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|GTU Innovation Council (GIC) (http://www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in) | Contact: gtu_innovation_council@gtu.edu.in, gic@gtu.edu.in| Tel: +91-79-2630 0699 |

Design Engineering – I

Round Table Meetings of Faculty Members for Design Engineering:

Learning from the Design Eng. 3rd Semester efforts

02/01/2015

Venue: 129, Conference Room of GTU Innovation Council (S4 and CiC3),

GTU Ahmedabad Campus, ACPC Building, LDCE Complex, Ahmedabad.

GTU has introduced a very new, innovative - Design Engineering subject in the 3rd semester of

BE program. It is a first of its kind initiation in the Indian Technology Education System.

Besides permeating the whole of the syllabus in every branch with design thinking, a strong 6-

semester spine of Design Engineering has been included in the syllabi. GTU’s Center for Industrial

Design is engaged in motivating design driven innovations at GTU. The Centre has conducted

a series of seminars/workshops to sensitize the design driven innovation intervention for 3rd

semester and for final year projects. Eight Faculty Development Programs (FDP) were

organized during the 1st semester of academic year 2014-15. In all, 590 Faculty Members from

115 Engineering colleges and 20 Engineering disciplines participated in these workshops. The

core of the FDPs organized in the year 2014 was defined in three parts ; Understanding of

subject & Evaluation scheme, Hands on exercises for the canvases (Empathy, Ideation,

Product development) & team to team mentoring, Preparation of Case study by video &

Report.

Student Start-up Support System

(S4)

Gujarat Technological University

(GTU), Ahmedabad

GTU Innovation Council (GIC)

Post-graduate Research Centre for Industrial Design

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2 | Gujarat Technological University (GTU) (http://www.gtu.ac.in/) |

|GTU Innovation Council (GIC) (http://www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in) | Contact: gtu_innovation_council@gtu.edu.in, gic@gtu.edu.in| Tel: +91-79-2630 0699 |

A Design Session to learn from the experiences of adding Design Engineering in Semester 3rd

was organized on 22nd November, 2014 and on 3rd December, 2014. To thrive for excellence

in this endeavour, GTU organized a round table meeting for Faculty Members under guidance

of Dean Dr. N. M. Bhatt and Dean Dr. Rupesh Vasani on 2nd January 2015, where different

aspects of the subjects were discussed. More than 50 Faculty members participated in the

RoundTable.

Agendas discussed during the roundtable discussion before external examination of Design

Engineering:

Pedagogy and future agendas for DE subject

How was faculty experience for the DE subject in their Institute?

General Instruction about Evaluation process for upcoming DE external

examination.

Difficulties faced by faculty members and other while teaching the subject

(Pedagogical, technical, Managerial)

Accessing the impact of the program.

Upcoming FDP for future design program

(Experts Talk for Strengthening Design Engineering Syllabi)

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|GTU Innovation Council (GIC) (http://www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in) | Contact: gtu_innovation_council@gtu.edu.in, gic@gtu.edu.in| Tel: +91-79-2630 0699 |

Dr. Askhai Aggrawal, Honourable

Vice Chancellor - GTU, also joined

this meeting from GTU,

Chandkheda campus over skype

and guided all participants with his

visionary thoughts about the

subject and future curriculum. Also

he suggested all Faculty Members

to give weightage to evaluate the

understanding of the subject during external examinations.

All the Faculty Members have actively shared their experiences with students while teaching

Design Thinking to them at Institute level and also shared students’ feedback regarding the

subjects. Through discussion we found that this innovative step of introducing Design

Engineering is highly welcomed by Faculty Members and students community in GTU. Faculty

Members suggested some scope for improvements to make the course even more impacting.

Branch specific projects could be adopted after 2nd year

Creating database of all innovative ideas of students and help them in protecting

them with IPR

Faculty Members stressed that the workshop was fruitful while they did the

workshops with students at stretch. ( min 3-4 hours together)

Regular meetings for subject improvement could be done at colleges for mutual

learning.

Students also suggested trying similar efforts in other subjects.

Midterm audit for DE subject to check whether it is running in all affiliated colleges as

per the guidelines.

Evaluation of feedback is more important to rejuvenate the course at department ,

college and university level.

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|GTU Innovation Council (GIC) (http://www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in) | Contact: gtu_innovation_council@gtu.edu.in, gic@gtu.edu.in| Tel: +91-79-2630 0699 |

Student and Faculty sensitization is required, to motivate them through canvas

exhibition or award should be incorporated to appreciate good works. Mr. Hiranmay

Mahanta, Honorary Director, GTU Innovation Council shared that good efforts by

stakeholders will be appreciated during GTU Innovation Sankul Day in 14th Feb every

year.

More time could be given for understanding of the problem by students (Empathizing

process)

(Discussion is going on between faculty Members)

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|GTU Innovation Council (GIC) (http://www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in) | Contact: gtu_innovation_council@gtu.edu.in, gic@gtu.edu.in| Tel: +91-79-2630 0699 |

Report Compiled by: Photography by:

Prof. Karmjitsinh Bihola Yash Joglekar

Prof. Gagandip Singh Khanduja