With an aim to formulate systematic approach and planning for program-level assessment, the Department of Mechanical Engineering has formulated the Program Assessment & Quality Improvement committee.

Objective:

To provide organized procedure for performing the systematic assessment of the program and ensure its progressive performance.

PAQIC Committee composition:

The following are the faculty members involved in the Program Assessment & Quality Improvement committee of the program.

Responsibilities of PAQIC:

Following are the different working domains that PAQIC covers.

   1. Track the CO, PO & PSO outcomes

• Assess the course outcomes and its mapping for the new courses added in the curriculum.
• Compute the course attainments, PO attainment and PSO attainment at the end of each semester.
• Validate the assessment process.
• Perform the assessment of these outcomes and plan the strategies for the weak outcomes.
• Interact with Module and Course Coordinators to analyze the outcome of attainments and ensure its compliance in all respect.

  2. Program curriculum and Teaching Learning Process

• Track adherence with the academic calendar.
• Ensuring adoption of modern and effective teaching learning process.
• Facilitate adoption of innovative student centric, participatory and project-based teaching learning process.
• Arrange the BoS meetings. Maintain its documents such as agenda and minutes of meetings.
• Propose the modifications in the curriculum for approval from BoS.

  3. Monitor Students Performance

• Motivate the students towards participating in various activities.
  • Attend / Organize workshops.
  • Develop industry standard projects and working models.
  • Publish papers.
  • Participate in project contests.

• Encourage students to enroll and excel in exams such as GATE , GRE, TOFEL etc.
• Record internship activities.

• Arrange activities to enhance student placements.

  4. Record faculty contributions

• Record participation of faculty in seminars, workshops, conferences etc.
• Document organization of FDPs and faculty trainings.
• Record faculty publications.
• Encourage faculty for IPR.
• Maintain record of Performance Based Appraisal System.

  5. Maintain the facilities and technical support

• Ensure the adequacy, maintenance and proper allocation of support structure and services to enhance teaching learning process.
• Ensure the allocation and utilization of financial resources (budget allocation).

  6. Track Continuous improvement

• Include topics beyond the syllabus and additional experiments in the curriculum to meet POs and PEOs.
• Organize various technical and cocurricular activities to address soft POs leading to quality enhancement.
• Through IQAC, arrange faculty internal audits.

• Enhance the curriculum with value added training courses.

• Maintain feedback records for quality assessment.

Frequency of the Meeting: The Program Assessment & Quality Improvement committee meeting is conducted every semester.