Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

A. B. Raju ¹, Anupama Itagi ¹, Sachin Angadi ¹, V. Sushma ¹, Ashok Shettar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B. V. B. College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli-580 031, IN

Abstract

As education and technology merge, the opportunities for teaching and learning increase even more. However, rapid rate of change in the fields of technology like in Electrical, Electronics and Computer poses special problems for the engineering disciplines and more so in the area of experimental work where major concerns arise. The challenge is to provide students with meaningful, up-to-date and relevant practical exposure within the limitations imposed by finite resources in laboratory infrastructure. Probably one of the viable solutions is to interface students and physical world using computer based techniques. This paper presents some thoughts and demonstrate some implementations on using a low cost open source hardware tool "expEYES" along with existing laboratory equipment in order to give a flexible, easy to evaluate new ideas, attractive and stimulating natural curiosity in students for gaining integrating learning experiences in the laboratories.

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Sujata S. Kotabagi ¹, K. M. Uma ¹, B. L. Desai ¹, Ashok Shettar ¹, Sumit Bhat ², Vivek Pawar ², P. S. Bhat ²

Affiliations
1 BVBCET, Hubli, IN
2 Sankalp Semi Conductors (P) Ltd., Hubli, IN

Abstract

This paper presents a case study of BVBCET which helped in bridging the gap between industry and institute and prepearing students ready for any industry. It is collaboration between Electronics and Communication Engineering department of BVBCET and Sankalp Semiconductor Pvt., Ltd. ventured as Prakalp. In "Prakalp" students interested in the field of VLSI were selected through screening testa and trained intensively by industry experts on fundamentals and advance courses of VLSI to carry out the industry level projects. Best performing students got recruited by Sankalp.

Keywords

Prakalp, Industry-Institute.

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Nitin Kulkarni ¹, Ashok Shettar ², Madhusudan V. Atre ³

Affiliations
1 Centre for Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship-CTIE, BVB College of Engg. and Tech., Hubli, IN
2 KLE Technological University, Hubli, IN
3 Centre for Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship- KLE Technological University, Hubli, IN

Abstract

Industry expectations from the young engineering graduates are changing rapidly. There is also a growing need for employing a large number ofgraduates. This is particularly important in several Tier-2/3 cities in India where a large majority of students graduate in engineering hoping to make a career. Except for a few top institutes in the big cities, most of the engineering institutions are in the Tier-2 cities where there are hardly any industries that can offer jobs to so many engineering graduates. This, results in a large number of graduates with little opportunities for employment, hence forcing them to move to the Tier-1 or Metro cities leaving behind an Intellectual void and a broken and dysfunctional social setup.With globalization of opportunities, being strong in technology basics alone isn't just enough. Ability to think entrepreneurially, dealing with ambiguity, thinking out of the box,intraprenurial approach at work, contributing to and helping to grow the local ecosystem, etc., are some of the competencies looked for by the employers. This paper shares some of the educational interventions undertaken at BVB College, Hubli to build business ecosystem on campus and to engage students as partners, to grow start-up culture.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship, Eco-System, Engineering Education, Entrepreneurship Curriculum, Entrepreneurial Interventions.

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Shivashankar Huddar ¹, Prashant Achari ¹, Sanjay Eligar ¹, Uma Mudenagudi ¹, Nalini Iyer ¹, A. B. Raju ¹, Arun Giriyapur ¹, B. B. Kotturshettar ¹, Nitin Kulkarni ¹, Ashok Shettar ¹

Affiliations
1 B.V. B College Of Engineering And Technology, Hubli, Karnataka 580031, IN

Abstract

This paper discusses enhancement in development of project-based 'product design and realization (PDR)' course for undergraduate students. The course offered at an early stage of the curriculum is aimed at providing engineering design and product realization skills to the students. Creating an appropriate learning experience in product design is challenging owing to its multidisciplinary nature. An innovative multidisciplinary design-to-realization approach is adopted in this course and student teams are required to design and build working prototypes for predefi ned products. This course brings a new perspective to the multidisciplinary approach to teaching product design. Introduction of project based design experience at an early level provides students with an opportunity to develop capabilities to design complex systems in the future. PDR (a 3 credit course) introduced to electrical and mechanical sciences students (EC, EE, IT, IP, A&R, ME) at fourth semester (2nd year) level of engineering in BVBCET, Hubli. The implementation of course is analyzed with respect to attainment of the outcomes (ABET a-k). Also to illustrate the success of the course, the work of students in the form of Product at the end of course is included in results for validation.

Keywords

Design, Electrical and Mechanical Sciences, Outcomes (ABETa-k).

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P. C. Nissimagoudar ¹, Venkatesh R. Mane ¹, Nalini C. Iyer ¹, S. Ramakrishna ¹, M. R. Kiran ¹, K. M. Uma ¹, A. B. Raju ¹, Anisha W. Joseph ¹, K. Hemanthraj ¹, B. L. Desai ¹, Ashok Shettar ¹

Affiliations
1 B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli, IN

Abstract

This paper presents the details of hands on course instruction attempted for the undergraduate programme for automotive electronics course in electrical sciences using virtual industry platform. The design of an Electronic Control Unit for an integrated engine and safety management system developed as part of course project on Automotive Electronics at the undergraduate level in Engineering in the multidisciplinary electrical sciences is proposed. The paper also proposes a course delivery mechanism model based on learn-by-doing approach to incorporate a practical hands-on on the design and validation of automotive control systems to enhance the specifi c learning outcome during the course delivery. The details of a virtual industry platform adopted for the course delivery to impart a team level project delivery and management experience to both the students and the faculty are presented.

Keywords

Automotive Electronics, Course Projects, Integrated Experience, Project Managers, Requirement Document, Sub-Module Design.

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Ashok Shettar ¹, Uma Mudenagudiemail ¹

Affiliations
1 BVBhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli, IN

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In this paper we present an experience of introducing a research experience for undergraduates (REU) course to the VI semester students of B. V. B. College of Engineering and Technology (BVBCET), Hubli. We use survey data to discuss impact of the course in enhancing the attainment of learning outcomes. The course is designed to expose the students to realistic technological research experience. The student under the guidance and supervision of a faculty carries out activities like formulation of research problem, literature survey, conduct of research and reporting of results. They are encouraged write and present paper on the basis of their fi ndings. A college wide a one-day open house is conducted where the experts interact with REU students and give their inputs. The survey results demonstrate that the perception of the students about the course is positive. The course experience also motivates the undergraduate students to pursue higher studies and research careers.

Keywords

Student Outcomes, A-K Outcomes, Curriculum Design, Research Experience.

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Ashok Shettar ¹, B. L. Desai ¹, Nalini C. Iyer ¹, K. M. Uma ¹, A. B. Raju ¹, C. D. Kerur ¹, P. C. Nissimagoudar ¹, Venkatesh Mane ¹, S. Ramakrishna ¹, M. R. Kiran ¹, Sanjay Eligar ¹, Anil Badiger ¹, Anisha Joseph ¹

Affiliations
1 B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli, IN

Abstract

This paper presents details of an industry institute engagement evolved for effectively bridging the gaps & creating readily deployable manpower with the requisite talent and skill set for the automotive industry. The success story presented brings out the details of conceptualization, curriculum design and course delivery model for an interdisciplinary course on automotive electronics at the under graduate engineering program in electrical sciences. Issues of very strong involvement of the industry at different levels of the engagement, including the commitment of the top Management from both sides, and the dedication of the teams involved are discussed. How the faculty from the electronics background have worked together with the faculty from the automobile background to make this successful are brought out. The significant outcomes of this initiative in terms of learning takeaways, improvement in job readiness of the graduates and influence on research initiatives in various relevant domains are presented.

Keywords

Industry-Institute Interaction, Automotive Electronics, Course Design, Industry-Specific Skills.

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Nitin Kulkarni ¹, Ashok Shettar ², Madhusudan V. Atre ³

Affiliations
1 Centre for Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship-CTIE, BVB College of Engg. and Tech., Hubli, IN
2 KLE Technological University, Hubli, IN
3 Centre for Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship-KLE Technological University, Hubli, IN

Abstract

Industry expectations from the young engineering graduates are changing rapidly. There is also a growing need for employing a large number of graduates. This is particularly important in several Tier-2/3 cities in India where a large majority of students graduate in engineering hoping to make a career. Except for a few top institutes in the big cities, most of the engineering institutions are in the Tier-2 cities where there are hardly any industries that can offer jobs to so many engineering graduates. This, results in a large number of graduates with little opportunities for employment, hence forcing them to move to the Tier-1 or Metro cities leaving behind an Intellectual void and a broken and dysfunctional social setup.With globalization of opportunities, being strong in technology basics alone isn't just enough. Ability to think entre preneurially, dealing with ambiguity, thinking out of the box, intraprenurial approach at work, contributing to and helping to grow the local ecosystem, etc., are some of the competencies looked for by the employers. This paper shares some of the educational interventions undertaken at BVB College, Hubli to build business ecosystem on campus and to engage students as partners, to grow start-up culture.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship, Eco-System, Engineering Education, Entrepreneurship Curriculum, Entrepreneurial Interventions.

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Uma Mudenagudi ¹, Ujwala Patil ¹, C. Sujata ¹, G. Shankar ¹, Ramesh Ashok Tabib ¹, P. G. Tewari ¹, B. L. Desai ¹, Ashok Shettar ¹

Affiliations
1 KLE Technological University (Earlier known as BVBCET), Vidyanagar, Hubballi-580031, IN

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the role of summer and winter workshops conducted during vacations in student learning. This is a story of conducting summer and winter workshops, which lead to two student's start-ups. The main goal of the workshop is to make students learn the basics of image processing (IP), computer vision (CV) and computer graphics (CG), so that students are ready to take up real time projects. The workshop is conducted in two phases, two weeks of conceptual learning with hands-on experience with tools, and four weeks of project phase. We observe this workshop is effective in learning the course beyond classroom teaching, as they explore the literature for state of art and design alternative solutions for the real time problems. Summer workshops are conducted during June- July and around 600 students are trained with the help of nine workshops till date.

Keywords

Summer Workshop, Startups.

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Shivaprasad Mukhandmath ¹, Shivashankar Huddar ², Rajashekhar Savadi ¹, Gopalkrishna Joshi ³, B. B. Kotturshettar ¹, Nalini Iyer ², Ashok Shettar ⁴

Affiliations
1 School of Mechanical Engineering, KLE Technological University, Hubballi - 580031, Karnataka, IN
2 School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, KLE Technological University, Hubballi - 580031, Karnataka, IN
3 Centre for Engineering Education & Research (CEER), KLE Technological University, Hubballi - 580031, Karnataka, IN
4 KLE Technological University, Hubballi, 580031, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

In recent years design thinking has taken center stage in the engineering curriculum. The driving force being the society and industries who need graduate engineers who can design, innovative, and creative products to help solve the real-world problems. The current paper discusses the experiences of a systematic approach in defining, teaching, and assessing the engineering design process to freshman engineering students at KLE Technological University (KLETU). The paper begins by defining 'design thinking' followed by briefly reviewing the role of engineering design and its importance in the engineering curriculum. Design is hard to learn but hardest to teach. Efforts have been made, in this work, to bring in the perspective of the pedagogy of activity-based teaching and its challenges and opportunities in teaching engineering design process at the freshman engineering level. This pedagogical approach, for freshman level, resulted in enhanced students learning.

Keywords

Design, Freshman Engineering, Activity, Learning.

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Uma Mudenagudi ¹, Ujwala Patil ¹, Suneeta Budihal ¹, Ramesh Ashok Tabib ¹, M. Shruti ¹, C. Satish ¹, Nalini Iyer ¹, Ashok Shettar ¹

Affiliations
1 KLE Technological University, Vidyanagar, Hubballi - 580031, IN

Abstract

In this paper, we share our experience of introducing data analytics and visualization for students of electrical sciences through Machine Learning course. Typically, electrical science students face challenges in handling and visualizing huge data and its analysis as there is a limited scope in the curriculum. During the discussion with research and development centers of different industries and institutes we found the gap in curriculum, and towards this, we designed the Machine Learning course to introduce data analytics and visualization, and state of art machine learning tool for students of electrical sciences. The course is designed with different levels of exercises and activities to support their learning. Exercises were designed to support conceptual learning and were extended as activities towards solving a given problem. The course project was designed as an extended activity considering problems from online challenges and contests/hackathon towards enhancing their learning beyond the curriculum. The outcome of the course was motivating as industry people appreciated the learning through evaluation.

Keywords

Machine Learning, Visualization, Hackathon, Activities, Online Challenges.

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