VAPS to bridge gap between Institute & Automotive Industry

Abstract The Automotive Industry sector and automotive allied firms have grown significantly far above the expectations in recent years, and their expectations from undergraduates/postgraduates are peaking up every moment. The Automotive Industry pioneers such as Bosch, Mercedes, Continental, Delphi, and many more expect industry-ready graduates, so that they can put them on the project directly without spending much time on the OJT’s(On Job Training). This would greatly reduce the time to market their products. The automotive industry is looking for skilled engineers having strong hands-on experience in embedded C, Model-Based Design & development, communication protocols like CAN, LIN, Flexray, and exposure to modern industry tools like CANalyzer/Busmaster and VMLAB. To address the industry needs stated above, at an institute level every student undergo automotive electronics theory course along with automotive electronics lab as a part of the curriculum during the sixth semester but this does not completely fill the gap, therefore, an Advanced Automotive Course called as “VAPs” is conducted only for the automotive industry placed students after the completion of the graduate program. The paper details about the VAPs conducted for the automotive industry placed graduates. This course greatly helped the students to crack the post-placement test conducted by the industry, and it also has significantly reduced the training programs conducted in the industry. VAPs indirectly boosted the placement count.