Six Mini-Course NEP Pilot Spring 2022
IUCEE MISSION NEP 2021 PBL is the foundation for implementing the NEP Guidelines of “Holistic and Multidisciplinary Education”. This transformation has to start with first-year engineering students. IUCEE Mission NEP is offering an opportunity to all IUCEE Consortium institutions (with membership fees paid up to date) to be part of our First-Year Pilot in implementing NEP guidelines as part of their consortium membership benefits.
We had started preparation IUCEE NEP 2020 Pilot in November 2020. We had several meetings with Mr. Sharad Marathe of UTS and leaders of IUCEE institutions.
We decided to focus the Pilot on First-Year Students entering Semester 1 of 2021-22
We decided to focus on how we teach using student-centered teaching, case studies, real-world examples, and project/problem based learning
16 IUCEE member institutions were eager to be part of this Pilot
They identified faculty teaching FY students and we had several sessions with them
We identified 6 mini-courses to be taken by the selected Pilot Batch of FY students
IUCEE Experts agreed to teach these courses
28 more IUCEE colleges showed interest in being part of piloting the 6 Mini Courses to a selected number of their FY students
Faculty from all 44 IUCEE colleges were recruited to mentor the first-year students during these courses
Faculty Empowerment Programs were conducted through a series of webinars in June for FY Faculty as well as Faculty mentors of Mini Courses
A Mini-Symposium was held in July to ensure that everyone understood the plan
Due to COVID, FY admissions were delayed at all colleges. Hence, we had a quiet period for a few months.
Now the pace picks up again. All colleges will have their first-year students admitted by November.
11. We are, therefore, planning the 6 minicourses as per given schedule (link is given below)
12. We will have preparatory meetings in November and December to finalize the participating students and faculty mentors.
Click here for the schedule as well as mini-courses planned
Engineering Ethics 2021
IUCEE is offering this course on Ethics which is extremely important for the NBA Accreditation as well as NEP 2020 Guidelines. Lectures are given by global experts and will be very useful for IUCEE engineering colleges to incorporate topics into their curriculum.
The course will commence on November 18, 2021, every Thursday 6:30 - 8 PM IST, for eight weekly modules of 75 to 90 min each on:
18 November: Personal Ethics (Dr. Claire Komives, San Jose State University)
25 November: Professional Ethics (Dr. Anil Kulkarni, Penn State University)
2 December: Preparing engineers for social responsibility/Educating the Humanitarian engineer (Dr. Mohan Rao, Tennessee Tech University)
9 December: Ethics for Environment and Sustainability (Dr. Raj Rajaram, Chicago)
16 December: Ethics in designing, software engineering, and product designing (Ms. Sheetal Sohoni, Arizona State University)
23 December: Ethics in Emerging Technologies, Development, Urbanization, Innovation, and Modularity (Ms. Sampada Pachaury, IUCEE)
30 December: Upholding Institutional Values/ Corporate Social Responsibility (Mr. Anil Pandit, GE Retd)
6 January: Introducing Survival Ethics into Engineering Education and Practice (Dr. John Tharakan, Howard University)
Course Participants: Team of 1 Faculty member + up to 3 students per faculty member
Homework: To be assigned on each module, the presenter will decide on the format
Attendees will be given a certificate after successful completion.
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Sustainability Course 2021
IUCEE is offering an exciting introductory course on “Sustainability” for students since Sustainability is expected to be the most important theme for the world during the next two decades. It will be offered by Mr. Niranjan Khatri who has spent a lifetime pioneering sustainability initiatives, starting with the hospitality industry. The course will emphasize practical approaches which can be promoted by all of us in our efforts to engineer a better world.
Schedule
Oct 23: Genesis: My experience in how as a hotelier I got into Sustainable development without any knowledge on this vast subject. The catalyst: from whom did I pick up the sensitivities of the islands ecosystem and start with waste management leading to a circular economy.
Nov 6: Water crisis in an island with no rivers & no tanker water - converted crisis into an opportunity - water management. Understanding DSM -Demand Side Management & SSM- Supply Side Management.
Nov 20: Water (Part two) - understanding monsoon, water thirsty industries, different forms of RWH- rainwater harvesting, STP water, Water Symbiotic relationship, ecological needs of nature.
Dec 4: Energy management: conventional and RE- renewable energy. Different sources.Climate change and mitigation strategies.
Dec 18: How to dovetail Planet, People & Profit in business enterprise- Basics of ESG- Environment Social Governance.
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IUCEE Student Projects Oriented For Problem Based Learning (POPBL 2021)
Click here to check about POPBL 2021 & Projects
IUCEE Student Competition - Oxygen Enriched Air from Plants
(For COVID patients experiencing Pulmonary Distress and for Post Covid convalescence)
Background:
The ongoing pandemic has made us all acutely aware of the need for oxygen in medical treatment.
Problem Statement:
The challenge is to design a process for producing oxygen using the process of photosynthesis and make it available to patients, particularly those convalescing. Some research has shown that photosynthesis can be optimized and could be looked at as a chemical plant subject to the same chemical processes as any other. Even if the device can produce limited amounts it may be useful for providing temporary relief in emergency cases.
Some of the factors which need to be considered are:
• Plants selection – based on rates of photosynthesis
• Photosynthesis optimization including light types and wavelengths
• Oxygen enriched air collection and testing
• Designing equipment that is easily built to be able to keep the flow of O2
• Supply to the patient either through air pump as in a nebulizer
• Evaluation of design for feasibility
Some of the challenges inherent in the problem statement:
1. Continuous supply; plants need a dark period and a light period for the cycle to complete
2. Concentration, flow, and biomass needed; (we are aiming at 4 to 5 Lpm at 40 to 50% O2)
3. Maintenance and indoor care/lighting.
There could be diverse models, of course, depending on the need and local resources
Interested students need to pre-register in teams of three, before Thursday, June 10 with one faculty guide using this link.
These teams will be invited to attend an Orientation Webinar on Friday, June 11 at 6:30 pm, to explain the next steps.
The final design concept needs to be submitted as a 5-minute video. The orientation webinar will provide assistance in preparing videos and submitting them. Deadline for submission of videos: July 10, 2021
Cash Prizes will be awarded to best submissions
Papers could be published as UG research
Possibility of IP rights and patents
All reasonable submissions will be given certificates
PS: This competition is an excellent example of how engineering students can obtain a holistic and multidisciplinary education as required by the NEP 2020 Guidelines
Full-Time Online Summer Internship: FSM Smart Manufacturing Simplified
As a part of the IITD-AIA Foundation for Smart Manufacturing's commitment to making FSM infrastructure available for the student community to explore and learn smart manufacturing technologies, FSM is offering 25nos. 2-Months Full-time Online Summer Internship from 1-June-2021 to 31-July-2021 under the theme of “Smart Industrial Machinery”.
ELIGIBILITY:
Minimum 7.0 CGPA or70% after 1st-year of B.E./B.Tech or 2nd year of Diploma in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics & allied streams, Computer Science, IT. At least implemented one Embedded system/IoT/ Automation/Design/ Web or MobileApps project. Knowledge of Python/Matlab/ Javascript is desirable.
For Registration details and to learn more about the internship, Click here!