It will now be compulsory for engineering students of the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) to complete a mini-project from the 2018-19 academic year. This is in addition to the final project that students have to to submit.
Speaking about this at a press conference on Wednesday, Vice-Chancellor Karisiddappa said that students would ave to pursue the mini-project between the fourth and fifth semester. He added that the aim of introducing this was to enhance “employability of students”.
According to the Vice-Chancellor, this is part of the model curriculum that would be implemented from the 2018-19 academic year. Besides, the university would also revamp the syllabi of several courses. “Students will be made to teach different computer languages. We are also planning to introduce virtual lab concept,” he said.
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Starting this year, VTU would also encourage multidisciplinary projects. “A civil engineering student can take projects in computer science or any other. We are in an era of multidisciplinary learning and projects. Students require sufficient knowledge and they can grasp it this way. Having knowledge in one domain is, however, no longer enough,” said the Vice-Chancellor. VTU is also approaching several multinational companies and government companies to improve internship opportunities.
Jumbling of papers
With the recent question paper leak of one of the engineering papers, the university was considering a “digital jumbling of question papers” where papers would be set online from a common question bank. The university had found that a professor from a private college who was one of the paper-setters was involved in the paper leak and a re-exam had to be ordered.
“We are considering digital question paper setting system to avoid any kind of malpractice by paper-setters; a final decision will be taken soon about it.”
Source: The Hindu
