Edtech Startup Skill-Lync Partners with CORDOBA to Upskill Professionals in Automotive Embedded Software Development & AUTOSAR

The automotive industry is rapidly advancing with the development of embedded software, Edtech startup Skill-Lync has announced its partnership with CORDOBA to upskill professionals in automotive embedded software development.

This will provide the students with a unique opportunity for potential applicants to gain first-hand experience with AUTOSAR and their own MATLAB licenses. This is an extension of Skill-Lync's existing partnership with Mathworks, which will grant candidates the chance to be certified by Mathworks while they operate on their own MATLAB licenses. With these tools, candidates will be able to complete 5 industry-applicable live projects.

The program will aim to bridge the industry skill gap by providing experienced professionals with the specific skill sets that the industry demands, especially in the automotive space. With the rise of electric vehicles and advancements in automotive technology, the need for skilled embedded software engineers has increased significantly, and this program is designed to equip candidates with the necessary skills to stand out in a competitive job market.

The 22-week live program is designed for experienced professionals in the automotive industry who want to upskill in advanced embedded software development concepts such as C/C++, CAN and UDS, Multicore Microcontroller Programming, AUTOSAR, Model-Based Development using MATLAB and Simulink, and Functional Safety. It includes 6 modules where candidates will have the opportunity to work on 5 industry-relevant live projects and receive a co-branded certificate from NSDC and Skill-Lync upon completion, as well as the option to obtain an IEEE Certification.

“The success of the industry is greatly dependent on having the right professionals who are knowledgeable in the latest technologies to spur innovation and development. Skill-Lync's unique program for advanced embedded development is a step in the right direction to address the need for specialised talent, and we eagerly anticipate the effect it will have on the market," said Suryanarayanan PaneerSelvam, Co-Founder and CEO of Skill-Lync.

At the end of this program, students will receive a co-branded certificate from both NSDC and Skill-Lync, as well as become eligible for an IEEE Certification.

"Our executive embedded program is designed to act as a significant catalyst for our candidates professional journey, with a focus to help support specific industry skill requirements and supporting our learners to become the engineering leaders of tomorrow." said Rohan Kochar, Business head at Skill-Lync.

These developments come in the wake of Global Market Insights' prediction that the Automotive Operating Systems Market would experience a CAGR of over 10% by 2030. Moreover, the Asia Pacific region is projected to have the fastest-growing market for automotive software, with a CAGR of 20.4% from 2020 to 2025.

The program offers maximum flexibility for candidates, with options to choose a construct and services best suited to their needs, including job assistance, an upskilling-focused package, and individual modules. This program is a result of close collaboration with corporate hiring partners to meet the industry demand for advanced embedded skills, particularly in the automotive sector. It aims to equip candidates with the necessary skills to take up high-value roles in the embedded domain.

About SKILL-LYNC:

Skill-Lync was launched in April 2015 by Suryanarayanan P (CEO) and Sarangarajan V (CTO) to address the lack of quality and application-based learning in the Indian engineering education system. It is currently focused on providing students with two different models, available both online and offline:

• 6-12 month post-graduate courses focused on providing in-depth industry-relevant technical knowledge to students along with a strong portfolio of projects that are aimed to help them get relevant jobs
• 6-Month programs at physical Skill-Centers, where the students are provided with access to hands-on practical experience with relevant hardware and software from the experts

Edtech Startup Skill-Lync to Upskill Over 500 Engineers with Its 5G Technology Course

Skill-Lync, one of India's largest Engineering Ed-Tech platforms, today announced the introduction of its new 5G Network Design and Development post-graduate course. Designed to address the current gap between the demand and supply of telecom industry talent, this 36-week program covers topics such as 5G Radio Networks, Open RAN, 5G Core Networks, 5G Telco Cloud, and 5G Protocol Development & Testing. The cost of this program is up to INR 2 lakhs and will teach students from ECE, EEE, CSE, and I.T backgrounds on how to set up 5G networks using open-source tools.

The course focuses on continuous assessments with 7+ hands-on projects in addition to weekly challenges; after completing it students will receive a certificate from Skill-Lync certified by NSDC (National Skill Development Corporation). So far over 30,000 students from 80 countries have upskilled themselves using Skill-Lync across India, Middle East and North Africa A (South East Asia), U.S., Canada, Australia & Europe; nearly 100 companies are currently hiring engineers for roles such as Mobile Operators OEMs IT/ITES companies System Integrators Hyperscale & consulting companies.

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Established in 2015 with a mission to make students industry-ready through advanced industry-relevant courses; Skill-Lync has established itself as a credible partner for organizations looking for an upskilled talent pool.

Speaking on the announcement, Krishna Bandaru, Chief Business Officer, Skill-Lync said, “Most colleges’ curriculum only covers technologies like 2G and 3G whereas the industry requires upskilling in the 5G technology. Our aim is to bridge this gap through our course by making available 22 million skilled manpower by 2025 needed to reap the benefits of 5G in India”.

India is not only providing a platform for Indian telecom operators like Jio, Airtel and Vodafone, but also global operators such as Rakuten (Japan) and Dish Networks (U.S.) are setting up engineering teams here. Many prominent Original Equipment Manufacturers like Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung have a large presence in India, managing the networks of over 200 operators across the world. Therefore, we need a vast talent pool for the upcoming generations of networks.

Founded in 2015, Skill-Lync, an edtech engineering platform, provides advanced industry-relevant courses to make students industry-ready. It has established itself as a credible partner for organisations building an upskilled talent pool.

Engineering EdTech Giant Skill-Lync Launches Offline Embedded Software Program EV Applications in partnership with Cyient

The program will help students get jobs in Engineering R&D companies like Cyient, Expleo, TATA Elxsi, ZF, KPIT etc. as an Embedded Engineer.

Students will be eligible for placement services within 45 days into the 6 month program

Edtech start-up Skill-Lync, which helps upskill engineering students, announced the launch of its offline PG Program in Embedded Software Development & Validation for EV Applications in partnership with Cyient at the start-up’s Chennai skill centre. Given the tremendous response to its online course, Skill-Lync is now replicating this unique coursework offline. The course is a six-month-long program where the curriculum will focus on development, testing & validation, which are critical requirements for acquiring technical core jobs. It will include flexible courses keeping pace with the dynamic industry requirement in the Automotive and Electric Vehicle sector. Along with the availability of onsite subject matter experts for one-on-one guidance, a student will also get a hardware kit that will help enhance their hands-on experience.

Certified by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), Skill-Lync will provide unlimited access to courses and software access for the offline version. Students will also work on numerous industry-oriented projects to help them apply their skills and build a great portfolio in embedded electronics. These students will be eligible to apply for job placement after completing 45 days of the six-month program, with Cyient being one of the hiring clients.

Surya Narayanan PaneerSelvam, Co-Founder of Skill-Lync, said, “We received an exemplary demand from students to launch our programs offline. We wanted the course to be highly beneficial to students in terms of learning tech skills and hands-on experience with relevant hardware and software. We partnered with Cyient, who is planning to hire 500+ embedded engineers and has also co-developed the course. While rapid adoption of online learning will continue, offline programmes will enhance learning and solve real-time queries in-person through interaction and project work.”

Previously, Skill-Lync had launched a curriculum on Embedded Systems Development and Validation defined by Cyient to bridge the skill gap and reduce the training costs for the incoming workforce. The start-up also provided 500 Embedded trained professionals to meet the requirements defined by Cyient.

Additionally, Skill-Lync has revolutionised engineering education by bridging the skill gap between students and the industry. It has established itself as a credible partner for organisations looking at building an upskilled talent pool and providing job offers to engineering students after completing the course.

New Course in Masters in Digital Commerce with Conversational AI Chatbots by Skill-lync

New course offering by Skill-Lync for aspiring chatbot developers and business analysts

Students from any discipline can apply

The skillsets of Chatbot Developers and Business Analysts are in great demand across the industry today

This course has been developed in partnership with Yellow.ai

Chennai, 9th September 2021: Skill-Lync, India’s leading engineering education startup, announces the launch of Masters in Digital Commerce with Conversational AI Chatbots course. This course is specially crafted for aspiring chatbot developers and business analysts. Students from any discipline can apply. The course curriculum consists of Complete Front End Development, Java Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms using Java, Databases, Business Analyst Fundamentals, NodeJS API Development, MongoDB, and Introduction to Yellow Messenger. The course fee for this program is Rs 1,50,000/-.

With the rise in digital commerce driving the need for large scale B2C interactions and round the clock customer support, companies are increasingly adopting AI-based automated solutions to ensure good customer experience and faster turnaround times. This has created the booming demand for Chatbot Developers and Business Analysts who understand the underlying product and have the ability to drive development in-line with business goals. The program is designed to provide this expertise, providing learners with robust technology & business understanding which are must-have traits in any business today.

SuryaNarayanan PaneerSelvam, Co-Founder of Skill-Lync said, “There is an exponential growth of AI & ML technologies in almost every sphere of industry, especially the digital commerce firms. Business analysts and chatbot developers would need to go hand in hand to analyze and redefine how businesses grow and interact with end-users. This course is specially designed for students aspiring to be dynamic business analysts and chatbot developers to plug the gaps between businesses, technology, and human interactions.”

Yellow.ai, previously known as Yellow Messenger, has contributed to the program structure and content to meet the existing business needs in the industry. In view of the learning outcomes and their own talent needs, Yellow.ai would be considering the graduates of this Master’s program for opportunities within the company for the roles of Studio Developers and Business Analysts.

Yellow.ai is a leading CX Automation Platform having 700+ Global Enterprise Customers with 60% of them being from India. They have raised US$78.15 Million in Series-C funding recently, with investors like Sapphire Ventures, Westbridge Capital, and Salesforce Ventures coming on board.

Skill-Lync is an e-learning platform that aims to revolutionize engineering education by bridging the skill gap between students and the industry. Skill-Lync offers industry-relevant, projects-based advanced engineering courses for Mechanical, Automotive, Aerospace, Electrical & Electronics, Instrumentation, Civil & Structural, and Computer Science Engineers.

Skill-Lync is the brainchild of two Mechanical Engineers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who wanted to make a positive impact on engineering education in India. What started as a YouTube channel in 2015, is today a startup with over 500 employees with offices in 3 cities (Chennai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad) and another opening in Pune in September 2021. With more than 700 students joining every month, Skill-Lync has over 6000 active students spanning across 23 countries. Skill-Lync is the first startup from Chennai, India, to be backed by Y-Combinator (W19 Batch).

American Firm Ansys Ties with Indian Startup Skill Lync for Free Online Courses on Electric Vehicles to Indian Students

Ansys is known to develop, market and support engineering simulation software used to predict how product designs will behave in real-world environments. Their sole focus is Engineering Simulation. With consistently advancing technology, Ansys has been leading the engineering simulation world for over 45 years.

Skill-Lync provides job leading courses for Mechanical, Electrical and Civil Engineering students in India and across the world. Whilst being just four years old, Skill-Lync has pioneered advanced engineering education for mechanical engineers and has placed over 300 students overall.

06 January, 2021, India: In a bid to provide in-depth learning on Electric Vehicles to undergraduate engineering students in India, Chennai headquartered global startup Skill-Lync partners with global leader in design & simulation software provider Ansys to launch ‘basic courses in Electric Vehicle (EV) technology’ for free. The course covers different mechanical and electrical aspects of simulations with respect to an Electric Vehicle including design & simulation and setting up of the charging infrastructure.

With the world leaning towards greener ways to re-engineer things, the future is looking bright for electric vehicles. Which is why it is extremely prudent for engineering students - both mechanical and electrical engineers in their undergrad to understand the different aspects of electric vehicles. As part of this partnership, Ansys has provided access to several softwares to create an introductory course to understand the basics of electric vehicles. The course enables students with essentials in the fundamentals of Ansys Fluent®, PExprt, SI Wave, Maxwell® and Icepak. The duration of this course is 8-12 weeks. Students can complete the courses using the Ansys student version of the software available free of cost.

Skill-Lync founders Suryanarayanan Paneerselvam and Sarangarajan Iyengar (L-R)

The Basics of Electric Vehicle Simulations course is designed to give students a walk-through on how different EV components are engineered using simulation. The course covers everything from the design of key components, basics of battery thermal management and computational fluid dynamics. It is split into 4 components wherein each component deals with one particular aspect of an Electric Vehicle. The 4 components which are covered include Battery Thermal Management System, Electric Motor Design, DC-DC Converter Design and External Aerodynamics.

To quote the words of, Surya P, Co-founder & CEO, Skill-Lync, “There is no other platform in the world that focuses on teaching in-depth technical skills to non-software engineering students the way we do. We strongly believe that EV will play a significant role in the future of the world and these students will be building tools that will help Electric vehicle OEM's and their suppliers predict and simulate real world scenarios through Ansys products. Our courses are designed based on the assessment of the current and the future needs of the job market. Our partnership with Ansys allows students to learn through one of the best simulation platforms in the world.”

Speaking about the partnership, Mr Rafiq Somani, Area Vice President - India and South Asia Pacific, Ansys, said, “Ansys has always been committed in the skilling of future engineers and Electric Vehicles are the future. Multiphysics simulation simultaneously considers key physical aspects involved in the design of an EV. Ansys is happy to play our part alongside Skill-Lync in ensuring that engineers of tomorrow are well equipped with knowledge pertaining to EVs. Our simulation technology and software will aid in the same.”

Industry leaders and companies in computer aided engineering simulation software are joining Skill-Lync in this endeavour. With this partnership, both Ansys & Skill-Lync are aiming to make sure that students have access to high quality training material & software that will be able to make them understand the crucial concepts of Electric Vehicles, and eventually lead them to play a crucial role in the future of the automotive industry too.

About Skill-Lync:

Skill-Lync is an e-learning platform that aims to revolutionize engineering education by bridging the skill gap between students and the Industry. We offer industry-relevant, projects-based advanced engineering courses for Mechanical, Automotive, Aerospace, Electrical & Electronics, Instrumentation, Civil and Structural Engineers.

Skill-Lync is the brainchild of two Mechanical Engineers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who wanted to make a positive impact on Education in India. What started as a fledgling youtube channel in 2015, is today a thriving start-up with over 200 employees, offices in 3 cities (Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad) and over 5000 students spanning 23 countries. Skill-Lync is the first startup from Chennai, India to be backed by Y-Combinator (W19 Batch).

EdTech Firm Skill-Lync Launches World's 1st Skill-based Semester-Assist Program for Mechanical, Automotive & Aerospace Engineers

Ed-tech and online major, Skill-Lync (a Y-Combinator backed company) - with a mission to revolutionize Engineering Education around the world - today announced the launch of Skill-Lync Professional Semester-Assist Program (PROSAP) for Mechanical, Automotive and Aerospace Engineers.

15 Lakh Engineers graduate in India every year. In this broken education system, most engineering graduates grapple for the few job opportunities available in the core OEM and allied industries.

There exists a huge skill gap between what the industry expects from students and what the curriculum prepares them for, reducing the employability quotient of Indian Engineers at the end of their 4-year degree. Students who enroll in this Professional Semester-Assisted Program will up-skill and build a technical profile in parallel to their under-graduate education.

PROSAP, allows engineering students to choose an area of interest in which they want to pursue their career allowing them to work on one project-based technical course every semester from the first Semester to the eighth Semester. Engineering education today, is one size fits all, but every engineering student has a different dream, an unique goal that drives them, some might want to become a motorsport engineer working with F1 teams, while others would want to become an aerospace engineer working on spacecraft aerodynamics, rocket propulsion, while others still would want to chase a dream in electric vehicle design & simulation.

With PROSAP, a student will build their technical portfolio in their area of interest right from day 1 of college and work on 25x more projects than a typical undergraduate student. Unlike the current university curriculum, PROSAP focuses on building students' skills in their areas of interest. That is why PROSAP offers electives to help prepare the students for a wide range of technical careers. PROSAP helps students take a data-driven approach to understand areas where they are performing well against areas where they do not excel in, allowing students to make an informed choice about their future career.

The Indian Government's self-reliance and Vocal for Local policy will give the right impetus to the manufacturing and the auto sector, especially the nascent EV market in the coming years. With countries around the world distancing themselves from China in the aftermath of COVID19, there are trade opportunities opening with other countries and development of large swathes of tier two/three cities as new manufacturing hubs.

India's growth in the coming years is inextricably tied with the students of today. And we need not just teach them but skill them with industry knowledge to lead the charge.

"Skill-Lync aims at reimagining Engineering Education in India. With PROSAP, we democratize a world-class, skill-based, technical education for every engineering student especially from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities who aim for a great career," said Surya P, Co-founder and CEO of Skill-Lync.

Skill-Lync updates curriculums at 12X speed when compared to many popular US universities. This helps their students stay in the know of the latest technological developments in their domain. PROSAP's curriculum is not only crafted in consultation with industry experts, students get to interact with experts and mentors, in live and online sessions through the four years, who will help shape their careers.

PROSAP Streams include

• Autonomous Vehicles - R&D


• Advanced Automotive Engineering - Electric Vehicle & Hybrid Electric Vehicle


• Advanced Automotive Design & Engineering


• Manufacturing design & engineering


• Computational Mechanics for Mechanical Engineers


• Automotive R&D - Fundamental Research

Students in the PROSAP stream will be encouraged to try out multiple domains and streams right from the first year so that they know where they shine.

PROSAP is now open for First and Second Year Mechanical, Automotive and Aerospace Engineering Students.

About Skill-Lync

Skill-Lync is an e-learning platform that aims to revolutionize engineering education by bridging the skill gap between students and the Industry. We offer industry-relevant, projects-based advanced engineering courses for Mechanical, Automotive, Aerospace, Electrical & Electronics, Instrumentation, Civil and Structural Engineers.

Skill-Lync is the brainchild of two Mechanical Engineers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who wanted to make a positive impact on Education in India. What started as a fledgling youtube channel in 2015, is today a thriving start-up with over 200 employees, offices in 3 cities (Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad) and over 5000 students spanning 23 countries. Skill-Lync is the first startup from Chennai, India to be backed by Y-Combinator (W19 Batch).

For more information, please visit: www.skill-lync.com

NEAT- AICTE Partners with EdTech Startup Skill-Lync to Provide Technical Training

In an attempt to ensure that there is no hiatus in student education during the ongoing lockdown, Govt of India's All India Council of Technical Education - NEAT announced partnership with Chennai based Edtech startup Skill-Lync. The global startup Skill-Lync is first-of-its-kind engineering technical education platform that provides job leading courses for Mechanical, Electrical and Civil Engineering students in India and across the world.

During COVID19 outbreak, under this partnership, Skill-Lync has opened up its Rs. 50,000. worth Mechanical Engineers Essentials program to students from AICTE. Interestingly, they've had over 15000 subscribers to their free online coursework in the last two weeks itself and the number is growing by the day.

Given the extended at-home learning requirements that the industry is catering to, this partnership is aimed at accelerating the online learning process for mechanical, electrical & civil engineering students. Until now most computer science students had access to coding platforms that taught them industry relevant skills. But a lot of non-software core engineering domains missed out on this. This also accelerates the adoption of online learning for non-software engineering domains.

There is a great amount of push from the government to safeguard student education including professional & technical skills. Recently, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the immediate launch of 'Pradhan Mantri e-VIDYA' initiative for digital education which is likely to give a boost to Edtech startups across the nation.

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Speaking on the announcement, Surya P, Co-founder & CEO, Skill-Lync, said, “Our aim is to provide students access to in-depth technical skill sets that would give them a good exposure to industry oriented problems and how it gets solved. We want to ensure that students get exposed to all the technical skills that industries are/will look for. This introductory set of courses allows engineers to get a clear idea about what domain that they need to specialize in as they enter into their professional career. During these tough times, the right use of digital technologies can go a long way in achieving the goals laid out by the government. This partnership with AICTE is to support Government's initiatives in enhancing digital learning and deal with the ‘new normal' in an efficient way.”

Talking about the courses, Surya added, “Currently we are offering free courses and live bootcamps every week. These are specially designed for learning Matlab & Python for Mechanical Engineers, CFD using SolidWorks, FEA using SolidWorks and MBD using SolidWorks. These courses provide a good amount of introductory knowledge in numerical simulation, computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis and multi body dynamics.”

Amidst COVID, Skill-Lync saw 6-fold growth in its subscribers as compared to last month. The interesting thing is not only did they see traffic coming in from India, but had users signing up for the course from US, Europe and Asia. Last month the startup released a Masters in Electric Vehicle Design and Simulations coursework, which is India's first Master course to focus in the area of EV.

Skill-Lync is backed by global investors including Better Capital's – Vaibhav Domkundwar, Y Combinator and Founder of Gmail & YC Partner – Paul Buchheit.

Chennai Startup launches India's 1st Master Course Focusing Electric Vehicles

First of its kind engineering technical education platform Skill-lync releases a Masters in Electric Vehicle Design and Simulations coursework, India’s first Master course to focus in the area of EV

 

• The startup is upskilling Mechanical, Electrical Engineers around the world during this Covid19 period


• Sees 6X growth in its traffic specially from US, Europe and Asia

 

 

Chennai headquartered global startup Skill-lync announces the launch of a special masters course in Electric Vehicle Design and simulation. The startup provides job leading courses for Mechanical, Electrical and Civil Engineering students in India and across the world. This special course is the first such curriculum in India which focuses on Electric Vehicles (EV). With colleges shut and students looking to make the most of the time that they are at home the startup has fast tracked the development of this program and releasing it amid Covid-19.

The cost of the special course would be Rs. 2,75,000 and has two types of duration for students thinking of opting for a full time or part-time option. 

Officially founded in April 2018 by Sarangarajan V(CTO) and Suryanarayanan P(CEO), both had their  first hand impact due to the lack of quality and application based learning in the Indian undergraduate education system. Skill-Lync was earlier started out as a YouTube channel to share engineering tips, but today it is an online training course for mechanical engineering candidates. It operates three different types of courses, ranging from one-off modules to full-time curriculums.

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Understanding that there is a significant skill gap similar to Mechanical Engineering in other nonsoftware engineering domains, the company’s focus is to help non-software engineers accelerate their career. This is important, because in India more than 70% of engineers are non-software engineers. This represents 5.6 million new engineers who are currently pursuing their engineering degree. Skill- Lync’s content generation engine, technical support engine and student success engine is setup to address the needs of non-software engineering students accelerate their careers.

Amidst Covid, Skill-lync’s YouTube channel, which contains free technical webinars and explanations on short technical concepts, saw 6-fold growth in viewership as compared to last month. The interesting thing is not only did they see traffic coming in from India, but had users signing up for the course from US, Europe and Asia. US contributed to more than 10% of their website traffic. 85% of this total traffic is coming from Asia, 10% from Americas and 4% from Europe. A vast number of students are applying from countries like Pakistan, UAE, South Korea, Saudi, Singapore, Japan & China for the courses. 

In Americas, 92% of the students came from US, the remaining majorly from Canada, Brazil & Mexico. Students from US have been Skill-lync’s second highest demography of premium subscribers followed by Europe. 

“As a whole the automotive industry is shifting to developing Electric or hybrid electric vehicles. But there is no educational institution in India or across the world that is focussed on teaching the technical aspects specific to these domains. Students are the ones who get affected by this gap. So we decided to get in touch with some of the best industry experts and develop a course that will aid Electrical & Electronics engineers with skills that will help them get equipped for the EV future.” Said Surya P, Co-founder & CEO, Skill-Lync.