How can we support MEI Polytechnic?

[Purushotham Kumar]

Happy morning all,

MEI Polytechnic has about 800 students spread across 6 disciplines,
which is, on an average of 130 students in each discipline. Black
board teaching alone had been very effective years ago.

However, today, if the lecturers are enabled to give live
demonstration using a projector and a laptop in the class room for
appropriate subjects such as programming subjects, flow explanations
and how to's, learning will be effective, in line with current mindset
of students and education trends.

Many thriving technical colleges have live demonstration using PC/
laptop and slide projector in their class rooms.

Earlier I have been having in my mind to rather prioritize for
sponsoring fee for needy-bright students. However we do not have an
effective mechanism to ascertain how needy or how affording a student
is. We or the college have limited information about a student's
financial background and depend more on what data the student presents
to us. I am not saying hence we should not go for it; rather I am
asking myself how we can be effective here. This is a vast grey area.
Instead of taking a holistic approach to it, we may rather address it
on a case by case basis only?

On the other hand, supporting each discipline with a set of projector
and laptop, or these kinds of infrastructure will be clear, visible
and will benefit all students and increase the overall competitiveness
of MEI Polytechnic products. The world around is moving fast ahead,
and I wish that MEI students should keep pace with it.

We may take this up in a phased manner; say pilot with one set each
for Computer Science and Electronics departments first. Observe for a
few months. If found well utilized and effective, proceed with similar
one set each for all disciplines - Electrical, Civil, Instrumentation
and Mechanical.

Raghuraman sir and I happened to meet yesterday and we discussed about
this. I think this idea presented by Raghuraman sir is very promising
and very useful to all students.

Personally, I am excited about this idea. What do you think?

Best, Kumar.

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[satyan raghuraman]

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[Purushotham Kumar]

Happy afternoon all

heard back from Rajeev and no body else... what say you?

Best, Kumar

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