MBA

MCA

Seminars

The 'General Awareness Program (GAP)' at the institute brings to the campus some of the best names in industry and academics to share with the students experiences about the practical world.

The presentations are on a wide range of topics and involve active student participation through a Q & A session.

Some of the recent topics discussed include:

• The Rule of Three - Dr. Jagdish N Seth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, Emory University

• Portfolio Management by Dr. Fredrick Martin

• .Net Technical Session - Mr. Kevin D'Souza , Microsoft

• Indian Economy- Global Perspective, Mr. G. Ramachandran, Financial Analyst

• Robotics - Mr. Ravi Balasubramaniam, Carnegie Mellon University

• The Applications for Quantitative Techniques in Business- Dr Soundaravel Pandian, Professor Wisconsin University

• New trends in Management Education- Dr Arvind Rangaswamy, Director Business Research, Penn State University

• Technolgy- issues beyond software development- Mr Seshadri, Chief Executive Officer, CGN Technologies, USA

• Entrepreneurship- All you need is a desk, a smile, a phone, and a computer- Mr.Srinath Narayan, successful entrepreneur

• Global Software Project Management- Mr. Gopalswamy Ramesh, Ex Director India Development Center, Oracle

• Doing Business in China – Mr. V. Srinivasan, Advisor International Projects JK Group  & Chief Officer Guang Zhou  Pear River Tyre Company, China

• Recent Trends in Outsourcing: A Comparison Between India and China- Mr. Pradeep Ravi, Senior Program Manager, IBM, USA

Workshops

SSN SoMCA organizes many workshops to bring close interaction between industry and students. The recent workshops organized were:

• Dr. Narayanan G, Consultant, has organized a 6 week Soft Skills Workshop aimed at improving the communication and documentation abilities of students.
• Dr. Jean Claude Mizzi, Head, Dept. of Asia-America, Ministry of Economy and Finance, France organized One day workshop on Perspectives in International Trade aimed at bringing the Internationalization perspective in the minds of future managers

• AICTE Sponsored Workshop on Environmental and Pollution Awareness for Engineering & Management Faculty
• Anna University Sponsored FDP - Marketing, Software Engineering
• Workshop on Entrepreneurship plunge 06
• Workshop on Animation & Games 06
• HR Workshop on “Transition from Academia to Industry” 06

Industry Institute Interaction

• Off Campus Training Program for Entry Level Trainees (ELTs) of Cognizant Technology Solutions
• VSAT based Training  for ELTs of Cognizant Technology Solutions
• Development of training material  (Learning Assets) for Cognizant Technology Solutions  to be used for training ELTs recruited by Cognizant
• Training for ELTs of HCL Tech Ltd.
• Training for ELTs of Infoys Technologies Ltd.

Sports

The college concentrates not only on the academic development of students but also encourages their all-round development including physical fitness. The college provides opportunities to talented students to get trained in the fields of cricket, basketball, football, volleyball, table tennis and badminton. The college hosts and participates in a number of sporting tournaments.

Following are the students of MBA and MCA programs, who captained the SSN teams in various events:

Event	Captain’s Name
Table Tennis	Lavanya Ratnam
Cricket	Kapil
Basket Ball	Yamini
Tennis	Ravi Krishna

Events

Students of SSN SoMCA organize a One day State-level Technical Symposium "REBOOT” every year. Normally, more than 240 Students from over 30 Colleges participate, and includes events such as  Project Management, On-Line Quiz, Debate, Gaming, C-Debugging etc. The latest edition of “REBOOT” was inaugurated by Mr.T.N.Vittal, Asst Vice President (Training & Development), Polaris Software Labs and had a unique theme on Nanotechnology.

Yet another annual event conducted by the students of SSN SoMCA is DAKSHA. The latest edition of this event witnessed the participation of over 200 students from 28 professional educational institutions. The event consisted of various contests such as KURUKSHETRA (Business Debate), CHANAKYA (Best Manager), BRAMHASTHRA (New product development), SANGRAM (Business Quiz) and PRAGYAMANCH (Business Meet). The event was inaugurated by Ms.Nancy Reisig, VP-HR, Ford India. The highlight of the event was a panel discussion on “Can Indian Brands withstand global competition?” The participants were Mr.K.Hariprakash, General Manager of Concorde Motors, Mr.Vijay Jacob Parakkal, V.P. of Brand David Communications, Mr.Mahesh Dyaram, Director & CTO of NEXGE Technologies. The discussion was moderated by Mr.G.Ramachandran,  Financial Analyst. The Chief Guest for the valedictory function was Mr.Sivaramakrishnan, President, SIFY Portals.

Students of SSN SoMCA also organize various events internally in the campus to create and strengthen bonds among the entire student body in the campus and among the various departments. One such event is the cultural extravaganza “Aura” conducted in 2006. Exciting and keenly participated individual and group events included:

         Poem Writing                           Contemporay Dance 

Creative Writing                       Classical Music 

Face Painting                           Instrumental Music 

Flower Arrangement                 Western Dance 

Poster Designing                      Skit 

Mehendi                                  Light Music 

Rangoli                                   Classical Dance 

Collage                                   Junk Art   

Mr. U. Srinivas, a popular artist inaugurated the event.

The events were judged by professionals from  Entertainment industry.