“Quality Enhancement in Engineering Education (QEEE)” is a committee set up by the Department of Higher Education, MHRD, Govt. of India with an objective of bringing about comprehensive reforms in Technical Education in the country through IIT Madras. Towards this, the committee rolled out a “Direct-to-Student (D2S)” program which completed its first phase between Jan-April 2014 with about 70 colleges, the second phase (August- November 2014) with about 125 colleges and the third phase (Jan- April 2015) with about 95 colleges pan India. QEEE is the Direct to Student interactive program with the teacher. Students are to attend these live classes as the lectures are being delivered by the IIT professors. These Live lectures will create an environment in the classroom. KSRCT has one of the participating institutions in the QEEE Pilot program from Phase IV(August- November 2015) and it has been titled under the Category of “BEST PARTNER” from Phase 5 to Phase 9.
Quality Enhancement in Engineering Education (QEEE) program enhances the quality of Indian engineering education and bridges the quantity-quality gap. This pilot project is designed to improve the quality of education delivered to students by making available high-quality pedagogical resources to all students through technology – Direct to Student Program and empowering teachers/educators.
Live Lectures
- A part of (about 1/3rd to begin with) of the selected course’s lectures would be delivered live from the IIT classroom
- The schedule of lectures will be predetermined.
- The lecture will be brought live to the classroom, with the local faculty playing the role of moderator.
- The session will mimic a live session as much as possible, with opportunities for sharing and interaction between students and instructor
Tutorials
- They are an important supplemental e-learning program built on the idea of peer learning through pre-planned informal study circles.
- The educational platform enables previously delivered as well as new academic content to be viewed and reviewed by students amongst their peer group with or without the virtual presence of the instructor.
Live Labs
- This module looks to provide virtual hands-on experience to students on experiments undertaken remotely.
- It creates an opportunity to work on a real lab experiment tailored to suit their syllabus and curriculum.
- It provides students and teachers alike, a chance to access quality resources and materials.
Bridge Courses
- Curriculum courses aimed at providing additional skills.
- It may be implemented as a classroom training program with live intervention by the remote tutor.
- Bridge courses can be done by students at their own time/pace and there may be proctored exams.
- Bridge courses make students industry ready and improve employability.
Content Delivery
- A set of topics will be identified to be delivered as live classes by IIT faculty.
- The topic will be taken for a duration of 6 hours (five hours of content delivery & one hour of the tutorial) each.
- The material for each topic will be available ahead of time and accessible by students in a digital course-package form.
Roles and responsibilities of local faculty and students
- Local Faculty: Registration of students to the course pack, attendance in all the live class sessions, encourage students to take the quiz, encourage students to upload assignment sheets, grade the uploaded assignments, use forum to post queries on topics
- Students: Increased use of the forum, takes the quiz, answer assignments and upload the assignment sheets in the course pack.
So far we had organized 5 phases of QEEE sessions with 68 courses for Engineering, Science and Humanities departments which gives the Certification of Excellence from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
CERTIFICATION LIST:
LIST OF LIVE CLASSES OFFERED IN PHASE IX AND CERTIFICATION DETAILS
No. of Faculty Certificates: 19
S.No | Name of the Course | Dept. | No. of Students Enrolled | No. of Certificates Received | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Excelled | Participation | ||||
1. | Gas Power Cycles – Thermal Engineering – 1 |
Mechanical Engineering |
58 |
4 |
48 |
2. | Steam Turbines – Thermal Engineering – 2 |
Mechanical Engineering |
58 |
16 |
32 |
3. | Fundamentals of Air – Conditioning – Thermal Engineering – 2 |
Mechanical Engineering |
56 |
56 |
– |
4. | Storage Management-Operating Systems |
Computer Science and Engineering |
106 |
– |
– |
5. | Software aspects- Microprocessors and Microcontrollers- 8086 |
Information Technology |
28 |
28 |
– |
6 | Power Semiconductor Device and associated gate driving technology |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering |
138 |
72 |
48 |
7 | Limit State Design of Reinforced Concrete Beams – Design of Reinforced RCC Structures |
Civil Engineering |
103 |
61 |
5 |
8 | Limit State Design of Reinforced Concrete Columns – Design of Reinforced RCC Structures |
Civil Engineering |
103 |
76 |
2 |
9 | Heat Transfer |
Mechanical Engineering |
116 |
31 |
12 |
10 | Object-Oriented Concepts Classes and Data Abstraction – Operator Overloading Inheritance |
Information Technology |
126 |
– |
– |
11 | Object-Oriented Concepts Classes and Data Abstraction – Operator Overloading Inheritance |
Computer Science and Engineering |
78 |
18 |
12 |
12 | Project Activity – Signals Systems and Communications |
Electronics and Communication Engineering |
19 |
– |
– |
13 | Basic Graph Algorithms – Design and Analysis of Algorithms |
Computer Science and Engineering |
106 |
104 |
1 |
LIST OF LIVE CLASSES OFFERED IN PHASE VIII AND CERTIFICATION DETAILS
No. of Faculty Certificates: 21
S.No | Name of the Course | Dept. | No. of Students Enrolled | No. of Certificates Received | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Excelled | Participation | ||||
1. | Joining Processes – Manufacturing Technology |
Mechanical Engineering |
243 |
4 |
161 |
2. | Basic Concepts and First Law of Thermodynamics – Engineering Thermodynamics |
Mechanical Engineering |
170 |
– |
– |
3. | Concepts in Fluid Mechanics – Fluid mechanics |
Mechanical Engineering |
73 |
– |
– |
4. | Pointers – Programming in C and Data Structures |
IT ,CSE |
254 |
6 |
53 |
5. | Analysis by slope – Deflection Method |
Civil Engineering |
103 |
7 |
60 |
6 | Beams – Design of steel structure |
Civil Engineering |
131 |
3 |
68 |
7 | Digital System Design -Digital Electronics |
Electronics and Communication Engineering |
128 |
121 |
– |
8 | Electromagnetic Waves -Electromagnetic Theory |
Electronics and Communication Engineering |
128 |
59 |
– |
9 | Design with OPAMP – Linear Integrated Circuits |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering |
138 |
– |
122 |
10 | Induction Machines: Theory – Electrical Machines |
Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering |
21 |
18 |
3 |
LIST OF LIVE CLASSES OFFERED IN PHASE VII AND CERTIFICATION DETAILS
No. of Faculty Certificates: 27
S.No | Name of the Course | Dept. | No. of Students Enrolled | No. of Certificates Received | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Excelled | Participation | ||||
1. | Gears and Gear Trains – Kinematics of Machines |
Mechanical Engineering |
60 |
60 |
– |
2. | Basic Machine Tools and Metal Cutting Principles – Manufacturing Process |
Mechanical Engineering |
126 |
76 |
48 |
3. | Natural Convection, Boiling and Condensation – Convection Heat Transfer |
Mechanical Engineering |
60 |
2 |
47 |
4. | Design of Reinforced Concrete Beams – Design of concrete structures |
Civil Engineering |
131 |
116 |
2 |
5. | Differential Amplifiers – Analog Electronic Circuits |
Electronics and Communication Engineering |
153 |
147 |
– |
6 | Digital System Design – Digital Electronics |
MCT, EEE
|
150 | 17 | 110 |
7 | Inverters – Power Electronics |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering |
170 |
11 |
143 |
8 | Open Channel Flow – Hydraulics and Hydraulic Machinery |
Civil Engineering |
102 |
5 |
67 |
9 | Routing Algorithms – Computer Network |
Electronics and Communication Engineering |
193 |
184 |
3 |
10 | Public Key Cryptography – Information Security and Cryptography |
Computer Science and Engineering & |
180 |
– |
– |
LIST OF LIVE CLASSES OFFERED IN PHASE VI AND CERTIFICATION DETAILS
No. of Faculty Certificates: 31
S.No | Name of the Course | Dept. | No. of Students Enrolled | No. of Certificates Received | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Excelled | Participation | ||||
1. | Applications, Examples and Problem Solving Approach of Thermodynamics |
Mechanical |
181 |
74 |
84 |
2. | Fundamental Concepts in Fluid Kinematics Fluid Dynamics |
Mechanical |
61 |
18 |
42 |
3. | Introduction To Conduction Heat Transfer Heat Transfer |
Mechanical |
173 |
36 |
122 |
4. | Introduction to Convection Heat Transfer Heat Transfer |
Mechanical |
173 |
61 |
132 |
5. | Vibration Theory of Vibration / Dynamics of Machines / Theory of Machines / Structural Dynamics |
Mechanical |
175 |
12 |
156 |
6 | Bending and Stresses in Beam – Strength of Materials / Mechanics of Solids / Solid Mechanics |
Mechanical |
180 |
2 |
175 |
7 | Gear – Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinery / Theory of Machines |
Mechatronics Engineering |
98 |
18 |
75 |
8 | Microprocessors and Microcontrollers-Memory Mapping and Peripheral Interfacing |
Mechatronics Engineering |
148 |
124 |
07 |
9 | 8085 and 8086 Microprocessor: Architecture, Assembly Language Programming, and System Design |
Electronics and Communication Engineering & Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering |
152 |
151 |
1 |
10 | Combinational and Sequential Circuit Design – Digital IC Design |
Electronics and Communication Engineering |
153 |
49 |
100 |
11 | Moving loads and influence Lines – Analysis of structures |
Civil Engineering |
128 |
91 |
– |
12 | Input and Output Streams Interfaces, Packages Collections and Vectors, Files OOPS |
Information Technology |
79 |
74 |
2 |
13 | Nonlinear Data Structures and Applications Data Structures and Algorithms |
Information Technology |
79 |
|
74 |
14 | Linear Data Structures and Applications Data Structures and Algorithms |
Computer Science and Engineering & Information Technology |
189 |
12 |
158 |
15 | Introduction to Compilers Compiler Design |
Computer Science and Engineering |
130 |
129 |
01 |
16 | Virtualization Technology Cloud Computing |
Computer Science and Engineering |
53 |
24 |
23 |
17 | Laws of Thermodynamics |
Textile Technology |
48 |
– |
48 |
18 | Introduction to DSP Labs |
Electronics and Communication Engineering |
30 |
28 |
– |
LIST OF LIVE CLASSES OFFERED IN PHASE V AND CERTIFICATION DETAILS
No. of Faculty Certificates: 41
S.No | Name of the Course | Dept. | No. of Students Enrolled | No. of Certificates Received |
---|---|---|---|---|
Excelled | ||||
1. | Kinematics of Particle – Engineering Mechanics |
Mechanical Engineering |
229 | 229 |
2. | Fundamental Concepts in Fluid Mechanics – Fluid Mechanics |
Mechanical Engineering |
140 |
140 |
3. | Gears – Kinematics of Machines |
Mechanical Engineering |
300 |
300 |
4. | Digital Electronics |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering & |
280 |
280 |
5. | Object-Oriented Concepts – Classes and Data Abstraction-Operator Overloading-Inheritance |
Computer Science and Engineering & Information Technology |
300 |
300 |
6 | Cryptography and Network Security |
Information Technology |
85 |
85 |
7 | Algorithms for comparison problems – DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS |
Computer Science and Engineering & Information Technology |
232 |
232 |
8 | Statistics and Probability Distribution – Engineering Mathematics |
Mathematics |
135 |
135 |
9 | Thermodynamics |
Nano Science and Technology |
130 |
130 |
10 | Basic Design of Steel Structures |
Civil Engineering |
137 |
137 |
11 | Cement Production, Composition, and Chemistry – Concrete |
Civil Engineering |
144 |
144 |
12 | Deflection of Structures |
Civil Engineering |
135 |
135 |
13 | Design of earthquake resistant design of RCC multi-storeyed frames – Design of Concrete Structures |
Civil Engineering |
136 |
136 |
14 | Moment Distribution Method – Structural Analysis |
Civil Engineering |
137 |
137 |
15 | Control Systems Engineering |
Mechatronics Engineering |
120 |
120 |
16 | Introduction to Signals and Systems |
Electronics and Communication Engineering & Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering |
248 |
248 |
17 | Spoken English |
English |
82 |
— |
18 | Digital Signal Processing Lab |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering |
20 |
20 |