training Session at Maliba Pharmacy College with the objective of helping the students of Final Year B. Pharm. to be aware of prospects and niceties of opting for a degree and career in Management Discipline. In his training session, he focused on building awareness regarding issues related to going for a much hyped Management Degree - MBA, the career prospects of different specializations in MBA; the skill sets required to succeed in respective domains, the Dos and Don'ts, the Tips & Traps and so on. In his inimitable style, with latest facts and figures, he thoroughly explained what it "Means" to be a Management Professional as well as what it "Takes" to be a Management Professional. Through a highly interactive mode, he kept the audience spell bound for 3 hours and assisted the participants to explore themselves, be better informed, make wiser choices and reach to the pinnacles of success in their personal and professional life. The participants thoroughly enjoyed, understood, digested and appreciated the contents, delivery and the session; which could be seen from their quality questions as well as request to have such innovative modules more frequently.

• IBM Rational Function Tester (842) Examination Result, Date: 20th July 2010

  SRIMCA has organized four Days Certification Training Program on IBM Rational Function Tester (842) from 08-11 July 2010.

  The certification examination was conducted on 20thJuly 2010. Mr. Sami Shaikh from IBM has acted as proctor of this examination. Total 62 Students and 7 faculty members appeared in the examination and all of them have successfully cleared it. This is one of the excellent results SRIMCA has achieved as IBM CoE`. Faculties/Students who have achieved this IBM certificate are:

  Faculty members

  1.DHARMENDRA BHATTI	2.PRITI PRAJAPATI
  3.JIGNASA PRAJAPATI	4.AMISH PATEL
  5.KALPESH PATEL	6.CHETANA TAILOR
  7.NIMESH RATHOD

  1.PATEL ALPESHKUMAR NATUBHAI	2.PATEL DAXESH H
  3.TAILOR KRUNAL CHANDRAKANTBHAI	4.RAHULKUMAR BABUBHAI CHAUHAN
  5.PATEL MEHULKUMAR DIPIKBHAI	6.PATEL YOGESHKUMAR KALYANBHAI
  7.TANDEL JAYESHBHAI KARSANBHAI	8.BARI PRIYANKA ISHWARBHAI
  9.BHANUSHALI SHYAM JAYANTIBHAI	10.CHAVDA PRIYANKA ARJUNSINGH
  11.DESAI HETVI JITENDRA	12.DESAI HIMA PRAKASHBHAI
  13.GANATRA PRAJESHKUMAR PRAFULBHA	14.GANDHI JYOT MUKESHKUMAR
  15.GANDHI JIMI DHANSUKHBHAI	16.GOHIL PRANAY JAYANTILAL
  17.DESAI HIMANSHU HAKUMATRAI	18.KAPADIA ANAND PANKAJKUMAR
  19.KHAN NAHID YAQUB	20.MAGDALLAWALA SAMARATH NATWARBH
  21.MAURYA PREMILABEN RAJENDRAPRAS	22.MODI NISHITH JAGDISHCHANDRA
  23.MORI CHIRAG ASHOKKUMAR	24.PARMAR KRUNAL KUMAR GUNVANTSIN
  25.PARAMAR KRUPALI PRABHUDAS	26.PARMAR VIJAYKUMAR RAMJIBHAI
  27.PATEL ANKURKUMAR PRAVINBHAI	28.PATEL BHOOMIKA AMRUTLAL
  29.PATEL AMISHABEN KHANDUBHAI	30.PATEL CHINTAN BHARATBHAI
  31.PATEL CHIRAG JYANTIBHAI	32.PATEL DARSHANKUMAR GHELABHAI
  33.PATEL HARDIK BHIKHUBHAI	34.PATEL NILAMBEN JAGADISHCHANDRA
  35.PATEL HIRAL PARKASHBHAI	36.PATHAN NADIAKHATUN FIROZKHAN
  37.PRAJAPATI NILESHBHAI MOHANBHAI	38.PRAJAPATI PRATIKKUMAR HASMUKHB
  39.PATEL NIRAVKUMAR ARVINDBHAI	40.RESHAMWALA HIREN JYOTINDRA
  41.RINI ELIZABETH CHERIAN	42.RUPAREL SHEFALI GAJENDRABHAI
  43.SAIDANE NILESHKUMAR DEVIDAS	44.SALUKE ARVIND SHANTARAM
  45.SHAH ALOK BHUPENDRABHAI	46.SHAH HARDIK MUKESHBHAI
  47.SHAH NEELAM SANJAYKUMAR	48.SINGALA VIVEK NARENDRABHAI
  49.SIDDHPURIYA NIKHILKUMAR YOGEND	50.SHAH MANISHKUMAR HASTIMAL
  51.SOLANKI TARUNBHAI MOHANBHAI	52.TAILOR HITESH SHASHIKANTBHAI
  53.TAILOR SHIVAM JITENDRABHAI	54.THAKOR SHRUTI ARVINDSINH
  55.PATOLIYA JAYDEEP BATUKBHAI	56.PATEL ANIKET JASHWANTBHAI
  57.PATEL SUNIL GANESHBHAI	58.LAD AMITKUMAR DALPATBHAI
  59.JAIN MEENA GOKULCHAND	60.JARIWALA MEKYUSH PRAVINCHANDRA
  61.RAVINDRABHAI NIMBABHAI SAIDANE	62.SHUKLA PARTHUIVKUMAR ASHVINKUM

• IBM DB2 Fundamentals (730) Examination Result, Date: 19th July 2010

  SRIMCA has organized four Days Certification Training Program on IBM DB2 Fundamentals (730) from 11-13March 2010.

  The certification examination was conducted on 19thJuly 2010. Mr. Sami Shaikh from IBM has acted as proctor of this examination. Total 41 Students and 3 faculty members appeared in the examination and 73% have successfully cleared it. Faculties/Students who have achieved this IBM certificate are:

  Faculty members

  1.PRITI PRAJAPATI

  MCA 5th Semester Student

  1.BARI PRIYANKA ISHWARBHAI	2.CHAVDA PRIYANKA ARJUNSINGH
  3.DESAI HETVI JITENDRA	4.DESAI HIMA PRAKASHBHAI
  5.GANATRA PRAJESHKUMAR PRAFULBHAI	6.GANDHI JIMI DHANSUKHBHAI
  7.GOHIL PRANAY JAYANTILAL	8.DESAI HIMANSHU HAKUMATRAI
  9.KAPADIA ANAND PANKAJKUMAR	10.KHAN NAHID YAQUB
  11.MAGDALLAWALA SAMARATH NATWARBH	12.MAURYA PREMILABEN RAJENDRAPRAS
  13.MORI CHIRAG ASHOKKUMAR	14.PARMAR KRUNAL KUMAR GUNVANTSIN
  15.PARAMAR KRUPALI PRABHUDAS	16.PARMAR VIJAYKUMAR RAMJIBHAI
  17.PATEL AMISHABEN KHANDUBHAI	18.PATEL HARDIK BHIKHUBHAI
  19.PATEL HIRAL PARKASHBHAI	20.PATHAN NADIAKHATUN FIROZKHAN
  21.PRAJAPATI NILESHBHAI MOHANBHAI	22.RESHAMWALA HIREN JYOTINDRA
  23.RINI ELIZABETH CHERIAN	24.SAIDANE NILESHKUMAR DEVIDAS
  25.SHAH ALOK BHUPENDRABHAI	26.SHAH HARDIK MUKESHBHAI
  27.SHAH MANISHKUMAR HASTIMAL	28.TAILOR HITESH SHASHIKANTBHAI
  29.JAIN MEENA GOKULCHAND	30.JARIWALA MEKYUSH PRAVINCHANDRA
  31.RAVINDRABHAI NIMBABHAI SAIDANE	32.PATEL YOGESHKUMAR KALYANBHAI

• An Expert Talk on "Internet Communication and Socket Programming" Conducted by Dr. Chintan Naik, Project Manager, Varee Infotech, Surat, Date: 10th July 2010
  

  

  

  On 10th July 12, 2010 Dr. Chintan Naik - Project Manager, Varee Infotech, Surat has delivered expert talk on "Internet Communication & Socket programming" to the TYMCA students. The session is organized for the students of TYMCA and topic covers basics of internet from beginners to advance level users. A practical approach used by speaker to explain various networking utilities. Finally, end up with socket programming fundamentals and practical demonstration of client and server socket programs.

  The talk intended not only to enhance subject knowledge of students but also to strengthen their fundamental in the area of networking and socket programming.

• Four Days Training Program on IBM Rational Function Tester (000842), Date: 08th to 11th July 2010
  

  

  

  Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application has organized 4 days Rational Functional Tester (000842) training program during 08-11July 2010. The objective of the training program was to provide an exposure to software testing, through IBM Academic Initiative.

  The 4 days training program was conducted by the corporate trainers Mr.ArjunChaddha and Mr. SauravHalder, Webtek Labs Pvt. Ltd., Pune. As part of IBM Academic Initiative, total 61 Students and 8 faculty membersbenefited through this training program.

  The training program has opened as new career window for MCA students. During the four days, participants got in-depth knowledge of IBM's RFT 8.0.

  Day 1 (08thJuly 2010)

  Mr. Dharmendra Bhatti, coordinator of the training program, delivered his welcome address. Participant students have welcome Mr. Arjun with flowers and invite to start the training. Mr. Arjunhas begun by discussing the booming testing field and its importance. He has shared following points:Introduction to Software Engineering: SDLC, Testing, STLC, Quality Assurance and Quality Control, Implementing Test Cases on Classics Application, Introduction to Automation testing, Why Automation Testing?,Different kinds of Automation tools, Getting Started with Automation Testing, Introduction to Rational, Installation of Rational Functional Tester.

  Day 2 (09thJuly 2010)

  Mr. Sauravjoined the workshop and taught RFT, how to record script. They have conducted the following topics on second day.Getting Started with IBM Rational Functional Tester, Perspectives in the Eclipse environment, Views, Creating a Rational Project for Integration using Rational Administrator, Integration with Rational TestManager, Setting up environment for testing, Configuring applications for testing, Types of applications configured (that could be tested in RFT), Configuring a sample application ("Classics A"), Creating a Rational Functional Project, Recording Script, Inserting Verification points, Inserting Verification points after recording, Viewing Object Test Maps, Playing Back a Scripts and Viewing Results, Setting up the preferences for playing back scripts, Selecting the type of Test Log Output (HTML, TXT, Test log in TestManager), Viewing the log results.

  Day 3 (10thJuly 2010)

  Mr. Saurav and Mr. Arjundiscussed the following points on third day.Extending Scripts, Inserting Timers in the script, Calling another script from an existing one, API Reference, Debugging Scripts, Using Test Object Maps, Introduction to Test Object maps, Displaying a test Object map, Creating and using a test object map, Modifying a test object map.

  Day 4 (11th July 2010)

  Mr. Saurav and Mr. Arjun discussed the following points on fouth day.Managing Object Recognition, Overview of Functional Tester object Recognition, Controlling Object-matching sensitivity, Setting up pattern based object recognition, Data-Driven Testing, Regression testing, Datapools, Use of Datapools, Importing data from CSV files, Creating Datapools and connecting them to scripts, Running the regression tests

  During the four days training session participants enjoyed the lectures and lab sessions very much. Student got the conceptual and practical knowledge, with pleasant smiling trainer throughout all sessions. Both the trainers are very friendly with participants. They preferknowledge sharing rather than classroom teaching.

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Addressed the MHRD-MLW Applicants at HRD Bhavan, VNSGU, Surat, Date: 19th June 2010
  

  

  

  On 9th June, 2010; the Dept. of RMISSS (HRD Bhavan) of the Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat invited our HR Faculty Member Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar for interacting with the aspiring applicants of the MLW and MHRD Programmes. As a part of this hitherto initiative of the PG Department of the University, he delivered a session on "Career Prospects & Skill Sets of HR Professionals" . In his address, initially, he guided the students on the multitude of career options that are available to HR professionals in various industries. He urged them to throw away the myth that HR only exists / it is useful only in some types of organizations. Focusing on the pervasive nature of HR functions now-a-days, he showed them the "Big Canvas" for their skill sets. He also became empathetic while sharing his own experiences. He also elaborated on the concept of required skill sets to succeed as an HR professional. Through various corporate illustrations, he made them realize that they have made the right choice by picking up HR as their career option. More than 175 students and parents found his session very informative and enriching.

• C2C .NET Examination Batch-7 Result Declared, Date: 07th June 2010

  In C2C batch - 7 .NET examination, total 483 students from around 24 colleges appeared, which consisted of 24 students of SRIMCA. 23 students of SRIMCA successfully cleared the exam. SRIMCA's overall result of C2C .NET examination for batch - 7 is 96%. SRIMCA's result stands at second position among those institutes where more than 20 students appeared in the C2C examination.

• Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar Delivered a Motivational Training Session to Drivers, Conductors & Mechanic Staff of GSRTC, Surat, Date: 24th April 2010
  

  

  

  

  On 24th April, 2010; the Surat Division of GSRTC (Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation), organized the Annual Award Felicitation Ceremony for the announcement of Best Driver, Conductor and Mechanic staff of the division. And it is a matter of immense pride for SRIMCA that our HR Faculty Member Mr. Mehul G. Thakkar was invited as a "Motivational Speaker" to inspire the august gathering. This has been the 3rd Time when Mr. Thakkar has been invited to train the staff of GSRTC.

  In the esteemed presence of 3 MPs of Surat, the VC & MD of GSRTC as well as other dignitaries and staff of GSRTC; being the "Youngest Speaker" on and off-the-dais; Mr. Thakkar delivered a "Motivational Training Session" to the audience. In his session, initially, he congratulated the Divisional Controller and his entire team for such a wonderful initiative with such grand success in seemingly bureaucratic setup of a Govt. owned GSRTC. In his inspirational appeal to the operative staff, he urged the staff to feel pride in having such visionary superiors and augment their efforts to make GSRTC a model to be followed. He also appreciated the commitment of staff by stating that this is the only department that even works on holidays. Through various real life incidences associated with some of the recent initiatives of GSRTC, he could make them feel the importance of remaining ever competitive in this era of fierce competition. He also shared personal experiences in regard to the courtesy, professionalism and mannerism of GSRTC staff, particularly the drivers and conductor - the on road soldiers. The session ended with wide round of applaud and appreciations by 1500+ Drivers, Conductors and Mechanic Staff and other dignitaries of GSRTC.