Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

H. S. Chandrashekar ¹, B. R. Nanditha ¹, A. Geetha Kiran ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Information Science and Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, IN

Abstract

In the current era of web, students are flooded with sea of information available on the internet. A teacher should be an efficient navigator who can guide the students to swim in the right direction to achieve their dreams. In this context, training engineering faculty is the need of the hour as most of the faculty would not have undergone formal training unlike other professions. In a scenario where students are losing interest in traditional teaching methods, an attempt is made to improve the efficiency of teaching by making trainers experience the novel methodologies of teaching before they apply them in their teaching methods. One such attempt in this direction was made to enhance the teaching skills of engineering teachers by conducting a workshop on "Effective teaching of Data Structures and Applications". Trainers expressed their satisfaction about the improvement in their quality of teaching that resulted in better understanding of concepts among students.

Keywords

Trainer, Effective Teaching, Visualisation.

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A. Geetha Kiran ¹, J. Mohana Lakshmi ², B. R. Nanditha ¹, H. Y. Swathi ³

Affiliations
1 Information Science & Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, Karnataka, IN
2 Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, Karnataka, IN
3 Electronics and Communication Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

Our educational policy fosters young students to have broad perspective, high level expertise and logicality. The education system is not coping up with the same pace as technology changes are happening. Therefore, it is essential to tackle this situation with new ideas and adapt education to the changing needs. The interdepartmental educational programmes have already met new academic needs. Reinforcing this standpoint a unique approach on interdepartmental collaborative learning has been initiated by the department of Information Science &Engineering and Electrical&Electronics Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan. This approach aims in promoting wide inter-department learning process where students from two different departments are conjoined to venture interdisciplinary projects. The students of 3^rd semester from both the departments were allowed to choose a particular domain of their interest and design prototypes for various applications. As a back - end support, the subject experts jointly nurtured the ideas of students and helped them to give a practical shape to their ideas. Further, adding a hardware component offered an opportunity to increase student engagement by strengthening programming concepts with relevant hardware projects. This process helped the students to work together in different domains learning new interesting solutions for different problems and has provided mutual beneficial results.

Keywords

Interdepartmental Collaboration, Project Based Learning, Collaborative Approach.

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A. Geetha Kiran ¹, B. R. Nanditha ¹, H. S. Chandrashekar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Information Science and Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, IN

Abstract

In the era of transformation in engineering education, tutorial finds a place as an important teaching-learning tool. Tutorials are small classes in which material from lectures and readings are discussed in more detail. Tutorial classes can be used effectively for emphasizing problem solving which plays a vital role in improving the comprehensive ability of students. Tutorial classes demand more resources in terms of tutors, classrooms and time. Hence, many engineering colleges in India find it difficult to accommodate tutorials in their curriculum. In an effort to address this issue, the idea of utilizing the assistance of volunteered senior students for conducting tutorials was conceptualized and experimented for two courses. The outcome was the successful conduction of tutorial classes, wherein both tutees and tutors were significantly benefitted. Students interacted very well as they were more comfortable with senior students as tutors.

Keywords

Tutorial, Problem Solving, Small Group Teaching, Tutee, Tutor.

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