Project Based Learning and Publishing Refereed Papers through Course Projects

Publishing quality papers in both International conferences and Journals is one of the great challenges faced by Engineering Institutions. To publish quality papers with scopus index based on the experience of Course Projects which are explored through Project Based Learning. This was considered in third semester MTech. Since the time is too short and is only 12 weeks, we have come up with many ideas and used new innovative process to publish papers in International Conference with Scopus Index. The main purpose is to train the MTech students to publish quality papers in International Conferences/Journals with scopus index through course projects. To publish quality papers with scopus index, based on the experience of course projects require lot of in-depth knowledge, choosing tools and making use of the latest technology. Imparting this knowledge is challenging and is achieved through project based learning. Choosing the latest area was the first challenge. Internet of Things (IoT) was a course in third semester MTech and was selected as the theme for Course Projects and it was compulsory. The students were given a chance to choose a project in the area of their interest under IoT. After selecting a project, optimal and feasible solution has to be selected with innovation. The students as a team have to learn and give a solution to the problem and it should be such that the work carried out should be able to publish the paper in an International Conference/Journals. There were nineteen students in the class and five teams were made out of nineteen students. The target of each team is to publish one scopus indexed paper in International Conference/Journal. All the five teams are able to achieve the goal set and is discussed in the results below. All the five teams formed are able to submit the papers to IEEE International Conference on Advances in Information Technology 2019 (ICAIT2019) and all the papers have been accepted and presented, three will be published in IEEE Explore and two will be published in UGC Referred INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (IJRECE) and all are scopus indexed. It has been a practice to teach a course with emphasis on theory. In this approach a course project was insisted by selecting a problem and giving an IoT solution to the problem. The five teams formed are able to publish five scopus indexed papers one per team and are able to get in-depth knowledge about the course taught. Without this kind of approach, the students would not have published such papers and would not have got in-depth knowledge.