Best Practice I
Title of the Practice:Beyond Technical Learning Activities
The objective of the Practice
CEC believes in the holistic development of its students. It provides a comprehensive learning ecosystem for the students that help them develop their life skills. The objective is to empower students with not only a solid technical knowledge base but also to equip them with life skills, owner of impressive personality and help them to enhance their employability.
The Context
CEC is committed to make industry ready engineers and managers equipped with the latest technical knowhow and skills needed for a successful professional. The need of this practice arises from the fact that the students come from diverse socio-economic backgrounds including vernacular education system. It equips students to make good decisions and solve problems in their academic and professional careers as well as their personal lives.
The Practice
Life skills shape the careers of professionals and engineers along with their technical skills. To impart such skills, CEC covers extra miles and performs beyond curriculum activities under the mentorship of faculty members along with the experts from different domains. Tailor-made modules are designed for grooming the personality and enhancing the technical knowledge, communication and soft skills of the students.
Special Personality Development and Soft Skills: Personality Development and Soft Skills play an integral role in revolutionizing community interactions among students, teachers and the community as a whole. The special classes for enhancing personality and communication skills are conducted to assess and
Self Study Report of CHOUKSEY ENGINEERING COLLEGE BILASPURmeasure the students qualitatively and quantitatively continuously, helping them improve gradually through constructive feedback. Rigorous training in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing (LSRW) through activities like story building, story-telling, prepared speeches, extempore, presentations etc. is provided. Practical training on GD, PI, Role Plays and Mock Interviews through special in-house sessions, inter and intra college competitions is given to the students of all branches. The professional writing skills of students is groomed through technical report writing sessions and in major and minor projects of final year.
Campus Recruitment Training (CRT): To enable the students perform well in the campus placements, CRT classes are arranged for pre final year students. The classes are held by professional agencies in which the students are imparted trainings in aptitude, verbal and non-verbal, reasoning, reading comprehension, Group Discussion, mock HR and technical interviews, Personal Interviews etc.
Videos for Speaking Sessions: In the first semester during the language lab classes, students enhance their speaking skills in a novel way by doing away with their stage fear and hesitation. Students’ speeches are video recorded and then shown to them for self-evaluation.
Evidence of Success: Consistent and meticulous efforts of the institute for imparting knowledge par excellence in all the domains has been appreciated and acknowledged through various awards and recognitions at various platforms.
Problems Encountered and Resources Required:
The problem encountered in this practice was that students hail from diverse socio economic backgrounds and all are not well versed in the English language. Owing to their poor communication skills, the students face difficulties in grasping and understanding the subjects. To address this challenge together with one to one mentoring, there was a need to implement the ICT approach of Teaching-learning. To enhance the speaking and writing skills of the studentslanguage Lab software is used in language labs.
Best Practice –II
- Title of the practice:“Save Food; Save Life”
- Objective of the Practice:
It is essential to reduce the food wastage; hence the saving of food will certainly meet the hunger of a good number of people. According to UNEP food waste Index report, on an average 11% of the total cooked food gets wasted every day all around the world. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations estimated that the number of hunger people throughout the world had been raised to 690 million people in 2019, and may show further increase in coming years. Tons of food wasted every day. Every grain of the food can save life, Reduction of food wastage is essential for people and planet. Hence to create ethical and moral values among our students, CEC Bilaspur has started the campaign “Save food; Save life”.
- The Context:
Food wastes have a detrimental influence on food security and availability, as well as contribute to rising food prices. Our food systems cannot be robust unless these are sustainable, that is why we must prioritize the adoption of integrated ways to reduce food loss and waste. According to studies, Interventions that successfully reduce the amount of wasted food in this context may result in a smallerreduction in greenhouse gas emissions may also reduce pollution hazard.
- The Practice:
Institute has constituted a mess committee that cooperates to sensitize all hostellers to cut down the food waste to meet the goal. Dedicated posters and Notice Board near the mess area present alarms to all that “how much food wasted everyday that may feed number of people”. The visuals raise awareness about food wastage and inspire students to take action for reduction of waste.
- Evidence of Success:
The practice helped the institute to improve by reducing food waste from about 54.5 KG/Day (including breakfast, Lunch and Dinner) to about 10.3 KG/Day.
- Problem encountered and resources required:
Conversion of food waste in to nutrient-dense compost.
- Notes (Optional):
Composting pits have been developed in the institute for the conversion of this food waste into the high quality organic compost. This compost is being successfully used in nearby fields.
