Center for Technical Education (CTE) is a department headed by Prof Bharat Deshpande, HOD, CS/IS ( http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/bmd/profile ), for the purpose of imparting knowledge on application-oriented courses/topics.
- The idea is to build a sustainable system for passing knowledge from seniors to juniors. In the sense that juniors wanting to learn a new field may benefit more by learning the basics from their seniors quickly and building much more on top of that, rather than the DIY(Do It Yourself) approach from scratch.
- To expose students early on to the popular research areas in Engineering, to broaden their knowledge base, rather than simply sticking to the academic curriculum.
- We employ a mentorship model, with 3rd or 4th-year students teaching under the guidance of faculty members and 2nd-year students acting as mentors for the course. This helps us ensure sustainability.
- The courses are designed to be more practice-oriented oriented and some evaluation components are Hackathons and a coding assignment, or a term project in a few courses.
- Each course has a faculty mentor assigned, who oversees the quality of the course being taught.
To create a long-lasting campus learning environment where students share technical knowledge through application-based courses and support one another's development.
To encourage early exposure to technological and scientific fields outside of the classroom, making education more applicable to real-world situations and industry-relevant.
To serve as a platform for research activities on campus. We are looking to collaborate with companies in the form of undertaking their projects (simpler to start off with), along with a mentor, to further provide a real industry exposure to students early on, and for the companies to eventually build a talent pool on our campus.
What's in it for the students taking the courses? :
The students who successfully complete the course, get a certificate on the institute's letterhead signed by Prof. Bharat Deshpande. These certificates are something they can brag about , be it placements, M.S. applications, and especially internship applications.
Superior Image Processing
Vision in Computers
Basic and Advanced Robotics
Development of Web Pages
3D modelling with Ansys and CATIA
Model of mentoring:-
Third- or fourth-year students instruct
Mentoring is done by second-year students.
A faculty mentor oversees the quality of each course.
- Technical courses that are practice-based
- Prof. Bharat Deshpande's certification on the institute letterhead
- Possibility of working on actual business tasks under the supervision of faculty
- Research assistance for emerging engineering-related interests
centered on practical instruments and technologies
Every semester, new versions of the courses are updated or repeated for prospective students.
Hackathons may be a component of some sessions' evaluations.