INNOVATION TECHNIQUES

BEST PRACTICES IN CURRUCULAM DEVELOPMENT

Practice

Activity

Impact

Curriculum formulation

Syllabus is framed after based on the survey of various courses and contents from various elite institutes like IITs, NIT’s, Foreign University, Private University and affiliated university

Prepares our students in par with elite institutes

Emerging Technologies

Trending technologies based courses are introduced in curriculum

  • Industry Readiness
  • technical excellence in trending technologies

Motivation for self learning

Huge wall size posters are displayed in corridor like technology of next 3 decades , Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Android versions, vmware operations etc(ANNEXURE – I)

Creates curiosity among students to know new things

Intensified hands on exposure

50% of the curriculum has practical courses

Increases hands on experience

Domain Specific Teaching Learning curriculum

Track wise curriculum from 3rd semester onwards like,

  • Data Science Engineer path

  • Network Engineer path Software Developer path

  • Advance AI developer path

  • Higher studies

Students get career direction at early stage

Exposure of students expertise in technical skills

All prototypes of ideas , mini project and projects should be uploaded to Git ,Github and LinkedIn mandatorily

Students skill sets are expose to industry experts

  1. BEST PRACTICES TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS

Practice

Activity

Impact

Project Based Learning

  • Emphasize students to take up the social centric problem for mini project and project

  • option given to augment previous semester mini project for higher semester also

  • Increases Social awareness

  • Solid foundation for product prototype during final year

Mandate Online courses for all semesters

  • Coursera Certification activity

  • NASSCOM Future Skills

  • Swayam / NPTEL assignments considered for one course in every semester

  • Motivates Self Learning amongst students from various Massive Open Online Courses
  • Knowledge transfer from elite institutes across the world

Availability of Wide range (45) of electives

Selection of electives by students based on their career path

Makes learning more interesting , effective and useful

Open Source tools

In association with Free Software Movement Karnataka Department is completely adapted to Open source softwares instead of proprietary softwares

  • Students work on ubuntu platform in all semesters

  • Eliminates expenditure on operating systems like microsoft and antivirus

  • Students gets to explore the open source code

Contents Beyond the syllabus

In all labs , Extra exercises are done apart from the experiments listed in the syllabus

  • Improvement in Problem Solving Capability

  • Option for solving new challenges

Activity Scheduling and follow-up

All activities and tasks are planned on monthly bases

Systematic execution of planned events and effective follow-up

Monthly maintenance of Infrastructure

Recording monthly health report of the infrastructure

Infrastructure heath status update

  1. BEST PRACTICES IN RESEARCH

Practice

Activity

Impact

Student Project Proposals

Social Centric Projects are recommended for final years Mentor the students to write proposal for KSCST, KSTA, CSI, NHRD – IIC and AICTE

  • Student will learn how to write know about writing proposals to any funding agency

  • About 50% of proposals accepted by KSCST

  • Received Best Project award in the state award for 3 consecutive year

Student paper publications

Mentor students to write one paper and get it published in one National journal

Around 100 student publications in last 3 years

Submission of Ideas for Award

Motivate students to submit applications for various competitions and awards

  • Students received awards / appreciation / internships, such as
  • Cash award of Rs. 50000 in Lowe’s Campus challenge and received cash prize of Rs. 50000
  • Cash award of Rs.18000 in IEEE Hacathon events
  • Brutus award in SAP semicolon Hackathon
  • Job offers from vmware Nalanda programme
  • AICTE CoronaSafe fellowship

Faculty Research Proposal

Research proposals submitted by all faculties to various funding agencies

  • Faculties of all cadre have expertise in writing research proposals.
  • Grant of almost 10 Lakshs is received in last one year

Unique Teaching Learning process

Use of popular online evaluation of tools like Hacker earth and hackerrank for programming courses

  • Effective learning

 

  1. BEST PRACTICE IN INNOVATION AND STUDENT SUPPORT

Practice

Activity

Impact

Class Committee Meetings

  • Class committee meeting is a transparent platform to discuss curricular and co curricular activities and their progress.

  • Committee consists of 6 students from the class, all their subject teachers and HOD.

  • Meeting will be help every month

  • Minutes will be circulated to all the stakeholders.

  • Creates friendly & transparent environment between students and teachers

  • Creates the sense of confidence and responsibility amongst all

Motivation for Hackathons and Similar Competitions

From 3rd sem onwards , students are handpicked based on their pro – activeness in theory / lab sessions and groomed them for national and international Hackathon / Competitions

  • Increases problem solving capabilities

  • Builds confidence in students

  • Effective Peer learning from their counterpart in other colleges

  • Continuous implicit training for Placements

  • Students have won Awards, Cash prize, Internship and Jon offers.

  • Creates sense of achievement for students and department

Buddy Talk

Platform created to enable peer learning & to get the industry experience from their senior students

  • Effective Peer Learning from their successful seniors

  • Effective Bonding with seniors helps them in their career

Empowering students with Student Leadership Qualities

Motivating students to organize State and National level technical events.

  • Leadership qualities are get enhances

  • Organizing technical events enhance their skills

Empowering Girl Students of all departments

Organize Nalanda program from vmware

  • Girl students got trained in VMware modules

  • Free certification

  • Internship offers

  • placement offer – 15 LPA

 

  1. BEST PRACTICES IN TRAINING AND PLACEMENTS

Practice

Activity

Impact

Department Level Aptitude Training , Assessment and Gap Identification from 3rd semester

  • Aptitude Training programs are conducted right from 3rd semester

  • Assessment of their performance

  • Enhancement in analytical skills

  • Plan for future training programs

Department Level MCQ based Domain Training , Assessment and Gap Identification from 3rd semester

  • Domain Training programs are conducted right from 3rd semester

  • Assessment of their performance

  • For all courses, module level MCQs are discussed in the class

  • Enhancement in technical and debugging skills

  • Plan for future training programs

Practice in formation of peer learning groups

Peer groups are formed within between placed and unplaced students

Placed students share their experience in successful interviews which helps circumvent their shortfalls

Company Specific Training

Training programs are planned related company specific challenges

More chances of clearing the technical tests / interview

 

  1. BEST PRACTICES ADAPTED POST COVID – 19

Practice

Activity

Impact

Seating Arrangement

Each student is allotted with same desk / system for all their examinations

Minimizes contact between the students

Contactless Examination Conduction

  • For practical examinations, Question will be assigned based on random number generation instead of chits &

  • Digital Question paper will be provided

  • Output is observed through screen share softwares ( team viewer, zoom, google meet )

Effective management of Standard Operating Procedures ( SOP )