INSTITUTIONAL DISTINCTIVENESS
Objectives
Empowering the rural and underprivileged students Community
through broad based education
Shreenivasa Engineering
College (SEC) is located in a rural area and the students population mainly
hails from the socially disadvantaged and economically weaker sections of the
society, who can get entitled to dignified survival only through higher
education and employment. Hence, it has become essential to nurture and sharpen
the talents of every student and to offer them a broad-based education with deep
knowledge in the chosen discipline and broad general education in other areas.
Our is a one stop destination for all the educational needs, career options and
life solutions of the students. It is a life changing destination for students.
Our college is a trend setter and game changer of higher education in this
region.
The college uplifts the student community by offering a
global, holistic, broad-based education, which include Integrated Learner-
Centric interdisciplinary education through Knowledge Empowerment and Integrated
Skill Development Programmes. The knowledge empowerment in broad-based education
involves blending the curriculum into a whole learning experience, by
integrating with Education of deep knowledge in the discipline of study and
broad knowledge in general education. The teachers sharpen the mathematical
intelligence and linguistic fluency of each student. The teachers identify the
uniqueness of each student and help them to excel in that domain.
Knowledge empowerment:
Utilizing the academic freedom
of Autonomy, the College develops curricula to suit the needs of the students
with relevance to local/regional National/Global requirements. Taking students
beyond academics, it involves them in various interactive skill-development
strategies to develop their higher order
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Writing assignments on issues related to the subject and at the sometime having contemporary relevance accelerates students’ creative thinking and conceptualizing skills
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Taking Seminars with PPT develop their Synthesizing and Presentation ability
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Students’ interacting with experts during Seminars/Workshops/Conferences promotes their analytical and application knowledge
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Industrial visits, study tours, field visits enable students to gather insights on Industrial Practices and latest technologies that promotes students’ questioning and reporting skills.
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In model making sessions, students’ finding their own solutions stimulates their problem solving strategies.
Enhancing Communication skills:
Since the majority of the rural students are first generation
learners, lack of competence in communication skills in English is their major
challenge. SEC makes efforts to develop their communication skills in English.
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Several clubs and mentoring programmes are organised to develop communicative skills in various levels.
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Group discussions and brainstorming sessions conducted on controversial topics encourage the process of free thinking, boosts up students’ self-confidence and promotes their communication skills Videos, Documentaries and Films are screened and students are asked to offer critical reviews.
Women Empowerment:
Women empowerment is our sense of self-worth, ability to determine our choices, and
even our right to determine social change. It is important because it gives women the
confidence and skills necessary to stand up for themselves and others.
Promoting Leadership qualities
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Group activities of the college–seminars, workshops, conferences- Inter
collegiate events are organized by student Committees. It enables them to imbibe
planning & organizing skills, intra-interpersonal relationships, team spirit,
time/stress/finance management.
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Student representatives are incorporated into various committees as Campus
discipline, Grievance redressal, Hostel Management/Mess and students Welfare
Committees. It equips students with observation, monitoring, people handling,
evaluation and decision-making skills.
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Under NSS students attend several camps in different places.
These camps experience provides them ample opportunities to confront grass root
realities of life and develop leadership qualities of social responsibility and
community solidarity.
Projects:
Students at UG and PG degree levels take up Internships from industries and pursue their projects which give them hands on training in their field of interest. Special motivation and innovative counselling are also provided for further research.
Entrepreneurial Skills:
To equip and motivate students for starting new enterprises and undertake entrepreneurship, many Industry-related courses are introduced in the curriculum itself. Beyond academics, our department of commerce departments organizes seminars on Entrepreneurship and through interaction with successful entrepreneurs students learn nuances of entrepreneurship.
Employability Skills:
Placement Cell invites experts from the concerned fields and conducts pre-placement training programmes to prepare the outgoing students to gain prosperous placements. The major areas of output in the training programmes include general knowledge, current affairs, communication skill, soft skills, Resume preparation, participation in group discussion and interview skills. The cell arranges Interface Programmes with prominent Alumni to familiarize the students with the Industrial demands Library keeps ‘Career Corner’ that stocks volumes of competitive exams preparation books and magazines for Students’ use and displays on the ‘Career Notice Board’ career related news about upcoming competitive examinations with dates