Training and Placement
Training :
The education of a future professional engineer cum manager is incomplete without the exposure to working in an organization. Summer practical training, therefore, is made an essential academic requirement for the under graduate students. The program comprises two mandatory trainings of one-month duration each at the end of fourth semester and seventh semester. The training provides the student opportunities to :
The training cell corresponds with different types organizations within and outside the state for procuring the seats. The practical training covers mainly the aspects concerned to Remote Sensing and GIS, Watershed management and evaluation, Agricultural Product Process engineering, Renewable Energy and Rural Management and Farm Power and Machinery. The College has always enjoyed extensive corporate support, with the result that summer trainings have been diverse, challenging and intensely learning experiences. The training also provides students with ample opportunity to add to innovate over and challenge ideas and techniques imbibed in the course work. It also assists student in being more receptive to market needs and in deciding their careers and specialization disciplines. The Training and Placement cell organizes a debriefing secession on practical training after the students return. Necessary remedial measures are also undertaken to supervise the students while the training is on going and for maintaining the standards of the training.
Placement :
The Training & Placement cell espouses an out of the box approach to business issues enabling the students to interact with prominent entrepreneurs, to access opportunities in entrepreneurship, to share ideas, shape business plans, and develop the skills necessary to lead, build, and innovate. The cell undertakes three major activities: Instituting lecture by corporate leaders and organizing professional and management games and case competitions. Workshops and industry talks are organized through the year, with the twin goals of gaining familiarity with current industry trends and business practices and improving relations with institute corporate partners. The objectives of the placement cell include:
Companies are requested to provide well-defined job descriptions. The companies are critical to attracting appropriate candidates by briefing the job profile and future growth in their company. The placement forum appended to the brochure may be used to communicate the job descriptions. In the month of July the students will be required submit their resumes for jobs in companies of their choice. A master copy of the resumes of all outgoing students is prepared in the form of a compilation and is retained with the placement cell for future correspondence. A gist of the resumes is prepared in an uniform format and will be sent to the companies by third week of July for their information and shortlist. The companies should send the short listed candidatures before they are scheduled to visit the institute. The final result has to be handed over to the placement office after selection process is over. This is to ensure that if some candidates selected by the company do not accept the offer, the company will have enough time, if it so wishes, to consider other candidates. Since students usually withdraw from the recruiting process as they get placed in companies of their choice, companies scheduled on later dates usually have a shorter list of candidates available. Therefore companies are advised to keep in touch with the placement cell during recruitment fortnight to get regular updates on the students available for recruitment. This would allow them to modify their shortlist accordingly. Placement cell would help the companies in case of difficulty. The placement cell explored many private and public sector undertaking companies / NGO’s in agricultural sector for employing agricultural engineers.
It is a matter of great concern that only two agricultural engineers are employed in the Director of Agriculture, Government of Gujarat so far. In addition to this, there are many government sectors related water management, agricultural product process industries, where agricultural engineers are required to play an important role, but they are not employed due to one or the other reasons. The Placement cell will work hard to open avenues in the above-mentioned remaining sectors of Agriculture. Since its birth the institute has undertaken to develop leaders who with their dreams, aspirations, visions and hopes shape the global economy and drive the growth rate of the organization they serve. Today the alumni head the best companies in India and abroad, testifying the institute’s genius in producing the corporate leaders of tomorrow.
|
Year
|
Number of
graduates passed
|
GAU/
JAU
|
Govt./Bank/
Semi- public
|
Private/
NGOs
|
Self
|
Higher studies
|
|
1989
|
26
|
24
|
-
|
1
|
|
1
|
|
1990
|
28
|
5
|
7
|
11
|
5
|
-
|
|
1991
|
29
|
15
|
-
|
14
|
|
-
|
|
1992
|
39
|
1
|
4
|
30
|
3
|
1
|
|
1993
|
29
|
1
|
-
|
22
|
2
|
2
|
|
1994
|
32
|
2
|
1
|
28
|
|
2
|
|
1995
|
18
|
-
|
-
|
15
|
1
|
2
|
|
1996
|
29
|
-
|
-
|
20
|
4
|
6
|
|
1997
|
22
|
-
|
1
|
14
|
1
|
-
|
|
1998
|
27
|
-
|
-
|
6
|
2
|
6
|
|
1999 (Feb)
|
28
|
-
|
-
|
7
|
2
|
14
|
|
1999 (Dec)
|
23
|
-
|
-
|
15
|
|
8
|
|
2000
|
19
|
-
|
-
|
11
|
2
|
8
|
|
2001
|
21
|
2
|
1
|
11
|
|
2
|
|
2002
|
21
|
-
|
12
|
-
|
|
9
|
|
2003
|
17
|
-
|
-
|
15
|
|
2
|
|
2004
|
14
|
-
|
8
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
|
2005
|
32
|
-
|
1
|
30
|
1
|
-
|
|
2006
|
32
|
-
|
-
|
22
|
|
10
|
|
2007
|
26
|
-
|
-
|
23
|
-
|
3
|
|
2008
|
27
|
-
|
-
|
21
|
-
|
6
|
|
2009
|
40
|
-
|
-
|
35
|
-
|
5
|
|
2010
|
45
|
-
|
3
|
30
|
-
|
12
|
|
2011
|
42
|
-
|
5
|
35
|
-
|
2
|
|
2012
|
66
|
-
|
6
|
42
|
-
|
16
|
|
2013
|
74
|
-
|
-
|
51
|
-
|
20
|
|
2014
|
73
|
-
|
-
|
47
|
6
|
20
|
|
2015
|
75
|
-
|
-
|
26
|
3
|
25
|
|
2016
|
100
|
-
|
6
|
37
|
17
|
40
|
|
Sr. No
|
Year
|
Total Passout student
|
After completion of graduation opted for
|
||||||
|
Higher
studies |
Govt.
Job |
Private
Job |
Own/
Family business |
Preparing for
competitive exam |
Other
|
Total
|
|||
|
1
|
2014-15
|
75
|
18
|
6
|
40
|
4
|
1
|
6
|
75
|
|
2
|
2015-16
|
100
|
26
|
3
|
49
|
4
|
7
|
11
|
100
|
|
3
|
2016-17
|
104
|
22
|
5
|
53
|
7
|
13
|
4
|
104
|
|
4
|
2017-18
|
94
|
24
|
6
|
30
|
9
|
19
|
6
|
94
|
|
5
|
2018-19
|
87
|
24
|
3
|
24
|
6
|
23
|
7
|
87
|
Summary of the M.Tech placement record (Year:2014-15 to 2018-19)
|
Sr. No
|
Year
|
Total Passout student
|
After completion of graduation/post graduation-opted for
|
||||||
|
Higher
studies |
Govt.
Job |
Private
Job |
Own/
Family business |
Preparing for
competitive exam |
Other
|
Total
|
|||
|
1
|
2014-15
|
16
|
4
|
4
|
8
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
16
|
|
2
|
2015-16
|
18
|
7
|
3
|
8
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
18
|
|
3
|
2016-17
|
14
|
2
|
3
|
8
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
14
|
|
4
|
2017-18
|
15
|
1
|
0
|
12
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
15
|
|
5
|
2018-19
|
20
|
5
|
0
|
12
|
0
|
2
|
1
|
20
|
|
Total
|
83
|
||||||||
Summary of the Ph.D placement record (Year:2014-15 to 2018-19)
|
Sr. No
|
Year
|
Total Passout student
|
After completion of graduation/post graduation-opted for
|
||||||
|
Higher
studies |
Govt.
Job |
Private
Job |
Own/
Family business |
Preparing for
competitive exam |
Other
|
Total
|
|||
|
1
|
2014-15
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
2
|
2015-16
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
|
3
|
2016-17
|
6
|
0
|
4
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
6
|
|
4
|
2017-18
|
3
|
0
|
1
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
|
5
|
2018-19
|
3
|
0
|
1
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
|
Total
|
13
|
||||||||
Potential Employers at National and State level
The need for agricultural engineers is increasing day by day because the agriculture is intensified and modified. The agricultural engineers have to play a significant role in increasing the production and productivity. The tremendous role of agricultural engineers in effectively utilizing the precious agricultural inputs as seed, fertilizer, irrigation water, farm implements and machines as well as plant protection equipments can not be denied at this stage. The research carried out by agricultural engineers has significantly benefited the agriculture.
The rate of increase in number of Agricultural Engineering graduates produced was low during the period till 1966. There after the number increased at a faster rate as more number of institutions started the agricultural engineering programmes. At present, the country, produce 273 agricultural engineering graduates each year whereas the estimated demand for such graduates is 1100 per year. Thus, we are short of 827 graduates per year. This is not even 25 per cent of the demand. As far as the employment of agricultural engineers in our country is concerned, the agricultural engineers are playing the important roles in various spheres as listed below:
- ICAR, CIAE and other Central Govt. Institutions.
- Directorate of Agriculture, State. Govt.
- Directorate of Agril. Engg. (Especially in the States likes M.P.,Tamil Nadu, Orissa, etc.)
- Agricultural Universities.
- Command Area Development, DPAP schemes etc.
- Irrigation Department.
- National Seeds Corporation.
- State Land Development Corporations.
- Food Corporation of India.
- State Agro Industries Corporations.
- Water and Land Management Industries.
- Forest Department.
- Agricultural Finance Corporation, NABARD, etc.
- Ground Water Boards/Corporations.
- Rural Development Corporations.
- Nationalized Banks.
- Food Processing Industries.
- Tractor Industries.
- Public and Private Sector Industries.
- Irrigation Equipment Industries.
- Farm Implements Manufacturers.
- Post Harvest Equipment’s Manufacturing Industries, etc.
Gujarat Status At present, the potential sectors in Gujarat, where agricultural engineers play a pivotal role include:
- Gujarat Agricultural University.
- Gujarat State Land Development Corporation.
- Gujarat Tractor Corporation Ltd., Vadodara.
- Gujarat Agro-Industries Corporation, Ahmedabad.
- Nationalized Banks and NABARD
- Rural Technology Institute, Gandhinagar.
- Private Sector Industries.
- Gujarat Energy Development Agency.
- L&T John Deere Company Ltd Ahemedabad
- Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd, Ahemedabad Zonal Centre
- Vadilal Industries, Ahemedabad
- Vivekananada Research Foundation Mandavi
- Decision Support Centre, Ahemedabad
- Krushi Agro-Machineries, Amreli
- Irrigation Department- Major and Minor Irrigation Scheme.
- Narmada Development Corporation.
- Gujarat State Seed Corporation (Seed Processing Plants.)
- Warehousing Corporation.
- Gujarat State Dairy Development Board.
- Command Area Development.
- Water and Land Management Institute, Gandhinagar.
- Ground Water Board.
- Rural Development Corporation, Gandhinagar.
- Gujarat State Forest Development Corporation.
To explore the possibilities of training to the undergraduate students as well as employment to the outgoing B.Tech students the college had initiated a training and placement cell.
Summer Trainings/inplant trainings imparted to B.Tech (Agril. Engg.) Students in the different Organizations as per following details.
|
Year
|
No of students
|
Total
|
||
|
4TH Semester
|
6Th Semester
|
8th Semester
|
||
|
2004
|
-
|
32
|
13
|
45
|
|
2005
|
26
|
32
|
32
|
90
|
|
2006
|
30
|
27
|
32
|
89
|
|
2007
|
39
|
27
|
1
|
67
|
|
2008
|
45
|
40
|
-
|
85
|
|
2009
|
42
|
45
|
-
|
87
|
|
2010
|
65
|
43
|
-
|
108
|
|
2011
|
76
|
66
|
-
|
142
|
|
2012
|
77
|
74
|
-
|
151
|
|
2013
|
78
|
72
|
-
|
150
|
|
2014
|
75
|
102
|
-
|
177
|
|
2015
|
102
|
103
|
-
|
205
|
|
2016
|
91
|
102
|
-
|
193
|
|
2017
|
87
|
94
|
104
|
285
|
|
2018
|
87
|
88
|
94
|
269
|
|
2019
|
81
|
75
|
87
|
243
|
- Directorate of Agriculture, State. Govt.
- Directorate of Agril. Engg. (Especially in the States likes M.P.,Tamil Nadu, Orissa, etc.)
- Agricultural Universities.
- Command Area Development, DPAP schemes etc.
- Irrigation Department.
- National Seeds Corporation.
- State Land Development Corporations.
- Food Corporation of India.
- State Agro Industries Corporations.
- Water and Land Management Industries.
- Forest Department.
- Agricultural Finance Corporation, NABARD, etc.
- Ground Water Boards/Corporations.
- Rural Development Corporations.
- Nationalized Banks.
- Food Processing Industries.
- Tractor Industries.
- Public and Private Sector Industries.
- Irrigation Equipment Industries.
- Farm Implements Manufacturers.
- Post Harvest Equipment’s Manufacturing Industries, etc.
- Gujarat Agricultural University.
- Gujarat State Land Development Corporation.
- Gujarat Tractor Corporation Ltd., Vadodara.
- Gujarat Agro-Industries Corporation, Ahmedabad.
- Nationalized Banks and NABARD
- Rural Technology Institute, Gandhinagar.
- Private Sector Industries.
- Gujarat Energy Development Agency.
- L&T John Deere Company Ltd Ahemedabad
- Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd, Ahemedabad Zonal Centre
- Vadilal Industries, Ahemedabad
- Vivekananada Research Foundation Mandavi
- Decision Support Centre, Ahemedabad
- Krushi Agro-Machineries, Amreli
- Irrigation Department- Major and Minor Irrigation Scheme.
- Narmada Development Corporation.
- Gujarat State Seed Corporation (Seed Processing Plants.)
- Warehousing Corporation.
- Gujarat State Dairy Development Board.
- Command Area Development.
- Water and Land Management Institute, Gandhinagar.
- Ground Water Board.
- Rural Development Corporation, Gandhinagar.
- Gujarat State Forest Development Corporation.