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S. A. Soundattikar ¹, V. R. Naik ¹

Affiliations
1 Mechanical Engineering Department, DKTE's Textile and Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji, IN

Abstract

Maintaining service quality in any service industry is a big challenge and engineering education is not an exception. The students possess different learning styles and accordingly teaching methods also vary. Some instructors deliver lecture, demonstrate or discuss. Some focus on applications while some emphasize on understanding. If there is a disparity between learning objectives and traditional teaching styles in engineering education, students become bored and inattentive in class. They may get unenthusiastic about the courses and the curriculum. Bloom's taxonomy developed by Benjamin Bloom can be used in this context as this model can help teachers to teach a topic to the group of students with different levels of abilities, needs and learning styles. It supports the need to differentiate the curriculum so all the students are able to participate in the same content area during a lesson. The paper deals with the learning styles and few innovative teaching methods designed on the basis of Bloom's Taxonomy, used for teaching Total Quality Management subject at Final year Mechanical class as a case study and the results obtained.

Keywords

Learning Styles, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Total Quality Management, Engineering Education.

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V. D. Gulkari ¹, Rani Singh ², Bhavna Motwani ³, V. R. Naik ⁴

Affiliations
1 Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagpur University Campus, Nagpur-440033, IN
2 Nutritional Research Lab, B.N Bandodkar College, Thane-400601, IN
3 Smt. C.H.M College, Ulhasnagar, Thane-421003, IN
4 Department of Herbal Products, Nicholas Piramal Research, Centre, Mumbai-400063, IN

Abstract

Vigna capensis Walp commonly known as jungli mung (wild cowpea) an edible, monsoon perennial species occurs wild in the hills of Western ghats. It bears single tuber per plant at junction of stem and ischolar_main with 7 to 8 cm long and 2 to 2.5 cm broad tubers. Tribal people eat the tuberous ischolar_mains and seeds in the days of scarcity. The young shoots are eaten as a vegetable. The nutritional evaluation of leaves, pods, seeds and physiochemical properties of tuber starch remain uninvestigated and hence the present investigation was undertaken.

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S. A. Soundattikar ¹, V. R. Naik ¹

Affiliations
1 Mechanical Engineering Department, DKTE's, Textile and Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji, IN

Abstract

Maintaining service quality in any service industry is a big challenge and engineering education is not an exception. The students possess different learning styles and accordingly teaching methods also vary. Some instructors deliver lecture, demonstrate or discuss. Some focus on applications while some emphasize on understanding. If there is a disparity between learning objectives and traditional teaching styles in engineering education, students become bored and inattentive in class. They may get unenthusiastic about the courses and the curriculum. Bloom's taxonomy developed by Benjamin Bloom can be used in this context as this model can help teachers to teach a topic to the group of students with different levels of abilities, needs and learning styles. It supports the need to differentiate the curriculum so all the students are able to participate in the same content area during a lesson. The paper deals with the learning styles and few innovative teaching methods designed on the basis of Bloom's Taxonomy, used for teaching Total Quality Management subject at Final year Mechanical class as a case study and the results obtained.

Keywords

Learning styles, Bloom's Taxonomy, Total Quality Management, Engineering Education.

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V. R. Naik ¹, P. B. Patel ¹, V. D. Barvalia ¹, B. K. Patel ¹, R. G. Patil ¹

Affiliations
1 Soil and Water Management Research Unit, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari (Gujarat), IN

Abstract

For studying the effect of saline water usage through drip in brinjal, one field experiment was conducted on Vertic Halaquepts of Coastal Soil Salinity Research Station, NAU, Danti during 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05. The treatments consisted of 4 water salinity levels (2, 4 6 and 8 dS/m) and 3 moisture regimes (0.4, 0.6 and 0.8 PEF). The experimental soil was non saline-sodic (EC_2.5 0.28 to 0.43 dS/m and pH 8.89 to 9.58). The differences in yield of brinjal due to salinity levels and moisture regimes were not conspicuous during individual years and in pooled data also except that of salinity effect in pooled analysis. The interaction effect of water salinity and PEF levels was not significant. Among the salinity levels, application of water having EC 8 dS/m gave significantly lower yield than 2, 4 and 6 dS/m waters. Effect of different treatments applied to brinjal was not significant on the grain yield of subsequent paddy. Though, the soil salinity tended to increase due to irrigation with saline water in brinjal, it decreased considerably after harvest of paddy crop due to heavy monsoonic conditions of this area.

Keywords

Brinjal, Salinity, Drip, Paddy.

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