EDUCATION AND TRAINING: NTTF-SPIC

NTTF – at SPIC, Thoothukudy

Nettur Technical Training Foundation (NTTF) an ISO 9001:2000 training institution was established in the year 1963 at Nettur with Swiss cooperation to provide purposeful quality education with employment opportunities. Now the Foundation has 16 training centers SPIC-NTTF training center at Thoothukudy is a joint venture between NTTF and SPIC Fertilizer Ltd. and started functioning at SPIC Industrial campus from Nov.2001. At present the center is conducting two diploma courses. The duration of each course is 3 years.

1. Diploma in Mechatronics (DiMT): Mechatronics integrates Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering and Information Science. It is synergistic integration of Mechanical Engineering with Electronics and intelligent computer control in the design and manufacture of products and processes. It is the confluence of traditional design methods with sensors and instrumentation technology, drive and actuator technology, embedded real time microprocessor systems and real time software.

2. Diploma in Computer Engineering (DiCE):

Eligibility:
· Pass in X Std./+2 with 50% marks in major subjects.
· Pass in Computer Enabled online Entrance Examination to be held on 4th., 5th, and 6th May, 2007 at Thoothukudy.
· Maximum Age 19 for X passed and 21 for XII passed as on 1.7.2007
Bridge course for online Entrance Exam.is conducted for 20 days at the center. The fee for the bridge course is Rs. 250. The bridge course starts on 11.4.07

Placement: The first batch of the center passed out in the year 2004 and were placed in the following companies: Saint Gobain, Siemens, Bajaj Auto, Bajaj Tempo, Harrison Malayalam, ETA Technologies, UCAM, Fenwick & Ravi etc.

Fees: Fees for merit category is Rs.24000 and others is Rs.30000 per SEMESTER. In addition, Library/sports/Arts fee is Rs. 750 p.a., Rs. 500 towards personal accident insurance premium, Rs. 1500 for 3 pairs of uniform and Rs.2500 for towards tool kit.

Your blogger Khwaja Shah says:
The above are the highlights of the literature distributed and the lecture delivered by the Unit Head, Capt. William Thangaraj in the meeting held at SPIC Gymkhana.( Refer my previous post). The reason to take up this course in our blog is that the course is conducted at SPIC premises by NTTF which is a famous institution in technical training. The center is closer to us. However, the participants in the meeting raised questions on high fee charged. Capt. William also mentioned that the institution is not recognized by AICTE. According to him, AICTE is ready to give approval but they do not agree to the two terms of NTTF. One is NTTF should not be compelled to reduce fees and other is no quota system should be applied to NTTF.

We have given you the merits and demerits of the courses. Now, it is up to you to decide. We are not agents or affiliates to the institution. Choice is yours.

They are conducting 3 short term part time courses which may benefit our Engineers who are employed. They can study those courses when they are on vacation. The courses are:

1. Programmable Logic Control (PLC)
2. Geometric Dimension & Tolerancing (GD & T)
3. Pneumatics

Duration of these short term course is : 40 Hours; 6 to 8 P.M.; On all days including Sat. & Sundays. Fees for the course are: Rs. 3500 plus Rs. 500 for certificate.

Contact persons and address of NTTF, Thoothukudy:
Capt. P.N. William Thangaraj, Unit Head, or Mr.Om Prakash, NTTF Technical Training Centre, SPIC Nagar, Thoothukudy- 628 005. Cell: 94430-47750; Email: nttf_tuticorin@yahoo.com

Insha Allah, we will be covering more short term training courses for engineers in our next post.