Fwd: FW: Report of the curriculum task force

[Secretary AEA]

Hey all,

          Check out the changes which are going to be made in our curriculum. For example,

• Make the minor stream optional.
  
• No pass/fail courses.
  
• No self-study courses.
  
• ‘Industrial training’ is not mandatory, and will not receive academic credit.
  
• ID1100 eliminated.
  

Just to let you know about the magnitude of changes that is going to come. So, go through the attached document carefully and suggest your opinions to the respective class reps. Class reps are expected to attend the meeting on 25th. 

Regards,

Manu N M
Secretary,
Aerospace Engineering Association (https://www.facebook.com/AEA.IITM)

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

#224 Alakananda, Ph. No. +91 9884 727 924

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From: Manu NM <nmma...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:43 PM
Subject: Fwd: FW: Report of the curriculum task force
To: Secretary AEA <secretary...@gmail.com>

Regards,

Manu N M
Final Year Undergraduate
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Ph: +919884727924

~ Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself~

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From: Prof.K.Bhaskar <kb...@ae.iitm.ac.in>
Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:45 PM
Subject: FW: Report of the curriculum task force
To: aefa...@ae.iitm.ac.in
Cc: off...@ae.iitm.ac.in, akanksh...@gmail.com, nmma...@gmail.com

dear all,

 

we are required to give our responses by 27^th without delay.  so shall we meet on 25^th afternoon at 2.30pm to discuss this.  please go through the report earlier – we’ll directly take up the terms of reference and major changes on page 1 and final reco’s on p.20 for discussion, and refer to the other pages only if necessary.

 

kb

 

To Aruna/Akanksha, Manu:  Please forward this mail to class reps of all btech/dd batches – whoever is free should attend.

 

From: Dean Academic Courses [mailto:dea...@iitm.ac.in]
Sent: 19 February 2015 15:22
To: Harishankar Ramachandran; Kamaraj M; Karunagaran D; Bhaskar K; Malathy D; Thamban Nair M; Nilesh Jayantilal Vasa; Prasad B V S S S; Meher Prasad A; Sreenivasa Kumar P; Sai P S T; Ramasubba Reddy M; Anantha Subramanian V; Sunil Kumar P B; Kamalanabhan TJ; Varadaraju U V; Head Chemical Engg; Head MME; Head Aerospace Engineering; Head AppliedMechanics; Head Biotechnology; Head Civil; Head Computer Science; Head Chemistry; Head Engineering Design; Head Electrical; Head OEC; Head Humanities and Social Sciences; Head Mathematics; Head Mechanical; Head Management Studies; Head Physics
Subject: Report of the curriculum task force

 

Dear colleagues

As you are aware, the Chairman, Senate constituted a Curriculum Task force in September 2014, to examine the B.Tech/Dual Degree curriculum and
suggest reforms to be in line with the strategic plan 2020, as well as to take into account the feed-back from the Institute review committee.

The task force has since submitted the report to our Director. I am forwarding the report of the task force with the following request from the Director

i) Circulate the report to all your colleagues
ii) Arrange to get this report discussed in faculty-cum-DCC meeting (with student's representatives present for the meeting) by next week
iii) Send your Department's feedback on this report by 27th Feb (next Friday)
iv) the feedback of the departments will be considered by the task force between 28th and 3rd March and present the modified version to the Senate on 4th Feb

I request you to please assign priority for this task

please write to me if you have any additional queries

with best regards

sincerely

K.Ramamurthy

Note: The task force includes representatives from all the Departments, with Prof.Shanthi Pavan (EE) as its Chairman, (H.S.N Murthy (AE), Prasad Patnaik (AM), Vignesh Muthuvijayan (BT), Preeti Aghalayam (CH), Arun Menon (CE), K.M.Muraleedharan (CY), Jayalal Sarma (CS), Aniruddhan Sankaran (EE), Shankar Ram (ED), Mathangi Krishnamurthy (HS),  Kalpana Mahalingam (MA),Dhiman Chatterjee (ME),  Krishna Prasana (MS), N.V. Ravikumar (MM), Nilanjan Saha (OE), Manu Jaiswal (PH))