FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS at GTU

Report on FDP conducted by Tata Consultancy

Services (TCS) for "Advance Java Programming"

Date: 19 - 20 December, 2014 : Venue: BISAG, Gandhinagar

As GTU is going to introduce revised syllabus in semester 06 of Diploma Engineering courses , In order to help faculties better understand new topics from industry perspective, GTU has organized two day workshop with the support from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for 'Advance Java Programming'. Based on a tripartite discussion with Mr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor GTU, Mr. Rohit Shah, CSR committee chairperson GCCI, Mr. Raj K Jha, ILP Head and Mr. Kishan Gopal, CSR TCS Gandhinagar, GTU shown need to organize FDP for diploma faculties on 19th and 20th Dec at GTU campus Faculties were looking forward to such training and chances of using any methodology and strategy suggested by TCS which can have enormous chances of reaching directly to students in a very short period of time To understand on ground requirement Sunny Arora and Suyog Mittal (both ILP faculties) and Kishan (CSR) interacted with prospective participants Mr. Riyaz Shekh, Ms. Rekha Shah, and Mr. Manisha Mehta. Prof. Kshama Shah, OSD at GTU shared delta change in curriculum : Keeping all inputs in mind ILP faculties under guidance of Deepak Jena prepared the content and Sunny Joshi, Suyog Mittal, Aryan Singh and Manpreet Sidhu contributed extensively in content development For the timely start of the FDP, Mr. Deepak Jena and Mr. Kishan visited BISAG campus a day prior to FDP to ensure software installation for hands on practice Following Software were used for the FDP

• JDK 6 • Eclipse Galileo • Apache Tomcat 6 • Oracle Express Server • Oracle Client

FDP was inaugurated by Mr J C Lilani, I/C Registrtar GTU in presence of Mr. Rohit Shah chairperson for CSR committee of GCCI on 19th Dec. Both expressed their gratitude to TCS for conducting FDP. 19 participants from 15 diploma engineering colleges from across Gujarat participated in the training Mr. Sunny Joshi and Mr. Murali Kashipati conducted first day sessions on JAVA database, client server, Applets and AWT. Deepak Jena and Suyog Mittal conducted day two session on Servelets , JSP and industry expectation & guidance to students The workshop demonstrated and taught the faculties to use excellent teaching methods to enable thestudents to get detailed knowledge in Advance Java Programming. Also well-defined instructional techniquesvalidated by careful, documented, repeatable research that make teaching more effective were taught. These techniques can be introduced slowly and methodically, without compromising coverage of the syllabus.

The workshop also included discussions regarding active learning, various forms of active learning methods and other related techniques to help students in achieving the objectives and outcomes mentioned in the subject.

Feedback of faculties:

• 95% participants were fully satisfied with the experts domain

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• 95% participants benefited and learnt from experts communication

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• 82% participants had indirect learning from experts about handling

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• 68% participants were in full alignment with learning about

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• 38% participants who were in alignment of industry exposure of

experts, mentioned that the time duration for the FDP shall be

extended so that TCS faculties can share more examples

100 % participants were in strong favor about usefulness of FDP

79 % participants were strongly in favor about meeting FDP objective, 21%

were moderately in favor

The following faculies attended the FDP:

Sr.no. Name Institute name

1 Pareshkumarmohanlal tank B & b institute of technology

2 Anil l munani Bbit, v.v.nagar

3 Smtrekha m shah Government polytechnic, ahmedabad.

4 Harshadparmar Government polytechnic himatnagar

5 Hardik j. Prajapati G p himatnagar

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6 Mitesh pardeshi Parul institute of engineering and technology (diploma studies)

7 Dipesh Parul poly technic institute

8 Nehasunilkumarchaurasia Parul polytechnic institute

9 Shruti thakkar Parul polytechnic institute

10 Dileepkumarlabana R c technical insitute sola ahmedbad

11 Ravi gandhi Sarvoday polytechnic institute

12 Vaghashiapratixaben p. Stbs college of diploma eng.

13 Tandel ketanaben manilal Vallabh budhi polytechnic, navsari

14 Patel sandeep shankarbhai Vallabh budhi polytechnic, navsari

15 Brijesh patel S. B. Polytechnic savli

16 Mrs.kalpana r raj Shree swaminarayan polytechnic, sector-22, gandhinagar

17 Ms. Mittal v. Joshi H.b.patel institute of diploma engg. & technology.

18 Mr. Ravi v. Mistry N. B. Patel polytechnic, piludara

19 Sukhadiyaravirajvijaykumar Sigma polytechnic

20 Priti n parikh C.u.shah polytechnic wadhwancity

Harshad R Parmar, Principal, Government Polytechnic, Himatnagar, Dist: Sabarkantha : A real industry institute interaction related to curriculum. Method of teaching with two experts simultaneously is an innovative and excellent experience. This Teaching series is very important for all teachers. The teachers , teaching this subject are strongly recommended go through this training.

Pareshkumar Mohanlal Tank - B & B Institute of Technology,

“Excellent workshop by GTU and TCS ,with Excellent fulfilment of

objectives with every aspect of the subject "Advance Java

Programming"

Dileepkumar Labana - R C Technical Institute Sola Ahmedabad, The FDP was really good and I could update my knowledge regarding the industrial applications of the subject "Advance Java Programming". Such FDP is really helpful to faculties as well as students. I suggest more such FDP’s to be arranged in nearby future

Ms. Mittal V. Joshi - H.B.Patel Institute of Diploma Engg. & Technology, During FDP I could learn how to communicate and share the practical aspects of topic with students during teaching process. I gained detailed knowledge of Industrial applications of "Advance Java Programming". Thanks to GTU and TCS for organizing such workshop.

Padiya Zarana Chandrakantbhai, I/C Director, Shree Laxminarayan Dev College of Computer Applications, The Faculty Development program was very extensive and helped to learn lot of things related to JAVA and the various object oriented tools related to JAVA technology.

Sukhadiya Raviraj Vijaykumar, Sigma Polytechnic, We actually needed such FDP before implementation of revised syllabus in semester 6 in Diploma Computer Engineering. Thanks. I suggest more such FDP’s to get detailed and complete industrial aspects of the subject "Advance Java Programming"

Smt Rekha Manish Shah, Senior Lecturere, Computer Department, Govt Polytechnic, Ahmedabad I am very thankful to GTU for organizing such a good FDP on request of us in a very short notice. The program was very useful to us. TCS team was very co-operative, knowledgeable and enthusiastic. They taught us many technical things. They shared with us their industrial experiences also.

ANIL LADHARAM MUNANI, LECTURER IN COMPUTER DEPARTMENT( B & B POYTECHNIC, V.V.NAGAR GTU has built bridge between industry and education. I would like to say that before any great things are accomplished, A memorable change must be made in the system of education to Raise the lower ranks of society towards higher, which is started by GTU.

Hardik J. Prajapati, Lecturer, IT G.P.Himatnagar , Very nice workshop arranged by GTU with the help of TCS. We have received industrial / practical knowledge from them. I request you to arrange 1 week training for this subject. I also request you to arrange this type of workshops for other subjects also .

Way Ahead :TCS faculties can visit some of the diploma institutes to provide

on ground engagement opportunities to participants. GTU can organize the

visit for TCSers. TCS faculties would like to volunteer for the same. Also Since

time duration was a felt constraint, participants couldn’t have expected

hands on experience. We may consider for one day follow up session for same

faculties

To reach out to Govt Diploma Engg colleges GTU would like to collaborate

with DTE and request TCS to conduct FDPs. Given more than 700 faculties to

be trained, on request of GTU, TCS and GTU can have a formal MoU to

enhance Advanced Java skills of diploma engg faculties