One Day Symposium on Academic Excellence: Challenges

& Opportunities on 11th June 2011

Organized by

Directorate of Technical Education

In association with

G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering,

Nagpur

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Expectations of DTE from Engineering
Institutes in Maharashtra

Dr S.K.Mahajan
Director, Technical Education,
Maharashtra State

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 Outline of the Talk

Introduction

Maharashtra State: Present Scenario of Intake

State Initiatives for Gap Analysis

SWOT Analysis

Pathway towards excellence

National Mission in Education through ICT

Human Resource Development

Internal Revenue Generation through Services to Industry

Services to Informal sector and Community

Industry-Institute Interaction

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 Outline of the Talk..

Research Culture
Library
Interaction with Professional Bodies
Entrepreneurship Development Cell
Centre of excellence
Infrastructure Development
Autonomous Institutes
Strategic Partnerships
Benchmarking
Educational Management Information System (EMIS)
Alumni Association
Conclusion

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 Introduction

Linkage between sustainable economic progress of country &

Quality of Technical Education.

Rapid changes in technical education system in foreign countries.

Need of periodic review of technical education system in view of

advent of Information Technology, increasing expectations of
stakeholders, entry of foreign universities, etc

In view of above aspects DTE expects efforts from institutes on

following:

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 Maharashtra State: Present Scenario of Intake

Course Name Year Intake No. of

Institutes
Engineering 2010-2011 114268 309

Pharmacy 2010-2011 9170 147

HMCT 2010-2011 530 10

Architecture 2010-2011 2167 43

MBA 2010-2011 34995 366

MCA 2010-2011 8383 127

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 State Initiatives for Gap Analysis

Promotion of Autonomy
Quality Assurance through NBA
Participation in World Bank Assisted Projects like Tech-Ed-I, Canada India
Linkage Project, TEQIP etc.
Organized One day Workshop: How to make Engineering Institutes World
Class - Some lessons from TEQIP & Autonomy Experiment at Sydenham
Institute of Management & Research Mumbai on 07.09.2009
Organized One day Workshop on How to transform Engineering Institutes in
Maharashtra into World Class Level Institutions at VIT Pune on 07.11.2009
Organized One day Workshop on How to Transform Polytechnic Institutes in
Maharashtra into World-Class Level Institutes at Government Polytechnic
Aurangabad on 13.11.2009

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 State Initiatives for Gap Analysis..

Special weightage for NBA status of institute while deciding fee

structure.
MoUs with CII and other similar Organizations / Associations
Skill Development: MES and VTP Scheme.
Participation in National Mission on Education through Information,
Communication and Technology
Implementation of Merit cum means scholarship
Implementation of State Govt. Scholarship for Minorities.

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 SWOT Analysis

1. Carry out SWOT Analysis with the active participation of all the
stakeholders.
2. Exploit strengths to improve performance.
3. Convert opportunities into strengths.
4. Make efforts to reduce weaknesses.
5. Convert threats into opportunities by using proactive decision
making process.

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 Pathway towards excellence

All the Institutes must strictly follow AICTE guidelines towards

infrastructure requirement and recruitment of employees.

Unaided institutes must follow PNS, SSS guidelines

ISO Certification

TQM Implementation

NBA Accreditation

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 National Mission in Education through ICT

Centrally sponsored scheme to leverage the potential of ICT in

teaching and learning process for the benefit of all the learners in
Higher Education Institutions in any time any where mode.

Major Components: Content generation, Connectivity.

National Programme of Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).

Expected to be a major intervention in enhancing the Gross

Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher Education by 5 percentage points
during the XI Five Year Plan period.

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 Human Resource Development

Develop a HR policy which should attract qualified individuals

towards the institute and motivate the employees to work efficiently
and effectively.

Allocate at least 10-15 % of their income as corpus fund for training

and development of staff and faculty, Research & Development.

Encourage the staff and faculty to upgrade their qualification and

skills from time to time.

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 Internal Revenue Generation through Services to
Industry

Organize Continuing education programmes for industry personnel.

Designing training softwares for industry.

Production centre for outsourced components.

Testing and calibration services.

Consultancy services on industrial problems.

Training customers of industry.

Designing or substituting training centers of industry.

Research and Development activities.

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 Services to Informal sector and Community

For a balanced development of a country, quality of technical

manpower for all sectors, organized as well as unorganized, needs
to be improved by the technical education system.

Transfer of appropriate technologies to rural areas and provide

support services to them.

Knowledge and skill upgradation of persons working in informal

sector.

Promote advanced management techniques amongst informal

sector.

Continuing education for community/informal sector that may lead to

wage employment/self-employment and income generation.

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 Services to Informal sector and Community..

Infusion of useful technologies to enhance productivity of informal

sector/community, and for a better quality of life.

Providing technical support services, advice and guidance to the

community as and when required.

Reward/give recognition to the students/faculty for doing community

services and carrying out projects based on community problems.

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 Industry-Institute Interaction

Underemployment of pass-outs from some of the engineering

institutes in the state.

Institutes should develop strong interaction with various

Associations of industries like CII.

Organize career guidance initiatives through guest lectures from

industry personnel.

Help the students for Competitive Examinations like UPSC, MPSC,

GATE, GRE by organizing guest lectures from successful personnel
and keeping relevant literature in library.

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 Contributions from industry to institutes

Participation in curriculum design, curriculum implementation,

student assessment, training of students, exposing students to new
technologies, and providing experts for certain courses of
instruction.

Providing opportunities for individual student/group of students to

undertake project on live problems in industry.

Participation in BOG, Academic Council, Board of Studies, Faculty

Recruitment Committees, etc.

Assisting engineering institutes in establishing new laboratories,

providing literature on new technologies, and offering their shop-
floors as substitutes for laboratories.

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 Contributions from industry to institutes.

Training existing Faculty/Technical Staff in new technologies and

processes.

Providing periodic skill improvement training to Faculty/Technical

staff.

Providing industrial training to students.

Providing training to new faculty/technical staff.

Involving engineering institutes on sole or collaborative basis in R &

D activities.

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 Research Culture

Need to develop Research Expertise and Research infrastructure.

Faculty members should be encouraged to do research and present/publish research

papers in Conferences/Journals/apply for patents.

Faculty members should also be encouraged to do fundamental research,

interdisciplinary research and apply for patents.

Those Students/Faculty members which contributes substantially to research should

be given due recognition/rewards.

The final year students of UG/PG should be encouraged to do research and

present/publish research papers in Conferences/Journals.

The faculty members should be motivated and encouraged to acquire higher

qualifications (i.e. M.Tech., Ph.D., Post-Doc, etc).

Each eligible Ph.D. Guide should be motivated to guide the research students.

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 Library

Extended hours of working.

Digital Library.
Subscription to National/International magazines/journals in
engineering/technology/management.
Availability of standard books on engineering/technology.
Availability of books on GATE, GRE, UPSC, MPSC, etc Competitive
examinations.
Subscription to magazines related to MPSC, UPSC, etc Competitive
examinations

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 Interaction with Professional Bodies

Faculty members of engineering institutions should be encouraged

to become life members of various professional bodies (e.g. IEEE,
IIIE, ASME, ISTE, IIPE, CSI, SOM, TSI, ISME, etc)

Student chapters of professional bodies should be started at

institute level.

Students should be motivated to participate in professional body

activities.

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 Entrepreneurship Development Cell

Innovation and Creativity Cell.

Incubation cell.

Offer an interdisciplinary elective for final year students on

Entrepreneurship Development.

Arrange Lectures on entrepreneurship by successful entrepreneurs

from time to time.

Provide financial help to needy students for potential projects

related to entrepreneurship.

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 Centres of excellence

There are only the barest minimum laboratory facilities available in

many of the engineering institutes and consequently very little
research activity/Consultancy is undertaken.

The engineering institutes are expected to build the centre of

excellence in thrust areas of engineering/technology as per
demographic needs.

These Centre of Excellence should be developed as per industry

standards.

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 Infrastructure Development

Encourage faculty towards applying for research project grants from

AICTE, BRNS, DST, DRDO, CSIR, etc for infrastructure
development and upgradation.

Develop models/templates in laboratories through final year

students project work.

Develop laboratories through the help of industry.

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 Autonomous Institutes

Need to promote doctoral programmes and advanced research in

the fields of engineering and technology.

Promote autonomy amongst the engineering institutes.

Enable faculty and students to try innovations, utilize creative talent,

improve upon standards of education and research and to quickly
respond to academic and social needs.

Expected to expand the base of research amongst technical

institutes to effectively tackle the industrial problems related to
product, process and technology development and also the
manpower need.

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 Autonomous Institutes

The autonomy is intended to be a means for the institutes to

achieve higher standards of teaching, flexible curriculum, updated
syllabus, and research and greater creativity rather than a reward
for good performance during the past.

Autonomous institutes are expected to attract best students and

scholars in large numbers from abroad on the basis of reputation of
providing quality education at reasonable costs.

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 Autonomous Institutes

Adopt other technical institutes in the vicinity and mentor them to

improve the quality of education offered by them.

Help the society by offering projects to final year students based on

practical problems in that locality/industry.

Develop research centers of industry inside Engineering Institute

campus at par with foreign universities.

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 Strategic Partnerships

Explore the possibility of cooperative research through signing

MoUs with premier educational institutes in India (viz. IITs, IIMs,
NITIE, NITs, etc), Research institutes like BARC, DRDO, ISRO, etc,
and reputed industries in the vicinity.

Make efforts for student exchange, faculty exchange, etc

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 Benchmarking

All the technical education institutes should benchmark themselves

with best in class i.e. NITs, IITs, IIMs, Foreign Universities.

Institute should make efforts to emulate best practices like syllabus,

teaching-learning process, laboratory infrastructure, etc from other
best in class institutes.

These institutes must make efforts to sign MoUs with other institutes
so that student exchange, faculty exchange, infrastructure sharing
can be adopted.

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 Educational Management Information System (EMIS)

All the technical institutes should develop Educational MIS system.

This system should comprise of following:
Student records from entry to exit
Faculty records
Staff records
Library information
Placement records
Professional output records, etc

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 Alumni Association

Alumni as Brand Ambassador.

All the institutes are expected to prepare and maintain the updated
list of Alumni along with their addresses and contact numbers.

They are also expected to develop educational infrastructure in the

institute with the help from Alumni.

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 Conclusion

Promote autonomy for improving quality of technical education.

Emphasis on change of mindset through training.
Develop strong research culture.
Develop Centre of Excellence in thrust areas.
Develop Corpus fund.
Networking of institutes.
Strengthen industry-institute interaction.
Virtual Classrooms.
Active Alumni Associations.
Corporate Social responsibilities.

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 Thanks

T-Together
E-Everyone
A-Achieve
M-More

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