PTC’s Certified User Program through ATC Partners, India

Last Week, I had an opportunity to attain PTC’s Annual Authorized Training Center (ATC) meet,
L E A P 2013 at Hotel Hayatt Regency in Pune. It was great to meet Mr. John D Stuart. SVP Global Education and Country Manager PTC Romania, Eduarda Camacho, VP Partner Services, Mr. Sajith Mohan M.P Director – Education Program and Mr. Rafiq Somani AVP and Country Sales Manager, India

Over 100+ ATC partners participated for this year’s annual summit, shows success of the program started 6 years back. L E A P is great platform to network with other ATC partners and learn about best practices of successful ATCs.  It also provided a unique opportunity for partners to interact with senior management from PTC to gain further insights.

PTC announced the PTC Certified Professional Program, a comprehensive testing program that validates the skills of PTC Creo users based on the latest release –Creo 2. The ATCs would provide the high quality training services on PTC Creo software through In-centre training classes. On successful completion of the program, student would go for the certification test designed and developed by PTC.

While discussing, John D Stuart said “We want to set a new standard of excellence for using PTC Creo for product design and development in India. With our ATC partners we would provide world class training, material, methodology and certification” 

With John D Stuart. SVP Global Education and Country Manager PTC Romania

I think this is very good initiative by PTC, thousands of engineering students undergo training on various CAD products throughout India. Having a quality course content, trained instructor and the latest tools would help students to equip him with the right skills.

“Our motive behind starting the ATCs in India is to bridge the gap between opportunities and skills by bringing engineering students and industry closer to prepare every engineering student for a competitive, global industry” Said John D Stuart “We have target of training around 8000+ engineering students on Creo 2 this year” adds Eduarda Camacho

The industry always complains about the lack of required skills in the fresh engineering graduates. Such, well designed programs would definitely play a vital role to benefit both Industry as well as students. Using tool to its optimum would simulate the innovations in new product development and save time and cost on the product development.  Higher proficiency in using Creo would help students to land into good jobs in India and abroad as well.

“With very high competition among engineering students, they are often looking for ways to set themselves apart from their peers and gain a leg up on the competition,” said John D Stuart “Our Certified User program provides validation of their skills and helps them continue their pursuit of careers in design.”

PTC Certification Program Site

To support this activity, PTC have launched a special website http://www.ptcgsindia.com with simple UI, where the students will find the

-          List of ATCs in India

-          List of courses offered

-          List of trained Instructors

-          List of Students

This list includes the database of students; those who have registered for the ATC program and those who have passed the certification exams. The employers looking for the resources can directly access this list to hire a certified user. 

PTC provides course kit, which includes training manuals, scribbling pad, and pen. Also, monitor and make sure that the instructors follow the PTC training methodology. 

 I had chance to interact with the ATC partner GNA – IMT, Phagwara Punjab. Chitta Ranjan Tripathy of GNA – IMT said that “PTC ATC program is very unique; they provide and support us with the latest tools, world class training material developed by PTC University. So, students trained following the PTC methodology have edge over the other students at the time of interview, we easily get 100% placement for the PTC certified students”

 With Mr. Chitta Ranjan Tripathy of GNA – IMT

It was great to know that more then 500 students are trained on PTC tools by GNA – IMT every year and placed in local companies and MNCs in India and abroad. 

Another ATC partner said that “Creo is one of the best parametric tools, once students are trained on it. They can easily learn and understand any other parametric tool if requires”

  

“I am very delighted with the growth and quality of the Authorized Training Center (ATC) program in India. We are looking forward to implement similar certification program through ATC partners in US and Europe in future”   concludes John D Stuart

Check it.

 http://www.ptcgsindia.com/index.aspx