Priorities:Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering Student Priorities

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Fall-2018 Pitch Video

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Fall-2018 Change Story Video

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Project 1: Improvising the space for creativity and innovation

Strategy 1: Discussion with stakeholders.

In the stakeholders meeting, we will discuss with our stakeholders regarding the mobile makerspace and prototyping lab that has to be implemented to enrich the innovation space in our college. 

Strategy 2: Creating a Mobile makerspace in the campus.

With the available space in our college, we tend to implement mobile makerspace for innovation and creativity. Students can utilise these mobile spaces to prototype, build, innovate and implement any idea that they want to work on. These spaces can also be utilised by the faculty to build models which can be used in classroom education and academic purporses.

Strategy 3: Renovate the existing space to prototyping labs.

Mobile makerspace is a brilliant idea to implement in short time. But, to create a space that can fit more than 200 students, it takes a lot of time. Protyping labs can help improve and add additional features to what mobile makerspace provides. Even if students want to create props for an event, they can log into prototyping labs and work on it. In this tactic, we plan to integrate already existing spaces such as laboratories with prototyping environment to make it a better place for innovation. This reduces their time from travelling to shops and stores to buy the items and accessories to make a prop or a prototype.

Project 2: Improve the understanding about banking sector and real world entity.

Strategy 1: Conduct a talk which gives information regarding real world entity like banking, income tax and consumer rights.

A talk provides a basic knowledge on what's important and necessary .It would include conversation where audience would be involved. Hence a to and fro talk is encouraged so as to make sure that students are educated.

Strategy 2: Create a blog and provide information on a weekly basis so that students can get updates regularly. 

The information will be conveyed in a simple go for easy understanding and implementation. Since all the information are consolidated at one place, one can visit the blog at any time and get the updates.

Strategy 3: Conduct workshop where we provide practical approach through different tasks.

The information which is to be conveyed will be included in the different stages of tasks. The main aim of conducting workshop is to gain practical knowledge on real life entity.

Project 3: Improve the overall understanding on engineering topics.

Strategy 1:  Conduct workshops on popular and potentially useful technologies

Workshops and hands-on sessions will be conducted for the students on popular and potentially useful topics such as Aurdino, Raspberry Pi, IoT, Machine Learning, Photoshop and others to help broaden the skill set of these students.

Strategy 2:  Organise sessions and talks on non mainstream topics.

There are many concepts which are not taught to the students but are still expected of them such as Google docs, sheets and slides or how to present a paper and other concepts. These concepts usually represent a gap between what the students know and what they are expected to know. The aim here is to bridge this gap.

Strategy 3: Assign short term goals and projects on necessary topics.

Assigning short term goals to the students will provide them a path to follow so that they can achieve the required mastery over the necessary topics. The projects would help solve the problem of a lack of hands-on experience on the topics and would make sure their knowledge is not surface level.

Project 4: Help improve mental health to better student’s performance.

Strategy 1: Conduct workshop on Mental Health by Professional

Workshops by a mental health care professional to the students on raising awareness of potential catalysts for stress and how to help identify a peer out of depression. Along with which help students self to develop the skills and resilience needed to overcome these triggers.

Strategy 2: Include “stress-busters” in everyday learning sessions

Although our routines make us more efficient and enhance our feelings of security and safety, a little change of pace can perk up a tedious schedule. To help main the creativity levels and break up the monotony stressbusters are essential. Stressbuster can include small fun activities and games which is inclusive of everyone. This helps in rejuanating the minds and increases the productivity. 

Strategy 3: Collaborating with mental health support organisation.

As many students are hesitant to approach other students or even the college for help or support, we decided to link with mental health support organisations to help these students get the proper help that they need.

Project 5: Provide financial assisstance to the students.

Strategy 1: Provide an opportunity for students to work as research assistants to the faculty.

Research assistant is  a very good job for students as it provides an opportunity to learn while also providing a method to sustain their financial needs. Having a research assistant is also very useful to the faculty as it reduces the burden on them. Our idea is to link the interested students and the faculty.

Strategy 2: Providing an opportunity for students to teach students for financial gain.

Many students learn better if some part of their curriculum is covered by other students or peers rather than the faculty. It leads to a better bonding between the peers while reducing the burden on the faculty. The idea is to have senior students teach their juniors some chapters or concepts for a small amount of money.

Strategy 3: Provide on campus jobs.

To support the students who have weaker financial backgrounds, on campus jobs can be provided. These jobs can be technical such as managing the database or non technical like library assistants.

 

Fall 2018 Cohort

Project 1: Encouraging inter-disciplinary methods to enhance learning outcomes

Strategy 1: Implementing concept of Pick-a-Lane

Academic topics from different fields and branches are given to the students, where each student picks up a random topic and starts learning for the same. Given a week’s time, they come and give daily updates about their learning. After a week, the students realise whether they want to continue the same topic or choose another topic. They also share it with the other students and spread their ideologies about the topic they have prepared for. Topics are chosen such that they are beneficial to them, irrespective of their major.

Strategy 2: Initiate the notion of Learn and Build

A unique concept which focuses mainly on experimental learning through scalable hands-on models. Students are taught basic concepts which proves to be a necessity learning in their everyday life. These are concepts that are being learnt in the academics and made into models. This allows learning of core concepts along with it’s implementations, thereby ensuring a good foundation for them.

Project 2: Motivating the students to take up challenges and create a network.

Strategy 1: Helping students know the world! Broadcasting!!

Due to busy schedule, students often miss out on the important news, current affairs, upcoming and trending technologies, general knowledge which is a must for them. We can try to make sure that those students share their knowledge and information to their peers and ensure an environment where gaining on knowledge is at its peak.Videos relating to the above-mentioned topics will be shown to them. This will in turn enhance the learning outcomes.

Strategy 2: Having informal meetings, usually related to technology…Barcamp

Barcamp is a user generated conference, participatory where the content is provided by the participants. We have inter-disciplinary topics, where students can share plethora of ideas and views, making them more prone to the world of technology. We also conduct debates and/or after each session, which enhances student interest and keen participation. Hand-outs of the key points will be given at the end of the session for them to look up to. The above two strategies ensures that students mingle with students of other branches as it involves them to interact with other individuals and know about their ideologies as well.

Project 3: Improvising their experience technically

Strategy 1: Helping them understand concept in a much efficient way, Conceptual Learning using Each One Teach One technique

We teach the concepts applicable to students through models & simulations to make them understand it’s working. The models are hand-made, and the simulations are tested for compatibility on all basis i.e., it can be understood by a beginner as well as novice/professionals. We give a chance to everyone to share their knowledge of a subject/concept/topic to the audience. This is made so that everyone is allowed an opportunity to show-case their knowledge as well as an opportunity to teach. Individuals/Students often understand when they are taught by their friends or peers. Taking this idea into consideration, we have introduced a new way of helping students learn the concepts better.

Strategy 2: Spreading awareness about the present technology by implementing the innovative idea of Teach the Trending Technology

Students usually come across a scenario where they have no idea of the conversation on the topic on technology. To overcome this situation which is due to lack of our knowledge on the subject matter, teach the trending technology is planned so that everyone is updated what’s happening in the current world. This is implemented through informative sessions, video tutorials & a few hands-on sessions.

Project 4: Eliminating the mental and physical stress

Strategy 1: Innovative means of providing information to students by conducting Knowledge Charades.

We know that students these days are unaware of current affairs lack general knowledge & the new ways of learning such as cyber hunt etc. So we came up with the improvisation of dumb-charades called the knowledge charades in which the students will be enacting anything related to a famous personality or a new trend/topic that is worth sharing. After the students guess the right answer, unknown facts and mind striking information about the topic/personality will be shared, thereby making way for fun-learning.

Strategy 2: Encouraging students to dream big and to have a vision through their ideas and discover their crafty skills.

Here students can come up with their crazy ideas to change something in this society irrespective of whether it can be implemented or even given a thought about it, and share or present it to others and get their insight about it. They can get crafty and explain their ideas through their work. This helps students in developing their imaginary and creative skills.

Strategy 3: Introducing them to the world of Literature.

Students can also express themselves through their poems, articles and short stories make use of this opportunity to share it with others. We give them inspirational books to read and this in turn inculcates values in them. After reading a story they share it with those who would rather prefer listening than reading. They can also enact small plays which enhances their innovative skills.

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Fellows of Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering

Fall 2018 Cohort

Anushree Rao

Apoorva Singh

DHRUV NRUPESH PATEL

Peeyusha K Shivayogi

Shashank Mohan Athreya

Fall 2019 Cohort

Brunda Sathish

Nimesh M

Pratheek R Bhat

Umesh A