1. Enhancing engineering graduates
employability skills
- Mission10X initiative in India
Feb 2011
Selvan D
Sr. Vice President – Wipro Limited

2. Mission10X - Genesis
Survey Result
Approach
Background Conducted Analyzed Outcome
Chosen
Expected
Students Faculty is the
300 Empowered
Challenge to Lack Key Key
Placement Faculty
get right Officers Skills
talent &
Innovative Higher level
Competencies
teaching of
methodology understanding
53 heads of of subjects
Many through
institutions in students
engineering Teaching layered set of
graduates are Methodology workshops
Building Key
unemployed and Faculty
behavioral
Capability
skills in
Major
Mission10X parallel
To identify challenge as
felt by Learning
employability Sustain &
Head of the Approach
competencies Enhance
Employability Institution (MxLA)
in students Employability
<<25%
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3. To enhance the
employability skills of
graduate engineers
10,000 Faculty
empowerment by
September 2010
Mission10X - not for Profit Trust Launched on Teachers Day
Sep 5th 2007

4. Vision to Mission
MxLA Workshop
Advanced Workshop
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5. Glimpses from Workshops
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6. Certifications for Mission10Xians
Mission10X Certificate in
Teaching & Learning
Cambridge International
Mission10X
Certificate for
High Impact Teaching Skills
Teachers & Trainers
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7. Community Portal – Life Line
Blogs
E- learning
& Community
&
Discussion Assets
Mentoring
Forums
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8. Mission10X Advisory Board
Prof. K.Chidananda Gowda Prof. R. Natarajan
Former Vice-Chancellor Former Chairman AICTE, New Delhi Prof. A.S.Kolaskar
Kuvempu University Former Director IIT, Madras Former Vice-Chancellor
Pune University
Prof NR Shetty Prof L K Maheshwari
President ISTE Former Vice Chancellor
Former Vice-Chancellor BITS Pilani
Bangalore University
Senior Academicians with over 150 years of collective experience
are part of the Mission10X Advisory board
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9. Faculty Empowerment - India
State Participants
Andhra Pradesh 1262
Chandigarh 20
Chhattisgarh 28
Delhi 55
Goa 56
Gujarat 111
Haryana 374
Himachal Pradesh 36
Jammu & Kashmir 47
Jharkhand 30
Karnataka 1928
Kerala 534
Madhya Pradesh 545
Maharashtra 1994
Orissa 397
Puducherry 166
Punjab 77
Rajasthan 222
Tamil Nadu 3099
Tripura 25
Uttar Pradesh 636
Uttarakhand 107
West Bengal 357
Grand Total 12106
Reached out to 23* Map not to scale UT
States & * As on Jan 28th, 2011

10. Strategic Partnerships today
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11. Looking ahead ….
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12. Phase II
Mission10X Phase II - Launched on Sep 6th 2010
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13. Mission10X – Phase II

14. Unified Learning Kit
• Unified Learning Kit (ULK) has potential to
– significantly reduce the gap between industry’s current
applications and engineering college laboratories
– Integrate the individual subject learning
– Support students build up and integrate concepts in to products
during their study of Engineering using ULK
– Facilitate Entrepreneurship and Research within the country

15. This journey would
not have been possible
without active
cooperation & support
from Academia
Selvan.dorairaj@wipro.com