Global certification courses to students from SPMVV

Tirupati: Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam (SPMVV) in temple city has been conducting various skill development programmes for BTech, MBA, MCA and MCom students in association with the AP State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) to fill the gap between the needs of industry and varsities. A structured and pragmatic approach being implemented to impart skill training to the youth.

With the efforts of the University Vice-Chancellor Prof V Durga Bhavani, APSSDC has sanctioned Chief Minister’s Skill Excellence Centre to the SPMVV and as a part of this, two labs were established with high-end configuration laptops. So far, 2,196 students have registered and trained on various latest technologies under the APSSDC Skill Improvement Programmes and 117 faculty members have registered for various Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs).

Skill development programmes like Android Developer Fundamentals from Google, Mobile Developer Fest, MIT App Inventor, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educate Account online course, Algorithm Design Techniques, Advanced AutoCAD, Internet of Things (IOT) and others are being conducted from time to time. Every summer, some training programmes are held and this year the varsity has introduced global certification courses.

For a nominal fee, one can get certification of reputed companies like Udacity Nanodegree certification programme, Coursera Specialisation Certification, AWS Educate certificate courses, Google certifications, Autodesk certifications, Dassault certifications and NPTEL Web studio certifications are being offered this summer.

Students of various branches of engineering and MCA can avail the opportunity. “These certificates are treated as globally certified which students can get with nominal fee here and can work in good labs of University. Private institutes charge huge amounts for these certifications,” said Assistant Professor and Skill Development Courses (SDC) Coordinator for an engineering college K Venkata Gurunatha Naidu.

He said that interested candidates can enrol through url:engineering.apssdc.in/certification for their interested course. The duration varies from one course to another. In the allotment, 50 per cent of the seats will be earmarked for SPMVV students and the remaining to outside girl students. “In fact, training will be provided for free and the nominal fee they pay is meant for concerned certification,” Gurunatha Naidu maintained.

Now, Internet of Things certification training programme and AutoCAD certification training programme have started on May 14 and these programmes will conclude by May 30. Interested candidates can join even now, said the coordinator. Other certification programmes like Python, Android, CATIA, machine learning, full stack, Frontend web application development etc., will commence shortly for which interested candidates may contact the Engineering College of the SPMVV.

The coordinator of SDC for SPMVV Prof M Vidyavathi has said that under University Innovation Fellows (UIF) Programme launched by APSSDC and supported by Google and Stanford University, every year four students are being selected for Silicon Valley beat up of Stanford University in USA. Stanford supports this programme by providing travel grant.