Best Practices
Title 1: Value Added Service to Society
Objective
- To create Awareness about Technology to the rural mass.
- To Spread Nationalism, Human values and Life Ethics among Students and General Public.
The Context:
Higher Education Institutions not only contribute in providing technical skilled talent to the country, but also act as catalyst in enhancing life standards and life values among students, parents and public at large. The institutional responsibilities are not only limited to providing quality technical education to students there by helping them for better employment or to make them entrepreneurs but also to ensure they imbibe human values. At KLS VDIT, we are committed to provide quality technical education to students and to serve the society through various initiatives. Through our interaction with public, the need for creating awareness about technology was felt. To felicitate general public in understanding technology in better manner, technology connectivity programs are being conducted.
Practise:
All India Radio Program on “Technology for Common Man”, was arranged. Every day one faculty used to explain about a technology in Kannada. A total of 60 episodes were aired. To check the understanding of listeners, a question was asked every day. Prizes were given for one correct answer every day. Another program on All India Radio by Motivational speaker, Shri Gururaj Karajagi received very good response. The program was sponsored by the institute and was aimed to inculcate life values and ethics.
Computer Literacy Program has been conducted for high school students, Government Class IV Employees as well as for and senior citizens. Entrepreneurial development program is being conducted for high school and junior college students. The program is aimed to develop entrepreneurship mind-set amongst youngsters. This program is conducted in association with Government of Karnataka. Awareness has been created in different areas of life in nearby villages under Unnat Bharat Abhiyan like digital transactions, electoral literacy drive, electrical energy saving, etc.
A technical Exhibition Centre has been established in campus with the help of industries. Students from nearby schools and colleges are encouraged to visit the centre and understand different technologies. To create a sense of belongingness and brotherhood among students, institute regularly conducts blood donation camp, and other socially relevant programs.
Students, parents and staff actively participated in “Har Ghar Thiranga” Abhiyan. National anthem is played at morning 9.30 am on all working days in the institution.
Evidence of Success
A sense of belongingness and discipline is observed among students. Huge response is received for All India Radio Program. Good feedback has been received from students and others.
Problems Encountered and Resources required
Initial reluctance from public to learn technologies
Title 2: Student value addition and industry connect
Objective
To enhance technical and employability skills among students and better industry connect for faculty.
The Context:
Over a period of time, it is observed that the syllabus prescribed by the university alone is not sufficient to update technical skills of students. Few courses need to be introduced, apart from university curriculum, to acquire better technical skills/ employability. Current industry practices need to be updated among students and faculty.
The practice:
Different online courses are being floated among students in different semesters of their study. During the academic year 2021-22 more than 250 students completed TCSiON career edge young professional certification. More than 500 students completed IIT Bombay Spoken Tutorial courses on Python 3.4.3, C and Cpp, Advanced Cpp, HTML, QCAD, Blender, Scilab, eSim, OpenFOAM. Students have registered and completed TATA Ready Engineer program. Apart from nearby industries, internship is offered through AICTE Internshaala Portal, Microchip, Redhat Academy, Blue Prism University, CELONIS. Institute sponsored Faculty for training at BOSCH Bangalore. Five faculty, one from each department, are trained for a period of one week in the month of April 2022. Students from Mechanical Engineering Department were sponsored for training at HAL Academy, Bangalore for 2 weeks starting from 05/09/2022. Faculty are trained in different domains through Eduskills, Coursera, NPTEL, IIT Bombay Spoken Tutorial. One faculty- one consultancy initiative is taken.
Evidence of Success
The increase in i) number of publications by faculty in reputed journals ii) number pf patents published iii) funding received and improvement in number of placements are testimony.
Problems Encountered and Resources required`
Convincing the students to take up additional courses apart from university syllabus.