PDA Friends is new group from PDA Alumnis, here is their first meeting minutes.
Subject: [pda_friends] Minutes of the meeting - 22June2003
 

PDA_FRIENDS, BANGALORE
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MINUTES OF THE GET-TOGETHER
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DATE: 22-JUNE-2003
VENUE: Hotel Luciya International, Corporation Circle, Bangalore
TIME: 5:00 - 9:30
MODE: Alumni with Family (get-together over dinner)
 
Alumni Participants
1. Sunil Joshi - EC - 1984
2. Ashok HErur - EC - 1984
3. Pradeep P. Oak - EC - 1985
4. SriVallabha M> - Mech - 1985
5. Prakash A. Kulkarni - Elec - 1988
6. B Ramakrishna - Civil - 1987
7. S M Jagadish - Mech - 1994
8. Lingaraj S Basavan - IP - 1994
9. Panchsheela L Basavan - CS - 1996
10. Sanjay Joshi - EC - 1998
11. Channabasava B Yadrami - EC - 1998
12. Santosh B Gulshetty - EC - 2000
13. Narayan Reddy P. - EC - 2000
14. Chandrashekhar K. Hogtapur - CS - 2000
15. Chandra Shekhar B Patil - CS - 2001
 
Special Invitees from College
16. Devasudhakar S. Patil - IP - 1987: Sr. Lecturer, IP Dept, PDACEG
17. C. H. Biradar - Automobile - 1991 -  [Training & Placement Officer] + Lecturer, Auto Dept., PDACEG
 
PLUS family members of many Alumni
In all, there were 33 participants.
 
Minutes: (As recorded by Jagdish S. M.)
1. After the initial networking from 5-6:15 pm, the meeting started with Pradeep Oak welcoming all and introducing the college representatives Sh Devsudhakar & Sh Biradar
2. This was followed by introduction of all
3. Next on the agenda was to learn the happenings of various PDA alumni groups at Bangalore & elsewhere and to know about the happenings in college
4. DISHA - Sh Yadrami explained about the 2-day workshop that the PDA alumni based in Bangalore have been conducting at the college for last 4 yrs. Highlights of DISHA are -
a. It is a 2-day workshop for 6th & 8th sem students of PDA
b. Giving them inputs for choosing right career
c. Directions towards higher education - opportunities & how to prepare for competetive exams such as GRE/GATE/IES/ ... (both full time education as well as part-time education)
d. Tips on choosing final sem projects that will help students get jobs in good companies
e. Lecture sessions on emerging technologies & latest trends
f. Mock interview sessions, group discussions, etc.
g. Stress on communication skills
h. Delivered only for E&C students
 
DISHA 2003 is planned in Sept 2003.
 
5. DISHA was very well appreciated by all and all agreed that we should take it forward & braoden the scope beyond E&C.
 
6. Ashok Herur mentioned about an earlier attempt (2 years ago) of get togethers with alumni of 80-81 batch & mentioned that he can get their contact details and we can try to network them into this group
 
7. Sh Biradar enlightened all with the improvements & hapenings in college such as -
a. state level project competetion : DO IT YOURSELF being organised by the college in association with KSCST since many years
b. College level project exhibition : TECHNOVISION being held since last 10 years
c. There are 11 UG, 7 Masters & 2 PhD programmes running in the college
d. Other alumni associations in Mumbai, Pune etc.
e. CGC being run again in college by Sh Sambrani & Sh Biradar
f. Monthly Newsletter is planned
 
8. He also spelt out what college was looking for help from the alumni.
a. Help in providing training to students on latest technologies & on soft skills
b. Help & active participation in placement (campus interviews etc.)
 
9. Then the meeting went into brainstorming mode ---
a. Prakash Kulkarni felt that college should look at building its own knowledge base, patents and branding/wealth creation thru these means and should become self-funded. Also, thru this, college should be in a position to negotiate with the industry so that students can choose the right employer
b. Pradeep Oak brought out the fact that with opening up of Education sector to international competetion (WTO in 2004), global competetion will set in & there is an immediate need for the college to change and ready itself for this.
c. Ashok Herur felt that good people need to be created thru culture building and students have to be brought in line with the industry standards
d. Sunil Joshi mentioned that the college has such an illustrious history & its alumni at high places, we (college especially) need to showcase this, build right propoganda and carry out a branding exercise in order to improve placement opportunities.
e. Many others participated in the discussions
 
Through the brainstorming, the following action items were arrived at -
ACTION ITEMS
1. Talks for college students -
a. monthly talk at the college [to be facilitated by Alumni]
b. For next semester, speakers are finalised as follows -
    September 2003 -  Sunil Joshi
    October - Prakash Kulkarni
    November - Ramakrishna B & Ashok Herur (2 talks on different days)
    December - Jagdish S M
c. This would cover the entire semester. All talks on Saturdays - 10am -12noon.
d. All the necessary arrangements for the speakers such as travel, stay & seminar hall with necessary sound & light, taking their good care at gulbarga to be organised by the college
d. Topics for talk & actual dates to be discussed later beteen college & individual speakers
e. Pradeep Oak to be the facilitator & single point of contact at Bangalore & Biradar to be the single point of contact at the college
 
2. DISHA - broadbase DISHA
a. DISHA organisers to send out the proposed agenda to all
b. all to give their feedback on this
c. interested members to attend the DISHA preparatory meeting sheduled for next sunday (29th june) at Sanjay Joshi's residence
d. To find ways of expanding this to other depts.
 
3. College to schedule meetings with industry
a. Alumni to help in getting thru the companies/CEOs
b. College to make a good presentation for these companies
c. DISHA team to help in making this presentation - Sanjay Joshi/Yadrami & others
d. College to keep Alumni informed of the college updates - monthly newsletters to be reached to all (thru electronic form/website)
e. Alumni to give value inputs for improving PDA website - college to inform the URL
f. College to organise an Alumni meet in college later this year
g. College to organise a meeting of alumni with Principal & Management to discuss long term goals & objectives
h. College to finalise the target audiences for the talks
 
4. A Core team to be formed for carrying out the activities more effectively - interested alumni to communicate this to Pradeep Oak -( [email protected] ) . Efforts to be made to have representation from all branches.
5. More alumni members to be networked
6. A Charter for the group to be drafted by next meeting by the core team
 
7. NEXT MEETING ON 28TH SEPTEMBER 2003 [SUNDAY]
 
10. After this, a 7UP game was played by all the peole (all 33 but 3).
11. CD on TECHNOVISION was distributed to each member by Sh Biradar
12. This was followed by Dinner
13. Everyone contributed [@ Rs 80/= per person] towards dinner.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Mallinath S Hatti wrote:

This is last reminder to you for responding to my mail. Following are people who have participated in DISHA-2002 and have not replied to my mail till now.
1. Brahamanandreddy Patil (I think I don't have his currently used mail ID, if anybody knows his currently used id please forward the same).
2. Jagadish Das*
3. Jayakumar R
4. Praveenkumar Nellogi*
5. Poornima Sirigere
6. Shivamurthy Devkar
7. Vijayakumar Panchal
* Not a resident of Bangalore
I hope you (people who are in above list) are not so busy to spare your 2 minutes to reply to back to my mail.
Also, please send me list of interested people whom you have contacted and they are ready to participate. Thanks for your co-operation & Team spirit for a very good cause......

Thanks & With warm regards,
Mallinath S Hatti
 
 
 
 

Mallinath S Hatti wrote:

A friendly reminder to you all. You have left with 2 more days to send a response to me about your participation in the first DISHA-2003 meeting (need to schedule the date). I am aware that, you all are very busy at work but still spare 5 minutes from your busy schedule and please send me your reply at the earliest.
Thanks,
Mallinath
 

Mallinath S Hatti wrote:

Hi All,
This is for your information. DISHA-2003 is expected to happen in Septemeber last week or October first week of year 2003. Because feedback received from earlier workshops was this should be conducted in "odd semesters" so that, it helps 7th Sem students to select good projects etc.... So, the next 7th Sem classes for academic year 2003 may start from August 3rd week / September 1st week onwards.

I request you all that, please use DISHA-2003 as subject name for any communication related to DISHA-2003.

Thanks,
Mallinath