“Engineering Education for a Better World” Transforming Engineering Education Globally

the IUCEE way

Krishna Vedula Professor and Dean Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Executive Director, Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education (Krishna_Vedula@uml.edu)

M.P. Ravindra Advisor, Education and Research, Infosys Technologies

Executive Director India, IUCEE (muthya47@gmail.com)

Adapted from Al Soyster, NSF

Adapted from Lueny Morell; Open Innovation Office, HP Laboratories and IFEES President

The world is different because of engineering and innovation

Engineers are Vital

§ No profession unleashes the spirit of innovation like engineering. § Few professions turn so many ideas into so many realities.

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“Scientists study the world as it is; engineers

create the world that has never been.”

Theodore Von Karman

Adapted from Lueny Morell; Open Innovation Office, HP Laboratories and IFEES President

The Need

However, rapid expansion of engineering educational institutions in India in recent years (from ~ 50,000 engineering seats per year in 1990 to > 600,000 today ) has created serious problems of maintaining quality engineering education and research to sustain and fuel economic growth in India itself.

Partnership between world’s largest democracy (India) and world’s most advanced

democracy (US) has amazing potential

World needs good engineering talent to find solutions to global challenges facing humanity such as energy, environment, health and socio­economic well being

US National Academy of Engineering www.nae.edu

L E A R N I N G

R E S E A R C H

E N T R E P R E N E U R S H I P

A C C R E D I T A T I O N Phase I:

Faculty Leadership Institutes 2008­09

Phase II: Co­Guide PhD Program

2009­10

“Improve the Quality and Global Relevance of Engineering Education in India and US”

The Response – IUCEE Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education

IUCEE was conceptualized by over 150 leaders of engineering education and businesses from

US and India in 2007

US and other countries will benefit from the higher quality talent available globally from improved capacity of Indian engineering research and

education

Best practices from other international collaborations will be useful for IUCEE

Lessons learnt from IUCEE may be useful for other countries

Other countries will have their own key issues which need to be addressed

IUCEE Mentors

Process is under way already, over the last 2 year, with more than $ 1,600,000 (Rs. 8,00,00,000) private funding

Two philanthropic families both of Indian origin, one from US and the other from India,

helped launch the program successfully

Jaishree and Desh Deshpande

Sudha and Narayana Murthy

Infosys Technologies, provided in­kind

support courtesy CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan

IUCEE Partners University of Massachusetts Lowell

American Society for Engineering Education

Indian Society for Technical Education

International Federation for Engineering Education Societies

Pan IIT Large pool of engineering educators and entrepreneurs of Indian origin in the US, particularly from the prestigious IITs, has enabled momentum to be built and sustained

IUCEE Corporate Supporters

Hosted all experts and participants for 2008 FLI and 2009 FLI at Global Education Center, Mysore

Conducted workshops on using their technologies at 2008 FLI and 2009 FLI

Sponsored workshops at 2008 FLI

IUCEE Process “Facilitate the Trainer”

IUCEE­India

Annual Indo US Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute

in India (FLI)

UG Subjects All Disciplines

US Faculty Experts one­week workshops

in India Indian Faculty

Trainers

Training Kits

Regional Centers

Regional Workshops

(RLI)

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F A C U L T Y

IUCEE­US

2008 FLI and 2009 FLI were both conducted at the Infosys Technologies Global Education Center

36 professors from US and 10 industry experts have given 46 workshops to about 585 and 580 faculty members respectively

in 2008 FLI and 2009 FLI

2008 FLI

2009 FLI

Annual Faculty Leadership Institutes (FLI)

2009 Faculty Leadership Institute

July 6 to 10 July 6 to 10 July 6 to 10 July 6 to 10 July 6 to 10 July 6 to 10 July 6 to 10 July 6 to 10

Arun Somani and Cory Kleinheksel, Iowa State University John Hopcroft, Cornell University Sidney Burrus, Rice University S.S. Venkata and Eric Sortomme, University of Washington Vinod Lohani and Rick Castles, Virginia Tech University K. Ravindra and S. Condoor, St. Louis University Dhanabal Solaikutty and Associate, National Instruments Anand and Associates, Siemens PLM Software India

Computer Architecture Theory of Computing Signals, Systems and Signal Processing Introduction to Modern Electric Energy Systems Modern Approach to Introduction to Engineering Strength of Materials Advanced Graphical System Design with LabVIEW II Innovate, Create, Manufacture and Manage Digitally

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June 29 to July 1

July 1 to 3

June 29 to July 3 June 29 to July 3 June 29 to July 3 June 29 to July 3 June 29 to July 3 June 29 to July 3

Rich Felder, N. Carolina State University, and Rebecca Brent, Education Designs M.P. Ravindra, Girish Vaidya, Matt Barney, Infosys Technologies Partha Dasgupta, Arizona State University S. Rajasekharan, University of Connecticut Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Georgia Technological University N. Narayana Rao, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign Neeraj Buch and Daina Breidies, Michigan State University Dhanabal Solaikutty and Associate, National Instruments

Effective Teaching; Effective Faculty Development; Outcomes Based Education Academic Systems, Processes and Leadership

Operating Systems Analysis of Algorithms Introduction to Computer Engineering Electromagnetics Part II Statics Graphical System Design Fundamentals with LabVIEW I

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June 22 to 26 June 22 to 26 June 22 to 26 June 22 to 26 June 22 to 26 June 22 to 26 June 22 to 26

Mohamed Rafiquzzaman, Cal State University Pumona Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida N. Narayana Rao, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign George Abraham & Associates, Autodesk George Abraham & Associates, Autodesk Sunil Motwani & Associates, Mathworks Xavier Fouger and Associate, Dassault Systemes

Microprocessors Data Structures Electromagnetics Part I Mechanical Engineering Drawing using CAD Civil Engineering Drawing using CAD Teaching with MATLAB and Simulink Product Life Management using CAD

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“2009 Indo US Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute” (Global Education Center, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Mysore, India)

2009 FLI

“2008 Indo US Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute” (Global Education Center, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Mysore, India)

July 14 to 18 July 14 to 18 July 14 to 18 July 17 to 18 July 14 to 18

Dhanabal Solaikutty, National Instruments Alice Agogino, University of California, Berkeley Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systemes Zacharias Cherian, Agilent Technologies George Abraham, Autodesk

Hands­on Engineering using Labview Project Based Learning, Sustainable Product Design Product Life Management using CAD Developing Leadership Skills Engineering Drawing using CAD

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July 7 to 11 July 7 to 11 July 7 to 11 July 7 to 11 July 7 to 8 July 9 to 10 (invited only) July 11

Andrew Mason, Michigan State University William Oakes, Purdue University Vijay Kanabar, Boston University S.S. Venkata, University of Washington M.P. Ravindra, Infosys Technologies Ltd Andreas Blom, World Bank, Bruno Laporte, Kurt Larsen, Anuja Utz, World Bank Institute Infosys Leadership Institute

VLSI Design Engineering Design Projects in Service to Community Project Management; Data Base Design; Security Electric Energy and Power Academic Systems and Processes Autonomy and Accountability in Engineering Education..What is Working ? Academic Leadership

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June 30 to July4 June 30 to July 4 June 30 to July 4 June 30 to July 4 June 30 to July 4

Sidney Burrus, Rice University Richard Anderson, University of Washington Leon Osterweil and Lori Clarke, Univ of Massachusetts Jack Davidson, University of Virginia P.V. Krishnan, GIW Industries, USA

Signal Processing Algorithms and Data Base Structures Software Engineering Computer Security and Modern Compilation Principles of Effective Teaching and Learning

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June 9 to 13 June 9 to 13 June 9 to 13 June 9 to 13

Veena Kumar, Rutgers, The State University of N Jersey Joseph Tront, Virginia Technological University James Kurose, University of Massachusetts Amherst P.R. Kumar, University of Illinois Urbana Champagne

Strategies for Effective Course Design and Delivery Selected Topics in Computer Engineering Computer Networks Wireless Networks

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June 2 to 6 Jorge Velez­Arocho, Rosa Buxeda, Univ of Puerto Rico; Lueny Morell, Hewlett Packard

Curriculum Innovation & Quality Assurance: Roadmap for Excellence: Building Industry Academia Partnerships

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May 26 to 28

May 29 to 30

Rich Felder, N. Carolina State University and Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Ashok Saxena, University of Arkansas

Effective Teaching; Cooperative Learning; Effective Faculty Development, Outcomes Based Education Preparation for India’s membership in Washington Accord

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2008 FLI

15 IUCEE Regional Centers have been set up all over India to coordinate the follow up

Extensive follow up within colleges and regions as well as documented outcomes assessment is being continuously emphasized as measures of success

IUCEE Regional Centers established

Follow up

Continuous mentoring of regional leaders

Follow up During 2008­2009, Indian faculty participants from 2008 FLI,

conducted roughly 100 regional workshops directly impacting more than 3000 other faculty and 30,000

students

Significant positive outcomes have been demonstrated with over 200 colleges all over

India

Some amazing results of radical curriculum revisions resulting from teams of participants at

the 2008 FLI have been documented

One such success story is at the BVB College of Engineering in Karnataka, where all the college faculty has become immersed in transforming the culture of engineering

education. Dramatic improvements in student motivation and academic achievements as well as faculty engagement

have been documented

E­Learning Kits

Follow up

Videotapes, ppts and other materials from workshops have been integrated onto a “SmartLearn” platform

2009 FLI E­Learning Kits available:

• Complete Set of 22 Workshops (as 1 portable E­disk): $ 700

• Individual Workshop (as sets of DVDs): $ 56

Krishna_Vedula@uml.edu

Partnerships with Government of India (GOI)

IUCEE­India

For Hosting FLIs (Faculty Leadership Institutes) For Conducting RLIs (Regional Leadership Institutes) For Participation of Indian Faculty at FLIs and RLIs

Partnerships have been built with various government agencies which are already engaged in similar efforts in order to leverage available resources and expertise, such as

• the NPTEL programs of IITs and • the Faculty Development Scheme of MHRD

through NITs

Indian College Members (70 x Rs. 50,000 )

US College Members (20 x $ 5,000)

Indian Corporate Members (10 x Rs. 1,50,000)

US Corporate Members (10 x $ 5,000)

NRIs and IIT Alumni (50 x $ 2,000)

Philanthropy / Trusts (1 x $ 50,000)

Revenue from E­Learning Kits (500 x Rs. 5,000)

Faculty Fees (500 x Rs 5,000)

$ 500,000 / yr Rs. 250,00,000 /yr

Funding Plan for Sustainability

Indian College Members US College Members

IUCEE Membership Benefits for Colleges

Better Access to US Colleges for Collaborations

Better Access to Indian Colleges for Collaborations

Access to Best Practices in Education and Research Learner centric; problem based;

accreditation; emerging technologies

Preferred for Joint UG Programs 2+2, 2+3, 3+2, 4+1 twinning programs

BS/MS Programs

Reliable Pipeline for UG Programs 2+2, 2+3, 3+2, 4+1 twinning programs

BS/MS Programs

Research Collaborations Joint PhD programs

Faculty / Student Visits / Exchanges

Guidance for Graduate Student Recruitment

Data base of good quality colleges

Global experiences for students More Globally Employable Graduates

The Second Pillar IUCEE Co­Guide PhD Program

Faculty of Engineering Colleges in India Target Audience

PhD Granted by Indian Institution e.g. IIT, NIT (as per their guidelines)

Requirements (to ensure depth of knowledge and high quality of research)

• one trip per year by candidate to US institution of Co­Guide • one trip per year by US Co­Guide to Indian institution • selected courses on­line or blended • significant teaching load reduction for candidate at home institution • 2 refereed papers and 2 proceedings papers for dissertation

All travel, boarding and lodging costs for candidate and co­guide to be borne by home institution of the candidate

(or by government schemes where available)

Beyond Indo US

IUCEE has attracted attention of global engineering community • 12 Indian regional leaders of IUCEE will attend GCEE 2009

• 7 will be presenting papers on outcomes of the past two yrs

IFEES (International Federation for Engineering Education Societies) is a strong advocate of IUCEE

• Krishna Vedula of IUCEE is President­Elect for IFEES • 2009 FLI E­Learning Kits will be launched at GCEE 2009

Brazil has sent observer to 2009 FLI in India • followed up inviting Vedula, Ravindra to Brazil in Sept 2009

Columbia, an IFEES member, has invited Vedula in Sept 2009 Other members of IFEES, S. Africa, China, expressed interest GCEE 2010 in Singapore will feature IUCEE

Sidney Burrus, Dean Emeritus from Rice University, says “The concept and structure of the IUCEE project is truly creative and effective, perhaps even unique. Recognizing the key bottle­neck or barrier in educating engineers in India is not in the IITs, but is the quality of teaching in the large number of second and third tier colleges around the country. IUCEE proposed improving the quality of the instructing in these institutions by a clever "pyramid scheme" of teaching teachers who, in turn, teach other teachers. It seems to be working, indeed, working better and quicker than any other approach that I have ever seen. The 30 or so teachers that were in my IUCEE class on Teaching Signals and Systems were bright, enthusiastic, and completely involved. Since the class, I have remained in contact with several of them who say their whole way of teaching has changed. This has been one of the most satisfying teaching experiences I have had in my 40 year career.” C. Sidney Burrus Research Professor in ECE and Dean Emeritus of the George R. Brown School of Engineering. Dr. Burrus received numerous awards for teaching and technical achievements and was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1981. Dr. Burrus has been conducting research in digital signal processing (DSP) for more than 30 years at Rice.

John Hopcroft, former John Silbert Dean from Cornell University, says: “The IUCEE is working with engineering faculty across India who are committed to helping institutions in their region improve engineering education. This is one of the highest leveraged and well thought out programs with follow up that I have been involved with.” John E. Hopcroft is the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science at Cornell University and was the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering. Hopcroft's research centers on theoretical aspects of computing. He has coauthored four books. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the IEEE, and the Association of Computing Machinery.

Deans: Cornell University and Rice University

Sarah Rajala, 2007­08 President of ASEE and Dean of Engineering from Mississippi State University says: “I continue to be impressed with the accomplishments achieved by the IUCEE in two years… has provided training to nearly 600 Indian faculty each year on engineering educational pedagogy and technical content. More impressive is that these faculty have already shared the knowledge with more than 3000 colleagues at their home institutions. This.. has already led to increases in student achievements and motivation ”

Dr. Lueny Morell, Program Manager, HP Labs and President of IFEES says: “ IUCEE is a very effective partnership worth replicating in other parts of the world. I had the opportunity to offer a 5 day workshop on curriculum innovation and quality assurance in engineering education to about 100 Indian engineering professors and deans in 2008. After more than 30 years involved in engineering education, this was a life changing experience for me. The enthusiasm, motivation and leadership shown by these group of faculty and their desire to innovate the engineering curricula in India was remarkable. It confirms that India is well on the road to become of the world’s leaders in technology.”

Hans Hoyer, Director, International Programs and Strategy, ASEE, and Secretary General, IFEES, says: "I am very proud that the vision that inspired us from the beginning over two years ago has ignited the imagination of colleagues throughout India, some parts in the US and even Brazil and is clearly demonstrating that our work is having an impact on the minds as well as practical teaching and learning experiences of many. The level of enthusiasm of both the Indian faculty and the mainly US faculty involved in the FLI both years has been much more than I expected and, given my over 30 year career working with educational issues globally, this experience clearly stands out in terms of impact and the tremendous potentials for really scaling up. ..”

Engineering Education Leaders American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and

International Federation for Engineering Education Societies (IFEES)

S.R. Chickerur (MSRIT, Karnataka): “..opened a new world up for me, giving me a unique opportunity to look at new methods for effective and innovative teaching methodologies . .it has greatly enhanced my self confidence in my capacity and ability to teach”; M. Gayatri (Vasavi COE, AP): “Students have developed the enthusiasm to learn concepts deeply beyond the prescribed syllabus”; Anuj Jain (MNIT, UP): “The interaction among the participants has helped in building a community of faculty who is taking this initiative further to other institutions in India”; P. Meena (BMS COE, Karnataka): “IUCEE has left a profound and lasting impact in me in the way I am as a teacher”; D.R. Raju (SV EC for Women, AP) : “I have been teaching for nearly 50 years.. the very first thought I had, after the workshop, was about what I missed all along. The expertise and rich experience are being put to full use in conducting similar workshops to benefit scores of faculty members in Andhra Pradesh”. A. Kulkarni (SDM COE, Karnataka): “IUCEE have brought a “metamorphosis” in my approach to teaching engineering students”; A. Valavade (PVG’s COET, Maharashtra): “.has proved to be a beacon of light in the path of many teachers in western Maharashtra. ..has enlightened minds of many teachers to adopt Learning­Centred Approach to Education. It has created a fire in the belly to excel in the academic world”; R. Balakrishnan (NIT Trichy, Tamil Nadu): “I’ve been using Hopcroft’s book to teach Theory of Computation for several years. It’s a dream come true for me to attend his lectures!!”; D. Jeyamala (TCE, Tamil Nadu): “This initiative will really be a benefit to the researchers of India since, they have the opportunity to meet the renowned professors and researchers”; K.V. Gangadharan (NIT Surathkal, Karnataka): “IUCEE has wokeup the real teacher in me..”; B. Sucharitha (MLRIT, AP): “It taught me unexplored educational methodologies and technologies from which I have developed a new sense of leadership”; Gaurav Raheja (IIT Rourkee): The workshop has led me to a high degree of inspiration along with opening my mind to a pedagogic approach to design education”. L. Vemuri (MS EC, Tamil Nadu)): “The world class facilities provided by Infosys Tehnologies for conducting IUCEE programs are exemplary”; Rohini Jyoti (BVB COE, Karnataka): “I have formed a group of seven faculty who will be teaching the basic course in electrical engineering..using the innovative teaching techniques I learnt”; Hardip Shah (DD University, Gujarat): “I am inspired by the expert environment provided by IUCEE. I made my movement faster to join my PhD”; Rajnish Sharma (Chitkara University, Chandigarh): “.. should have happened at least 20 years back…we could have avoided to fall into such a deep crunch of trained and learnt faculty and researchers. I am going to work my heart out to make this initiative a huge success in the benefit of both the countries and in turn whole globe.”

Indian Faculty Participants

Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent conducted Effective Teaching Workshops at the 2008 FLI as well as the 2009 FLI conducted by IUCEE at Infosys Technologies, Mysore, India.

Richard M. Felder is Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at N. C. State University. He has authored or coauthored over 300 papers on chemical process engineering and engineering education and presented hundreds of seminars, workshops, and short courses throughout the US and abroad. Rebecca Brent, Ed.D., is President of Education Designs, Inc. and has published roughly 100 articles and hundreds of seminars and workshops on teacher preparation, classroom organization and management, instructional planning, and incorporation of instructional technology in K­12 education.

“In the past 25 years I have given over 600 effective teaching workshops and seminars to university faculties on every continent but Antarctica. I can say without hesitation that the IUCEE workshops Rebecca Brent and I gave in 2008 and 2009 have had a more visible and dramatic impact than anything else I have done in my career. An unbelievably high percentage of the nearly 200 engineering professors we addressed have reported changing their teaching practices following the workshop with strongly positive learning outcomes, and many of them have also given their own workshops and seminars on what they learned at IUCEE, both on their home campuses and elsewhere in their regions. The six workshop days we spent in India have thus already affected the teaching of several thousand faculty members and the learning of many thousands of their students. I believe if IUCEE continues to create and support regional cadres of engineering teaching leaders, it has the clear potential to nucleate an engineering education revolution in India similar to the technology revolution of the 1990s, and also to establish a model for engineering education reform that can be emulated in developing countries around the world”

Richard Felder

R. Natarajan, Former Director, IIT Madras and Former Chairman, AICTE, says: “IUCEE has demonstrated that focused and participative goal­setting, followed by the collaboration and commitment of resource persons and engineering faculty participants, can create an exciting impact on the quality and global relevance of Engineering Education. IUCEE owes its success to meticulous planning; follow­up activities; and sharing of best practices and experiences. The IUCEE activities have attracted the favorable attention of several thought­ leaders worldwide, and are sure to gain in stature and scope in the coming years.”

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, Chairman of Sycamore Networks, Entrepreneur and Global NRI says: “Jaishree and I are very pleased to be supporting the IUCEE effort. It has been an excellent way to bridge the engineering education expertise from United States to the engineering faculty in India. We are very pleased and surprised by the level of interest and dedication of the professors in the US to travel to India and participate so intensely in the effort. What is most satisfying is the interest and the motivation shown by the engineering faculty in India. This shows that if we open up the opportunities, .. they can excel and play an important role in developing much needed well­trained human resource for the development of India”.

The Mentors and The Guru

We are in discussion about creating a International School of Engineering Education

(ISEE) in India

with help from Purdue University