Academic Excellence – Challenges and Opportunities Maharastra – Technical Education First visit...

Academic Excellence – Challenges and Opportunities

• Maharastra – Technical Education• First visit to GHRCE April 2011• Dedicated Faculty• Motivated Students• Enthusiastic Management• GHRCE - 1996 – Accredited – TEQIP II - Autonomous(special)• Technical education 10 years rapid• 26,000 HEIs, 3000 Technical Institutions

April 18, 2023 1N C Shivaprakash, IISc, Bangalore


What an Engineer is?

• Engineering is for learning

• Engineering is for doing (Practice)

• Engineering is for living – Self Esteem

• Engineering is for Society

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Charter of Institute of Engineers

• Promote and Advance Science

• Practice

• Business (Entrepreneur)



National Academy of Engineering

• Challenge - Frontier Engg. IT,BT,NT

• Inspire - Multidisciplinary,

Research, Develop (LCA)

• Education - IIT, NIT, Univ, Industry

• Innovate - Compete, IPR,

CollaborationApril 18, 2023 4N C Shivaprakash, IISc, Bangalore


• Knowledge of Mathematics, Science, Engineering fundamental

• Engineering specialization to the conceptualization of Engineering model

• Identify, formulate, research literature and solve complex Engineering problems

• Communicate effectively on the complex Engineering activities

• Understanding the societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues

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• Understand and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities

• Understand the impact of Engineering solutions in a societal context

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of management and business practices

• Demonstrate a knowledge of, and need for sustainable development

• Recognize the need for, and have the ability to engage in independent and life long learning



CONCERNS• Substandard infrastructure and inadequate faculty• Undue magnification of the strengths of a few

private HEIs• Higher education has become a business enterprise• Admission of ineligible and below average students

by HEIs through capitation fees etc and producing mediocre manpower and unemployable workforce.

• Enhancing gross enrolment ratio from 10% to 15% (250 new Universities plus 15,000 new colleges)



Institution of Higher Education on Diversity and Pluralism

• State Universities• Affiliating Universities• Central Universities• Deemed Universities• IISc• IITs • IIMs• Institution of National Importance (NITs)• Institution for Science Education Research (IISERs)• Prívate Universities• National Universities



• Constituent College

• Affiliated Colleges – Professional Colleges like Engg. Teacher Education, Social Work etc.,

• Government Colleges

• Private Colleges – Aided

• Aided Colleges with unaided courses

• Totally unaided Colleges/Self - financing

• Autonomous Colleges

• Rural Vs Urban etc.



Quality

With increase in demand for higher education, leading to rapid expansion and establishment of technical, professional and general institutions of higher education of heterogeneous nature.

The need for a dependable quality assurance mechanism has gained importance



To achieve quality, we need to work together

collaborate with others, tolerate differences,

respect diverse views because

“None of us is as smart as all of us”

(Johnson and Johnson)



• Why Accreditation?

• Development of Nation - Education • Quantity and Quality• Many – parameters• Benefits of Accreditation• Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats• Planning and resource allocation • Funding agencies



• Innovative and modern methods of

pedagogy

• Direction and identity

• Society with reliable information on quality

• Employers - quality of education

• Promotes intra and inter-institutional interactions



BENEFITS TO INSTITUTIONS…

• Recognition and ranking on National and

International level

• Assurance of Quality education and good practices to

stake-holders (Parents, Students, Industries etc)

• Attracting better students intake.

• Identification as Institution of Excellence and

provider of Quality human capital to organizations.



BENEFITS TO INSTITUTION ….

• Eligibility for financial grants by AICTE’s R&D,

EDP, TAPTEC, MODROBS etc.

• Funding for short-term courses through ISTE and

DST.

• Exemption from AICTE’s Extension Approvals.

• Increased students intake.



BENEFITS TO INSTITUTIONS…• Helps the institution to know its Strengths, Weaknesses,

Opportunities and Threats.

• Gives institutions a new sense of direction and identity.

• Enhances collegiality on the campus.

• Initiates the institution into innovative and modern methods of

pedagogy.

• Helps to identify further areas for planning, resource allocation

and continual improvements.

• Step towards Autonomy or Deemed Status.



Challenges • Best practices• Human resources / Faculty• Infrastructure - state of art • Employable students• Post graduations (40,000 required)• Research – Consultancy – IPR • Research Projects – all…



Opportunities• Decentralization – responsibity – accountability• Empowerment of Faculty and students• Create cell : TPC, IQA, EDC, Industry- Institution –

Interaction , R and D, Consultancy and sponsored project

• Developing a core competence and specializations• Skill development for industry • Finishing school; opportunity for Innovation -Robo



Opportunities

• S – others..

• W – We have to..

• O - Vary from Institution to ..

• T - depends on Institution

• Extension Lecture Programme (over 700)

• Internal and External academic audit (MANIT)



Gaps between Indian Institutions and counterpart abroad

• Creativity, discoveries and innovativeness• Institute – Industry interaction• Commercial exploitation of research – Patent - IPR• Produce more post-graduates and Doctorates• Optimization of size of the institutions• More budgetary allocation• Academic freedom• Active and productive Research• More technical universities



• Engineers Trained v/s Informed

• Project 1950

• Gunn Diode

• In Science, IDEAs

• PENCIL (US)

• FAIR and LOVELY (Japan)



IDEALs

• Sachin Tendulkar - Cricket

• EINSTEIN, C V Raman

• Humor: One should be humorous.

Gandhi said I would have got suicide

but for my humor.

• Humility - Libig - Bromine (written

as Iodine and Chlorine)

• Humanism: Soltin – chain reaction.



Coming back to Einstein

• In 1905, 3 discoveries, PEE – Noble prize

• Soup and EGG

• Teaching wife – relativity

• Teaching relativity to common man –

Paradox – Twins

• Einstein Driver

• E = mC2

• Last year Question paperApril 18, 2023 23N C Shivaprakash, IISc, Bangalore


• CERN

• Big Bang; GOD particle (Higgs Bosan)

• 27 Kms

• Collision of protons

• 18 months experiment

• Dark energy 95%



• C V Raman

• Health problem – did not go abroad

• Sea voyage - Raman effect

• 1KW X-ray - Brain

• S Chandrasekar

• Venkararaman Ramakrishnan



Story of Chicken in USA• Aristotle (Nature of the chicken)• Newton (Chicken is at rest…. Motion tend to cross the road) Einstein (Whether chicken has crossed the road or Road moved .. Frame of reference) • Heisenberg (Not Sure which side of the road chicken was, but Moving very fast)• Pauli ( already there was a Chicken on the other side)



QUOTES

• Good Teacher - understands the subject• Great teacher - understands the student and teach • Good Doctor - understands the medicine• Great Doctor - understands the patient• Good Engineer - understands the engineering• Great Engineer - understands .. ( Sir MV); 15 Sep Engg Day; 28 Feb – Science Day• Scientists - Don’t read• Engineers - Don’t write



Conclusion:• Higher studies• Placement• Entrepreneur : CDOT - Success Story: Mr Venkata Rajendran – Son Hotel - Daughter : Fashion design• Washington accord – ABET• Autonomous – Deemed University• Reputation


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