Academic Council Meeting 11/02/2017

Dr. Surya Durba

Sandhya Desai

Carvalho Rebeck

Mrs Usha Iyer

Agenda:

1. Introduction to panel members and opening note by hod

2. Department progress video and teknack video
3. Departmental web site shared

Rebeck: content management system, sitemap and index

Tagging videos

Integration of the dept websites

Presentation on

1. Objective setting process

2. Vision and mission and program specific outcome is shared with the council

Sandhya Desai: previous to new vision (broad to focus)

Dr. Surya Durba: how much is the research thrust and innovative thing encouraged

Collaboration, cross pollination of ideas / interdisciplinary thinking.@

Sandhya Desai: @ should be included in mission statement

Nilakshi maam: 02 – centre of excellence, 01 paper per faculty to be published

Sandhya Desai: how much implementation in ground reality ( 20 %), collaboration with other
colleges and CDAC

Dr. Surya Durba: how much time is spent on research ? how do faculty carry visibility ?

VISIBLITY:

Target big journals for presenting papers / for the papers to be read / less appreciation for Indian
conference…..

Teachers become member of Technical bodies …., become co authors in papers from other
institutes
Carvalho Rebeck

Digital Presence / lack of implementation, slow design, outsource / the website of dbit is criticized

Digital branding including rebeck with the website team/ linkdn handle

Dr. Surya Durba

Sending teachers to new way of teaching, how do we see teaching in next 5 years?

New approach to learning , active learning leading to academic excellence

Feedback from students

What comprise Academic Excellence? (Identify)

Moodle and limitations / video

Continue to do conference

Feedback : collect all and segregate , take at multiple levels

Research Centre (how to establish ??? )

1. Arrange a seminar class

2. Give each student a paper ( read and present ) and end of course collect all PPT

3. Give half credit

Specific area in GIS, look for a good collaboration.

Create a whats there in for ME ? for the industry to come forward

Beat them in their game? (industry based courses ….. ) // RC

Tieup with start-ups ( IIT-SINE)

Faculty internship training

// RC :- will help in securing the internship for students ( placement brochure)

Life Long Learning :

//SD :-

//UI:- span a activity over a time /

COLLOBORATION:

AKT: NO MOU , // autonomy /

SUGGESTIONS :-

How happy are faculty ? they will bring value ……

Compensation ( more funds , part of the share …. )

Consultancy cell: matching problems to faculty profile

Research group for faculty // Special Interest Group

//RC

- Digital branding

- COE , group faculty /

- GIT/Version repository

- Java Subversion // RC ready to install for storing projects