Report on

the Activities Involved and Observations

Made During the Student Induction Programme [SIP]

Course Title: Introduction to Engineering

Course Code: BCSE101N

Name of the Student: Sinchana.V

Registration Number: 22BKT0029
Programme: Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science with specialization in
block chain technology
School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
 Declaration
I, Ms. Sinchana.V, hereby declare that the report submitted by me, as a partial
fulfilment of the course on ‘Introduction to Engineering (BCSE101N)’ registered
during Fall Semester 2022 – 23, is a record of the activities involved and the
observations made by me during the induction programme during September
2022 – October 2022. To the best of my knowledge, this document has been
prepared by me keeping in mind the professional ethics and has not been copied
either in part or in full.

Date: 28th November 2022

 Introduction
“The ideal engineer is a composite … He is not a scientist, he is not a
mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge
and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.”
—Nathan W. Dougherty, American civil engineer

A school of engineering prepares graduates to work in their respective fields of review, have a
comprehensive outlook on life, and want to work for public needs as well as beyond.

It is essential that students graduate with excellent technical skills and knowledge in the region
of study, but also with a broad comprehension of society and connections. Character must be
developed as a fundamental quality by which a graduate can fulfil his responsibilities as a
resident and an individual.
A multi-step ideology is required to overcome this dilemma of transformation from school to
college.
Students must be made to feel comfortable, be able to investigate their interests and activities,
work for excellence, and be respected as individuals. To promote bonding among students, to
establish relations among educators and students, to give them a more extensive perspective
on life, and to build character.
 New undergraduate students enter an institution with diverse views, backgrounds, and
arrangements. In addition to coming into an unfamiliar environment, many of these students
know very little about higher education. A significant task is to welcome them to advanced
education and set them up for their new responsibilities.
The progress from school to college can be an extraordinary and testing experience for an
individual.
The majority of institutions only offer a short orientation program enduring a few days.
Understudy Induction is intended to help with the entire process, and should be taken
seriously as more than merely an orientation program.
Education plays a critical role in the developing a individuals, families, and societies, and laying
the groundwork for a solid country. The goal of Higher Education is to enhance all fields of
knowledge, cultivate a sense of responsibility, and assist people with finding their inner
potential.

DAY 1: Student Induction Program – Purpose and Concept

This program is designed to help new students adjust and feel comfortable in their new
environment, instil in them the ethos and culture of the institution, help them build bonds with
other students and faculty members, and expose them to a sense of purpose and responsibility
in the institution.
The term induction is generally used to describe the whole process by which new entrants
become acquainted with their new roles and environment. That is to say, it is a wellplanned
process to train new entrants about the institution, and how it operates.
The Student Induction Program engages new students as soon as they arrive at an institution;
regular classes begin after that. During induction, students learn about the institution's policies,
processes, practices, culture, values, and their role in it.

We were warmly greeted by all our faculty member and given a glance at our collage and we
were also given a taste of what we could become in our future.

Familiarization with College, Department/Branch

During the incoming semester, new students should be told about the credit and grading
systems, and about the examinations. Additionally, they should be shown how studying at
college differs from studying at school. They should also
be taken on a tour of the campus and shown important points like the library, cafeteria, and
dormitories.
We were shown own department, and told what it means to get into the branch or
department. Our professors explained to us what role the technology related to their
department plays in society, and after graduation what role we the student would play in
society as an engineer in that branch. A lecture by an alumnus of the Dept. was held during this
session, where they told us how to world work and what we need to be successful. We were
also shown our laboratories, workshops and other facilities.
The institute is full of talented faculty and it will be a great experience to be majoring in
computer science at VIT, Vellore.

Partners in Induction:
• Head of the institution
• Important functionaries
• Faculty mentors
• Students’ council/association
• Selected senior students (student guides)
• Selected alumni
• Civil society
• Invited distinguished people
Universal Human Values and Scaling Up

The Universal Human Values course is a result of a long series of experiments at educational
institutes starting from IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur in the 1980s and 1990s as an elective course,
and in NIT Raipur in early 2000s as a compulsory one week off-campus program. At IIIT
Hyderabad, two regular compulsory courses were introduced in July 2005 for all BTech
students. The courses at IIT(BHU) which started from July 2014, are taken and developed from
IIIT Hyderabad. (A shorter version of UHV has also been included at IIT Mandi, IIT Patna, IIT
Kharagpur etc. as a part of their induction program.)
Multiplication of the Universal Human Values compulsory course took place when Abdul Kalam
Technical University (AKTU), Lucknow, taking the cue from IIIT Hyderabad, adopted it in July
2009 for about 600 engineering colleges. It spread to Punjab through the Punjab Technical
University (PTU), Kapurthala in July 2011 for about 300 engineering colleges. Similar
compulsory course was started in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, but this time for BSc, BA and
BCom students, in July 2013 for about 1000 Government and Aided Colleges, and later in July
2015 for additional 2000 private colleges. It has also gone to many unitary institutions.

FULLY FLEXIBLE CREDIT SYSTEM (FFCS)

FFCS will be made availabe starting from second semester.
•Students will be able to
1) Prepare his/her own Timetable and Academic Plan.
2) Preferred courses will be guided as per requirement.
3) Choose the timings/time slots for every courses.
4) Select any number of courses within the credit limit.

COURSE RE-GISTRATION
1) Course preference - Wishlist
2) Mock registration
3) Phase 1- Core Registration
4) Phase 2- Elective Registration
5) Choice of Theory and Lab slots must be optimized.

COURSE REGISTRATION
•Types
1) Regular
2) Re-Registration
3) Grade Improvement
4) Course Substitution
5) Component wise Re-Registration
6) Considered as UE
7) MOOC, NPTEL etc.
8) Shared by the HOD concern
9) Holds 2 to 4 credits with respect to the course

CREDIT INFORMATION: -
1) Foundation = 62 credits
2) Discipline linked engineering sciences = 12 credits
a. Discipline core = 44 credits
b. Discipline elective = 12 credits
c. Project and internship = 9 credits
d. Open elective = 12 credits
e. Non graded core requirement =11 credits
TOTAL number of credits = 151 credits

COURSE COMPONENT: -
1) Course may be Theory (TH) only, Lab (LO) only, Embedded Theory (ETH), and Lab (ELA).
2) Lecture/Tutorial: 1 credit = 15 contact hours/sem.
3) Practical : 1 credit = 30 contact hours/semester
4) Credits: Sum of all the components.

CREDIT LIMIT: -
1) Minimum number of credits =16 credits
2) Maximum number of credits = 27 credits
3) Recommend number of credits = 21 credits

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
1) Minors = 18-20 credits
2) Specialization = 18-20 credits
ADD/DROP OF COURSES
1) Facilitated to Add or Drop a course
2) First three instructional days of the semester
3) Subject to the availability of resources
4) Not applicable to summer/intercession/weekend semesters.
5) Constrained by Minimum/maximum number of credits in a semester

COURSES PREREQUISITES/ANTI-REQUISITES/CO-REQUISITE
Some courses may have specific constraints to be met before a student register the course.
1. Prerequisite – Students are expected to have prior knowledge for a course and
cleared all the prerequisite courses at the time of registration.
2. Anti-Requisites – Students are prevented from registering similar/same course
contents, considered as equivalent and will not be credited.
3. Co-Requisite– an independent laboratory course can be coupled to a theoryalone
course.

DAY 2:
ACADEMIC GUIDANCE
Faculty Advisor- Any clarification/issues
Year Coordinator- Academic Guidance
Head of the Department
Proctor will guide in-
• Subject selection for each semester
• Credit related issue
• Classroom issues
• Attendance related issues
• Continuous monitoring of exam performance
•Hostel matter
•Personal matter
•Change of mobile no etc
Other Notes:
1) Every month first week Wednesday from 11am to 1 pm a interaction meeting with
proctor is held.
2) Parents can contact the Proctor using mail/message/phone call.
3) Leave approval process is successfully done by the Proctor

Skills for the 21st century: -

1) Problem solving
2) Meta cognition
3) Creative thinking
4) Self-efficiency
5) Motivation
6) Perseverance

Important skills to develop: -

1) Core competency skills
2) leadership skills
3) Communication skills
4) Decision making skills
5) Critical thinking skills

● College is certainly a place to learn and also a place to grow and enjoy your college life
because learning is most effective while enjoying.
● Adjust the changes from school to college sophisticated environment and learning,
enriching ourselves with knowledge and opportunities.
● Spread your wings in a multidimensional fold
● Bloom to give the best for yourself and explore everything around you.

Industry Expectations
1) Soft skills
2) Communication
3) Logical Reasoning
4) Grasping
5) Teamwork
6) Technical skills
7) Functional/ management skills Best social media platform for official purpose is
“LinkedIn”
DAY 3: SCHOOL INDUCTION
CLUBS
1) There are 150+ clubs and 50+ chapters
2) The club’s recruitment will begin in 2nd semester.
3) There are 16 literary clubs, 30 Technical clubs etc

HIGHLIGHTS OF HOSTEL RULES

1) Students should strictly follow the guidelines of hostels as per the undertaking (Affidavit)
submitted jointly by both parent and student.
2) Silence should be strictly maintained between 9pm to 6 am. Students should not disturb
other students by playing music, talking loudly over phones etc.
3) Students are personally responsible to safe guard their belongings. Students are advised
not to keep large amounts of cash or valuable items like gold, expensive watch, jewellery
etc.
4) Students will not be permitted to keep any electrical appliances (cooking equipment’s,
kettle, iron boxes etc.) inside the rooms for safety reasons. If found they will be confiscated
and imposed with a fine.
5) Any physical/mental harassment towards fellow student including ragging, quarrelling,
using abusive words and violent behaviour is strictly prohibited.
6) Girls will not be permitted to stay alone as day boarders outside the campus unless
parents stay with them.
7) Involvement in in disciplinary activities will invite suitable action as per code of conduct .

FACILITIES
1) Gymnasium (ac and non-ac)
2) Swimming pool
3) Indoor and outdoor sports facilities
4) General stores, pharmacy
5) Photocopier facility
6) Mechanized laundry services
7) Food stalls, night canteen, coffee shop
8) Shuttle caps
9) Wi-fi access (until 12 midnight)
10) Newspapers
11) Study/tv halls
12) Food stalls, coffee shops
13) Night canteen (10-12 midnight)
14) Beauty salon
15) Tailoring /cycle/bag/shoe repair shop.
SPORTS FACILITIES
 Squash court
 Football ground
 Badminton court
 Volleyball court
 Table tennis
 Cricket ground
 Basketball court
 Tennis court

EVENTS
•Fresher’s meet
•Self-defence workshop
•Visit to old age and children’s home
•Celebrations-Holi, Diwali, Pongal etc.
•Periodical sports and cultural events
•Movie time and nights during weekends.
•Music, dance, driving, yoga, Zumba classes
STRESS MANAGEMENT
1) Sharing whole set of ideas which would inculcate in us during 4-5 years of stay in vit
2) Stress binds us of solutions, opportunities
3) Eating, sleeping, exercising are common stress busters
4) Our areas of focus shall always be ‐ self-development, life goals, self-worth, academic life
and relationships.
5) Stress is inevitable, thus we have to manage it
6) In order to build yourself - One should have the right perceptions-> these perceptions
allow you to see solution in problems which further allows us to see goals in chaos.
7) To build the right perception - learn about what you are against, understand its
consequences on you and further, learn its impact.
8) We had discussed 10 commandments as well, living in harmony with selfpeers, animals
and the environment.
9) If we safeguard our environment, then the environment would safeguard us.
10) Do not wish for a result without learning the struggle, it’s important to build a strong
self-worth.
11)Stop procrastination- Tomorrow becomes more stressful than today
12)Don’t pitch your tent on loose soils
13)Sometimes we commit to something without knowing what it leads to — Therefore,
think twice before saying ‘Yes’ to a certain task/role.
14) Identify the triggers that induce stress and try to fix them accordingly.

LIVING WITH HARMONY

How-to live-in harmony with one’s own self and others
1) Universal human values
2) Topics discussed: perspective of social psychology, prejudice, discrimination, genocide
and other atrocious acts that have been committed in history to understood how we can
avoid it in future.
3) Morality, human values, where do we derive our human moralities from
4) Trolley dilemma was discussed.
5) They discussed about social rejection by giving a scenario about a child excluded from a
friend group
6) Social pain – such as that resulting from exclusion-activates the same brain region as
physical pain
STRESS MANAGEMENT
As a conclusion to the discussion happened in the session, for managing stress, one shall ask
oneself the following questions and stress management would become easy.
1) What is disturbing you?
2) How are you going to handle?
3) Why is it disturbing you?
4) When are you going to address this?
5) How are you going to handle?

TIME MANAGEMENT

1) Time management is a topic for everyone

2) For people who work hard but no productivity
3) Discussed practical ways to manage social media, overthinking, procrastination.
4) Another word for time management is productivity.
5) If you’re very much productive, it means you are managing your time.
6) We dealt with how to increase our productivity.
7) Reflect what you are doing whether you’re doing is right.
8) Review your goals, work on the most important task, follow fundamental value.
9) If u want to be productive then concentrate on 3 things-time, attention, energy
10)Internet and toxic people will kill your productivity
11)We should manage internet and social media properly.
12)To get rid of social media problems put phone aside for long period of time.
13)People are more averse to loss than gains
14)Difficult work is the reason of procrastination
15)Improve tolerance for boring things
16)Meditation helps with focus
17)Good sleep means no dreams, only a troubled mind dreams
18)Set a device free zone for yourself atleast 30 minutes before going to the bed.
19)Have help seeking tendency if needed.

TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE: -
1) Make list of everything you are responsible in work
2) Prioritize your work
3) Take 3 tasks and rank them

Proctor Identification
1) Meeting scheduled with Proctor on MS Teams software
2) Proctor took conformation as to whether we had received our schedule or not
3) Proctor communicated general guide lines and correct way to approach university in case
if any communication is to be made
4) Proctor communicated about Telegram and WhatsApp groups
5) And lastly, confirmed as to whether our details were uploaded correctly on VTop
software and took note of any corrections to be made.

Library E resource usage & Entrepreneurship activities

The library in charge conducted an induction programme on how to use Library Eresources
in the forenoon session. Details on correct procedure about how to use the library E-
resource platform is to be done.
1) The Periyar Library is a 6-story building
2) UG students are permitted to take 4 books for a duration of 14 days post the date of
issue.
3) One renewal for a particular book can be done and the book can be issues for a maximum
of 28 days in one issue.
4) Introduction to E-library platform and proper method to access and use it
5) Introduction to a software to store required books in E-book format
6) Contact information of persons to be contacted in case of an issue was communicated.
These include the librarian and Library director.
7) Answering of any doubts related to the induction programme

How to write ‘Report on Induction’

handled by university induction team
1) Course requirements were explained
2) Proper format on how to write the course report was informed
3) Course Outcomes and Guidelines were introduced
4) Answering of any queries regarding the creation of the report
5) Talk on the importance of the induction report and VIT’s efforts in holding a successful
induction programme spread out over a long period of time.
6) Answer to queries about recording links etc.

Technical Session by School Team

Introduction to VIT Moodle LMS
1) Conformation of student login into Moodle software
2) Presentation about Moodle and User interface instructions
3) Google Summer of code with Moodle
4) Introduction to the code-runner environment in Moodle and proper instructions given on
how to use it

Learnings from the institutional website

The Business of Information Technology:
It is defined as the application of computers and internet to retrieve, manipulate, store and
transmit the data. The support of information technology is highly needed to run a business
or else it will simply stop! The importance of information technology in business is very
evident, every department in business need information technology for example – HR, sales,
purchase, general management, finance etc because it depends on information system to
complete their work.
As every business in this world has its own build technologies, there are multiple
technologies threat and here IT and IS protects the integrity of data and keep it safe from
these threats. We can definitely say that workplaces cannot function without IT and IS
professionals as they are a valuable part of every office.

YOUR CAREER IS YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY

Any other general observations
1. There are 2,3,4 bedded A.C. and NON A.C. rooms
2. A.C. Facility is optional
3. Health care facilities are available 24/7
4. Entertainment halls have multi-channel TV facility
5. Open air movie screening facility is present.
6. R.O. is present on all floors
7. 24/7 CCTV survillience is there