Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

B. Yakub ¹, Santosh Madeva Naik ², Azeem Unnisa ¹

Affiliations
1 ECEl, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN
2 Mechanical, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

Abstract

In Today's scenario, all the instructor are trying to mould themselves to engage students in learning through doing engineering than just studying engineering to meet the need of the 21st century learners. In this paper, EPICS initiative implementation which promotes doing engineering is being described and also focused on describing the training which team instructor had gone through and what learning's & experiences were gained are explained briefly. The results showed that Instructors enjoyed the training and had lot of learning as they were working with real community partner for whom they developed and delivered the product as per the problem identified using design thinking process. This type of learning experiences can be improved by using better resources and significant time for doing project as the training described in this paper was short duration. The goal of this paper is to identify need of the old age people in terms of support to bare the capacity of weight of a person by depending on table while having food and medicine. The table should have Strong and convenient one. The table should enough to sustain the weight of the old people while having food and medicine. The table should have a ortability based on old age people requirement.

Keywords

Teamwork, EPICS Project, Community Service

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Santosh Madeva Naik ¹, Hema Mahajan ², B. Yakub ³, M. Sreeramulu ¹

Affiliations
1 Mechanical, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN
2 CSE, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN
3 ECE, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

Abstract

The traditional method of teaching is no longer effective so every instructor wants to use new pedagogy to enhance students learning and knowledge. Many challenges are faced by the instructors in teaching to Mechanical Engineering graduates where grabbing students' interest towards the concepts is difficult. Hence, there is a need to have different methodologies to understand course concepts. Moreover, without the knowledge of course content the practical implementation from lab to industry becomes a herculean task. Renewable Energy is one of the subjects in mechanical engineering for III year I semester that needs practical application to understand the importance of the subject and its impact in our daily life. Therefore, instructor has conducted PBL (Project Based Learning) for solving society based problems by following design thinking process. This paper gives insight on the conduct of the activity planned, executed and its success by following the design thinking process. The impact of this activity encouraged many students to implement the same way of learning in renewable energy subject.

Keywords

PBL, Teamwork, Solar Cordless Grass Cutter.

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