Practitioner's Perspective course provides a foundation to aspiring students who want to understand design, innovation by design research and basics of design research that are essential for design consultancy and entrepreneurship. It explores how design thinking flows into iterative, back and forth stages to address the challenges and issues discovered, through a meticulous and empathetic inquiry with the user. The course familiarises students with design lifecycle, user studies, data collection, interpretation and data analysis methods along with creating design solutions, prototyping and evaluation methods and tools. Illustrated case studies, gamified user study techniques and the knowledge gained on sustainable and responsible design give students a broader understanding of the multidisciplinary subject.

The World Economic Forum ranks problem solving, critical thinking and creativity as the top three skills employees need in order to thrive in the workplace of the future. In a 2020 learning trends report by LinkedIn Learning's survey, 57 percent of business leaders said soft skills are more important than hard skills in job performance. According to an article published by Luxatia International, a human-centred design approach is extremely important to bridge the generation gap and challenges faced by organisations.

This course helps students build a foundation in the design thinking process, provides insights into the theories, contexts, principles and methods to understand user experience scenarios and issues. It helps students to systematically investigate, redefine and synthesise a given problem as an opportunity to design, to redefine and to build creative solutions. It also enables students to develop prototypes, evaluate and test solutions, create guidelines and recommendations.

Hands-On

• Students need to perform hands-on assignments using MS/Open Office tools.
• Students will have to leverage this environment to complete the industry assignment as well as to complete Part B of the summative assessment.

It is a part of information risk management, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It involves preventing or at least reducing the probability of unauthorised/inappropriate access, use, disclosure, disruption, deletion/destruction, corruption, modification, inspection, recording or devaluation of information. It may also involve reducing the adverse impacts of incidents. As per a NASSCOM report, increasing incidents of cyber-attacks, and subsequent data protection efforts globally are expected to create US$35 billion revenue and generate employment opportunities for about a million professionals by 2025 in India

Information Security - Practitioner's Perspective is a course in which students will learn and demonstrate their ability to identify computer and network security threats, classify the threats, and develop a security model to prevent, detect, and recover from attacks. They will also learn to encrypt and decrypt messages using block ciphers, sign and verify messages using well known signature generation. Verifying algorithms, analysing of existing authentication and key agreement protocols, and identifying their weaknesses are also a part of the course.

Hands-On

• A virtual hands-on environment is integrated within the course.

Industry expert

• Ajit Menon, Chief Security Officer, TCS

Academic expert

• Alok Tripathi, HOD(Tech) and Chief Controller of Examinations, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), H.Q. New Delhi

It is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. The term is generally used to describe data centres available to many users over the internet. Large clouds, predominant today, often have functions distributed over multiple locations from central servers. If the connection to the user is relatively close, it may be designated as an edge server. A report by Great Learning estimates that there will be more than a million cloud computing job roles in India by 2024 as more and more organisations shift their operations to the cloud infrastructure.

Applied Cloud Computing is a course which gives students an understanding of cloud computing and teaches them to store, manage, process, share and collaborate on data and information with high speed and accuracy. Cloud computing is one of the latest technological changes from local servers to using the network of remote servers.

Hands-On

• Students need to create and use their own AWS/Azure account for hands-on.
• The above mentioned hands-on configuration will be leveraged by the students to complete the industry assignment as well as to complete the Part B section of the summative assessment

Industry expert

• Deval Bhavsar, Cloud Automation and Devops, TCS

Academic expert

• Dr. Tarachand Amgoth, Assistant Professor, IIT Dhanbad

According to Mordor Intelligence estimates, the cyber security market size in India is expected to grow from USD 3.97 billion in 2023 to USD 9.21 billion by 2028, at a Compound Annual Growth rate (CAGR) of 18.33% during the forecast period 2023-2028.

Today as more and more businesses go online, the number of cyber attacks has soared as evidenced by high-profile data breaches, ransomware or distributed denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. This situation calls for developers and managers with skills to strengthen online systems against cyber attacks and make systems secure. This course aims to achieve that goal by thoroughly covering the basics of common cyber attacks, their defences and common security good practices in the real-world.

Practical Approach to Cyber Security is a course that helps students to empower and enhance their proficiency in cyber security. It provides guidance on cyber security trends, industry best practices, protective measures against cyber threats, and more.

Hands-On

• A virtual hands-on environment is integrated within the course.
• Students will have to leverage this environment to complete the industry assignment as well as to complete the Part B section of the summative assessment.

According to a report by CISION PR Newswire, the cyber security market growth in India is anticipated to continue during the forecast period, FY2023 - FY2027, with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 8.05% to achieve a market value of USD3543.37 million by FY2027.

The Advanced Cyber Security - An Application Approach course deals with Cyber Security from an information security management perspective. The course includes application security, secure software development life cycle and emphasises on the need for implementing security in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phase. The course also covers IT strategy management, business continuity planning, planning defence mechanism against cyber attacks, information security standards, information security policy management, access control management and the objectives of security control

Hands-On

• A virtual hands-on environment is integrated within the course.
• Students will have to leverage this environment to complete the industry assignment as well as to complete Part B of the summative assessment.

Academic expert

• Alok Tripathi, HOD(Tech) and Chief Controller of Examinations, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), H.Q. New Delhi

Industry expert

• Prince Komal Boonila, Founder and Director, Synergy systems

Innovation and Entrepreneurship are part of the essential 21st century skills and mindset that enables students to meet with future challenges and market competitions. Innovation and Entrepreneurship are not just words or events, it's an ongoing, iterative, non-linear process. In the era where knowledge is power, innovation and entrepreneurship are the drivers of growth - the key to build a strong economy and nation. Let us learn about these 21st century skills, mindset, and attitude to contribute towards building #Aatmanirbhar Bharat.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a hands-on, action-oriented, practical-based learning course that will imbibe the required mindset, attitude and skills through enhancing creativity, curiosity, persistence and grit, problem solving, leadership, business acumen and more, among learners. The course involves a structured and thoughtful scientific process for innovation and creating a startup venture by identifying real market needs and business opportunities by validating ideas and converting them into actionable, marketable, impactful solutions. This course helps learners understand that the innovation process is not linear or step-by-step, but iterative, intuitive, non-linear, and need-based. "Learning by Doing" approach is what students learn during this course which enables them with the common process that entrepreneurs take to build successful ventures.

Hands-On

• A practical hands-on team-based project will be an integral part of this course while going through the learning modules, and students will have to apply real-world scenarios to understand the Innovation and Entrepreneurial journey.