Learning Methodology
At SCIT a semester pattern, that is, 2 terms per academic year is followed. At the beginning of the term, the syllabus along with the names of reference books, authors and the evaluation policy is communicated to the students. No text books are prescribed as students are expected to explore and learn by referring to books, implementing concepts in the labs and collecting references from the Internet etc. SCIT also has a digital library with a spectrum of e-books and magazines.
SCIT's evaluation policy has external as well as internal evaluation. The internal evaluation is carried out continually and consists of any combination of several components such as projects, lab tests, presentations, whitepapers etc. The main objective here is to evaluate learning.

Internships
Internship in the industry is an integral part of the 2-year academic programmes at SCIT. It provides excellent opportunities for SCIT students to get a first hand experience of business realities. Before working as interns, SCIT students work on pilot projects, a replica of what happens in the industry. This enables them to make a quick start in learning from the "LIVE" environment during an internship project, a new perspective that a classroom cannot generate. In the past, most of the SCIT students have worked with reputed companies and have contributed significantly; some have even traveled abroad for live projects.

Some projects carried out by SCIT students are highlighted below:
. Market Research, Business Development, Planning and Executing Sales
   Cycle for Siemens Access Control Systems
. RF Engineering and Optimization of CDMA Network
. Pre-Sales of Storage Solutions
. Need Assessment Method of Financial Service Sellers
. Distribution System for Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
. Developing an Intranet MIS
. Marketing of Disaster Recovery Solutions
. System Development for Insurance Company




Projects

Collaborative Projects
SCIT makes a conscious effort in tracking technology advancements and transformations that businesses are going through. The students as well as the faculty of SCIT undertake various industry projects as well as R & D projects that cover this area of study.
In the year 2006, SCIT students worked jointly with the students of Epitech, Paris on 2 software projects. In continuation of these projects, 9 students visited SCIT and stayed at SCIT for a month. It was an immensely fruitful association for both institutes involved.

Some Important Industry Projects:
SCIT also encourages students to work on industry projects. Among the many projects, a project on Knowledge Management was carried out in Open Source for ParTecs Technology in Rome; one on developing a Web-based Marketing Tool for Schebeck in India, and one on VPN Implementation on LINUX.

ParTecs: An SCIT Development Project with an Italian Company
SCIT has recently commenced a development project with 9 of its senior students at the 'SCIT Resource Center', a wing where students develop assignments received from the industry. In view of SCIT's strong interest in Linux and Open Source, the current year saw SCIT winning an extremely interesting project from ParTecs Participatory Technologies, Rome, Italy.

SCIT and ParTecs
SCIT has worked on a component of ParTecs' flagship product ParTecs SRL 1.0, dealing with participatory knowledge management (PKB). 9 of its senior students will be developing this using Open Source Technology.

Participatory Knowledge Base (PKB)
A self-managed collective repository of news, articles, reports, facts, and opinion pieces, in different text, audio and video formats is the main aim of PKB. It enables open posting, as well as decentralized and participatory rating and classification of digital information, primarily text, but also audio and video.
With PKB securely authenticated, profiled users can submit relevant, original or third-party information, participate in information rating, information classification as well as maintain custom editorial pages etc.
The PKB also helps members with their decision making and thus interacts with other modules to source data required in decision making.

EPITECH: French project
The monsoon of 2006 saw SCIT welcoming a group of 9 French students, who worked with the institute's first year students on 2 projects.

Toy'd (Take over your desktop)
Toy'd is an advanced next-generation Window Manager built on top of Aoof-Wm, an Advanced Object Oriented Framework designed specifically for the development of portable Window Management Systems. The Toy'd is powered with several unique features.

Research and Development Projects
Research orientation is an important part of learning at SCIT. Students need to register and work on a dissertation. SCIT presently works in these broader areas of research.
• Requirement Engineering
• Information Security
• High Availability
• IPV6
• Multi Protocol Label Switching