Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 TTTI Chandigarh and Educational Consultant, Pune, IN

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The paper emphasizes that in order to plan educational development in 'Engineering Education', the planner must view the educational system as operating at five levels. For educational development to occur the system should change at all these levels&should be manned by educational professionals. Professionals in education draw their expertise from educational sciences&educational technology disciplines. There are various categories of educational professionals, but all of them should have a solid base in the foundational disciplines of Educational Technology. Here ET is defined as Technology of Education; use of scientific concepts, principles&techniques for improving educational practice. Attempt has been made to describe key concepts. Educational authorities should identify specific strategies at all levels to be able to change system. All strategies should aim at developing collective consciousness of the importance of Educational Technology to bring about change in orientation, Lastly, list of projects is made.

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In the OCT IDEC 1994 issue of this journal, I had reviewed a book TOBIN DR : Re-educating the corporation. The main thrust of this book was the advice to the business corporations to ensure sustained learning effort for the long term development of the corporation. This advice is, however, based on the assumption that everyone knows what "learning process" means.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 Educational Consultant, TTTI, Chandigarh, IN

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This article is intended to communicate to all educational policy-makers and administrators that today scientific strategies are available for them for bringing about qualitative improvement in technical education. This is possible only when all participating in this venture acquire scientific knowledge and skills from the variety of educational sciences.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹, N. V. Ratnalekar ²

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1 Pune, IN
2 Journal of Engineering Education, Pune, IN

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Purpose of This ArticleThe Journal of Engineering Education has for the last few years provided a forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of Engineering Education to express their ideas and views about the field.

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P. D. Kulkarni

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With the change as the only permanent feature of the economic & social scenario, all profit & non- profit organizations have corne to realise that the conventional bureaucratic, hirearchical structures & management no longer can sustain the onslaught of forces of change. In designing the conventional management system, the basic assumption is that the wisdom lies only at the top of the hierarchy, while the people down the line in the organization are merely followers.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹, M. M. Malhotra ¹

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1 T.T.T.I., Chandigarh, IN

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At all levels in the field of education, it is becoming increasingly apparent to scientifically oriented educators that educationists should discard their folk-lore approach to education. Within the educational context, the goals of education methods and media of communication, evaluation etc.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 NITTTR, Chandigarh, IN

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Engineering colleges and polytechnics belong to the formal education sub sector :- "professional higher education" .The theme of this article is that Professional Higher education needs to be professionalised , because the present Engineering Education system operates on the assumption that educational functions like learning, teaching, curriculum design and development, institutional level, state level and national level educational policy making and management need skills which can be learned on the job through observation and imitation.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 TTTTI, Chandigarh, IN

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The task of bridging research and practice in Higher Technical Education requires an agenda that allows for the flow of information, ideas and research questions in both directions from researchers in education to practitioners of education.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 NITTTR, Chandigarh, IN

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This article is an attempt by the author to present to the readers of JEE a brief summary of the report: CERI "Interdisciplinarity - Problems of teaching and research in University, (1970) OECD.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 T.T.T.I., Chandigarh, IN

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The diploma&degree engineering educational system is the important component of the total educational system. To-day's society is techno-social in nature&even this system is dynamic in nature. To build up&maintain this system requires qualitatively educated&trained people who can proactively act to maintain quality of technical education. The policy-makers&designers of the Engineering Education System must attend to the main question of improving quality of education. The only way to maintain such quality is to professionalise the education personnel i.e. there must be a professional instructional designers, curriculum designers, institutional designers&state level educational systems designers.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 T. T. T. I., Chandigarh, IN

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Supreme Court's ruling on capitation fee by professional colleges has created unprecedented problems for the State Governments , students and the management of self financing institutions of higher learning.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 T.T.T.I., Chandigarh, IN

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This article explains the importance of all types of organisational' research in improving organisation performance. Effective adoption of new technology to the existing organisational procedures can be brought about only when all key actors join in organisational research & learning. They must choose all methods of learning; vicarious, simulation, prototyping & on-line learning. Ultimate success depends upon the extent to which each individual&group 'learn how to learn ' systematically. All these ideas have great relevance to the state of Maharashtra whose technician education system is being quantitatively&qualitatively improved through the WB assistance.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 TTTI Extension Centre, Pune, IN

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Analysis of the Current SituationThe present technical education structure comprises about 600 Polytechnics conducting predominantly.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 Formerly Principal of Technical Teachers Training Institute, Chandigarh, IN

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The author welcomes the publication of the Journal of engineering and Technology education by the NITTTR, Chandigarh. But he stresses that the beginning should be made on the basis of the sound understanding of the nature and the scope of the Journal. NITTR should explicitly define the purpose more clearly by identifying its customers and their needs for the information, pay attention to the selection of the content of the Journal, composition of the editorial board and its strategy to maintain focus on the objective of the Journal and the role NITTTR management should play to link faculty development programmes to the suit the objectives of the Journal.

This paper focuses on the system of formal higher technical education.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 Pune, IN

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The technical educational institutions of hi g her learning are facing quality improvement problems. The system as a whole - national, state & institutional level -- need to be transformed to enable them to adapt to the changes in the country caused by liberalization of economic policies.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 T.T.T.I. Extension Centre, Pune - 411 016, IN

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The whole project is divided into three sub-project subcomponents - Capacity Expension, Quality Improvement and Efficiency Improvement.

"Capacity Expansion" subcomponent envisages starting new diploma and advanced technician's courses, strengthening newly established polytechnics, new polytechnics in emerging areas for women's education, strengthening community polytechnic network, and bettering hostel facilities for students and residential quarters for staff.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 TTTI, Chandigarh, IN

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This book is written for people who want to be leaders in education In this era, the powers of the leader do not emnate from their legal clout, but from their ability to elicit the enthusiastic and voluntary involvement of students, teachers, community residents and official hierarchy, for improving effectiveness and efficiency of the educational institutes.

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P. D. Kulkarni

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Human learning is complex, but fascinating process. But there are few books which can be used as text books for explaining this process in an integrated way - combining behavioural, social learning and cognitive learning to give a total perspective of the learning process.

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S. K. Bhattacharya ¹, P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 TTTI, Chandigarh, IN

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This book by Dr S. K. Bhattacharya on "Quality assurance in Technical Education" is written as a reference book for teachers, HODs, principals, state level managers handling Technical Education (TE).

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 TTTI Extension Centre, Pune 16, IN

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One of the objectives of the TTTl's is to bring about changes in the Technician Education System : to improve class-room teaching by the teachers; to better curriculum management by the HOD; institutional management by the Principals; & State level educational planning & management by the Directorate.

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P. D. Kulkarni ¹

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1 Technical Teachers Training Institute, Extension Centre, Pune - 411 016, IN

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The paper stresses the importance of systems ,approach to problem-solving in technical education. Since the present system is under steady environmental pressure to improve its performance, planning for change in the system on the long range basis at all levels of functioning-national, regional, state, institute and the class- room level-is essential.

The paper explains how the systems concept could be used to design staff performance appraisal system linking it to staff development&through it the total educational systems development. The concept of system change cycle is introduced here.

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