Certification Program for Faculty to be

More Effective Educators

Around the world, Engineering faculty begin their teaching careers as engineers, not as teachers. The IUCEE International Engineering Educators Certification Program was begun in 2015 with the assistance of the International Society for Engineering Education, Austria (IGIP). The program was inspired

EPICS: Eng’r Students Solve Problems in the

Community Design is the highest level of learning according to the Bloom’s Taxonomy learning tree. Traditional classroom education for engineers rarely gives students design practice and thus fails to enable students to learn the necessary skills to become a competent engineer.

2017 Annual Report

Over 900 Indian Students

participated in student-led

workshops as part of The Student

Consortium for Advancement and

Learning in Engineering Education

(SCALE).

The 4th International Conference on

Transformations in Engineering

Education was hosted by three

Universities in India where 180

papers were presented and over

1000 faculty and students attended.

17 Indian faculty were named fellow

and 6 Engineering Educator

Awardees were named.

9 new IUCEE-EPICS (Engineering

Projects in Community Service) were

launched including training

workshops for over 300 faculty and

over 400 student participants.

The First Annual IUCEE Leadership

Summit was held in Goa. Leadership

teams from 20 institutions

participated.

The IUCEE Internationall Engineering

Educators Certification Program

(IIEECP) certified over 200 faculty,

providing them with skills and tools

to be effective teachers.

The IUCEE Virtual Academy hosted

80 webinars participated in by over

3000 Engineering Faculty on various

topics including technical themes by

international experts as well as

themes related to Engineering

Education.

70 Colleges and Universities

participated as Consortium

members of IUCEE, providing faculty

and students with unique e-

recources, advice from international

experts and other benefits.

IUCEE’s Mission is to build an ecosystem for transforming engineering education in India with the assistance of engineering education experts and industry from around the world.

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Millennials are raised with absolute confidence of their ability and opportunity to change the world. In India, together with the IUCEE leadership and network of consortium institutions, the students are embracing the transformation of engineering education by

Student-led Workshops Across

India

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Over 1000 Faculty and Students

Attended ICTIEE

The Int’l Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE) is an annual gathering of faculty, students and industry professionals from around the globe that enables the sharing of best practices in STEM education. Faculty

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Leaders from Engineering Institutions meet

at Leadership Summit

IUCEE hosted leadership teams at the First Annual Leadership Summit in Goa this summer with the aim of building a community of leaders in Engineering Education. Twenty colleges sent representation from their Executive teams, including owners of colleges, to discuss managing change, strategic planning and pedagogy. “Engineering colleges face daunting challenges in a move toward autonomy and sustainability.” said Krishna Vedula, Executive Director of

2017 Program Highlights

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Students at HITAM developing EPICS project

Students demonstrating an EPICS design project at SREC College of Engineering

employability, entrepreneurship and leadership skills of engineering graduates in some of these institutions. The IUCEE ecosystem consists of a global network of experts and institutions sharing global best practices in workshops, webinars, mini-courses and conferences. Our Annual International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE) and our Journal for Engineering Education Transformations (JEET) have become vehicles for sharing best practices in engineering education. Two signature programs of IUCEE appear to be ready for scale-up: IIEECP (IUCEE International Engineering Educator Certification Program), with assistance of IGIP

It is now 10 years since the founding of IUCEE in 2007 at a meeting in Bangalore. These have been years of challenges and many successes in seeing all the progress at Indian institutions targeting student success in engineering. Many thanks to all the volunteers and kudos to all the institutions and students who made significant progress this year. I believe that we have started a movement, starting with lighting a small candle. The biggest challenge has been for leadership of institutions to take ownership of transformations and to share their experiences with others. I believe this is happening. This is enabled by the ecosystem which has evolved over these years. We are seeing slow progress towards our ambitious goal of fostering the

Dr. Krishna Vedula, Founder

and Executive Director of

IUCEE, Dean Emeritus, U.

Massachusetts Lowell

Dr. Sohum Sohoni, Associate

Director of IUCEE and Co-

Editor in Chief of JEET.

Arizone State University

Global Advisory Board

Members

Michael Milligan, Executive

Director and Chief Executive

Officer of ABET

Dr. Stephanie Farrell, Rowan

University (President-Elect of

ASEE)

Lueny Morrell, MS, PE, Ing.

Paed. Founder & Director of

InnovaHiEd

Prof. Dr. Michael Auer,

University of Klagenfurt,

Austria

Dr. Anil K. Kulkami,

Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Neeraj Buch, Michigan

State University

Dr. Hans Jurgen Hoyer,

Secretary General of the

International Federation of

Engineering Education

Societies Executive Secretary

of the Global Engineering

Deans Council.

Dr. Subramanian Dharma

Rajan, Arizona State

University

Dr. Veena Kumar, University

of Maryland University College

and the Executive Director of

the IUCEE International

Educators’ Certification

Program.

Dr. Claire Komives, San Jose

State University

Dr. Prathiba Nagabhushan,

Australian Catholic University

Dr. Vijay Kanabar, Boston University Dr. Ashok Saxena, University of Arkansas Dr. Guru Subramanyam, University of Dayton Dr. Ranji Vaidyanathan, Oklahoma State University Dr. William Oakes, EPICS,

Purdue University

Krishna Vedula is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Dean Emeritus, Francis College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell. Dr. Vedula is currently founder and executive director of the Indo-Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) facilitated initially by American Society for Engineering Educaton (ASEE). IUCEE has the objective of improving

(International Society for Engineering Education), Austria and the IUCEE-EPICS Partnership (Engineering Projects in Community Service) in partnership with Purdue University. Our students are most active through SCALE (Student Consortium for Advancement in Learning Engineering) which facilitates student leadership through regional, national and global events. Our network of Industry Teaching Fellows provides invaluable support for this ecosystem. Testimonials from several of the consortium institutions indicate that the transformation is happening and in the right direction. Jai Ho Krishna

IUCEE Leadership Letter from the Executive Director

quality and global relevance of engineering education in India and US. He has also been the President of IFEES (International Federation for Engineering Societies) from 2010 to 2012. Prof. Vedula’s vision for engineering education and student success has already impacted thousands of faculty and students throughout the US, India, and beyond.

Leadership Team from IUCEE Consortium Institutions is being formalized with the help of our IUCEE Core Team: Dr. Archana Mantri, Chitkara University Dr. Sushma Kulkarni, Rajarambapu Institute of Technology Dr. Gopalkrishna Joshi, KLE Technological University Dr. Sivakumar Krishnan, Vishnu Educational Development and Innovation Center

IUCEE Staff: Kantha Reddy, Director IUCEE India Operations Sridhar Nori, Manager, IUCEE Virtual Academy Sheetal Sohoni, Marketing Consultant

SCALE Leadership: Rajat Sharma, Amity University Sanket Dhadke, Rajarambapu IT

Jatin Bharadwaj (ex-President and Mentor)

Industry Teaching Fellows (ITF) Leadership: Jayant Sathe, formerly Procter and Gamble Anil Pandit, formerly General Electric Ravi Salagame, Delphi Systems Madhu Atre, Indian Institute of Science Prakash Bapat, Forbes Marshall B. Kalyan Ram, Electronosolutions

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to faculty and student teams working on projects. At the end of the project period, both faculty and students receive certificates for completing the training and project sequence.

Becoming an IUCEE-EPICS partner is a win for both the institution and the community. It is important for engineering programs to be active in their local community. Program constituencies include the students but also the local community who can benefit from the practice of engineering in the local community. Students who participate in the EPICS projects have a technical project to describe when they interview for a job. As they do their own project and not something cookbook from the university, the students have true ownership and are better able to describe why they chose the project, process, materials and

other aspects of the design. The skills gained by the students increases their employability, which is good for the student, school and community.

Some of the recent projects included a gesture based V-voice device with GSM and GPS technology, a health monitoring device, a neck-to-waist support, a flexible agri-nutrient applicator and a banana fiber twisting machine.

The 2017 IUCEE-EPICS

partners include the

following universities and colleges:

Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, TS (also member in 2016)

Marri Laxman Reddy Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, TS (also member in 2016)

SR Engineering College, Warangal, TS (also member in 2016)

Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, TS (also member in 2016)

Malla Reddy Engineering College, Hyderabad, TS

CMR College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, TS

SV College of Engineering and

Technology, Chittoor, AP

SRKR Engineering College, Bhimavaram, AP

Chitkara University, Chandigarh

Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, TN

Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam, KL

Marwadi University, Rajkot, GJ

Silver Oaks College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, GJ

employee health and safety, outdated manufacturing processes, inefficient equipment, and the like. After understanding the challenges the students proceed to design solutions using their engineering skills. Through the EPICS program, students learn to identify and solve problems, communicate with clients, develop prototypes for new and better machines and tools, and implement the solutions.

Students learn valuable communication skills, including working on multidisciplinary teams and presentation skills. It is known that professional skills are critical for students to become employable after they complete their education. Professor Oakes visits the IUCEE-EPICS partner institutions several times during each year they participate, providing a course in Design-thinking to faculty at the institution and mentorship

Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) couples design practice with solving critical needs in the community. Founded by Professor William Oakes at Purdue University, EPICS has been serving in communities for the past 20 years. EPICS arrived in India in 2016 and this year alone, 9 institutions

have become IUCEE-EPICS partners and 4 continued the program from 2016.

The IUCEE-EPICS partnerships include training and mentoring of faculty to support student practice in service-learning, namely, promoting the solution of local challenges by engineering projects. Student teams visit farms, schools and other local businesses and interview the clients regarding work flow, issues associated with

Students engage in product design as part of EPICS program.

Design-Thinking Workshop hosted at Vardhaman College of Engineering Hyderabad, 2017 EPICS Partner

Final project presentation to William Oakes, faculty and students at SREC College of Engineering

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the invited talks. The goal was to organize the invited presentations by theme and to allow more time for submitted presentations, so as to better meet the needs of the participants. The organization also allowed for more time for faculty paper presentations. Each paper session had at least one global participant present

to offer a summary of the learnings and to foster discussion in the room. There were Industry and Institutional sponsors at the event with representatives describing their technology or recruiting students for M. Tech degrees. (“We depend on our Industry sponsors to both support the finances of the conference as well as to enrich

us with presentations of educational technologies that can advance student learning in a high tech world. We are deeply grateful for their support of IUCEE.” Krishna Vedula. Sponsored workshops at Vardhaman included Quanser, Dassault Systems,

traveling across India to enable participants from every state to attend. In 2015, the conference was hosted by BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore. Over 700 delegates attended in 2015. College of Engineering, Pune, hosted the conference in 2016, with over 800 participants. This year, in order to enable attendants from both South and North India, the ICTIEE

2017 conference was held in three locations. The first stop was Vardhaman College of Engineering in Hyderabad where 700 delegates participated. Professor Prof. Y. Pandurangaiah,

Prof. Vivek Kulkarni and Dr. S. Sai Satyanarayana

Reddy (Principal) were the principal organizers of the

Hyderabad conference. In their words, “This conference was not meant to be a single event, but a starting point for

the work that must be done by Vardhaman to meet our vision. We will be organizing many such events in future and look forward for your active participation in all our future endeavors.” The program was the first to include parallel sessions for

present strategies for student success they have tested in their courses, schools and communities. Student teams compete for prizes in the robotics competition. Global experts motivate participants to strive for excellence in the classroom with ideas of new pedagogies as well as the importance of establishing a culture of ethics in their institutions. Industry practitioners share the need for employability of the graduates and important outcomes for achieving that goal. Industry sponsors showcase novel educational technologies as well as show their support for IUCEE programs in India. The first ICTIEE was held in Hubli in January of 2014 at what was then the B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology (Currently K. L. E. Technological University). Over 300 faculty participated with presentations of papers and fruitful discussions. Topics of Keynotes included Outcomes Assessment in Engineering Education by Michael Milligan, Executive Director of ABET (USA), Transformations in Engineering Education Globally by speakers from South Africa, Turkey, Malaysia and the USA, Transformations at IIT’s with presentations by three leaders of IIT institutions, and an intergenerational panel, just to name of few. Since 2014, ICTIEE has become an annual event

National Instruments, Mathworks, SpectraQuest, IonCudos, ARM, Imona, InPods, Comsol, Cypress Semiconductor and Digilent. The global team and Industry sponsors giving workshops then headed to RK University in Rajkot. About 100 faculty attended the Rajkot portion. In

addition to brief presentations by each of the global experts present, the industry sponsors presented information about educational technologies. An outstanding student performance in the evening completed the first of two days. Finally, the conference headed to Manipal University, Jaipur where over 200 delegates attended. Once again workshops were given by the educational technology industry sponsors, as well as brief presentations to all the participants. The keynotes by Devang Khakkhar, Director of IIT Bombay and Michael Milligan, CEO of ABET USA were inspiring messages fostering excellence in education and program leadership. Brief presentations by invited speakers covered again project based and community service learning, the importance of ethics and faculty professional

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“We depend on our Industry sponsors to both support the finances of the conference as well as to enrich us with presentations of educational technologies that can advance student learning in a high tech world. We are deeply grateful for their support of IUCEE.” Krishna Vedula

Convening of Distinguished Guests, Jaipur 2017

Veena Kumar delivers presentation to small group

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Technology, Rajaramnagar and S. R. Engineering College, Warangal. Finally, nine institutions received the Good Institutional Transformations in Engineering Education Award. These included Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, MLR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, R.K.University, Rajkot, MIT Academy of Engineering, Pune, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, K.G.Reddy College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Manipal University, Jaipur, and Sphoorthy Engineering College, Hyderabad. This year was also the first year that Faculty Fellow distinctions were awarded, as well as Teaching Excellence Awards. The winners of these awards provided letters of support, curriculum vitae,

statement of teaching philosophy, as well as evidence of excellence in the form of past awards, evaluations, publications, past participation in ICTIEE, delivery of educational workshops, and the like. A total of 17 awards were given. Dr. Gopalkrishna Joshi of KLE Tech University won the Dr. Veena Kumar Distinguished Engineering Educator Award, for significant contributions at his university as well as for his impact in India and internationally. The IUCEE Outstanding Educator Awards were given to (in no

particular order) Dr. Padmashree D.Desai KLE Tech U., Hubli, Dr. Pradeep Waychal, Guruji Education Foundation, Dr. Martand Tamanacharya Telsang, Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Islampur. Dr. Manisha Ashutosh Nirgude, Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur, and Dr. B.Kanmani BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore. All of the award winners were also inducted as IUCEE Faculty Fellows. Additionally, Dr. Surendra S.Rathod, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Dr. Meenaxi M.Raikar and Mr. Kaushik M., K.L.E. Technological University, Hubballi, Mr. Khamruddin Syed, K.G.Reddy College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Dr. Rajesh Solanki, Manipal University, Jaipur, Dr. M. Sumathi, Dhirajlal Gandhi

College of Technology, Salem, Dr. G. S. Dwarakish, NITK, Surathkal, Drs. Awasekar Dipali Dilip and Sunita Milind Dol, Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur, Dr. Geetha Prakash, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Beedaganahalli, and Dr. Thanikachalam Vedhathiri, NITTTR, Chennai were inducted as IUCEE Faculty Fellows.

the transformation in order to further the mission. The highest award was the Outstanding Institutional Transformations in Engineering Education Award, given to KLE Technological University for the dedicated leadership and faculty that moved the then affiliated B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of

Engineering and Technology to become an autonomous university employing the most up-to-date educational technologies and pedagogical practices, including an institutional entrepreneurship program enabling numerous start-up companies to spawn from student and faculty inventions. The Excellent Institutional

Transformations in Engineering Education Award was given to the 2nd ranked of all the institutions receiving awards, namely the BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore. The Very Good Institutional Transformations in Engineering Education Award was given to the 3rd ranked of all the institutions receiving awards. This award was tied between the Rajarambapu Institute of

development, entrepreneurship and other aspects of engineering education from a global perspective. Chitkara University faculty attended the first ICTIEE conference and have been attending since.

Professor Rajnish Sharma of Chitkara University reported, “We have hugely benefitted in terms of up-skilling of Faculty members in some of the most contemporary technologies and adoption of teaching and evaluation methods, which are accepted worldwide.” As the goal of IUCEE is to motivate both institutions

and their faculty to embark upon transformations in engineering education, for the first time Institutional Awards were given at the conference. For the institution to receive an award, significant and continuous improvement in education and student success must be demonstrated. The faculty at each institution receiving the award must embrace

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Award Recipients at ICTIEE 2017 in Jaipur

Breakout Session at ICTIEE 2017 Hyderabad led by Krishna Vedula and Lueny Morell on Women in Engr. Education

Stephanie Farrell Delivers an Invited Presentation

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Phase III program, held in India, participants present what they have learned and how they have modified their teaching to improve student learning. At that point they receive their certificate, which is endorsed by both IUCEE and IGIP. Faculty who have been certified may elect to receive the title of “Ing Paed IGIP” by publishing a paper in the Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET) or any journal dedicated to research in engineering education

teaching, namely, it is interactive and involves team projects and assignments that can be used by the faculty who complete the three-day workshop. The topics covered in the Phase I are meant to be introductory, and include how students learn, writing a teaching portfolio, active learning, effective assessment, teaching professional skills and problem solving, effective lecturing skills, student-centered learning, educational technology, and course assessment. Faculty who complete the Phase I workshop may elect to proceed to the Phase II program which is run over the course of a semester via on-line modules. Webinars given by global experts on the topics begin each of the six two week modules. The topics expand the Phase I program and include written assignments that apply to the participants’ courses they are currently teaching. For example, in the assessment module, faculty update an exam they have used in a course, employing the information covered in the webinar and readings in the first week. In the second week of the module they update a rubric used in their course. They also participate in a discussion on a topic that is critical to success in the theme of the module. At the end of the Phase II program, the participants write a summary portfolio describing how they have utilized the material in their course and how it has impacted student learning. The portfolios are evaluated for depth of understanding and appropriateness of the applications. Only the portfolios that demonstrate the faculty have learned and applied the material from the Phase II program may participate in the Phase III program which is the valedictory workshop. At the

by the teaching workshops run by two distinguished educators from the US, Professors Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent. Since 2015 already 200 faculty have been certified from all over India and another 210 faculty are expected to obtain their certificates by January 2018. The first IIEECP program occurred in 2015, spearheaded by Dr.

Veena Kumar, who continues to contribute to and monitor the program that has expanded significantly. The program has three phases. The Phase I workshops are given face-to-face in India. Institutions may host workshops for their faculty as well as those from other institutions. A trained instructor visits the institution and runs the workshop. The workshop is designed to model effective

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“Undoubtedly, this program provided me with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in engineering education practice and

research along with insights about the

changing learning needs of the 21st century learner to modify teaching strategies for becoming an effective

educator.” Shikha Maheshwari, JECRC

University, Jaipur

“The evaluation time is reduced based on designing of certain rubrics, Coordination

and communication have been improved in between

interdepartmental faculties, and quantitative and

qualitative teaching by connecting the core concept with real world and real life

problems.” Krishna Chaithanya Janapati, Associate Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad

“I joined the program with an agenda of adding

another certification to my CV, but at the end of the

course I feel proud to be a teacher. This entire course

(Coordinators, Faculty, Content and Technical

Team) have sensitized my teaching ability and taught me discipline as a teacher. For the entire six months I felt that I am on a serious

mission of transformation.” Gazal Sharma, Assistant Professor of Biotechnology at I. K. Gujral Pujab Technical University, Kapurthala

For more information about the certification program, visit the IUCEE website (http://iucee.org/iucee/iieecp/) where you will also find information about hosting a Phase I workshop at your institution, including the fee structure.

IIEECP Faculty Dr. Veena Kumar, U of Maryland University College Dr. Claire Komives, San Jose State University Dr. Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University Dr. S.D. Rajan, Arizona State University Dr. Sohum Sohoni, Arizona State University Dr. Anil Kulkarni, Pennsylvania State U Mr. Tom Iwinski, Pennsylvania State U Dr. Archana Mantri, Chitkara University Dr. Prathiba Nagabhushan, Australian Catholic University Dr. Sivakumar Krishnan, VEDIC

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foster or inhibit an institute from taking on a successful transformation process. These sessions had a brainstorming approach to cultivate solutions to the various challenges, whether internal or external to the institution, and how to implement novel strategies. On the second day, we heard from Dr. Uday Desai, Director of IIT Hyderabad where a remarkably novel approach to education has been established. They have freedom to allow the inclusion of unique courses in the curriculum and the result was a successful set of programs fostering technical and professional skills development.

Managing gap analysis was delivered as a workshop by Mr. Vinay Kaul, Management Consultant. He presented a clear strategy for identifying shortcomings of a program or institution. He demonstrated the use of the A3 Lean Management approach (which is very popular in industry) to academic institutions. He is available to visit institutions and work with the leadership teams to assist with working through what could be improved in the status quo. The final afternoon incorporated some of the programs offered through IUCEE, including partnering with Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) to create project-based learning opportunities that serve the needs of the local community, as well as the importance of incorporating ethics in the curriculum and creating an ethical culture at the institution itself. We wrapped

up with a session on virtual labs and the opportunity to experience state-of-the-art through laboratories that have been set up as virtual labs. The participants unanimously agreed that the Summit was a valuable opportunity to work together with leaders from institutions across India and brainstorm about transformation processes that can be realistically implemented. We plan to make this an annual happening and hope to reach out to many more institutions for future events. During the meeting, Drs. Ashok Shettar and Gopalkrishna Joshi offered to host leaders from the other colleges at KLE Tech University. This led to visits by 132 faculty from 13 different institutions. In addition they hosted 39 faculty for a five-day immersive training workshop to cover as well as imparting their experience on transformation and sharing best practices, as well as pedagogy and assessment strategies for student success. The five-day training was done in four segments to enable one-on-one mentoring by KLE Tech leaders. Another outcome of the

Summit was the increase in

EPICS-IUCEE partnerships

from 6 to 13. The college

leadership considered the

impact of community service

learning and project based

learning to have a potential

significant impact on both

their students and their

college. By strengthening the

connections between the

college and community by the

work of students was seen to

be a valuable initiative.

initiated by IUCEE led to their motivation to develop their own curriculum, including a program in entrepreneurship that would catalyze start-ups from students and faculty at their college. The success of this program led to the beginning of over 40 companies and over 500 jobs created in Huballi. Dr. Abhaikumar, Principal, presented the process of transformation at Thiagarajar College of Engineering including increasing participation of faculty as presenters and authors at the annual ICTIEE Conference, as well as a significant group of faculty participating in the IEECP Certification program.

Dr. Raju, Pro VC, from Vellore Institute of Technology presented details of their engineering programs including their laboratories and facilities. They were the first institute in India to obtain ABET accreditation for their engineering programs. In the afternoon, Mr. Dilip Sawhney, MD of Rockwell Automation India presented their recent corporate transformation, sharing the challenge of leading a large corporation from falling revenues to financial strength. He also encouraged the participants to do all in their power to enable student success as there is anticipated to be a dearth of quality engineering workforce as the country embarks on the Make in India initiative. Between each presentation, small breakout sessions were held to discuss triggers for transformation, namely, what are the situations that either

IUCEE, “Establishing a Leadership Council that advocates for the needs of Engineering Education across India is one step toward creating a system that enables student success.” The objectives of the summit involved having the leadership teams work on aspects of developing governance documents and identifying specific goals for institutional transformation. Specifically, the goals were 1. To understand importance of good governance and institutional leadership as fundamental to the survival and progress of Indian engineering institutions in the challenging times and to identify specific areas for improvement. 2. To share and learn from the case studies of ‘successful Institutional transformations’, through good governance and effective leadership 3. To understand the roles and responsibilities of the leaders in the institutional transformational process and the competencies they need to develop and establish a plan for development of these competencies 4. To understand the systemic tools and frameworks that can be used to lead the engineering colleges and Universities to achieve excellence and to identify which two or three tools to be selected for deployment in the next year The first day, three leaders of institutions presented their paths to transformation. Each had begun as an affiliated college and described their paths to establish autonomy. Dr. Ashok Shettar, VC of KLE Tech University described how the early workshop

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SREC College of Engineering visit to KLE Tech University (Currently Autonomous).

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Industry Teaching Fellows are able to assist colleges in a number of ways. Giving presentations of new technologies, evaluation and mentoring of senior design project teams, mentoring of faculty, serving on M. Tech and Ph.D. reading committees are just a few. Colleges that have graduates successfully employed in industries are encouraged to recommend their employed graduates to become Industry Teaching Fellows. The ITF members are particularly eager to assist with the evaluation of EPICS projects. Interacting with the accreditation bodies in India is a high priority for the ITF team. There needs to be a collective effort to increase the employability of the engineering graduates and this will require meeting with the AICTE and other accreditation organizations. Members of the ITF have also been participating at the ICTIEE conference. The messages from industry can assist faculty with incorporating such themes as Entrepreneurship in their courses and programs. Other topics such as technology transfer, business plan development and the like are ideally given by folks who have direct expertise in these areas.

bridge the gap between research in education, and its application in the engineering education ecosystem. It also publishes selected papers presented at the Annual ICTIEE Conferences. JEET itself is undergoing a transformation, thanks to the leadership of Professor Sohoni. It already shows up in the top 20 outlets for “engineering education” in Google Scholar Metrics. With new members joining the leadership team, JEET is looking to reduce the time to decision, and is providing better guidelines for authors. Through these and other efforts JEET is poised to rise through the ranks in Google Scholar and other journal rankings. It is expected to be indexed under SCOPUS soon. Dr. Hemlata Gaikwad is currently the Journal Manager and new publications are continuously being accepted.

For more

information, see the JEET website: http://www.journaleet.org or contact Dr. Hemlata Gaikwad if you would like to submit a paper or Dr. Sohoni (sohum.Sohoni@asu.edu), if

you are willing to serve as a reviewer.

Because the situation in Indian engineering education is unique as compared with other programs globally, IUCEE started publishing the Journal for Engineering Education Transformations (JEET) in 2014. Prof. Krishna Vedula, in collaboration with one of the IUCEE Consortium Colleges, Rajarambapu Institute of Technology (RIT), began the publication with the assistance of . Dr. Sushma Kulkarni, Director, Rajarambapu Institute of Technology. Currently, Professor Sohum Sohoni is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Each year, the best papers presented at the ICTIEE conference are published in JEET.

This journal is a vehicle for sharing best practices in engineering education by Indian and global engineering educators. JEET solicits scholarly publications relevant to transformations in engineering education. The transformations may be at the institutional level, an individual course level, or at the level of the entire engineering education ecosystem, regionally, nationally or globally. Through its focus on the application of research, in terms of transformation, JEET aims to

JEET in top 20

Engineering

Education Journals

Employability of engineering graduates is one of the primary concerns of both the industries seeking fresh talent as well as colleges who aim to enable student success. To this end, IUCEE has begun a network of Industry Teaching Fellows (ITF) who are working together to catalyze the interaction between engineering colleges and industry. Historically, engineering colleges have been disinclined from seeking industry input or have been unable to identify practical ways for industry to participate with their programs and students due to distances or other obstacles. With Make in India on the horizon, it is clear that more and more engineering graduates will be needed to serve the needs of corporations that are increasing their product output. The Mission of the ITF is to Collaborate with IUCEE to raise employability of engineering students through enhanced engagement between Industry and Engineering Academia. The primary academic institutions of interest to the ITF are the IUCEE Consortium Members and especially the Gurukuls, a small set of the Consortium members that have committed to enabling excellence through the assistance of IUCEE.

Industry Practitioners

Support IUCEE

Programs

Consortium Membership to IUCEE

The primary objective of inviting institutions to become members of the IUCEE Consortium is to assist them in improving the quality of their engineering graduates. IUCEE works with the institutional leadership and faculty to understand the strategic plan of the institution and facilitate the transformation of the process of engineering education at the

institution. For this purpose, IUCEE provides access to the ecosystem nurtured over the past ten years. Annual membership fees are essential for the sustainability of IUCEE and its ability to maintain this ecosystem. Colleges that become members get access to over 200 global experts for advise on strategic planning, outcomes based education, hosting international conferences,

improving academic curriculum and infrastructure, setting up centers of excellence and formation of advisory boards. Consortium colleges are given preferred access to short workshops, courses and webinars as well as discounted fees for IUCEE events. IUCEE also offers assistance with setting up collaborations with US colleges. In 2017, 70 Indian Institutions

particpated in IUCEE as Consortium Members. You can find more information regarding Consortium membership on the IUCEE website: http://iucee.org/iucee/iucee-consortium/.

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basis to develop our 5 year NIRF roadmap. Without having been given this rare learning opportunity facilitated by IUCEE we couldn’t have engaged 60 of our faculty in this strategy development exercise that ran for over 3 months. To culminate our academic year, in July 2017 our iGurukul held its first Faculty Conclave wherein Prof. Krishna Vedula provided his guidance to our faculty in person. He challenged us to focus on teaching learning and its impact on our students to build an ecosystem for transforming engineering education. Since then, we’ve begun a rollout of Outcome Based Education for not only engineering programs but non-engineering programs. All this work wouldn’t have been possible without IUCEE opening doors for us to learn and benchmark with our peers in India and abroad. Vignan Institute of Information Technology VIIT has participated in the programs organised by the IUCEE and these programs have proven to be very beneficial to the students, faculties, and to the institution. We have participated in the ICTIEE 2015,16,17. At the conference faculty presented papers in the sessions on OBE and Engineering Education. Members of the faculty participated in the OBE certification program, which helped us during the NBA process. In addition, we organised IUCEE-SPEED during the year 2016 and VIIT students, as well as some from other regional engineering colleges participated, where they realised the importance of engineering education, and demonstrated themselves as engineers through various creative models made during the event. As a part of IUCEE Virtual Academy Vignan's Institute of Information Technology faculty both attended and presented webinars. One of the webinars

ingredient in our success and we gratefully acknowledge this relationship. Marwadi Univesity I can attest to this fact that IUCEE is working effectively to bring transformational reforms in engineering education in India. My experiential perspective, as I see it, with confidence, for Indian engineering education, is the mantra “I are teaching, are they learning?” In a persistently persuasive journey through IUCEE, we have, so far, trained more than 90 educators to bring innovativeness in engineering education. Today, MEFGI faculty practice active learning in classrooms’, reformation in examination systems and attempts to shift to project based learning. Many faculty members’ have enrolled in the EPICS program and look ahead to see our students participate in solving community problems through engineering projects. I feel humbled to appreciate the persuasive and never ending efforts of Dr. Krishna Vedula and Team-IUCEE, and our Institute Director Dr. Y.P. Kosta for emotional support in this epic and divine endeavor for the betterment of engineering education. God bless all involved!!! Manipal University, Jaipur Manipal University Jaipur has been an active IUCEE consortium member since 2015 and have hosted ICTIEE 2017 with great success. We had 8 faculty present papers at this global conference. Through our association with IUCEE, we’ve have two International Engineering Education Certified faculty and one Faculty Fellow. A large number of our faculty have participated in IUCEE’s online OBE and Research Paper Writing courses. A course on developing a strategic roadmap for academic institutions was organized by IUCEE and this provided us the

St. Joseph Engineering College, Mysore The impact of this association on our campus is significant. SJEC has become the first affiliated college in Coastal Karnataka region to implement Outcome Based Engineering Education (OBEE). This has substantially helped us to achieve accreditation by NBA for the second consecutive term. Further, the webinars and associated courses offered by the IUCEE Virtual Academy have ensured a structured implementation of the OBEE among faculty and students. The elaborate resources disseminated by the IUCEE have facilitated us to develop a OBEE knowledge repository which is being shared with the engineering colleges in and around our region to enhance the quality of engineering education. KLE Technological University, Hubballi Our decade long association with IUCEE has played an important role in the transformation of our institution from an affiliated college to autonomous college and then on to a University. Getting connected to leadership of world-wide engineering education community, through IUCEE has helped us to learn and adapt some of the best practices to bring about the qualitative change in the education delivery. Faculty empowerment workshops by IUCEE in the areas like curriculum design framework, pedagogy and assessment have enabled us to bring about sweeping changes in the design of our program offerings. Our collaboration with IUCEE in organizing International conferences ICTIEE-2014 and ICMII have helped us to play a positive role in building a community of Institutions wanting to transform Engineering Education in India. We consider our association with IUCEE is an essential

was presented by our Staff, Dr. E.Laxmi Lydia in the area of Big data analytics and Data science. We have also participated in the Higher Education Program organised by the IUCEE, which helped our Final years students, to select the universities outside India. VIIT wishes, IUCEE to grow and help the engineering colleges and universities for the transformation in the engineering education. Chitkara University Of the various initiatives undertaken by IUCEE in improving the quality of Engineering Education in India, we consider ICTIEE to be one of the flagship events. Last year, 3 of our faculty members participated and benefitted by getting an opportunity to interact with ‘Who is Who of the world’ in Engineering Education. We have decided in favor of enrolling about 35 Faculty members in IGIP certification program being offered through IUCEE in the ongoing academic year. That boasts of our confidence toward commitment being shown by IUCEE to improve the quality of engineering education in the country. We look forward to huge success of IUCEE in time to come and leave an indelible impression on Indian education system to make great engineering institutes in the country. Several Indian Institutions have provided testimonials but due to space limitations in this report they have been posted at http://iucee.org/iucee/iucee-testimonials/

Testimonies from Participating Indian Colleges

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work on teams to do some constraint-based hands on project, such as building a tower out of newspaper.

The themes discussed at the workshop included: Transformative Youth & Engineering Education: Towards A Sustainable Future. There were three optional

tracks the students could choose to attend: Climate Change and Affordable Free Energy, Rural Infrastructure and Responsible Production and Consumption. The workshops led by students offers the participants the chance to interact with students from other institutions who are role models of enthusiasm and leadership. The workshops give the students an opportunity to learn brainstorming and debating skills, and to work in teams. It is a wonderful strategy to motivate the students to think about world problems and to discuss solutions with each other. IUCEE is proud to enable financial support for the students to travel to different schools and show others what their future can entail if they take their studies seriously.

world challenges for students to brainstorm solutions, debates on the challenge solutions, preparation of a

dynamic action plan to solve the world challenges and a final presentation in front of student judges and a prize for the best presentation is awarded. Also the students were charged to

engaging in their own education transformation program. The Student Consortium for Advancement and Learning in Engineering Education (SCALE) started in January 2017 and since then 8 student workshops were run at different engineering institutions hosting over 900 students. Prior to this, the students from IUCEE colleges were active under the umbrella of the global SPEED (Student Platform for Engineering Education Development). The workshop lasted 3 days and consisted of an ice-breaker session, an introductory session outlining the goals of the workshop, presentation of

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Students at Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur regional

SCALE workshop working on their team projects

Final presentation before the panel of judges Students judging the final presentations

Remote learning by webinars is commonly practiced by every professional organization and IUCEE has been hosting webinars for over four years. This year a total of 80 webinars were hosted and over 3000 participated in the webinars. The topics included Engineering Education, Technical presentations and others.

Most of the webinars were led by Faculty from across India. The Outstanding Educators who were awarded at ICTIEE 2017 led presentations and others from various locations. Topics ranged from

pedagogy to use of technology and others. A few of the webinars were from other countries. The highest attendance to an Engineering Education webinar was on Proficiency in English and Communication Skills of Engineering Students led by Lakshmi Kakumanu from K. G. Reddy College of Engineering. Suzanne Kielson of Loyola University gave a highly attended webinar on Engineering Design and Creativity. Other popular topics included Continuous Quality Improvement through OBE led by B. Kanmani from BMS College of Engineering, Cohesive Teaching Learning Practices (CTLP) by R. Priya Vaijayanthi and

A. V. Ramana from GMRIT, Rajamj and Using Collaborative and Team Based Learning in U.S. Colleges: Improving Student Learning and Engagement led by Mrinal Sinha at CSU Monterrey Bay.

Technical themes were mainly in the area of computer and software technology such as Hidden treasures in Big Data led by Laxmi Lydia from Vignan Institute of Information Technology, Personal Authentication using Biometrics: Challenges led by M.Illaiah from MLRIT and Augmented Reality (AR) led by Deeksha Bhardwaj from G.H Raisoni Institute of Engineering & Technology. Other themes included Nano-technology,

Thermodynamics, Surveillance and many more.

A mix of other topics were also given that were of interest to many. The webinar with the highest total attendance of any of the webinars was on Patent Filing Procedures in India led by Ashish M. Kothari from Atmiya Institute of Technology and Science. Others of great interest were Leveraging the global research to improve student-success in the Indian engineering education system led by Pradeep Waychal from the Guruji Education Foundation.

Thousands Participate in IUCEE Virtual Academy

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The tremendous impact of IUCEE in India happens thanks to the time commitment of numerous volunteers. IUCEE operates as a non-profit organization and is still in a start-up mode based on financial solvency. Table 1 shows the income of IUCEE in 2017.

Table 1. IUCEE Income 2017

While the initial courses and conference were sponsored by a generous donation from private donors and corporations, the goal has been to collect sufficient fees from participants and partnerships to support IUCEE. IUCEE is also able to attract corporate sponsorships for the conference because they believe in the value of the conference and some enjoy financial benefits for marketing their products and services at the conference. Every program offered by IUCEE currently collects reasonable fees to help defray the cost of IUCEE operations in India and travel by international experts who mentor and contribute to the programs. In fact, the amount of fees collected at the annual ICTIEE conference does not enter the IUCEE budget but is used by the host institutions to cover costs of food, staff, etc. Table 2 shows the 2017 expenses of IUCEE. The cost of operations includes two full time employee salaries in India for management of program logistics and for IT requirements for webinars, IIEECP courses and other computer needs. Consultants were hired in 2017 for the first time to assist the Executive Director (ED) with organization and implementation of new initiatives. The financial management has been overseen by the ED with the assistance of an administrator at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The total cost of operations is $59,600. The IUCEE programs, including the IIEECP certification program, EPICS partnerships, ICTIEE annual conference, annual leadership summit, student conference and workshops and Virtual Academy all have costs associated with them. Costs included venue rental, catering, travel of international experts and domestic travel. The assistance of the corporate sponsors is greatly appreciated for defraying the costs of the annual conference. There are costs associated with the publication of JEET, including printing and distribution costs. Finally, on-line tools are required for running the programs, namely GoToMeeting annual fee and Dropbox. Because IUCEE seeks to expand its impact to as many colleges and universities in India as possible, money is invested annually in marketing the programs offered. The costs include

IUCEE Finances 2017

domestic and international travel of the ED and Indian IUCEE employees. IUCEE pays an annual membership fee to IFEES to secure access to a network of experts. Attendance at conferences by one consultant and IUCEE employees to host booths and network to broaden the base of IUCEE influence are also supported.

Table 2. IUCEE Expenses 2017

For the first year, IUCEE presented awards at the annual conference. Winners received money in the form of cash, a plaque and their expenses to the conference were also covered. Support for these awards will be sought in the future directly from corporations. Of note, the expenses exceed the income for IUCEE. IUCEE programs are having a significant impact across India and additional funds would enable scale-up of programs and new initiatives. It is clear that IUCEE merits support from additional corporate sponsors who ultimately will benefit from high quality graduates from engineering colleges across India.

IUCEE Operations

Salaries $39,600

Consultants $8,000

Administration, acct. svcs. $12,000

Total Operation Expenses $59,600

Program expenses

IIEECP Certification costs $5,000

Honoraria for instructors $28,000

Leadership Summit $10,000

EPICS related expenses $22,000

Student conference costs $6,000

ICTIEE travel expenses $47,000

JEET publication expenses $5,500

GoToMeeting; Dropbox $1,200

Total Program Expenses $124,700

Marketing/Development

Travel to ASEE, GEDC, NI week $7,000

Staff travel in India $10,000

Membership fees IFEES $1,000

Website fees $400

Total Marketing/Development expenses $18,400

Awards

Annual awards at ICTIEE $3,000

Total Expenses $205,700

Membership Fees

Consortium Members $54,000

Program income

EPICS Partnership $30,000

IIEECP Certification Fees $27,300

IUCEE Course Fees $4,560

ICTIEE Delegate Fees

Leadership Summit Fees $4,080

Corporate sponsorships $71,000

Total Program Income $136,940

Total Income $190,940

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