Development of Life Skills and Professional Practice (WBSCTE)
Development of Life Skills and Professional Practice (WBSCTE)

Author: Shalini Verma

Publisher: Vikas Publishing House

Published:

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 9325974207

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Life skills are essentially individual abilities that help in promoting mental well-being and competence in people to deal with the various situations in life. This book presents various aspects of life skills, including communication, self-analysis, self-development and study habits. These are crucial elements in determining one's personal and professional growth. Developed in accordance with the new syllabus of the West Bengal Council of Technical Education and written in an interactive style, this course book will help the students inculcate the various life skills and enhance their acceptability and growth in this highly competitive world. Key Features • Opening Case Study in every chapter, along with case-analysis-based class discussion, to encourage students to apply their analytical skills • Assess Your Understanding to test understanding and assimilation of the information shared in the passages • Story Time with short, interesting stories that allow young learners to develop critical thinking skills and draw some moral lessons from them • In-class Team Activity in the form of role plays, debates, discussion, etc • Experiential Learning to gauge the students' understanding of the concepts and to measure how much of the learning they are able to apply in real life

Development of Life Skills and Professional Practice
Development of Life Skills and Professional Practice

Author: Verma Shalini

Publisher: Vikas Publishing House

Published:

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9325976099

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Life skills are essentially individual abilities that help in promoting mental well-being and competence in people to deal with the various situations in life. This book presents various aspects of life skills, including communication, self-analysis, self-development and study habits. These are crucial elements in determining one's personal and professional growth. Written in an interactive style, this course book will help students inculcate the various life skills and enhance their acceptability and growth in this highly competitive world.

Development of Life Skills-II
Development of Life Skills-II

Author: Shalini Verma

Publisher: Vikas Publishing House

Published:

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 9325982439

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Life skills are essentially individual abilities that help in promoting mental well-being and competence in people to deal with the various situations in life. This book presents various aspects of life skills, including communication, self-analysis, self-development and study habits. These are crucial elements in determining one's personal and professional growth. Developed in accordance with the new syllabus of the West Bengal Council of Technical Education and written in an interactive style, this course book will help the students inculcate the various life skills and enhance their acceptability and growth in this highly competitive world. KEY FEATURES • Opening Case Study in every chapter, along with case-analysis-based class discussion, to encourage students to apply their analytical skills • Assess Your Understanding to test understanding and assimilation of the information shared in the passages • Story Time with short, interesting stories that allow learners to develop critical thinking skills from the old classics • In-class Team Activity in the form of role plays, debates, discussion, etc • Experiential Learning to gauge the students' understanding of the concepts and to measure how much of the learning they are able to apply in real life

Business Communication: Essential Starategies for 21st Century Managers, 2nd Edition"
Business Communication: Essential Starategies for 21st Century Managers, 2nd Edition

Author: Shalini Verma

Publisher: Vikas Publishing House

Published: 2014

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9325981173

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This book Business Communication: Essential Strategies for Twenty-first Century Managers brings together application-based knowledge and necessary workforce competencies in the field of communication. The second edition utilizes well-researched content and application-based pedagogical tools to present to the readers a thorough analysis on how communication skills can become a strategic asset to build a successful managerial career. With the second edition, Teaching Resource Material in the form of a Companion Website is also being provided. This book must be read by students of MBA, practicing managers, executives, corporate trainers and professors. KEY FEATURES • Learning Objectives: They appear at the beginning of each chapter and enumerate the topics/concepts that the readers would gain an insight into after reading the chapter • Marginalia: These are spread across the body of each chapter to clarify and highlight the key points • Case Study 1: It sets the stage for the areas to be discussed in the concerned chapter • Case Study 2: It presents real-world scenarios and challenges to help students learn through the case analysis method • Tech World: It throws light on the latest advancements in communication technology and how real-time business houses are leveraging them to stay ahead of their competitors • Communication Snippet: It talks about real organizations/people at workplaces, their on-job communication challenges and their use of multiple communication channels to gain a competitive edge • Summary: It helps recapitulate the different topics discussed in the chapter • Review and Discussion Questions: These help readers assess their understanding of the different topics discussed in the chapter • Applying Ethics: These deal with situation-based ethical dilemmas faced by real managers in their professional lives • Simulation-based Exercise: It is a roleplay management game that helps readers simulate real managers or workplace situations, and thereby enables students to apply the theoretical concepts • Experiential Learning: It provides two caselets, each followed by an Individual Activity and a Team Activity, based on real-time business processes that help readers ‘feel’ or ‘experience’ the concepts and theories they learn in the concerned chapter to gain hands-on experience • References: These are given at the end of each chapter for the concepts and theories discussed in the chapter

Operations Research, 4th Edition
Operations Research, 4th Edition

Author: Kalavathy S.

Publisher: Vikas Publishing House

Published:

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9325963477

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Operations Research is the discipline of applying advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions. It helps the management to achieve its goals by using scientific techniques, making the study and understanding of operations research even more important in the present day scenario. This book has been written with the objective of providing students with a comprehensive textbook on the subject. It follows a simple algorithmic approach to explain each concept, often giving different steps. This approach stems from the author’s experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students of Madras University and Anna University, Chennai, over many years. One of the highlights of this book is the solved-problems approach, as each chapter in the book is substantiated by a large number of solved problems. Many of the questions that have been incorporated are from previous examination papers of various universities. In addition, each chapter has numerous exercise problems at the end and a section on short questions with answers.

Technical Communication for Engineers
Technical Communication for Engineers

Author: Shalini Verma

Publisher: Vikas Publishing House

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 767

ISBN-13: 9325990180

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Technical Communication for Engineers has been written for undergraduate students of all engineering disciplines. It provides a well-researched content meticulously developed to help them become strategic assets to their organizations and have a successful career. The book covers the entire spectrum of learning required by a technical professional to effectively communicate the technicalities of his subject to other technocrats or to a non-technical person at their proper levels. It is unique inasmuch as it provides some thoughtful pedagogical tools that help the students attain proficiency in all the modes of communication. Key Features • Marginalia, which are spread throughout the book to clarify and highlight the key points. • Tech Talk passages, which throw light on the latest advancements in communication technology and their innovative use • Application-based Exercise, which encourages the readers to apply the concepts learnt to real-life situation • Language-based Exercise (Grammar & Vocabulary) to help readers assess their language competency • Ethical Dilemma, which poses a complex hypothetical situation of mental conflict on choosing between difficult moral imperatives • Experiential Learning-based Exercise (Project Work) devised to help learner ';feel' or ';experience' the concepts and theories learnt and thereby gain hands-on experience

Machine Drawing
Machine Drawing

Author: K. L. Narayana

Publisher: New Age International

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 10

ISBN-13: 8122419178

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About the Book: Written by three distinguished authors with ample academic and teaching experience, this textbook, meant for diploma and degree students of Mechanical Engineering as well as those preparing for AMIE examination, incorporates the latest st

Mastering Cloud Computing
Mastering Cloud Computing

Author: Rajkumar Buyya

Publisher: Newnes

Published: 2013-04-05

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 0124095399

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Mastering Cloud Computing is designed for undergraduate students learning to develop cloud computing applications. Tomorrow's applications won't live on a single computer but will be deployed from and reside on a virtual server, accessible anywhere, any time. Tomorrow's application developers need to understand the requirements of building apps for these virtual systems, including concurrent programming, high-performance computing, and data-intensive systems. The book introduces the principles of distributed and parallel computing underlying cloud architectures and specifically focuses on virtualization, thread programming, task programming, and map-reduce programming. There are examples demonstrating all of these and more, with exercises and labs throughout. - Explains how to make design choices and tradeoffs to consider when building applications to run in a virtual cloud environment - Real-world case studies include scientific, business, and energy-efficiency considerations

Communication Skills for Engineers
Communication Skills for Engineers

Author: Sunita Mishra

Publisher: Pearson Education India

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9788131733844

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The new second edition of Communication Skills for Engineers brings in a sound understanding and insight into the dynamics of communication in all spheres of life - interpersonal, social and professional. The book hinges on the premise that effective communication is an outcome of using the right combination of skills alongside an appropriate attitude. -- Publisher's description.