Handling Large Projects

Under the College to Corporate (C2C) Program, IIT Bombay has designed six short courses to acquire important professional skills. In the first semester, i.e. from September to November 2018, IIT Bombay offered three courses across the country. We got an overwhelming response from various institutions and states. There were about 4000 students who participated in these courses. Last semester, we conducted three courses - Soft Skills, Workplace Communication, and Effective use of IT for Professional Activities.

We will now conduct three courses for this semester - English for Oral Communication, Financial Literacy, and Handling Large Projects. For details, please check the ‘course content’. These courses under the C2C program will be useful to students from any discipline, who aspire to join the corporate world. These will help them learn about corporate expectations and skills required to perform well in the job. These courses are primarily targeted at the final / pre-final year students.

Courses under this program will be conducted using a Blended MOOCs approach, which combines the advantages of online learning and face-to-face (F2F) interactions. Learners will carry out online activities on the IITBombayX MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform, including online assessments. The face-to-face interaction with faculty will be conducted fortnightly on Saturdays. These F2F sessions will be broadcasted on YouTube Live. Participants are required to raise questions ahead of the session using the discussion forum. Live chat can be used to address some ad-hoc secondary questions.

IIT Bombay has established over 550+ remote centres (RCs) at colleges across the country. These RCs are equipped for live interactive sessions for an entire class, using the open source A-VIEW software. Many of these RCs may participate in this program, making the facility available for the scheduled live interactive sessions.

Handling Large Projects

• Conceptualising and planning large projects
• Budget and time estimates
• Need for varied technical skills in team formation
• Project management and monitoring.