Date:January 18 –19, 2011

Venue:CET, IIT Kharagpur

Participants profile: Faculty of AICTE approved engineering colleges

Number of participants :50

Participant List:

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Speakers Profile:

1. Prof. Mangala Sunder, National Coordinator, IIT Madras
2. Prof. Sabyasachi Sengupta, VC, WBUT
3. Prof. T. K Basu, Director, ITME
4. Prof. Bani Bhattacharya, Head – CET, IIT Kharagpur
5. Prof. A K Ray – CET, IIT Kharagpur

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Summary:

Objectives:

• Objective of the workshop is to generate awareness about availability and accessibility of courses developed in NPTEL so far
• To enhance the quality of engineering education by providing necessary information
• To receive feedback on the quality and user friendliness of the courses developed from the participants

Members present at the Inaugural address:

• Prof. K. Mangala Sunder, National Coordinator, IIT Madras
• Prof. Sabyasachi Sengupta, VC, WBUT
• Prof. T. K Basu, Director, ITME
• Prof. Bani Bhattacharya, Head – CET, IIT Kharagpur
• Prof. A K Ray – CET, IIT Kharagpur

Highlights of Speech by each speaker:

• Prof Sabyasachi Sengupta spoke about successful deployment of NPTEL courses through various engineering colleges of West Bengal University of Technology
• Prof. T K Basu spoke about importance of NPTEL project and how it can change the course of engineering education in future
• Prof. Mangala Sunder spoke about the background and future direction of NPTEL project
• Prof A K Ray shared his experience of some challenges faced in the earlier days, as he was one of the pioneer members of the project
• Prof. B Bhattacharya shared some data and key statistics of NPTEL 

Workshop discussion points

• This workshop focused on five disciplines of engineering education – i.e – Civil, Electrical, Electronics and Communication, Mechanical and Computer Science
• SMEs from the afore mentioned five disciplines came to have a round table sessions with participants to discuss the following
• Quality of the particular course
• Problem solving
• Answering questions about curriculum design
• Suggestions

Members Present at Valedictory function

• Prof. T. K Basu, Director – ITME
• Prof. A K Ray – IIT Kharagpur
• Prof. B Bhattacharya – Head, CET IIT Kharagpur

Highlights of speech at valedictory function

• Participants discussed about the format of the workshop and some of them made a valid suggestion to conduct these kind of workshops through video conferencing as a number of engineering colleges have this set up now a days 

Feedback summary:

• Participants discussed about the format of the workshop and some of them made a valid suggestion to conduct these kind of workshops through video conferencing as a number of engineering colleges have this set up now a days

• Some participants mentioned to incorporate the NPTEL website in the library page to make its presence know

• Some participants wanted to extend the time (which was about 30 mins.) of discussion with SMEs for the round table sessions

• Overall, they were satisfied with the format of the workshop