Skill and Knowledge Enhancement Program

SKEP

An initiative for life-long learning and continuing education

The IEEE Maharashtra Section comprises of a large and diverse group of industry, academic and research professionals as well as students, with a common interest in advances in technology and leveraging them for betterment of humanity.

The section has conceived the Skill and Knowledge Enhancement Program (SKEP) during the year 2013. SKEP organizes talks, tutorials and distinguished lectures with an intention to reach out to students, faculties and industry professionals.

SKEP program is an exercise in life-long learning and are offered for the continuing education and skill upgradation of professionals. In addition, this program seeks to motivate and inspire the young student community and endow them with a rare insight into what the industry has to offer and its expectations, thus helping them ease their entry into corporate life.

Goals of SKEP Program

Professional Skills Development

Enhance career readiness and professional capabilities

Technical Expertise

Develop viable applications and technical skills

Yield Knowledge

Disseminate useful knowledge from current fields

Logical Thinking

Inculcate technical and logical thinking abilities

Main goals of SKEP include professional skills development, imparting technical expertise to develop viable applications, disseminating useful knowledge from current fields of interest to the beneficiaries and inculcating technical and logical thinking among the student community.

SKEP programs are conducted by invited experts on the state-of-the-art topics from among the research, academic and industrial areas. The intended audience are students, faculty, IEEE members and other interested persons from research, industry and academic institutions.

SKEP programs usually of either lecture or tutorial in format and are intended to be highly interactive. The lectures are typically of 90 minutes in duration, while the tutorials will run day long. Active participation of the audience during the sessions is highly desirable.

Program Format

Lectures

Duration: 90 minutes

Focused presentations on specific topics with interactive Q&A sessions

Tutorials

Duration: Full Day

Hands-on, comprehensive training on advanced topics with practical exercises

Platform for Collaboration

The platform provided is expected to be a perfect avenue for industry-institute-academia interactions with ideas, opinions and visions being exchanged freely. This enables meaningful dialogue between different stakeholders in the technology ecosystem.

Sample Topics Covered Under SKEP Program

Speaker Affiliation Topic Format
Expert Name Institution/Company Entrepreneurship Lecture
Expert Name Institution/Company Research Paper Writing Skills Lecture
Expert Name Institution/Company Soft Computing Techniques Lecture
Expert Name Corporate Strategy & Technology Consultant Building Solutions for Industrial Automation Lecture
Expert Name Corporate Strategy & Technology Consultant Introduction to Big Data & Social Media Analytics Lecture
Expert Name Corporate Strategy & Technology Consultant Introduction to Embedded Systems and Opportunities Lecture
Expert Name Corporate Strategy & Technology Consultant RFID and RFID implementations in Industry Lecture
Expert Name Corporate Strategy & Technology Consultant Software Product Development using Agile Methodology Lecture

Showing sample topics • Full list available upon request

Hosting a SKEP Session

Section Provides

  • Travel expenses for SKEP speakers to venues
  • Expert speakers from industry and academia
  • Program coordination and logistics support

Host Institution Arranges

  • Accommodation for speakers
  • Local hospitality and transportation
  • Light refreshments for attendees
  • Publicity within the institution

Note: In general, the Section will not provide participation certificates for SKEP sessions unless specified otherwise.

Organizing SKEP in Your Region

The venues of SKEP programs span colleges and other institutions spread over length and breadth of this Section's geography. In order to efficiently organize SKEP sessions at various geographical regions of the Section, it is advisable that academic institutions co-located in a city or region, pool together and organize the SKEP sessions during the same period. This will help sharing the accommodation expenses for the SKEP speakers and costs of other arrangements.

What, where and when the SKEP sessions could be organized are almost entirely limited by the enthusiasm and active involvement of the IEEE Maharashtra Section Student Branches as well as heads or senior members of the academic, research and industrial units.

Skill Development Workshops

In these workshops students will learn the importance of upcoming technologies such as Embedded System, IoT, Machine learning, etc and trends for the future. These workshops are hands-on courses especially designed for UG/PG students to develop their hardware and programming skills. These courses will help students to develop their research interest, Proof of Concept (PoC), and prototyping their ideas.

Workshop Details

  • Discipline: Electronics, Telecommunication, Computer Science, Process Control, Automation, etc
  • Duration: One or Half Day
  • Maximum Registration: 40 Students (As per availability of Kits or Computers)

Requirements

  • Functional IEEE Student Branch
  • Lab with WiFi Facility

Registration Charges

IEEE Student Member ₹300
Non-IEEE Student Member ₹400

Important Note

Workshop speakers' traveling and local hospitality expenses need to be supported by host institute/college.

Program Created and Run by: IEEE Maharashtra Section

Request a SKEP Session at Your Institution

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