Minutes of Meeting:

Minutes of DISHA-2003 Meeting:

Date: 29^th June 2003

Time: 11.45 AM to 3.15 PM

Venue: Sanjay Joshi's residence

Following is the list of DISHA-2003 team members who have attended the meeting:

1. Sanjay Joshi
2. Venkatesh Deshpande
3. Channabasav Yadrami
4. Sharan Pendlikal
5. Anant Kamalakar
6. Anand Harkude
7. Shivakumar Patil
8. Satishreddy
9. Sanjeev Narona
10. Naveen Alwandi
11. Mallinath S Hatti

Following is the list of DISHA-2003 team members who didn't attend this meeting because of some personal reasons:

1. Satishkumar V S

2. Jayakumar R

3. Vijayakumar Peshkar

4. Shivamurthy Devkar

5. Vijayakumar Panchal

6. Brahmanandreddy Patil

7. Sudarshan Kulkarni

Following is the list of DISHA-2003 team members who don't reside in Bangalore:

1. Y J Patil [Canada]

2. Praveenkumar Nellogi [Hyderabad]

3. Sharangouda Patil [Hyderabad]

Minutes:

Brief recap over DISHA-2002 By: Mallinath S Hatti
Highlights of ?PDA Alumini Meet? By: Channabasava Yadrami
Discussed DISHA-2002 Feedback.
Satishreddy felt that, college should allow students to do their projects in the industries. This is possible only when students don?t have any theory subjects in 8^th Semester. But as we understand from one of our junior that there is atleast one theory subject in 8^thsemester. One idea is to allow 8^th Semester students for period of 3 months (including vacation) to complete their projects and then complete the theory subject in remaining 2 months. This need to be conveyed to the college very strongly.
8^th semester students should select ?best faculty of the year/term? and award the lecturer.
We/College staff should make aware to all students studying in different semesters about the importance of students presenting papers/innovations in the other colleges/industries etc. This helps the students be competitive with other college students and also college will have special importance to industries?.
College should start initiatives to market its capability of students/standard of education in the industries so that companies should participate in any events organized by the college and also they should be ready to sponsor projects/campus recruitments etc?.
All team members agreed that, need to add/improve over DISHA-2002 agenda. Hence following are few new additions/improvements over DISHA-2002 agenda.
Need to include "Mock GD by students".
Need to include "Tips for Written test preparation" while searching job.
Need to add more information to the ?Interesting Academic Projects? session like Minimum system requirements, Information and Feasibility.
Need to add more information to the ?Higher education options? session.
Need to select technical topics, which are reachable to the students. Many team members opinion is that, the technical talks need to cover following fields: VLSI, DSP/Embedded and Communication etc?.
"Bridging gap between Student to Professional" session need to cover ?Behavioural Skills?.
This workshop is for 5^th and 7^th Semester students.

Action Items:

Name in bracket indicates the action items against their names.

Need to prepare industry model "Aptitude/General English written test" paper. [Sanjay Joshi/Sharan Pendlikal]
Need to prepare industry model "C/Unix written test" paper. [Channabasav Yadrami]
Need to prepare industry model "Digital Electronics/Micro-processor/Micro-controller written test" paper. [Shivakumar Patil/Venkatesh Deshpande]
All of above who have action items in their names will send a written test question papers with detailed descriptive answers to all DISHA-2003 team members for review by not later than 21^st JULY 2003.
20 questions from each test paper will be selected by DISHA-2003 team members in the 2^nd meeting and will prepare combined single written test paper. This written test will be given to the students who are interested in attending test, which will be conducted by DISHA-2003 members during DISHA-2003 workshop. Purpose of conducting a written test examination during DISHA-2003 workshop is to give a feeling of written test conducted by industries to the 8^th semester students, so that they put lot effort in these aspects before coming out of college.
Second meeting of DISHA-2003 is scheduled on 27^th July 2003 (SUNDAY). Venue and time of meeting will be published soon. Assignment of DISHA-2003 sessions will happen in this meeting. All team members must attend this meeting, since in this meeting each team member will select a session of his interest depending on the expertise.