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G. Jangali Satish ¹, Anand R. Lakkundi ¹, V. N. Gaitonde ¹, S. B. Burli ¹, H. K. Madhusudhana ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Industrial & Production Engineering, B.V.B. College of Engineering & Technology, Hubli, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

The engineering education has gone through several re-engineering efforts under various names. Some of the popular names in the past have been sustainable engineering and concurrent engineering. While each of these names has a different flavor to it, the underlying principle of effective engineering education has been its ability to provide practical and functional learning opportunities to students. Experiential learning, which encompasses all types of practice-based learning opportunities, is the founding principle of a successful engineering education model. This paper presents an approach to enhance active and collaborative learning in 'Metal Cutting' laboratory by the undergraduate students of V Semester Industrial&Production Engineering using the concept of "Design of Experiments", to study the effects of various parameters on machining performance. The paper also describes the assessment of program outcome '3b' of ABET criteria through laboratory experiment.

Keywords

Design of Experiments, Progra Outcome '3B', Open Ended Experiment.

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Gururaj Fattepur ¹, B. B. Kotturshettar ¹, S. B. Burli ¹, G. Jangali Satish ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Industrial and Production Engineering, B. V. B. College of Engineering and Technology, Hubballi, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

The engineering design process is a methodical series of steps that engineers use in creating functional products and processes. The process is highly iterative process involving a cyclical process of idea generation, evaluation, and design improvement until the design requirement is met. It is a widely used design strategy due to its intuitive nature and effectiveness in facilitating design improvement, hence calls for the need of the hour to enhance students' cognitive levels. Engineering design courses can be best learnt through practical learning (often termed as Project Based Learning) by course projects, thus delivering this course in the early stages of mechanical science engineering students by offering projects as pedagogy is often a challenge on the part of the tutor. This paper collectively presents simple techniques adapted in conducting the projects for third semester undergraduate Industrial Production engineering students. A systematic approach was followed in the formation of the student teams, proposing the problem statements, students preparing for the reviews according to scheduled timelines, modeling the prototypes, conducting the reviews and preparing the PowerPoint presentations and project reports. By following this pedagogical method Program Outcome (c: Ability to design systems, components, or processes to meet customer needs) and (g: Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written forms and to become proficient in working with diverse teams) were mapped for the assessment. It was also observed that there was an improvement in the PO attainment, a better team dynamics were observed, the quality of the projects was enhanced in terms of better idea generation, report writing and power point presentation also proved a better quality.

Keywords

Engineering Design, Course Projects.

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Minal Salunke ¹, M. Vijayalakshmi ¹, S. B. Burli ¹

Affiliations
1 KLE Technological University, Hubballi, IN

Abstract

An entrant to engineering has to undergo many fundamental courses in the first year of curriculum. Basic electrical engineering is one amongst these courses. The traditional way of teaching the course was teacher-centric and aid used for teaching was chalk and talk. Less emphasis was given for student interaction. Traditional style of teaching rarely gives students the opportunity to apply their newfound knowledge to actual situations, resulting in a serious time lag between students learning and applying new knowledge. As a result many students have trouble determining the relevance of what they are being taught, and thus lacking any obvious need to learn and fail to engage in the learning process. To provide an opportunity for collaborative experiential learning to reinforce the theoretical concepts imbibed in students we proposed a model on collaborative experiential learning which concentrates on the beginning of instruction referring to Fink's Model containing Knowledge of subject matter, Design of Course, Teacher-student interaction and Course management. In particular, the "Teacher-student interaction" is adopted which is an umbrella term that refers to all the different ways teachers interact with their students. For better interfacing, Kolb's experiential learning theory based on a four-stage learning cycle is applied. In addition to the above interaction in teaching learning process learning style of an individual is important to undergo different learning cycle. The three main types of learning styles are, auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. Whenever the task is given for an individual the above learning styles can be adopted, meanwhile if the task is for a team with different learning style of a student then we need to focus on style of learning. The three styles of learning are active learning, cooperative learning and problem based learning. The proposed model is applied to the course on Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Apart from the regular classroom teaching we used principles of instruction to select, plan and develop an activity based on Industry visit to enhance students learning. To realize the impact of learning happened through the industry visit pertaining to topics like actuators and/or sensors, the written examination was conducted and feedback at two intervals, before and after the industry visit was taken. Individual question wise inferential statistical analysis using paired t- test was performed and inferred that the activity improved the knowledge and exposure level of a student.

Keywords

Experiential Learning, Learning Style, Style of Learning, Statistical Analysis.

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