Page 14 - FME Annual Report 2021-22

With the present technological advancements, the FME supports all the schools of the institution by
biggest challenge faced by the teaching fraternity is offering Institute and Value-Education Electives. These
bringing and retaining Engineering students in courses enable the students to enroll in one and two-
conventional classrooms. The solution, pronounced credit courses for speedy completion of the required
by the learning scientists, is that Teaching-Learning credits. The four departments of Freshman Engineering
should be transformed into Learning by facilitation namely Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and English
which happens in a space wherein students will learn shoulder the extra responsibility of offering various
actively with peers. Vel Tech has established elective courses for the benefit of higher semester
numerous active learning spaces. Faculty members students. The courses offered are:
have been facilitating students toward Collaborative
and Cooperative Learning through different learning  Nanostructures
methods like Jig-Saw, Think-Pair-Share, Peer  Medical Physics
Instruction, Mud Card, and Flipped Classroom.  Cryofuels
 Batteries and Fuel Cells
To cope with the revolutionary changes taking place  Food Safety and Quality Management
in Engineering education worldwide, Vel Tech has  Academic Writing
adopted the new pedagogical process called  Soft Skills
“Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate” (CDIO)  Passionate Leadership
approach. The rationally developed CDIO syllabus  Creative writing
helps the students to acquire professional, personal,  Public Speaking
and inter-personal skills systematically. As an  Learning to Learn
initiative for this transformation, Vel Tech has  Advanced Vedic Mathematics
established an Engineering Workspace to support  Quantitative Aptitude
and encourage hands-on learning of product,  Fundamentals of Fuzzy Mathematics
process, and system building, disciplinary knowledge,  Introduction to Number Theory for Engineers
and social learning.
 Yogasanas for Body and Mind Coordination
Teaching and Learning is organized to align with  Effective Group Discussion
graduate learning outcomes. It has been done by  Grooming your Vocabs
monitoring and updating courses to be compatible  Autobiography and Memoirs
with industrial requirements. The courses are  Athichudi
meticulously designed by involving industries,  Thirukurral
research organizations, reputed international  Basic Tamil
universities, and student employment agencies.