Keeping in mind lack of focus on education research, the college started Centre for Engineering Education Research (CEER) with an objective of bringing out innovations in curriculum frameworks, pedagogy and assessment. The centre inspired by Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) has enabled the college to adopt Outcome Based Education Framework (OBE) and carry out many innovations in teaching learning practices and assessment. The centre also undertakes outreach activities and has trained over 1000 faculty of other engineering colleges. A group of faculty headed by Principal is recognised by ‘International Institute for Developing Engineering Academics (IIDEA)’, USA as OBE trainers. (only group recognised in India)

A course on ‘Social Innovation’ has been conceptualized and offered to the students of first year undergraduate engineering. The objectives of the course are as follows:

• To build students’ capacity to use problem solving skills to address social issues through innovative solutions.
• To transform students’ perspective on the world around them by enabling them to identify areas ripe for innovation. Last year, over 250 projects in social space are done by First year undergraduate engineering students, which help them to connect with societal issues.

Curriculum design puts high emphasis on experiential learning by introducing Course projects, Mini-Projects, and Industry Internships. Mini-projects vertically integrated with each of the curriculum threads of the program, are carried out by the students in the pre-final year and provide an opportunity to integrate knowledge and skills acquired in a set of courses belonging to the curriculum thread to solve complex engineering problems. Introduction of mini-projects also provides sufficient resolution to directly assess student learning outcomes in each of the curriculum threads. As these projects are carried out in teams, students are able to develop and demonstrate several professional competencies that are critical for engineering practice.

In addition to their primary area of study, undergraduate Engineering students have the opportunity to study one of the Minors offered by departments/schools/centers in some of the most interesting areas in the profession today.

Engineering Minors allow students to gain interdisciplinary experience and exposure to concepts and perspectives that may not be a part of their degree program—thus widening their understanding of the engineering profession and the issues that impact engineers.

Upon completion of an Engineering Minor, students will also be better equipped to perform interdisciplinary research.