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IBM Academic Initiative
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IBM Academic Initiative
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In-demand skills for an On Demand world
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IBM’s technology leadership
The world’s largest:
– Information technology company
– Information technology research organization
– Business and technology services provider
– Information technology financing company
Operating in 180 countries across 6 continents globally
Patent leadership leads the way in open standards and open source
– Over 40,000 patents
* Business Week
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IBM Academic Initiative
The IBM Academic Initiative was created to respond to the industry’s demand for IT skills, and to promote open standards worldwide
Partner with colleges and universities to drive open standards using open source and IBM technologies for teaching purposes
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IBM Academic Initiative offerings
IBM middleware and tools
Access to IBM hardware
Course materials and textbooks
Curriculum assessment services
Education for faculty and IT staff
Certifications
Tutorials, articles and Redbooks
Forums, webcasts and newsletters
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TGMC 2007 Objectives – Run in 24 States
Strengthen relationship with colleges and ensure IBM Middleware stays in the college labs for a duration. Build database of students who apply the knowledge of software in solving business problems Ensure students use IBM Middleware in their college projects Build IBM Middleware skilled students repository l across the country, helping business .
http://www-07.ibm.com/in/university/greatmind/tgmc_2007.html
Job Portal
Project INVITE Objectives – Run in 4 States
Help build a repository of E-Governance solutions/prototypes, open source products and IBM Technologies and make it freely available to government agencies, solution providers and academia. Involve students for creating solutions for local , real time E-Governance
http://www.jobs4students.co.in/portal/index.php
Student Job Portal – Across India
Build database of IBM skilled student resumes Connect available IBM skill-set in the market to IBM and Business partners. Give Recruiters a platform to advertise openings for IBM skilled manpower
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Student Job Portal : Repository of 1500 plus IBM skilled student resumes.
27 Recruiters registered on the site.
Activity TGMC 2007 INVITE 2007
Student registration 62400 1478
Faculty registration 5787 323
Colleges reached 1998 72
States covered 24 4 till date
3 Centre of Excellence ( CoE) established in 2007 in Rational, IM & Websphere
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Curriculum consultation: Areas to consider
Programming: Consider using Eclipse or Rational Application Developer as an IDE (and don’t forget the huge COBOL install base!).
Introductory Programming: Are you currently using Java? If not, consider including Java in an introduction to programming class.
Software Engineering, Methodology, or OO Design: Consider using Rational modeling tools for labs.
Database: Consider including Derby, Cloudscape and DB2.
Operating Systems: Consider Linux.
Business Intelligence: Consider Data Warehouse and WebSphere.
Service Oriented Architecture: Consider cross brand products and tools.
Security Monitoring and Network Management: Consider Tivoli.
Internet Access and Protocol: Consider WebSphere.
IBM server technology as a “platform of choice”
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Course Curriculum Inclusion – This year till now
Universities (07)No of Colleges (295)
Course IBM Technology/Tools
1Rajasthan Technical University, Raj.
25 MCA DB2
50B.Tech. (CS) B.Tech. (IT) SOA, ITIM
2 UPTU, UP 100 B.E. (IT) ITIM
3 RGPV, MP 115B.Tech. (CS) B.Tech. (IT) SOA
4 HNGU, Gujrat 2 MCA
DB2 WebSphere
Rational
5 Kalaslingam, TN 1 M.Tech. (CS) SOA, ITIM
6 BPTU, Orissa 1 M.Tech. (CS) SOA
7 IP University, Delhi 1 M.Tech. (CS) DB2
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Professional certification
– ibm.com/certify
Student Opportunity System
– ibm.com/university/opportunitysystem
IBM’s resources for developers
– ibm.com/developerWorksibm.com/alphaWorks
Download IBM Courseware & Software
– ibm.com/university/academicinitiative
AI activities in India
– ibm.com/in/university
Important links
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Faculty members - Click here to join
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Download Courseware & software
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THANKS!
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