Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

M. R. Tejonidhi ¹, B. Uma ¹, H. Y. Swathi ², R. E. Margaret ³, A. M. Vinod ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Information Science and Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan – 573202, Karnataka, IN
2 Department of E & C Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan – 573202, Karnataka, IN
3 Department of Master of Computer Applications, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan – 573202, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

Mentorship in institutions of higher education supports personal and professional development of faculty as they transit into new roles as teaching faculty. Mentorship programs attempt to address several types of common needs among new faculty, such as professional development, emotional support, intellectual community, role models, accountability, sponsorship, access to opportunities, and substantive feedback. New faculty members start their profession without any formal training in teaching. But teaching is a skill which can be best acquired through constant hard work, observation and interaction with senior faculty members. In an attempt to better train young faculty, they were made to choose a senior faculty as their mentor. This mentorship programme benefitted young faculty in several dimensions.

Keywords

Mentorship, Engineering Education, Teacher, Students.

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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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