The six-day long Faculty Development programme under TEQIP-II concluded here on Saturday. 25 participants including Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors from NITs and other engineering institutions in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, Mahrashtra, Tripura participated in this six-day programme under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP-II).
The programme focused on creating awareness of Modern Teaching Methods for an improved Teaching-learning Process; framing competency based learning and an industry oriented curriculum with societal focus; enhancing the credibility of the academic evaluation process and transparency in administration; creating road map for self-development; designing and developing long term and short term goals; enhancing the research potential of a faculty member; developing management skills among faculty members; and enhancing institutional and system management effectiveness.
The participants who worked through the week on assigned hands-on projects on accreditation and Washington accord, achieving academic excellence, teaching learning process, research and publication and so on presented their views and findings on the sixth day of the programme.
Most of the faculty participants in this programme expressed that research and training in technical education will improve with coming together of academic institutions and the industry.
Prof. PRS Sarma (TEQIP Coordinator), Prof. Manojit Chattopadhyay & Prof. Mukesh Kumar (Program Directors) in his interaction with all the participants during the valedictory function, urged on the participants to try to implement all the tools, techniques and learnings of the programme in their respective institutions and share them with other colleagues.