Dr. Ankita Dwivedi is the Head of the Department, EEE at Chouksey Engineering College, Bilaspur. She has done her B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Shri Shankaracharya Group of Institutions, Bhilai and M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT BHU, Varanasi. She has published numerous journals and conference papers on the analysis and design of special machines. She has also served as the founding Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Student Branch of BHU in 2016. She is also the Organizing Secretary of STPEC 2021 to be held from December 19- 22, 2021 in CEC, Bilaspur.

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Being the faculty of Chouksey Engineering College, what are your roles and responsibilities towards the students?

“I focus on developing the overall personality of a student”

A faculty plays a role model for their students, we not only teach them and provide knowledge but should be responsible for the overall personality development of our student. My responsibility is to make them arise as a responsible and competent youth ready to take up new challenges in life without taking mental stress.

How do you tend to establish healthy relations with the students and fellow faculty members?

“A healthy conversation is a key to maintaining healthy relations”

Being a teacher, the faculty members should remain available for their students always for their subject related issues, personal issues while maintaining decency. A teacher’s attitude should always remain positive for students. Also there should be timely interaction with the parents to keep themselves updated about the situation and state of their students. 

How do you try to bring in a practical approach towards subjects and make it industry oriented?

“When talking about a particular topic it should be nicely related to an example of daily application”

In my opinion, there should be field or industrial visits for the students to relate the subjects with the applications. However the online videos these days provide a better scenario but the physical experience counts. The students are fortified to prepare hardware models based on their subject knowledge and have hands-on experience. 

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What are the best practices offered by your department to the students which help them gain necessary skills?

“The students are being taken to industrial visits every year to keep them updated”

Since Electrical and Electronics Engineering is a core branch and the college has the advantage of having a substation of 33kV along with a solar energy production unit, the students get to visualize the components of the power system and renewable energy production. The new course curriculum has made it compulsory for all the students to take up projects based on their vocational training which is an added advantage for the students enhancing their practical skills.

How do you strategize the curriculum and how often it gets updated to make it benefitting for students? 

“The new curriculum lays more emphasis on practical learning than theoretical learning” 

In the new prospectus, some additional common subjects for every engineering branch are added like environmental science, Indian culture and constitution to keep the students involved in social activities and to keep them posted for the competitive examinations. The curriculum gets updated by the Board of Studies appointed by the university very often and the BOS adds the new topics in the syllabus.

Do you have any extracurricular activities/ programs to enhance the student’s skills? 

“The department motivates the students to get involved in NSS, NCC for their overall development”

The IEEE Student Branch Chapter provides opportunities for the students to interact with the students and faculty at the National and International levels. Different workshops, webinars and timely conferences are organized by the department so that the students can learn the trend and get themselves prepared accordingly.

What are the challenges you faced/ are facing to uplift the quality of education of your department?

“Educational trends are changing every year”

The department consists of students from urban as well as rural areas including students from different states and cultures. Students will be eager to adopt new technologies and tools to update new trends. What works for one student does not work for the other. Teachers are clear about this and are looking for newer ways to analyze and evaluate different skill levels. Also, learning does not take place in a classroom alone. It should be extended beyond classrooms. What students are learning is just a fraction of their academics. Teachers have added pressure of having students put in the extra effort of making the learning process outside the class.

When you came to CEC, what was your vision and how are you trying to achieve the same?

“My vision is to update the department faculty with the changing curriculum and challenges”

The vision is to see every student of the institute getting placed either for a job or for higher studies. I am trying to work on different projects sponsored by government agencies and AICTE schemes to update the available infrastructure. 

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What are the interventions and approaches you bring in apart from the curriculum to train the students? 

“The students should be motivated not only to learn the curriculum but should improve their basic skills”

The student should be familiar with the present-day challenges and should be prepared accordingly. The teachers should tell them about the different examinations of different areas according to the interests of the students. The department currently is providing GATE classes along with the logical reasoning tests to make them prepare for Campus placements. The teachers also motivate the students to attend the online courses from NPTEL, COURSERA which are not in the curriculum and can be helpful for their career growth.