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Varsity to infuse quality into engineering education

R. Krishnamoorthy

By facilitating B.E.-qualified teachers acquire a postgraduate degree

Vice-Chancellor of Anna University-Tiruchi V. Ramachandran. — Photo: R. Ashok

TIRUCHI: Anna University-Tiruchi has created a pool of over 150 senior faculty members of affiliated engineering colleges and experts to facilitate BE-qualified teachers to acquire a postgraduate degree, as a first step towards infusing quality into engineering education.

The initiative will focus on Computer Science and Engineering stream to begin with and subsequently extended to other programmes through the 20 colleges the university has identified as regional centres in the districts of Tiruchi, Pudukottai, Madurai, Thanjavur, Virudhunagar, Sivaganga, Ramanathapuram, Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari and Cuddalore.

According to Vice-Chancellor V. Ramachandran, principals of colleges, from where the senior faculty members are drawn by virtue of their qualifications and teaching experience, have agreed to depute their talented staff for training.

Initially, the training will be through classroom teaching and later made web-based once affiliated colleges are provided 8 mbps connectivity on one-to-one basis at one-third the market price by virtue of the negotiations that the university had with service providers.

The university had also encouraged colleges to acquire connectivity on cluster basis and do the routing as per their requirements, he said.

The M.E. Computer Science and Engineering programme of the university is specifically meant for the faculty serving with BE qualifications in affiliated colleges. The three PG programmes that the university has decided to start afresh from the coming academic year are M.E. in Pervasive Computing, M.Tech. in Biotechnology and M. Pharm. in Pharmaceutical Analysis. Also, the eight B.E. programmes that the Bharathidasan Institute of Technology had been offering so far would come under the ambit of Anna University-Tiruchi from next year.

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