DR.V.N. BRIMS had organized an online BRIMS Connect for the month of June 2020 on 10th July 2020. The BRIMS Connect is an initiative which was started with a motive of connecting the students and the faculty and to inform all the activities and events which occurred in the previous month. This was the 5th Digital BRIMS Connect and was held on Webex platform. BRIMS Connect is an event to showcase the achievements of our faculty members and the students. This event plays an important role as it acts as a platform which recognize, motivate and encourages each student to participate actively not only in the activities within the institute but also to represent the institute in Inter-college level competitions. The winners of various competition are felicitated and share their experience to motivate other students.
The event commenced with the activity description in which Dr. Nitin Joshi, The Director of the Institute had attended a program on Happiness.
Prof. Dr. Pallavi Chandwaskar and Prof. Vibhuti Save had attended an FDP organized by Satish Pradhan Dnyansadhna College from 30th May to 3rd June 2020.Prof. Kanchan Akshay and Prof. Dr. Arloph Johnvieira had conducted 3rd batch of Online Soft skill program from 1s t June to 5th June with 31 participants. The feedback from the batch was shared and the participants found the program to be very beneficial.
On 4th June Dr. Nitin Joshi had created Videos on Goals setting which was shown to the students to motivate them and help them to choose the goals. From 4th June to 6th June Prof. Krunal K. Punjani attended 3 days online FDP on “Writing High-impact Research Papers, Effectively and Efficiently”. On 6th June Dr. Nitin Joshi received a certificate as Happiness Coach.
Prof. Siddhesh Soman conducted a 1-day Webinar on 6th June, topic was 'Advancing your career in Finance with CFA'. Over 25 participants from various institutes attended the session. The feedback of the session was also shared in which students liked the session. From 8th June to 15th June Prof. Krunal K. Punjani successfully completed a Research Consultancy towards mentoring & guiding a PhD Scholar for the Literature Review & Questionnaire Design part.
From 15th June to 19th June Dr. Smita Jape, Dr. Meenakshi Malhotra, Prof. Krunal K. Punjani & Prof. Mahesh Bhanushali ideated, designed, marketed & successfully organised the 3rd Batch of online 5 Days FDP on “How to Publish Research Paper in Scopus Indexed Journal: A Step by Step Approach”. where the participants had great practical learning out of it.
Dr. Smita Jape, Prof. Dipiti Periwal, Dr. Meenakshi Malhotra and Prof. Siddhesh Soman conducted an online course from 15th June to 25th June on ‘How to Invest in Stock Markets'. A total of 35 participants attended this session & all the participants had great practical learning out of it. From 16th June-20th June IQAC at DR BRIMS Conducted Student Satisfaction survey as a Quality Initiative at DR VN BRIMS which was conducted by Dr. Pallavi Chandwaskar and Prof. Sandeep Moghe. Now, one of the student representatives of IQAC, Poorva Ajgaonkar will tell about the initiative.
On 17th June Dr. Nitin Joshi conducted Ph.D. Viva for Pacific University Online. On 17th June Prof. Vibhuti Save was selected as a Reviewer for Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal (Scopus Indexed Journal)
On 18th June Dr Smita Jape was appointed as Editorial Board Member in International SKIREC Publications for two years. On 20th June Prof. Vibhuti Save created a video as a part of Student Engagement.
From 24th to 29th June Prof. Kunal attended 5 days Online course on 'Digital Marketing A to Z' conducted by Prof. Seema from IIM Bangalore. Admin office followed up with AICTE for the EOA i. e. Extension of Approval for our institute. They completed the formalities of documentation and received our EOA with approval for 180 seats for MMS.
Prof. Krunal Punjani declared winners of Innobiz June 2020 Problem Statement. The winners then presented their solution note to all the members.
Prof. Dr. Arloph designed a course in Supply Chain Management with 2 Modules. An inaugural lecture of the course was also conducted on Sunday, 28th June. Also, Prof. Dr. Arloph’s article got published in the Supply Chain Pulse Journal
The list of webinars attended by the Faculty was displayed.
The institute has found out the innovative ways for conducting this ‘BRIMS Connect’ on either WebEx or YouTube Live. So Covid-19 crisis could not hit such a wonderful event of Connecting the students and Faculties. The world is going through a crisis in which a little help which we can offer is by Staying Home and breaking this chain of spreading. So, Stay home and keep Learning. Acquire new skills because ‘Knowledge is Power’.
The video was prepared by 1st year MMS student Sujay Patil and 1st year PGDM student Ajay Sarse. The anchors for today’s event were 1st year MMS student Abhishek Patil and 2nd Year MMS student Vinit Poojary.
The event ended with the thank you note to all the stakeholders of the institute on a positive note.
Report By: Abhishek Patil
MMS-First Year