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Institutional Weakness

• Limited International students and faculty
• Revenue generation through industry consultancy

• Commercialisation of Intellectual Property Rights

• Limited access to public funding for infrastructure development

Institutional Opportunity

• Academia- Industry joint research and product development

• Solve community / societal problems and issues

• Development of online courses and programmes
• Alumni engagement

• Mentoring of other institutions in the region

Institutional Challenge

• Improving the international ranking
• Provide global experience to students

• Joint programmes with Industry
• Resource mobilisation for sustained growth

1.3 CRITERIA WISE SUMMARY

Curricular Aspects

The institution undertakes major revision in the curriculum and syllabus for all its programmes,
taking into account the evolving regional, national and global needs. This is carried out with

detailed feedback from all the stakeholders.

• In 2015, the institution introduced the Curriculum for Applied Learning (CAL) to enhance

higher order thinking capabilities of students
• Some of the salient points of the CAL curriculum as applied to the B.Tech programme are

Project based learning in 40% of courses, One module of all the courses on latest

developments, to be taught by industry experts, mandatory foreign language, Courses such
as Technical Answers for Real-life Problems and Introduction to Innovative Projects to

inculcate Design Thinking and Coding, Soft Skills courses and extracurricular activity as

part of curriculum.
• About 95% of programmes (69 Nos) underwent revision in last 5 years

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