Students in select engineering colleges in the country are now taking lessons through video from professors of the Indian Institute of Technology and senior company executives under a project.
Funded by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, the >Quality Enhancement in Engineering Education (QEEE) programme, launched last year, facilitates students to learn directly from IIT professors and senior company executives from their classrooms.
A team of 20 faculty members each from IIT–Madras, Kharagpur, Kanpur, Bombay and Delhi, are currently involved in the project, which includes 124 colleges, of which 13 are from Tamil Nadu.
Students in the third and fourth year from various engineering disciplines would be given 15 lectures each, covering a third of the portions in the curriculum that are generally about concepts and fundamentals of engineering, said Ashok Jhunjhunwala, QEEE chairman. The programme was initially started in 40 colleges and had now been extended. The idea was to bring more colleges in remote areas under the scheme, he said.
B. Santhanam, former chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry, spoke.
