Innovative Teaching & Learning Practices from Department of Mechanical Engineering
| S.No. | Name of the Innovations | Description | Name of courses in which practice is adopted |
| 1 | Power point presentation | It provides the ability to equip the presentations with different types of mediaincluding images, sounds, animations, and much more. It enhances the students' abilities to retain what they're being taught, especially those who are visual learners. | This Practice develops the comprehension of students and to learn effective way to use visual aids while working on their presentation.
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| 2 | Educational Videos | Application of videos allows students to get a real-life exposure of the scenario where the concepts they have learned is applied. Videos facilitate the assimilation of contents, thus improving the efficiency of the learning process. Application of videos can demonstrate complex ideas in much easier and simplified way | This Practice motivates the students for effective learning. This Practice develops potential for deeper learning of the subject.
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| 3 | E-based Learning | E-learning is a learning system based on formalized teaching but with the help of electronic resources. The links are provided to the students where they can do self-study and study the topic in depth and learn the contents beyond syllabus. Students are encouraged to visit NPTEL lectures, browse different internet sites to increase their knowledge about the subject. | This Practice allows students' greater access to education in comparison to traditional methods of teaching; This Practice enables students to share information and data in a relatively easy way.
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| 4 | Brainstorming | Brainstorming is a useful tool to expand creative solutions to a problem. It can help define an issue, analyses a problem and possible solutions. It is a great way to allow students to voice their opinions or ideas on a particular topic. | This Practice motivates, stimulates, and promotes student interaction. This Practice develops students creative and critical thinking skills.
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| 5 | Industrial visit/field work and report writing | Industry visit/ field work means sending the students to certain workplaces sites, garages, Industries for doing some Practical work. Industrial visit is considered as one of the tactical methods of teaching. Students get the practical experience in the organization. They get aware about the recent technologies used by industries. | This enhances communication and writing skills in students This enables students to understand professional duties and responsibilities of the personnel in the field.
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| 6 | Designing Quizzes | Quizzes helps to expand students’ knowledge and helps to explore new sills. Quizzes are designed in such a manner that to solve that, it requires critical thinking and extensive research. Quiz is based on complete course and quiz scores are calculated based on the number of points assigned to each quiz question. Quiz in the form of MCQ are also assigned to students. MCQs are found to be flexible to various levels of learning outcomes from simple recall of content to more complex level such as students’ ability to examine facts, understanding concepts and principles. MCQs are designed to test quickly and effectively students’ knowledge about a particular idea or concept | This Practice enhances critical thinking skills and improve subject knowledge
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| 7 | Mini/Term/Short Projects (Design/Fabrication / Simulation/ Software/ Hardware Development) | It helps students to gain expertise in their subject, students collect and extract the information related with the topic from different online and offline sources. Students demonstrate their presentations skills by presenting the information. They learn to communicate effectively and express their ideas and opinion about the project work. Students form a group of 2 or 3 and based on their interest select a mini project either hardware or software based. They access information through various resources and summarize the main idea | This Practice expands technical knowledge through development in terms of software solutions and hardware implementation for industrial/societal problems.
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| 8 | Think Pair and share | Think-pair-share (TPS) is a collaborative learning strategy where students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about a given topic. This strategy requires students to think individually about a topic or answer to a question; and share ideas with classmates. Faculty asks a specific question about the topic. Students "think" about what they know or have learned about the topic. Each student is paired with another student or a small group. Students share their thinking with their partners. | This Practice enhances thinking skills and communication skills in students.
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| 9 | Project Based Learning (PBL) | PBL starts with a problem and requires the students to analyze and apply information and theory learnt, to solve it. Students work in a group to solve or managed the assigned work. In this regard real time projects are given to students and guided by faculty and industry person. Faculty members visit industries and update themselves to support students. Faculty members visiting the Factory/Industry explore basic details about the organization, Products manufacture /services provided, Certifications. Faculty identify possibility of campus recruitment, expert nomination for technical events and other suitable Industry-Institute tie-up activities. | This Practice enables them to acquire skills like collaboration, communication and independent learning, and to prepare them for lifelong learning.
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| 10 | Content based question making | Questioning is an integral part of meaningful learning, Formulation of good questions is a creative art which improves creative and critical thinking skills in students. Students are asked to develop question banks based on the topic taught and faculty then helps the students to answer those questions. | This Practice enhance creative thinking skills, critical thinking skills and problem-solving skills in students
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