Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

B. B. Kotturshettar ¹, B. S. Kakol ², S. V. Khandal ²

Affiliations
1 Mechanical Department, BVBCET, Hubli-580031, IN
2 IPE department, BVBCET, Hubli-580031, IN

Abstract

It has been experienced that an event based evaluation system always fails to evaluate the real learning of a student, as it emphasizes on memory based preparation and fails to provide the information on regularity in learning. Further, it is needed to engage students who are less oriented academically in learning and assessed in quick successions so that they are not burdened of preparing too much for the examination that are conducted after a long gap. Hence, it is always advisable to spread the evaluation evenly to entire span of the learning period. In the education system there were some efforts to reduce the period in between the evaluation events and it is successfully reduced to 6 weeks in a semester as of today. Still this period is not providing the continuity in the evaluation as this period also is considerably large. The paper proposes, weekly test as an effevtive tool to reduce the gap between Continuous Internal Evaluations (CIE) and this performance is considered as major component of overall CIE for theory courses. The paper provides the performance improvements in CIE of students in various courses and proves to be a better assessment process.

Keywords

Weekly Test, CIE, Standard Deviation, Assessment, Feedback.

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Gururaj Fattepur ¹, B. B. Kotturshettar ¹, B. S. Kakol ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Industrial and Production Engineering, BVBCET, Hubli, IN

Abstract

Contextual learning is one of the best ways to convey students the concepts that are being taught in a subject area to real industrial problems so that students are exposed to provide a real-world, product-based framework to integrate and expand the learning experiences from different courses and lab exercises and can enhance their engineering knowledge and skills. This innovative teaching learning process of Contextual Learning is being adopted in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering for the students of third semester to eight semester and context of study is ASME #150 Gate Valve. This paper focuses on adopting this practice for third and fourth semester students in understanding the generalised design procedure and assembly of valve. Activities were carried out through an open ended experiment in Engineering Design Lab of third semester and a Self study component in Design of Machine Elements at fourth semester to convey the modelling and design concepts of gate valve. This paper concludes with the challenges encountered for the continual improvement for adopting this method of learning.g.

Keywords

Integrated Approach, Product-Based Learning.

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