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Students Start-up Support System (S4)

Report on 3rd Faculty Development Program – Design Engineering and Innovation

Date: 28th – 30th October 2014

Venue: 126, GTU Student Start-up Support System Co-Creation Center (S4-C3), ACPC

Building, LDCE Complex, Ahmedabad-15.

Development of Design-Based And Project-Based Learning System at GTU: On 2nd February

2012 (The first cohort of 4-year degree engineering students graduated out in May 2012.),

GTU started the process of updating its syllabi. It was decided to develop a design-based

learning system. (In Chemical Engineering and in IT, one uses the term ‘Project-based

Learning’ for a similar idea.) So design orientation has been embedded into the new syllabi

from July 2013 and open-ended problems were included in the practical work. A strong 6-

semester spine of design engineering has been included in the syllabi. On 9th January 2014,

experts in design engineering from all over the country were invited to present their views

on how Universities could permeate design engineering into the whole of the engineering

syllabi. At GTU, the processes of designing the project at the Final year and of the spine of

Design Engineering, from third to eighth semester of degree engineering programs, have

been synchronized in the interest of seamless progression of learning.

This Report is of the 3rd FDP for Design Engineering – 1. 91 Faculty Members have actively

participated in the same. The first workshop was organized on 2 August 2014. Till now 404

Faculty Members have participated in the FDPs for Design Engineering – 1.

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Outline for workshop:

Day 1 – 28/10/2014

Time Session Activity Session By:

9.30 – 10.00 Registration and Breakfast

10.15 – 12.00 1 Design Thinking Methodology Yash Saxena

12.00 – 1.30 2 Canvas : Empathy Mapping Yash Saxena

1.30 – 2.15 Lunch Break

2.15 – 5.00 3 Team wise Canvas Filling

Mentoring by Yash Saxena, Rohit

Radhakrishanan, Nimesh Saxena

Day 3 – 30/10/2014


10.30 – 12.00 1 Canvas : Product Development Yash Saxena

12.00 – 1.30 2 Canvas : Design Thinking Venture Rohit Radhakrishanan


2.30 – 3.00 3 Discussion on Evaluation Policy for DE – 1

with Dr. Akshai Aggrawal (Hon’ble VC, GTU)

2.15 – 5.00 4 Team wise Canvas Filling, documentation ,

presentation, film making etc



Day 2 – 29/10/2014


10.30 – 12.00 1 Discussion for Day 1 activity Yash Saxena

12.00 – 1.30 2 Canvas : Ideation Rohit Radhakrishanan


2.15 – 5.00 3 Team wise Canvas Filling






Dr Akshai Aggarwal discussing evaluation policy with Faculty Members




Feedback from Faculty members:

This FDP event was very useful as we learnt many new concepts and it provided a

new outlook for us faculty members who teach design engineering.

PROF. RUCHEE SHARMA – KJIT, SAVLI

This was a completely new experience and the way, in which the mentors explained

to us the entire process; it was very informative yet very interactive. It made us

understand why discipline-wise guidance of technical personnel is required.

PROF. DINESH PATEL – SVMIT, Bharuch

We figured out that team understanding is the best way of learning. Sessions were

inspiring and very interesting. The vision discussed by Honourable VC sir was an eye-

opener.

PROF. ZHANKHNA DAVE- Amiraj College

The workshop was phenomenal. It was very informative and we learnt a lot under

the expert guidance of the mentors.

PROF. RAJNIKANT RATHOD - GMFE, Himmatnagar

Students will completely enjoy the canvas filling phase and it will help them ideate in

a much better manner. Never would have thought that design engineering will turn-

out to be so much interactive. We are waiting for the next workshop.

PROF. HIRAK SHAH - GMFE, Himmatnagar

Design engineering turns out to be the synonym for Interactive learning.

PROF. KUMKUM CHAUHAN – SCET, Rajpur, Kadi

Understood the Empathy Mapping canvas and learnt a lot about design engineering.

PROF. SHREYA PATEL – GMFE, Himmatnagar




Very good initiative by Gujarat Technological University. It will take the project

activity to a higher level.

PROF. SUNIL. A. BAKHRU – BVM, V.V.Nagar

Design engineering, Creativity at its best.

PROF. DHANUSH PATEL - VIMAT,KIM

Very excited from the first day itself. Design engineering is completely opposite of

what we had thought. Innovation through Ideation is what we learnt today.

PROF. JAYESH PATEL – GITS, Moyad

Innovation oriented thinking initiative. Innovative design skill. Good brainstorming

activities, team work, idea exchange task, overall great experience.

PROF. BHUPENDRA S. PATIL - SRICT,Ankleshwar

According to our view, fantastic efforts are undertaken by GTU to uplift the level of

3rd semester students of engineering via Design Engineering subject. Actually,

theoretical concepts are explained in class room teaching, this novel idea will

eventually and certainly help students as well as faculty members to bridge a gap

between theoretical and practical things. Excellent exercise and efforts made by GTU

for students and faculty members.

PROF. M. G. DESAI – GEC, Valsad




Day 1: 28th October 2014

On the very first day, after registration, the first session on Design Engineering was started.

In this session, introduction of design thinking methodology were given by the mentor, Yash

Saxena. With different examples, he explained how so many innovations have been carried

out in the world by following the design-thinking process. After explaining the methodology

in detail, he started explaining the first Canvas: Empathy map. Empathy Map is the canvas

where designer has to observe and understand the emotional needs of the user, and on the

basis of empathy of user he will think of the solution. (Reference: page 5 of

http://files.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14Oct/01102014.pdf)

Then, every team started filling their first canvas, enthusiastically using the printed canvas,

colourful sticky notes and sketch pens. Every faculty visualized himself as a student and

started learning the new approach of Design Engineering. Yash Saxena and Professors from

some GTU Colleges mentored the teams personally and guided them for filling their

canvases well. Simultaneously one member from each team was narrating the whole story

of the team’s journey in the form of case study.

During the break between the morning and the afternoon sessions, the Faculty Members

got energized through networking with other teams. Then they were back to their work and

completed their first canvas of Empathy Map.


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Day 2 : 29th October 2014

On the 2nd day, a discussion about the experience of the first day was initiated and queries

of the Faculty Members were solved by the mentors. After that the second Canvas: Ideation

was explained by the mentor, Rohit Radhakrishanan with the help of a presentation. He

explained how things can be connected to get a better idea. He said that most of the times,

basically innovation is nothing but the combination of existing ideas. (Reference: page 21 of

http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14Oct/Learning-Design_thinking-Manual%20v11.0.pdf )

Then, faculty members started working on their second canvas. During this canvas, they

were required to put the user, user activities and different props. For filling up the canvas,

one had to think about the activities which would change according to the

situation/context/location. Till the completion of this canvas the participants could not

figure out the exact problem. As soon as they completed the Ideation canvas, the ideas of

many problems emerged. They were amazed by their randomness because they had never

thought of such sort of problems before in the domain, they had selected. The beauty of a

systematic study of Design is that it breaks all old customs and barriers of identifying and

solving problems.


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Participants are busy with their canvas making activity during workshop

Day 3 : 30th October 2014

The last day of the workshop started with more excitement because all the participants had

come up with the problem statement and they were asked to solve that problem using the

third Canvas: Product Development. (Reference: page 22 of

http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14Oct/Learning-Design_thinking-Manual%20v11.0.pdf ) On

this canvas, the participants were to fill the purpose of their product and the experience of

user when he uses their solution. Along with these things, product function, feature and

components of the products need to be filled in appropriate places on the canvas.

Thereafter one team acted as the customer of the other team’s product and discussed the

functions and features of the product for customer revalidation. Teams then redesigned

their products several times until their customer-team was satisfied. These steps were

repeated again and again with other teams as customers and redesign was done whenever

required so that a better design emerged.


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In the afternoon session, the Faculty Members had a discussion with Hon’ble Vice

Chancellor, GTU for the evaluation policy and examination format for Design Engineering -1

at third semester.

The last day ended with a video shoot for their project documentation for all the teams.

These will work as the reference material. The Faculty Members left with their participation

certificate and with promise of organizing the same kind of workshops at their college for

other faculties and students.

Report Compiled by: Karmjitsinh Bihola, Asst. Prof. – Design Engineering

Photo and data compilation by Juned Shaikh and Team GTU Innovation Council


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