Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

P. V. N. Saichandu ¹, Santosh Madeva Naik ¹, L. B. Bharath Raju ¹

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

Abstract

Now a days learning through direct standing instructions is not measurable. In order to enhance the learning of students for core engineering subjects, student should participate in the process facilitated for their learning. Cognitive&Collaborative learning are learning tools suitable for R&AC course. This paper focuses on the improvements occurred on how a student reasons information&student team work.

Keywords

Collaborative Learning, Cognitive Learning, Teamwork, Engineering Students.

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Santosh Madeva Naik ¹, Azeem Unnisa ², P. V. N. Saichandu ¹

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

Abstract

Today's scenario it was very difficult for instructor to go and check the progress of each student in the class. In traditional approach in drawing course instructor have to explain in black board each and every drawings and it is a time consuming, student will not understand each part drawings clearly. For improving the learning in students Team Based Learning applied to machine drawing course in engineering. The purpose of this paper is to know the progress by adapting the pedagogy team based learning in Machine Drawing subject. In this pedagogy, students learn in groups and this TBL method will improve the student learning skills, problem solving technique, good knowledge and communication. The faculty can easily identify the correct learning difficulties on the spot, but it is not possible to find easily in the traditional approach. These include motivating the student to learn in groups to understand the concept very clearly. This subject includes full of drawing problems by applying TBL pedagogy, student will learn the machine drawing clearly. In this TBL method on each team one lateral entry student or diploma passed student included in the every team.

Keywords

TBL Pedagogy, Teamwork, Engineering Students.

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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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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

For many homework, mini and final projects in all the courses that the author taught since the last more than 5 years, the students were asked as a part of course requirements to include critical real life examples, and a discussion of how poorly designed mechanical components or subsystems can cause safety concerns and affect the society at large in one way or the other. These requirements partially address some of the students' outcomes under General ABET's Criterion 3. Of particular interest are the students' understanding of the professional ethics (outcome 'f'), and understanding the impact of engineering solutions and how they impact the society (outcome 'h'). In order to help in identifying some of the real life engineering components, the author showed online videos and also used "Touch and fell" (T&F) idea in which some of the failed or non-functioning engineering components (shafts, bearings, bolts, etc.) were brought to the class to do first order reverse engineering (reconstruction of failures using mechanics approach). While few junior and senior level textbooks in the Mechanics, Design, Thermal Sciences and Production areas do include few worked examples and exercise problems based on real life industry applications, they do not generally include a discussion based on the final results from ethical or societal impact points of view. Also, most chapter-end exercise problems are usually structured based on directly using concepts and formulas from the chapter and not necessarily require a realization of real life applications of such problems. Usually, this may be beyond the scope of some classes, or, it may be perhaps due to the time constraints faced by instructors, or, due to lack of maturity level of students. Similar is the experience with the openended mini-projects such books may suggest. On another issue, some of the instructors may not have enough industry exposure to think of real life applications of homework problems and project assignments.

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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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Hema Mahajan ¹, Santosh Madeva Naik ², Sreeramulu M. ³, Ch Kannaiah ¹, Syed Majeedullah ⁴

Affiliations
1 Assistant Professor, CSE, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, IN
2 Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN
3 Professor, Mechanical, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN
4 UG Student, ECE, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

Abstract

Engineering education is oriented towards active leaning & its implementation and hence project-based learning (PBL) plays a major role to enhance students learning practically. In this context, his study implemented PBL in the course projects for mechanical engineering students and students’ learning was investigated. Every project needs roadmap to follow for being on the desired path and gets fruitful outcomes and hence in this study design thinking process was introduced in the course during PBL which helped students to understand the real-time problems which can be solved by applying the knowledge gained theoretically from the courses. Through design thinking process, students got to know the real-time problems and improved their skills to deal with the same by applying their knowledge. Students have improved their understanding to handle real-time problems and at the same time they interacted with community partner that helped them to go in the depth to work on it. This study has shown the importance of design thinking process and its impact on student’s learning.

Keywords

PBL, Project Competition, Products, Teamwork.

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Santosh Madeva Naik ¹, Surendra Bandi ², Hema Mahajan ³, Deepak Waiker ⁴, Deepak Gadhia ⁵

Affiliations
1 Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN
2 Associate Professor, CSE, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN
3 Assistant Professor, CSE, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN
4 Professor, Voice chair, IEEE Education society chapter, SG
5 Chairman, Sunrise CSP India Pvt. Ltd, IN

Abstract

Engineering education is not merely studying different subjects but also acquiring practical knowledge to implement in real-life circumstances. Mechanical engineering is a stream of engineering where students can focus on practical implementation of different concepts to make human life better. This study is inspired from clean & green campus program organized by IUCEE, where experiments on different types of renewable energy demonstrated and also emphasized on its usages in real life to make our environment clean and green. This study implemented different styles and experiments in mechanical engineering to enhance students’ learning on renewable energy related concepts. This study has conducted some of the activities in the campus to make campus green and clean so that students can understand the importance of it and can explore themselves to further execute their ideas. In this paper, an attempt is made to provide details about the student’s involvement in clean and green campus activity where students will be involved in energy audit, wastage management, water management team activity. This paper briefly summarizes the learning achieved through a faculty development program on clean and green energy campuses. This work comes with limitations and scope for future work in multiple aspects which are described in the complete paper.

Keywords

Solar Cooking, Solar Air Conditioning, Biogas Lab, Green Campus

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Anjali Ch ¹, Santosh Madeva Naik ², Akshaya G. ¹, Sowjanya K. ¹

Affiliations
1 UG Student, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN
2 Assistant Professor, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

Abstract

In HITAM Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) was launched by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) on August 2018. The main objectives of this initiative were building institutional capacity, providing professional support such that the villages which lack lack the technical support can be helped for the better. Higher educational Institutions in our nation interact with rural India, identifies challenge and come up with solution. It connects institutions of higher education with local community. This programme involves interacting with rural communities and using technologies for their development. The main purpose of this initiative is introducing good education in those areas that are far from accessing education. It creates good relationship between society and higher educational institutes by this the livelihood of rural areas can be changed. The mission of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is to enable higher educational institutions to work with with the people of rural india in identifying development challenges and evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating sustainable growth.

Keywords

UBA, Team Work, Village Development.

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Syed Majeedullah ¹, Praveen Kullu ¹, P. V. S. Pranay ¹, Ravali Nandula ¹, B. Sai Chandrika ¹, Santosh Madeva Naik ²

Affiliations
1 ECE, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN
2 Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

Abstract

The attributes of 21st century engineers are a culmination of skills from different domains including both technical and non-technical skills, ranging from core skills, teamwork, communication, lifelong learning, problem-solving, etc. These skills together are known as the four-dimension model of the 21st century engineer. While the core skills by default are nourished throughout the graduation program, we need to find ways to induce the rest of the non-technical skills. This paper discusses one such approach by highlighting how student bodies/chapters such as ‘Engineers Without Borders’ helps one grow themselves. The study was conducted on students at the Hyderabad Institute of Technology and management of different years. Evaluating them before and after they engaged with engineers without borders student chapter based on metrics quantifying their communications skills, problem-solving skills, teamwork, leadership skills, etc. At the end of the study, the performance of students was improved for most of the students. As such when students are involved in such activities, they were better equipped with skills at the time of graduation giving them an edge over others. Therefore, it is paramount that such activities exist and more importantly encourage students to get involved.

Keywords

Adaptability, Skills, Communication, Decision Making EWB, Leadership, Life-Long Learning, Problem Solving and Teamwork.

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Surendra Bandi ¹, Santosh Madeva Naik ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Computer Science & Engineering, HITAM, Hyderabad, IN
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, HITAM, Hyderabad, IN

Abstract

Education is one of the most important priorities for any country and Government of India has been implementing several initiatives to take education to every part of the nation. Several objectives like increasing literacy rate, improving quality of education, encouraging skillbased education, promoting technical education, supporting innovations, and empowering universities, were on the top list and made a significant progress over the years. The initiatives of the government were generally open for government institutions and premium private institutions. The most important part of education is to stay connected with society. The education curriculum did not offer much scope to connect with society at large. This article brings out the experience of HITAM(Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management), an engineering college which benefitted from the government initiative “Unnat Bharat Abhiyan”(UBA). HITAM has been a Participating Institution of UBA since 2018. The initiative helped faculty and students to work with society, understand the societal development, know the role of engineer for the society, take up technological interventions and develop products used in the society. This in turn created a platform for students to apply engineering knowledge in real time problems. Being a participating institution, HITAM followed the framework of UBA and adopted five villages, conducted household survey, organized gram sabhas, identified the problems in the adopted villages where technological interventions are required. The proposals for technological interventions were uploaded in UBA portal and were scrutinized by the subject expert groups. The college was sanctioned with the required budget to carryout the projects proposed. Surendra Bandi Department of Computer Science & Engineering, HITAM, Hyderabad surendra.mca@hitamorg More than 100 students took part in the village surveys and 18 students were part of technological interventions. HITAM received fund from the Government for conducting household survey, technological interventions and perennial funding for active involvement in all the UBA activities. The students who were part of the initiative expressed that it was a life changing experience for them towards society and complemented their learning. Service-learning as a pedagogy was evolved out of the initiative at HITAM, apart from the financial support from the Government.

Keywords

Engineering, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, Government Initiative, Service-Learning

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