Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

Vinayak Kulkarni ¹, V. N. Gaitonde ¹, R. G. Mench ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, BVB College of Engineering and Technology, Hubballi-31, IN

Abstract

The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) in India has specified specific graduate attributes for post graduate program in engineering. In B V B College of Engineering & Technology, Hubballi, the Production Management PG program has made an attempt to design and conduct the course project from last two academic years in the core course "Project Management" at 1st semester level, which has been designed to address the graduate attribute 7 related to "Project Management and Finance". Based on this the program outcome for our PG program is defined as "Ability to carry feasibility study and evaluate projects considering economical and financial factors". Keeping this outcome in mind, the course project has been conducted addressing feasibility study, economical and financial factors as mentioned in attribute 7. The students were made to work on this course project for the duration of 12 weeks, which included activities like industrial visit, literature review, preliminary study, feasibility study, facets analysis, report submission and oral presentation. The evaluation process for this course project was rubrics based consisting of two different outcome elements and related performance indicators to address particularly the graduate attribute-7. The work carried out by the students focuses completely on the analysis of facets of projects from marketing analysis to ecological analysis. The conduct of course project in the core course like project management really differentiates the learning of post graduate level to that of undergraduate level as more work is being carried on the analysis part during the process of course project. The percentage attainment of each outcome element addressing the attribute-7 for both the academic years i.e 2013-14 and 2014-15 has been compared.

Keywords

Graduate Attributes, Project Management, Course Project, Feasibility Study and Facets Analysis.

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Vinayak Kulkarni ¹, Sanjay Kulkarni ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, BVBCET, Hubli–Karnataka, IN

Abstract

Measurement of programme outcomes "a-k" is the most challenging part of outcome-based education. Programme outcomes a, b, c, d&e are usually achieved through regular theory and laboratory courses. Similarly outcomes f, g, i&k are achieved through mini projects, course projects and capstone projects, sometimes even through fi nal year one credit course seminar. The measurement of remaining outcomes i.e. h and j demands additional effort from the faculty member to design special activities. Accordingly there is a lot of scope to measure outcomes h and j through conducting course seminars on many technical topics, which are related to "impact of engineering solutions" and "contemporary issues". Hence an attempt was made to measure the impact of engineering solutions, i.e. po-h by conducting course seminar in the subject Mechatronics for V SEM students of Industrial and Production Engineering department during the year 2012-13 and 2013-14. The students worked and presented their work in the form of course seminar in teams. The evaluation of seminar was rubrics based. The seminar prepared by the students benefi ted them in many ways. The conduct of course seminar activity has led a platform and a basis for the students for many activities like selection of mini-projects, confi dently delivering department's pre fi nal year and fi nal year seminar presentation, preparing technical reports, technical papers etc. The overall process of conducting course seminar helped not only students but also the faculty in many ways. The paper below describes on how an attempt is being made to measure programme outcome - h through course seminar in the subject Mechatronics for two consecutive academic years usingproper rubrics and assessment criteria.

Keywords

Mechatronics, Programme Outcomes (PO), Course Seminar, Rubrics, Performance Indicators.

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