Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

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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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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