KNOWLEDGE INCUBATION FOR TEQIPKNOWLEDGE INCUBATION FOR TEQIP This report is a brief introduction of KIT, IIT Kanpur’s endeavours towards improvement of technical education in TEQIP

KNOWLEDGE

INCUBATION FOR

TEQIP

This report is a brief introduction of KIT, IIT Kanpur’s

endeavours towards improvement of technical education in

TEQIP colleges all over India in past few years.

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Executive summary

TEQIP at IIT Kanpur has been working hard towards creating

opportunities for teachers and students of TEQIP colleges all over

India to take part in TEQIP programs and enhance their teaching and

research. This document presents a brief overview of what Knowledge

Incubation for TEQIP, IIT Kanpur has achieved in last one year.

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Effective teacher training programs through short-courses, schools, workshops, conferences and seminars.

Help foster a research culture in the colleges through visiting researcher programs, allowing use of advanced research infra-structure, advice on setting up research activities, collaborative research, seeding of research activities, interaction with international researchers of

repute, etc.

Improve classroom teaching through interventions like model curriculum for core courses, discussions on desired mandatory

courses, mandatory experimental training for students, desirable elective courses, new sub-specializations, etc.

Improve the learning experience of the student through open participation in courses, internship program, fully

supported visits to IIT Kanpur to avail of library and laboratories, initiate student research projects, MOOC

based courses.

Share the IIT experience with the faculty and administration in order to help these colleges improve their academic and financial management structure –

focusing all the effort into providing an excellent learning environment and experience to the student and

the teacher.

Best Practices

Table of Contents

About KIT, IIT Kanpur..................................Page 1

Achievements....................................................Page 2

Objectives…………………………………….Page 4

TEQIP III Activities…………………………Page 5

List of events…………………………...……..Page 8

IIT Kanpur Support………………………..Page 12

Institutes under IIT Kanpur………....…….Page 13

Participation Summary.................................Page 14

TEQIP III Events…………………………..Page 15

Observation and Outcomes….…...………..Page 23

Webpage Summary…………………….…..Page 25

Concerns…………………………….………Page 26

Suggestions………………………………….Page 27

Feedback……………………………….……Page 28

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About KIT IIK Kanpur

IIT Kanpur has provided various opportunities through which

the faculty and students of the TEQIP institutions can benefit.

Knowledge Incubation for TEQIP (KIT) at IIT Kanpur has

worked tirelessly for the past five years to allow a smooth and

hassle-free learning experience for the teachers and students

from technical colleges. Several levels of programs have been

started and the KIT office has been in close and continuous

correspondence with the coordinators of all the colleges in our

Quality Circle – and with the rest of TEQIP colleges through

NPIU. The KIT maintains a very active website that flashes

announcements for courses, workshops, programs. Hundreds of

valuable video lectures on general and specialized topics from

experts of international repute have been put up on the KIT site,

so that anybody can benefit from it. All workshops, courses,

schools, seminars are recorded so that those who missed the

event will not lose out. Summer and winter internship and

visiting researcher programs have been initiated and several

faculty and students have benefitted from these programs. KIT

has also made it known to all the colleges that we are willing to

provide any possible support for academic purposes, to any

student or teacher – anytime – so that all the colleges become an

extension of the IIT Kanpur experience.

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Accomplishments

TEQIP facilitated interaction between the teachers from all

the TEQIP institutions and some of the best professors

from across the country and the world. This has been

achieved through 61 workshops/schools/short

courses/internship and visiting researcher programs etc. which has been organized by KIT, IIT Kanpur till date.

2444 participants including teachers and students from

TEQIP institutions and about 500 experts were brought

on the same platform to interact both on teaching aspects

as well as basic and focused research topics.

Comprehensive reports clearly identifying the major

areas of concerns and possible solutions have been

prepared in consultation with participants from TEQIP

institutions.

Model curriculum has been discussed and developed for

several disciplines – Chemical Science, Material Science,

Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Computer Science

and Electrical Engineering. These are available on the

KIT webpage as an e-resource.

Summer and winter internship & visiting researcher

program were extremely successful. In this academic year

we have hosted 18 faculties and 34 students. Interestingly,

some of the visiting faculty and students have written joint

research articles with their hosts. Several young faculties

could initiate new research activities with this support.

KIT has provided a unique opportunity to PhD students

from the TEQIP institutions to spend time at IIT Kanpur,

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to carry out their research experiments or literature review

(using our library) with a locally identified mentor.

Excellent resources for research and learning have been

created, and are now available on KIT, IIT Kanpur

webpage. There are over 1000 lecture videos to be

accessed by any interested user.

Through the short term courses and interactions with

subject experts, the faculty of the various participating

institutes have improved a lot and it is very beneficial for

the overall development of these institutes.

This year KIT started a unique internship program which

was in association with INVENT Program SIIC, IIT

Kanpur. This is a step towards motivating students to

get acquainted with the process of converting a viable

innovative idea/research into a valuable product and

the final outcome being generating entrepreneurs.

MOOKIT an Indigenous MOOCs platform was

developed. This is a locally manageable, interactive e-

learning platform. The first course on ‘Architecting

Software for the Cloud’ was offered through this

platform which was attended by1648 candidates.

Collaborations during Summer and Winter internships are

leading to research collaborations and publications.

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Objectives

KIT

Support institutes to

produce better engineers

Scale-up postgraduate

education

Establish Centers of Excellence for focused applicable research

Training faculty for effective Teaching

Enhance Institutional System and

Management effectiveness

Encourage demand-driven

Research & Development and

Innovation

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Types of Activities

Innovative content development

Design of experiments and

set-ups

Seminars

Teaching work-shops and schools in specific cluster

of courses

Short-courses and workshops in niche areas

Reports with outcomes of these

programs

Lecture Video repository

Short-term visit of graduate students

from TEQIP institutions

Summer and winter internship

program

Visiting researcher program

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Sudents and teachers

participated: 2444

Total no. of programs

organized: 61

Online course participation

:1648

Almost 1000 lecture videos on

several topics

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TEQIP – III Proposed Activities

In phase – III of TEQIP program, KIT aims at improving the

quality of Engineering Education in India with a special consideration

for Low Income States and Special Category States. States like Up

and Bihar require basic necessities to support their teachers and

students. Following activities are being planned in phase- III to

help improve conditions in these states:

Summer and winter internship/ visiting researcher programs

Provision for competitive UG/ PG projects to promote UG

research in the focus state TEQIP institutions

International / National Conference in the project institution

Two year duration collaborative research (faculty) with

mentor from IITs

Peer review mechanism for assessing faculty performance

GATE sensitization orientation workshop in participating

institutions through PG/PhD students of IITs

2-3 day workshop for Training of Technical/

Library/Administrative Staff

Periodic review by IIT faculty and offer consultation to

project institution for development of laboratories

Encourage faculty from quality circle institutions to get PhD

from IITs.

Provisions for credit transfer, collaborative PhD and

Master’s thesis (with the IIT)

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1. Pravartanā 2013

2. Five day workshop on Systems Engineering

3. International Workshop on Novel Combustion Concepts

for Sustainable Energy Development

4. Workshop on Leadership Exposure

5. TEQIP workshop on Teaching Methodologies in Chemical

and Material Sciences

6. TEQIP workshop on Mechanics in Physics

7. Workshop on Dynamics and Vibrations

8. Summer internship and visiting researcher program 2014

9. MOOC on Cloud Computing & MOOC on MOOC

10. Workshop for Computer Science Teachers

11. Pravartanā 2014

12. Winter Internship and Visiting Researcher Program 2014

13. TEQIP Workshop on Digital Networks and

Communications

14. Short Course on Structure and Characterization of

Materials

15. International Workshop on Sustainable Energy, Power

and Propulsion

16. CALDAM, School on Discrete Mathematics

17. Mechanics School at IITK

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18. TEQIP Workshop on Electromagnetic Theory

19. Workshop on Effective use of EdRP Components

20. Short Course on Basic Physics for B.Sc. students, 2015

21. TEQIP Summer Internship and visiting researcher

Program, 2015

22. TEQIP School on System & Control

23. Short term Course on Micro manufacturing

24. TEQIP Workshop on Materials & Metallurgy Curriculum

Discussion

25. TEQIP Workshop on Microstructure Engineering via

Heat Treatments

26. TEQIP Winter Internship and Visiting Researcher

Program

27. TEQIP Workshop on High Resolution X-Ray & Electron

Diffraction

28. Pravartanā 2016: TEQIP Symposium on Mechanics

29. Short term course on Research Skills & Methods

30. TEQIP Workshop on Advanced Robotics

31. TEQIP School on Computational Methods in Engineering

Application

32. TEQIP Workshop on Advanced Micro-nano Technologies

33. TEQIP Summer Internship and visiting researcher

Program , 2016

34. Short Course on Basic Physics for B.Sc. students

35. TEQIP Workshop on Machining Dynamics

36. TEQIP Workshop on Advanced sensors and Actuators

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37. TEQIP Workshop on Control Techniques and

Applications

38. A Short Course on Combustion: Fundamental and

Applications

39. Winter Internship 2016

40. TEQIP School on Mechanics of Reinforced Polymer

Composites

41. TEQIP Workshop on Modeling, Simulation &

Implementation using MATLAB & Simulink

2017 March – 2018 July

42. Rarefied and Microscale Gases and Viscoelastic Fluids: a

Unified Framework

43. International Workshop on Energy, Propulsion and

Environment

44. UP Start-up Conclave on Entrepreneurship & Innovation

in Academic Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities.

45. TEQIP Long term training program at NcFlexE, IIT

Kanpur

46. TEQIP Summer training in Robotics

47. Long term Visiting Researcher Program - Ms. Nandini

Sharma

48. TEQIP short term course on Big Data

49. TEQIP Short Course on Introduction to Robotics

50. Faculty Induction Program- I

51. Faculty Induction Program- II

52. Faculty Induction Program- III

53. TEQIP Workshop on Dynamics and Control of Rotorcraft

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54. Summer Training Program on Active Learning for Senior

Faculty –I


Faculty –II


Faculty –III


Faculty –IV

58. . Summer Internship and Visiting Researcher Program

with SIIC & INVENT

59. . Practical English: Learning and Teaching Program

60. Introduction to Manufacturing Processes

61. Summer Training in Robotics

KIT IIT Kanpur activities planned in coming months

Teaching workshops and schools in specific cluster of

courses

Summer and Winter internship program: Mentorship of

selected students from winter and summer internship

will be extended further to scaffold the learning abilities

of the capable students and the continuous flow of ideas.

Visiting researcher program for PhD students to

encourage collaborative research

Continued research interaction through limited local

support

Training programs for technical staff/ administrative staff

to improve their performance & efficiency

Workshop on Modal Analysis: September 17-21, 2018

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Administrative and infra-structural support from IIT Kanpur

Sanction of seminar rooms/class-rooms, along with multi-media

facilities on request from professor in-charge/ signing authority of

the center.

Hostel/guest-house rooms to visiting students/faculty during

summers, winter-break and regular semesters against request from

center (payment for the same to be made by NPIU/student). For

faculty a few SBRA/VFA may be made available, against request

and payment by NPIU.

Issue of temporary identity cards and access to library facilities,

sports facilities, medical facilities and computer facilities against

request (for each student/faculty a bill will be raised by the center

to NPIU for all the expenses to be incurred).

Access to central laboratories/workshop to the visiting students

and faculty against request.

If available, temporary office space for visiting faculty.

Travel support to some participants, whose institute was unable to

provide the support.

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Institutes under IIT Kanpur in TEQIP III

State Mentee Institute Mentor Institute

Bihar Darbhanga College of Engineering,

Darbhanga

IIT Kanpur

Bihar LokNayak Jay Prakash Institute of

Technology, Chapra, Bihar

IIT Kanpur

Uttar

Pradesh

Institute of Engineering & Technology,

Bundelkhand University, Kanpur Road,

Jhansi-

Faculty of

Engineering &

Technology, Guru

Jambeshwar University

of Science &

Technology, Hissar,

Haryana

Harcourt Butler Technical University

(Formerly HBTI), Kanpur

Thiagarajar College

of Engineering,

Madurai, Tamil Nadu

FET MJP Rohilakhand University,

Bareilly

BMS College of

Engineering, Bangalore

Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering &

Technology, Jhansi

H.K.E.S’s PDA

College of Engineering,

Gulbarga

Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology

Institute, Kanpur

University

Department of

Chemical Technology,

North Maharashtra

University, Jalgaon

Rajkiya Engineering College Bijnor Basaveshwar

Engineering College,

Bagalkot

Rajkiya Engineering College, Banda National Institute of

Engineering, Mysore

Uma Nath Singh Institute of Engineering

& Technology, VBS Purvanchal University,

Jaunpur

PES College of

Engineering, Mandya

Institute of Engineering & Technology,

Dr. RML Awadh University, Faizabad

Dr. Ambedkar

Institute of Technology,

Bangalore

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Participation Summary March 2017 - July 2018

Total teachers and students participated

from March 2017 to July 2018 : 997

Total events organized from March 2017

to July 2018 : 20

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1. TEQIP Short Term Course on Big Data

2. TEQIP Short Course on Introduction to Robotics

3. Faculty Induction Program – I

4. Faculty Induction Program – II

5. Faculty Induction Program – III

6. TEQIP Workshop on Dynamics and Control of Rotorcraft

7. Summer Training Program on Active Learning for Senior Faculty –I

8. Summer Training Program on Active Learning for Senior Faculty –II

9. Summer Training Program on Active Learning for Senior Faculty –III

10. Summer Training Program on Active Learning for Senior Faculty –IV

11. Summer Internship and Visiting Researcher Program 2018

12. Practical English: Learning and Teaching Program

13. Introduction to Manufacturing Processes

14. Summer Training in Robotics

TEQIP Phase-III Events: August 2017 to July 2018

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1. TEQIP Short Term Course on Big Data: 07-11 August, 2017

This course aimed at introducing participants to the underlying

technology, decision-making models, strategy and issues involved in a

big data project. In this workshop participants learnt about various

characteristics of big data. They were introduced to challenges involved

in handling big data and various opportunities in this field.

2. TEQIP Short Course on Introduction to Robotics: 04-08 September, 2017

The workshop aimed at introducing the participants to essential theory

required for teaching and research in robotics, with hands on

experiments through numerous laboratory sessions. Several experts

from academia, research laboratories and industry delivered the

lectures and shared their research experience during the workshop.

Number of Registered Participants

55

Number of Institutes Participated 25

Number of Speakers 09

Webpage http://www.iitk.ac.in/tkic/wo

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About TEQIP Phase-III Events: August 2017 to July 2018

http://www.iitk.ac.in/tkic/workshop/Big-Data/

http://www.iitk.ac.in/tkic/workshop/Big-Data/

http://www.iitk.ac.in/tkic/workshop/Introduction%20to%20Robotics/



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3. Faculty Induction Program - I, II, III, : Group A: January 20-24, 2018 Group B:

January 29 – February 2, 2018 Group C: February 9-13, 2018

Newly recruited teachers from 18 engineering colleges from UP, Bihar,

J&K, MP and Uttarakhand spanning several departments including

Humanities, Physics, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Civil

Engineering etc. attended the program to learn from experts at IIT

Kanpur about various aspects of teaching and learning. The Induction

Program’s primary goal was to familiarize the participants with their

roles as teachers. It was designed to orient them on various generic

aspects of teaching learning, instructional methodologies, and

assessment and evaluation techniques. The curriculum consisted of

three modules Pedagogy, Research, and knowing the TEQIP III

project. More than 100 IIT Kanpur faculty and staff from different

departments came together to make this initiative a big success.

4. TEQIP Workshop on Dynamics and Control of Rotorcraft: 02-06 February,

2018

This workshop gave the participants a broad overview of the field of

dynamics and control of rotary wing aerial vehicles. Engineering faculty

and students working in the area of control, robotics, aerospace, and

personnel from industry and research organizations attended this

workshop.


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5. Summer Training Program on Active Learning for Senior Faculty: Group

A: May 21-25, 2018, Group B: June 02-06, 2018, Group C: June 11-15,2018,

Group D: July 02-06, 2018

The workshop aimed at helping all participating teachers rejuvenate

their roles as teachers and administrators.

The program focused on following topics:

• Peer learning

• Outcome Based Education

• Autonomy

• Good Governance

• State-of-the-art Laboratory visits

• How to get research proposals and funding

• Means of Industrial consultancies

• Academic Ecosystem

• Co-curricular activities & extracurricular activities

• Student Placement

• Innovation and Incubation

6. Summer Internship and Visiting Researcher Program 2018: 01-30 June,

2018

Almost 1400 applications came for the program this year from all

over India. Visiting Researcher Program is designed to facilitate

knowledge exchange between faculty members of IIT Kanpur and

guest faculties from TEQIP institutes. The Summer Internship

part aims at exposing selected students from TEQIP institutes to


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the academic culture of IIT Kanpur and help them adopt new

methods of learning their subject of interest.

7. Summer Internship 2018 with SIIC/ INVENT: 01 June -27 July, 2018

This year Knowledge Incubation for TEQIP (KIT), IIT Kanpur

& INVENT jointly initiated a unique internship program which is

a step towards motivating students to get acquainted with the

process of converting a viable innovative idea/research into a

valuable product and the final outcome being generating

entrepreneurs. It aims to motivate students to invoke their

innovative side by working with some young entrepreneurs who

are strongly motivated to bring change in the society with their

innovative ideas. 20 summer interns, most of them from UP &

Bihar, were placed in startup companies under SIIC & INVENT.

The students were familiarized to the challenges faced by potential

entrepreneurs to actuate their ideas into a product/services and

learn about their success stories and challenges faced by them.

Working with these companies students were motivated to think

outside the box and get an exposure to the work environment of

an industry.


1400

Selected Faculty 18

Selected Students 12

Webpage http://www.teqipiitk.in/work

shop/si18/


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Selected Students 19


shop/si18/

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8. Practical English: Learning and Teaching Program: 01-30 June, 2018 This course was designed to examine and improve the general English

proficiency of participants, bridging the gaps of their training in the

English language and orienting them towards better written and oral

communication. It further aimed to acquaint participants with the

complete methodology of the course itself, so that they can later

effectively teach or otherwise execute and administer it for a group of

students.

9. Introduction to Manufacturing Processes: 11-22 June, 2018

The 10 day course introduced important mechanical properties of

materials, conventional and non-conventional material removal

processes, CNC programming, metrology, micro fabrication processes

and layered manufacturing technique. Each day started with one-hour

lecture about various manufacturing processes followed by working in

the lab. At the end of the course, the participants were able to

demonstrate a working prototype designed, fabricated and assembled

by them.


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10. Summer Training in Robotics: May 28-July 15, 2018 Every year for past 3 years Knowledge Incubation for TEQIP, IIT

Kanpur organize Summer Training Program in Robotics. This training

program is designed for UG students. 4 summer trainees in the general

area of robotics were selected in this program for the training. Topics

covered during the training :

a. Biped locomotion

b. Motion planning

c. Mobile robotics

d. Design

e. Control of robotic systems, vision, etc.

This year the main target of this training was to develop a 7-DOF

mobile robot with the arm mounted on it. The objective of this robot

was to find the specified object in the workspace through camera, plan

its motion towards it, pick that object through the arm mounted upon

the robot and place that object at the specified destination.

Number of Applications Received

62

Number of Selected Students 04


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Event Summary S.

No.

No. of

Participants

Name of the Activity

Date of

Activity 1

55 TEQIP Short Term Course on Big Data

07-11

August, 2017

2

26

TEQIP Short Course on Introduction to

Robotics

04-08

September,

2017

3

255

Faculty Induction Program – I

Group A:

January 20-24,

2018

4 Faculty Induction Program – II

Group B:

January 29 –

February 2,

2018

5 Faculty Induction Program – III

Group C:

February 9-13,

2018

6

24

TEQIP Workshop on Dynamics and

Control of Rotorcraft

02-06

February, 2018

7

296

Summer Training Program on Active

Learning for Senior Faculty –I

Group A:

May 21-25, 2018

8 Summer Training Program on Active

Learning for Senior Faculty –II

Group B:

June 02-06, 2018


Learning for Senior Faculty –III

Group C:

June 11 15,2018


Learning for Senior Faculty –IV

Group D:

July 02-06, 2018

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Summer Internship & Visiting

Researcher Program

Internship (15)

SIIC, INVENT Internship (19)

Visiting Researchers (18)

June 1 -30,

2018

June 1- July

27 (SIIC,

INVENT)

12

72

Practical English: Learning and

Teaching Program

June 1-30,

2018

13 82

Introduction to Manufacturing Processes

June 11-22,

2018

14 4

Summer Training in Robotics

May 28 –

July 15, 2018

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General observations on outcomes

KIT, IIT Kanpur has created an excellent platform for teachers and

students to facilitate interaction with the best brains in the country and

outside. Through several workshops, short term courses, online courses,

symposiums etc. It has helped the participants to become familiar with new

and improved teaching techniques and latest developments in their

research field. Attending the various KIT workshops has increased their

knowledge about various advanced topics. Through the workshops and

seminars which acted as training programs, the students and faculty of the

various TEQIP institutes got exposed to the current research and

technology. Most of these workshops focused on emphasizing the key

issues in the subject areas and hence has prepared teachers to teach the

students in a more effective manner. During these programs, students from

various institutes got a chance to learn from the best professors and they

increased their knowledge as well. The internship and visiting researcher

program which has been launched as part of the KIT activities has been

appreciated by the students and faculty members. This activity is providing

a much needed exposure to students and faculty of TEQIP institutes.

Organizing more programs like these can enhance several institute-institute

interactions which can encourage participants to explore future research

collaborations and discuss teaching methodologies so that they can hone

and expand their pedagogical skills for a better teaching/learning

environment.

The initiative taken by TEQIP is playing a key role in developing

research and teaching at the various participating institutes. Through these

interactions teachers of TEQIP institutes have learned new teaching

concepts in various fields which they can practice at their parent institute

and expand their pedagogical goals. TEQIP has helped the participating

institutes to improve their infrastructure at the institutions; it has enabled

faculty participation in conferences and workshops in India and abroad.

There has been enhanced exposure of faculty members to facilities and

research work being carried out at good universities. All this has

encouraged them to improve and expand their teaching and research skills.

But more initiatives are needed to further enhance the technical education

in these institutes. Setting up of an effective evaluation system can help

monitor the development/weakness of these institutes and on the basis of

these assessment reports, the road ahead can be planned. There are very

motivated teachers and students who are ready to work hard and make a

difference but a strong and equally motivated administrative system is

crucial to help them and pave the way to improvement in these institutes.

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Despite all the obstacles, a good rapport has been established with

several institutions and individuals. Many keen faculty and students have

benefitted immensely from the programs offered and have also given

extremely useful suggestions for further improvement. The fact that

research articles have come out of this initiative is extremely satisfying.

Further, several faculty have incorporated parts of what they have learnt

into their courses. The biggest gain is in the confidence it has instilled in

the students – simply through their association with IIT Kanpur. Hope lies

in these young potential teachers and researchers. As awareness of the KIT

initiative increases, there have been increasing request for use of facilities

at IIT Kanpur. Further, the experiences with KIT has motivated the faculty

at IIT Kanpur to support this initiative. This has formed a two-way bond

that enables effective learning.

In order to significantly improve the effect of the KIT initiatives, it is

important that the institutional collaborations improve significantly. This

demands signing of MoUs between the TEQIP institutions and IIT Kanpur.

The MoU will set the platform on which credits can be earned at IIT

Kanpur, and joint research guidance can be done. This required statutory

changes in the statutes of these institutions. Further, funds should be

released based on effective feedback from KIT and through other

evaluation mechanisms. Possible intra-mural research support could be

given for collaborative research through KIT approved projects to faculty.

This will enable strong faculty-to-faculty linkages which will positively

affect the academic eco-system of these institutions. This will also

facilitate visits by IIT faculty to these colleges for lecture-series or for joint

research work. Further, a model norm should be put in place for faculty

recruitment. Funding should be linked to adherence to this recruitment

policy – which should encourage good doctorates to join these institutions

as faculty. Incentivising good academic initiatives will also improve

quality, as achievers will be given the support that they need.

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Country No. of visitors

India 10152

United States 496

United Kingdom 46

South Korea 46

Indonesia 44

Russia 41

Germany 39

Total number of visitors:

24000

Visitors accessing lecture video gallery

1000

92%

5%1%1%1%0%0%0%0%0%India

United States

United Kingdom

South Korea

Indonesia

Russia

Germany

Japan

Vietnam

KIT Webpage Access Summary

April, 2018 to July 2018

Source: Google Analytics

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Concerns

The goal of KIT initiatives is to create a bigger family of

institutions that work as a consortium on pedagogy, research and

development. This kind of approach will help percolate good

practices and knowledge to all the institutions. However, the effort

has had mixed success primarily due to:

Colleges from UP & Bihar (taken from feedback forms)

Colleges do not have basic support to work

No internet in the academic premises

No proper electricity arrangement in the laboratory

Require all textbooks and reference books for all subjects

Proper distribution of load so that we can improve quality

of teaching and research

Grant the demand for sitting place for work

Freedom to introduce new things

No lab staff or equipment

Presence of students. Make rule of 75% attendance ,so that

student can come & learn ,at least 60%

Time to time training and information for our teaching

difficulties required.

Workshop announcements do not reach interested

faculty/students. This is primarily due to lack of good e-

resources locally and dissemination of information

amongst the faculty and students by the relevant

authorities in the institution.

Faculty members, who want to attend the workshops, do

not get support from their Institutions.

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Suggestions

The situation in the state colleges is more disconcerting. Some policy

changes required here, in order to drastically improve the academic

standards:

Sanctioned faculty and staff strength should be automatically

adjusted with respect to student strength in the ratio of 1:1.5: 20

(faculty to staff to student).

The current practice of recruiting ad-hoc and temporary faculty

should be stopped.

Suitable TEQIP support can only be provided to institutes when

their requirements are identified and categorized. There is a severe

need of establishing an effective and strict evaluation system for

TEQIP institutes. This can help monitor the development/weakness

of these institutes and on the basis of these assessment what kind of

support they need from TEQIP can be identified and provided to

them.

Administrative structure has to become enabling, so that the

faculty are encouraged to take research initiatives driven by

personal interest and local technological needs.

Library and e-resources must conform to certain minimum

standards.

MOUs with IITs, NITs and other CFTIs should be signed for

credit transfer, joint degree programs and collaborative research.

Standardized statutes should be enacted and followed, with

provisions to upgrade to conform to the changing academic

climate.

Standardized academic calendar should be framed and followed,

to allow students to attend summer courses and do summer

internships. Most often the semester runs into the summer program,

giving the student and faculty a very small window to engage in

other training/research activities.

Periodic curriculum and program review should be made

mandatory – with a standardized constitution of the review

committees.

Visit to TEQIP colleges by mentors to assess their actual

requirements

Online portal at NPIU for TEQIP faculty so that they can

express/suggest their ideas about colleges assigned to them

Training programs for technical staff/ administrative staff to

improve their performance

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Feedback Summary (source: feedback forms)

We communicated with workshop/internship participants about what more

TEQIP can do to help them progress academically and sieved participant

feedback forms of past year to find out what support TEQIP institutes

require from TEQIP to assist them to further enhance their teaching and

research. Following are some areas, which were highly demanded by them:

“This program gave me

an idea on how to move

forward in my research

work. I have idea but TEQIP

gave me a platform such as

excellent atmosphere for

learning at IITK.

“We may benefit from joint

collaborative efforts with IITK

on research & knowledge

exchanging” -Faculty participant, TEQIP workshop on

Advanced Sensors and Actuators

“TEQIP can act as a mediator

for providing interactions

between various labs for uses of

their facilities for the research”

-Faculty participant, TEQIP workshop on

Reinforced Polymer Composites

Lab access

Library access

Attend courses at IIT Kanpur

Distant PhD. mentoring by IIT Kanpur faculty

Facilitate internships for teachers and students

Extended / Flexible research programs

E-courses/ MOOC on specific topics

Language Program

“Visit to eminent research labs may be

arranged to bridge the gap in research.” -Faculty participant, TEQIP workshop on Controls

Techniques and Applications

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90%

9%1%

Would you like e-lectures by experts on special

topics?

Yes May be No

91%

8% 1%

Would you like to share/use research

infrastructure at IITK, if made available?

Yes May be No

88%

12%

Would you like to have common (TEQIP)

repository of course material?

Yes No

49%51%

How can IITK effectively help you prepare

for teaching?

E-Courses Workshops

87%

11%2%

Would you like to visit an IIT for a short visit/internship/post-doctoral, if offered viaTEQIP?

Yes May be No

49%51%

How can IITK effectively help you preparefor teaching?

E-Courses Workshops

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“In this workshop co-

ordinator conducted hands on

practice for us. This is very

good practice for us likewise

in future add more

experimental things. Hands on

learning provides better

learning.”

“Such workshops

organized by TEQIP

provide opportunity to

interact with the field

experts as well as with the

fellow researchers. This

interaction is the most

important way of

improving the research

work.”

"It is a nice experience to

learn new things. We should

focus on e-cell in every

institute of country. So then

10 ideas together make itself a

big one. We can't waste the

talent of 65% of India's

population i.e. youth.

" It was very helpful in

learning new things which

we can't learn in our

college. We learnt how to

model composites, did

analysis & find the effective

properties. In short very

helpful."

"TEQIP can help in

providing access to all

TEQIP institution, e-

resources through internet

like course materials of

professors available at

internet, resources like e-

journals e-books,

magazines etc."

"The style and method

of lectures under TEQIP

workshop is useful to me

in improving the teaching

method. To learn more

advance topic to improve

quality of teaching himself

and helpful to our

students."

Documents

KNOWLEDGE INCUBATION FOR TEQIPKNOWLEDGE INCUBATION FOR TEQIP This report is a brief introduction of KIT, IIT Kanpur’s endeavours towards improvement of technical education in TEQIP