Best Practice
2015-16
Best Practice-1 :
Inculcating the research spirit in the faculty and students in order to achieve progressive technological advancements Research is a never-ending pursuit for knowledge that is used for advancement of society in the information era. Today’s world is evolving quickly by creating opportunities for new research efforts to improve peoples lives. Keeping up with the everincreasing wants and demands has become the most important factor. Continuous research and development of new products and initiatives has become necessary to fulfill such demands. This prompted the Institute to advance its RD activities, which focuses on a variety of autonomous disciplines and fosters multidisciplinary research. Teaching and research must coexist. The college promotes research in the following ways and means to achieve such goals: Sponsoring for seminars/conference/workshops/Orientation courses /refresher courses like STTPs, FDPs, SDPs, etc. by paying registration fee, TA/DA with paid leave. Financial incentives like paying registration fee for publications in journals and conferences and TA/DA for presentation of technical papers in various International/National conferences and special incentives for publication of research papers in good impact factors as well as Scopus papers. Modernization of laboratories with research facilities Exposure to international expertise by organizing invited lectures, work-shops, seminars and conferences etc. Providing high end computing facilities, with internet, WiFi, and other facilities The supporting staffs is also encouraged to upgrade their skills by being deputed to relevant authorized /recognized training centers in their respective trades/fields.
Best Practice-2 :
A unique counseling process is followed in which every faculty are allocated 20 students as a proctor with an objective to constantly follow the student progress and accordingly suggest changes in the case of any deviation. For every faculty ranging from Assistant Professor to Professor level, 20 students were assigned to look after their academic progress. One reason why student’s opinion increases after using proctors is that they realize that proctors may be highly valuable throughout their course stay, even helping many students to accomplish educational advancement in the first place. Because most people do not focus on it, but here are some ways where proctors help students reaching their educational and evaluative goals. The most evident and easy way is that proctors help students by ensuring more equitable learning environment for all. The restrictions, such as how long it lasts and what materials are authorized or prohibited, are set by professors and administrative authorities. However, someone must police those laws, which is tough to do when students are dispersed all over the world. Proctors have a huge influence since it is clearly wrong to have some students follow the rules while others do not. By prohibiting cheating and giving everyone an equal opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge, proctors play a crucial role in ensuring the students who sincerely study and accomplish the work.
2016-17
Best Practice-1 :
Providing a safe environment for students is critical to our institutions overall success. There are a few things we can do to increase student safety at our college. With that in mind, here are several issues that our college has to address in order to increase student safety on campus. Ragging free campus is the prime motto of our institute since its inception. Some other gender sensitivity issues are also properly taken care like sexual assault, student safety that necessitates a particular set of prevention tactics. When incident statistics are examined, the significance of implementing prevention strategy becomes abundantly evident. While it is hard to provide a watertight solution to all problems that may arise on college campus, several colleges have embraced techniques such as teaching students on consent and taking a zerotolerance policy to incidences. The goal was to build a challenge, report, and support culture within the student and staff community by raising awareness of hate crimes and conveying the universities zero-tolerance policy. It is also crucial to give pupils with appropriate support services in order for them to handle any trauma caused by the experience. For many students, college is their first taste of independence working to a schedule, being safe, and taking responsibility for their own things. Along with its well-lit pathways, the college has increased student safety by employing a sufficient number of security staff and installing security cameras. Having a campus security team on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and security protocols in place, such as the usage of ID for admission, can help to keep unauthorized persons off campus.
Best Practice-2 :
Enhancing students skills through Technical-hub (T-hub) an exclusive training department In today’s competitive driven world, many students are much afraid to follow modern career paths due to the fear of failure which overpowers their mind. Founded with the main intention to help students rid this fear, Technical hub follows a modern teaching system which not only encourages students to follow various new career paths but also makes them industry ready for their chosen future. Initially, when Technical Hub started, it had a small student audience with not more than 10 individuals. Today technical hub has more than 6-7 thousand individuals and the number keeps going up as the days pass by. Our body initially consisted of one man keen on sharing his knowledge with the student community. Today Technical Hub has more than 24 active teaching individuals who are certified by well-reputed companies and who happen to be few of the best in their field. Technical Hub is not only focused on making a good student to excellent by polishing their skills and increasing their knowledge in the areas they lack, but also encourages those individuals who have little technical knowledge and excel them in their chosen field. Apart from that, Technical-hub also happen to have finely trained professionals from multiple reputed organizations like Oracle, Red Hat, Cisco, Git Hub and VMware, who make the students more knowledgeable and technically sound.
2017-18
Best Practice-1 :
Holistic approach to overall student development that emphasis co-curricular and extra-curricular activities The rapid cultural and social changes in society have a tremendous impact on young brains. As a result, there is an urgent need to guide, polish, and assist them with appropriate values and ethics that are supported by purpose and vision. There is significant possibility in this aspect for implementing a holistic strategy for total personality development of young minds in an educational institution through the planning and organization of various co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. Both technology and the arts contribute equally to overall progress. AEC, being a technological institution, creative methods are applied through extra-curricular activities such as An Annual Sports and Cultural fest, VEDHA -An Annual Student Technical Symposium, Bi-annual Cultural fest and so forth. In addition to educational activities, AEC gives significant opportunities for co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. AGBI – Aditya Global Business Incubator is promoting the students internship. Till now more than 39 starts ups were developed and 14 events were conducted to promote innovation and entrepreneurship since its inception from 2014 SAE - As it involves all areas of the automobile industry, including research, design, production, testing, developing, marketing, management, and financing, it supports engineering vocations and excellence. CSI - To enrich students with latest technologies, actively involving them into various technical activities Disha Department Lab - To Make students to participate actively in various activities Google Student Developer Club - To enhance the students technical knowledge ISTE - Providing guidance and training to students to develop better learning skills and personality SPE – To conduct the events for the students and Faculty to enhance knowledge in oil and gas industry NSS - Plantation drives, blood donation camps, services at orphanages and old age homes, road safety, anti-ragging squads, local medical camps, and other activities are included. IEEE ARC Lab - provides essential assistance, workshops, and tutorials, as well as tools, equipment, components, and workspace Entrepreneurship Development Cell - focuses on bringing out the business culture on campus through awareness drives and seminars led by the cities young entrepreneurs. Abhinaya Cultural Club - provides every individual a chance in the realms of Art, Music, Dance, and many more. Culture, legacy, and art are personified representations of civilization and way of life. This group also encourages members to become better art devotees and to build positivity.
Best Practice-2 :
Institute was identified as a remote centre by IIT Bombay to conduct Faculty development programs and workshops for improvement in Teaching and Learning process. Institute is recognized as remote centre by IIT Mumbai as a part of NMEICT. Through this resource the institute is enabled to conduct activities of training the trainers, provide quality and equity across the scale of students, connect with institutes, empower teachers and learners and provide skilled e-content. Especially the teachers are provided with attending and participating workshops, faculty development programs besides the students are allowed to participate in skilled seminars, workshops, training programs.
2018-19
Best Practice-1 :
School outreach programs: It is important to know that the school teachers should shape their students who go for higher education and should be aware of latest trend of professional courses such as B.E or B.Tech . Also school students should equip their qualities in all the manner while they transform from the school to college. Science and Engineering outreach, also known as Education and Public Outreach or simply public outreach, refers to a wide range of activities carried out by research institutes, universities, and institutions with the goal of increasing public awareness (and understanding) of science and engineering and making informal contributions to education. Among AEC, we wanted to raise awareness in schools in E.G. district and other districts for the same goal. We are inviting school groups to our campus for lab visits and workshops. Students will be given lectures in a variety of disciplines. Another kind of science outreach is inviting school teachers to workshops where they learn successful ways for engaging pupils in science. Such seminars are also being scheduled for the future. We not only organise independent events, but we also support existing activities that raise scientific awareness. AEC faculty and staff participate in international, national, and state-level scientific and engineering activities on a regular basis for this reason.
Best Practice-2 :
E-content development: The goal of e-content development is to create high-quality e-Content as well as competence for creating such content in the long run. The e-Content production and web-based learning described here are not intended to replace traditional teaching and learning, but rather to augment it. Once created, the e-Content will be maintained and made available to all faculty and students in the university system throughout the college. The purpose of this initiative is to encourage individual instructors, groups of college teachers, and IT professionals in content creation and multimedia production to create instructional content in electronic format that can be used in a variety of teaching and learning programs. The content duration has been calculated based on the number of hours necessary to complete the subject in the classroom. A classroom course, for example, requires one credit, and a credit is equivalent to 15 hours. A courses material will be counted as 15 hours of classroom instruction
2019-20
Best Practice-1 :
Contextual factors in planning and executing the practice stem from the institutions long history of carving out a space for itself by conducting extracurricular events that allows its pupils to engage with local populations. These encounters acted as a forum for the academic community with a. Design and development of low cost technology. b. Spreading about awareness about literacy, hygiene etc. As a part of fulfilling campus needs design of a specific eco system has been in practice. It includes various engineering programs to develop technological solutions for by students as well as Faculty. Let us say Mechanical Department has designed Gear based Clutch restriction system, Acceleration restriction based Clutch restriction system, Magnetic engine. Electronics and Communication Engineering department has designed an automatic water tap control mechanism that will control the flow of water once the glass or bottle is filled. Especially this comes as a resource conservation mechanism that tries to regulate the wastage of water. When it comes to Agricultural Engineering department a Natural cooling of vegetables, an adaptive and economical mechanism has been designed and proposed. This enables the fast and effective cooling of vegetables with low cost and reliability.
Best Practice-2 :
Engineering Condition Monitoring Practice In addition to teaching in the class and executing the practicals in a laboratory, students are exposed to look at the various trouble shooting exercises so that they come across with theory, practical and problem diagnostic at one place. For example whether it may be an automobile systems, sub-systems or mechanical systems, electrical systems including different electronic gadgets, electric fans, machines etc. will be tested and diagnosed for its fault and will be repaired. This in turn integrates cross sectional training across the students upon careful supervision. Later extensive survey is made through which better results and further improvement is addressed. This helps the stakeholders to utilize better in all the systems and components of the institute. And also extended to project based learning with inter-disciplinary areas.
2020-21
Best Practice-1 :Communication Skills Development
Title of the Practice
Communication Skills Development through Campus Communication Skills Program.
Objectives of the practice :
- To train the students on communication skills by focusing on productive skills such as Speaking and Writing.
- To enhance vocabulary and pronunciation through Listening and Reading.
Context:
There is a growing demand for language proficiency for employability in various sectors and pursuing higher studies. In this regard, courses on English communication skills and Employability skills are included in the curriculum. As most of the students are from rural and vernacular background, to provide them a competitive advantage, communication skills training is offered through Campus Communication Skills Centre. The Campus Communication Centre provides a suitable platform for the students to prove themselves by participating in the language tasks and competitions with higher levels of motivation and with its gaming element within and beyond college hours.
Each task focuses on different levels of competency in speaking and writing. Some of these activities include the following.
The Practice:
Campus Communication Skills Program offers a platform both virtual and physical for the students to improve their language proficiency in a way that exposes them to global English and help them get rid of mother tongue influence. The learner centric approach provide students a free hand in learning.
The following activities are part of this program.
- Group Discussion
- JAM sessions
- Mock Interviews
- Role Plays
- Vocabulary Building
- Writing Skills
Evidence of success:
Students who have undergone the program has shown considerable improvement in their overall communication skills. This resulted in an increase of 55.8% in the placement for the academic year 2020-21.
Problems encountered and resources required:
These activities involved considerable amount of time on planning and scheduling the programs. Faculty members devoted significant amount of time, besides their regular academic load to train students. Though these activities are meant for all students, only the interested students used to come forward to participate in these activities. Through constant motivation by proctors and publicizing the success of participants, more number of students has shown interest to participate. Activity rooms and seminar halls are equipped with audio and video facilities to enhance the overall learning experience.
Best Practice-2 :Faculty Capacity Building
1. Title of the Practice:
Faculty capacity building to improve the existing teaching-learning and research methods.
2. Objectives of the Practice:
- To encourage faculty to adopt various tools of online teaching and learning.
- To improve the participation of faculty in research and development.
3. The Context :
Due to COVID- 19 pandemic, faculty and students are restricted to their homes. Activities like teaching-leaning, research and development came to a halt. In order to tide over this challenge the institute decided to adopt online technologies.
4. The Practice:
In order to continue the teaching-learning process, the institute encouraged faculty and students to explore online teaching. In this regard, faculty members and students are trained in online teaching-learning platforms like Google classroom and Microsoft Teams. Faculty members and students are encouraged to continue learning through Coursera online platform. In this regard, the institute in coordination with L4G Solutions Private Limited provided access to Coursera online platform. Active researchers in the institute are encouraged to form into clusters, as per their research interest, to carry out research activity.
5. Evidence of Success:
Faculty members adapted themselves with the online teaching-learning tools through which they successfully completed the syllabus in time. Feedback from students on teaching-learning process is collected. Regarding research and development, there is a considerable increase in the number of publications when compared with the previous academic year. In the academic year 2020-21, a total of 167 research articles are published which is 29.3% greater when compared with previous academic year.
6.Problems encountered and Resources required :
Most of the students are from rural areas and are from poor economic background. This created a challenge for their parents to provide required infrastructure for attending online class work. Another major issue is signal connectivity and bandwidth. In order to overcome this, the institute has conducted awareness meeting to parents and students about the importance of online class work and also provided vendor information for procuring laptops/PC’s at discount rates.
