Company visits are an important part of the academic curriculum for most graduate and postgraduate courses. Being part of interactive learning, such educational visits provide students with primary exposure to real working environments and a hands-on perspective on theoretical concepts relevant to their domain. In addition, industry visits combine theoretical learning with practical experience by providing students with direct exposure to identify the inputs and outputs of various business operations and processes performed in the workplace. fills the widening gap between exposures.
Intended to go beyond classroom learning, industry tours enhance the overall student Great contribution to development.
Below are some key benefits of industrial tours.
- Opportunity to interact with industry experts: Industry visits provide students with the opportunity to meet industry leaders, experts, entrepreneurs, policy makers and companies to share wisdom, learning and experience. These interactions benefit students’ careers, help them develop leadership qualities, management skills, and learn about how the industry works. Industry exchanges also help us update the curriculum when there are major changes in prevailing technology. In addition, faculty can learn about the latest trends in the industry.
- Learning experience: Educational tours to the industry give students the opportunity to see and experience actual workstations, factories, machines, systems and assembly lines and interact with highly trained and experienced personnel. This hands-on learning experience is necessary for students who have so far only studied theory and are unaware of the day-to-day workings of a real production plant. During the course curriculum, students will learn about the company’s policies on production, quality and service management and become familiar with the operation of the equipment.
- Enhancing employability and PPO: Company visits play an important role in increasing networking opportunities while building good relationships with companies. For students, such trips open many doors to corporate training and internships, increasing student employability. In many cases, fruitful exchanges between corporate personnel and students have resulted in many students being offered her PPO.
- Management lessons: During industrial visits, students will experience how professionals live and have the opportunity to learn about various management concepts such as just-in-time and lean manufacturing and how they are implemented. Managing hundreds of skilled and unskilled workers simultaneously and meeting the company’s stringent quality standards and production targets is no easy task. The way managers, production engineers, and employees work together to achieve common goals is a management lesson in itself. Such exposure during industrial visits is therefore very beneficial for MBA students.
- Improving interpersonal skills: Industrial travel helps students improve their interpersonal skills, communication skills, and teamwork abilities. Time and again these visits have proven to be a great platform for networking as students interact and connect with businesses via official social media platforms such as Facebook, Linked In and Twitter. /Industrial trips also help students identify learning towards branch offices and determine future job areas such as marketing, finance, operations, IT, and human resources.
- A holiday from the usual melancholy: Finally, these industry visits provide students with a much-needed break from the usual melancholic theory classes and give them the opportunity to engage in fun learning. get the chance to learn something.
Endless chats, selfie sessions, bus games, and friendly conversations with faculty are all experiences that show students a new caring side of teachers and make learning fun at the same time.
Industry visits are usually the first point of contact between students and the working industry. Students learn about the latest technology trends and make decisions about their future careers and areas of interest. However, both students and teachers need to take this seriously and use this industry visit to learn and improve their skills. This trip should not be wasted with useless fun and banter, but should be used for team bonding and learning along with a little fun.
Sharda University aims at holistic student learning
A truly global institution in North India, Sharda University understands that field trips and excursions are crucial to the overall development of its students.To supplement classroom learning with hands-on exposure, Sharda University organizes various industrial visits to enable students to gain practical insight into industrial operations and prepare for the outside world.
Some of the visits conducted by the students are:
- Industrial Mahakumbh collaborates with Indian Industrial Association to facilitate exchange of ideas and develop entrepreneurial skills
- M.Tech Construction Management Student Batching Plant, Greater Noida
- B.Tech’s Voltrans Energy. EEE and M.Tech. EEE
- Network Bulls, Cisco Networking at Gurugram helps students obtain live theoretical and hands-on training in the networking and operation of Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls.
- Yakult Danone India (P) Ltd., Sonipat, Haryana Helping students understand the food technologist profession and the importance of implementing HACCP and FSMS
- At MCN Solutions, Noida, students were exposed to Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Hololens, Goggles Card Board, Echo Dot, Google Home, and more.
- IBM data center in Bangalore helps Btech students better understand recent industry trends in regular curriculum
Sharda University believes that talented students are the key driving force of a nation’s growth engine, and developing their talents with the best theoretical knowledge and practical orientation is the core responsibility of the university. Spanning a sprawling campus spread over 63 acres of land, the university does everything it can to support the holistic growth of its students by providing quick access to state-of-the-art facilities. This allows each student to gain higher self-esteem, more knowledge and grow stronger. in his/her career.
