Faculty Training Academy

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About Faculty Training Academy

Teachers in Engineering and Technology do not undergo a formal teaching methodology unlike the teachers in Schools, where they undergo a formal teacher training programme. In such situations even the existing faculty members in Engineering and Technology should be updated and trained for new subjects and skills.
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About Faculty Training Academy

This necessitates the need for a separate Academy for Faculty Training to train the teachers in a continuous manner. The main objective of establishing the Faculty Training Academy is to train our own faculty members in the teaching methodologies who join afresh and to update the knowledge and skills periodically for those who are already here. The Faculty Training Academy was 6/12/12

People

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Advisory Committee

Dr. P.KANNIAPPAN, Vice Chancellor - Chairman Dr. V. SANKARANARAYANAN, Director (Univ. Proj.) - Member Dr. C.R. MUTHUKRISHNAN, Former Dy.Dir.,IIT, Ch. - Member Dr. V. RAMACHANDRAN, Former VC, Anna Univ., Trichy - Member Mr. LAKSHMINARAYANAN, CEO, Cognizant Tech. - Member

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Achievements of the FTA

Overall Extension Funding Teaching Teaching Teaching Teaching International Workshop Workshops Organized Number of Faculty deputed to other Institutions through FTA Special Events Broad Category Description Rs. 1,15,000 1 2 11 16 2 1 2 2 1

Extension Training for Self Help Group

Consultanc Police Training y Research Research Teaching 6/12/12 International Collaboration Papers published Soft Skills Curriculum

Funding

Funding of Rs. One Lakh was received from the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology for implementing the Traditional Science and Technology development in August 26 2010. The Faculty Training has generated funding amount of Rs.15, 000 from the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology for the programme.
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International Workshop

The Faculty Training Academy of B.S. Abdur Rahman University and ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu partnered together to organize a International Workshop on Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century on 19th December 2011.

Three leading educationists

Dr. Vijayan Sugumaran Oakland University, USA Zaffar Sadiq SKM International, Australia

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Training for Self Help Groups

The following Workshops were conducted from

29 November 2010 3 December 2010 Embroidery 5 December 2010 10 December 2010 Glass painting for the Self Help Groups of Kanchipuram District. Totally 110 women were trained.

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Workshops Organized
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Workshops Organized

An Induction programme for New Faculty Members was organized between 15-17 July 2010. Over 60 faculty members were trained in different aspects of pedagogy, psychology and interactive methods of teaching including 25 faculty members from other colleges. A two day Interactive workshop on Java was offered for the Faculty members of CSE, IT and MCA departments in Sept 1819 2010 in partnership with Digiterati, 6/12/12 Chennai. Totally 35 faculty members

Workshops Organized

An Induction programme for New Faculty Members will be organized between June 27, 2011- July 1, 2011. Over 60 faculty members are to be trained in different aspects of pedagogy, psychology and interactive methods of teaching including 20 faculty members from other colleges. A workshop on How to conduct practical classes was organized on July 15 2011 for all the faculty.
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A Guest Lecture by Dr. N.S. Venkataraman

Faculty deputed to Other Institutions

The FTA was instrumental in sponsoring five faculty members from various Departments for a one day workshop on MATLAB conducted at VIT Chennai during April 2011 as a result of the partnership with ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu. The FTA was instrumental in sponsoring two faculty members from the ECE department for a three day workshop during 20th to 22nd August 2010 on Cadence Technologies, as a result of the 6/12/12 partnership with ICT Academy of Tamil

Special Event

A panel discussion on the topic Challenges Teachers face in Technical Education in the Twenty First Century bringing together

Dr.M.Sekar Dean (CEG), Anna University, Chennai Eugene Xavier Technologies Ltd. Vice President, Hexaware

Dr.JG. Sheshasayee President, ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu

was organized on 18 Sept 2010 for all the 6/12/12

International Collaboration

A discussion on partnership with Sogang University South Korea on The World Class University project in Service Science was arranged on 10th August. Dr.R.Shriram Director FTA, was nominated as the Coordinator for the partnership. Dr. R. Shriram Director (FTA) conducted a workshop on Teaching Learning practices from 27 December 2011 to 31 December 2011 at Daffodils International University. 6/12/12

Papers Published

Dr.Shriram, Director, Faculty Training Academy participated in a panel discussion titled Ubiquitous Learning at the Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011--Global Conference on Learning and Technology to be held in Melbourne, Australia, March 28-April 1. Dr.R. Shriram and Steve Carlisle Warner, Connectivism and the Impact of Web 2.0 Technologies on Education, Asian Journal of Distance Education, Vol. 8, Nov 2010. 6/12/12

Police Training

The Basic computer training for more than 779 men and women Sub Inspector Cadets from the Tamil Nadu Police Academy was conducted between 23rd May and 24th June 2011. The main aim of the programme is to teach computer applications and throw light on some fundamental aspects of cyber crime related topics. The Training was organized under the

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Curriculum Development

A coordination meeting for the conduct of soft skills courses for the upcoming 4th Semester B.Tech programmes was convened on 29 October 2011. The syllabi for the soft skills programmes was presented by Dr. Shriram to a high level committee and discussed.

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Photo Gallery
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Dr.Vijayan Sugumaran (Extreme Right) on the occasion of his Guest Lecture on How to prepare high quality Research papers

The Director of NITTTR Dr.Mohan inaugurating the Induction Training Programme for Faculty 6/12/12

Participant of the Self Help Group programme handing over a memento that they had completed in the Training Programme to the Vice Chancellor (Dr.P.Kanniappan)

Panel discussion (LR) Dr.R.Shriram (Director FTA), Dr.Eugune Xavier, Dr.M.Sekar, Vice Chancellor (BSAU), Dr.JG.Sheshasayee, Registrar (BSAU) 6/12/12

The Member Secretary, TNSCST (Dr.M.S. Vincent) inaugurating the training programme for the Self Help Groups of Kancheepuram district

Participant of the Self Help Group programme handing over a memento that they had completed in the Training Programme to 6/12/12the Secretary 4 M Trust Mrs.Maryam Abdul Qadir

Contact
Dr.R.Shriram Director, Faculty Training Academy B.S.Abdur Rahman University Company Logo Vandalur, Chennai 600 048 Phone: +91 44 22751347 (227)

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