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Gujarat Technological University

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Faculty Development Program Workshop

for Design Engineering at 3rd Sem of BE

Design Engineering at 3rd Sem of BE

The syllabus: available at the University’s web-site

Many workshops and lectures by experts for the last 2 years

41 Faculty Members from a number of Degree Engineering Colleges:

Worked for long hours at S4-C3

Looked at the open-source course on design available at Stanford

University site

Decided to develop sample problems for Design Engineering in a

systematic way – will be made available soon on GTU website

Expect that other Faculty Members across the State will develop even

better sample problems and share them

GTU appreciates the work of the 41 Faculty Members.

Symposium on Design Engineering course with

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal,

Honorable Vice-Chancellor of GTU

Teams @ Work The FDP had an interactive brainstorming session between teams

of 41 Faculty Members from different institutes and fields.

The Artillery

The Faculty Members worked on 5 different canvases related to the Design Thinking during the course of the Workshop. The canvases are as follows : a. Empathy Mapping b. Ideation Canvas (Reference: page 3 and page 6 respectively of

http://files.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14SEP/24092014_03.pdf http://files.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14SEP/09092014_04.pdf )

c. Product Development Canvas (Reference: page 12 of http://files.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14SEP/09092014_04.pdf )

d. Business Model Canvas (Reference: page 5 and page 14 respectively of http://files.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14SEP/24092014_03.pdf http://files.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14SEP/09092014_04.pdf )

e. Design Thinking Venture Canvas

Design Thinking Venture Canvas

Ideation Canvas

Product Development Canvas

Empathy Mapping Canvas

Design-Oriented and Project-based Learning at GTU

The degree engineering syllabi, being progressively implemented since August 2013, are based on the work done by Faculty Members since 2012: (Reports and results of all of the following activities are available on the web-site under different tabs.)

The Vice-Chancellor discussed about the issue of Design-based and Project-based learning for the new syllabi at the Syllabi Committee in August 2012.

GTU took some baby steps in the syllabi of the 1st sem syllabi, designed by the Syllabi Committee chaired by Prof Nilesh Bhatt and implemented in Aug 2013.

GTU created the document of Open Design School.

GTU took the help of Rohit Swarup, for a few workshops on Design, though we could not integrate his work in our system.

Prof C. Amarnath – IIT Bombay- visited us and helped us understand his ideas of Design.

Design-Oriented and Project-based

Learning at GTU …………………………2

GTU planned the Design Sessions in Nov 2013 and organised

them as a part of the 2-day Seminar on 8-9 Jan 2014.

Prof Nilesh Bhatt's Committee designed the syllabi for the 2nd

Year.

Prof C Amarnath gave sample problems.

Prof P.V.M. Rao (of IIT Delhi) came, delivered a workshop and

sent some sample problems.

GIC worked on canvases at S4 and the idea turned out to be

something which engaged the students' and Faculty Members'

interest.

Design-Oriented and Project-based

Learning at GTU …………………………3

It turned out that ideas of empathy, Ideation and product development led naturally to Design thinking. Then to add Business Model to this development created additional value and a continuum with the Final Year project.

GTU hit the bull's eye by integrating the whole of the process by bringing canvases to design. 41 Faculty Members from various branches worked in seven sessions, coordinated by Hiranmay Mahanta, Hon Director of GTU Innovation Council and Yash Saxena of OpenFuel.

The result of the work of the 41 Faculty Members is being compiled and will be made available on the web-site soon.

Achieving GTU’s vision of 100K student startups

Article Title Newspaper Link

Gujarat Technological University

introduces new study programme

on startups

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c

ity/ahmedabad/Gujarat-

Technological-University-introduces-

new-study-programme-on-

startups/articleshow/43036137.cms

GTU to train 100K students in

launching start-ups in three-year

programme

http://www.business-

standard.com/article/management/g

tu-to-train-100k-students-in-

launching-startups-in-three-year-

programme-114091901300_1.html

1 Lakh students to turn

entrepreneurs at GTU

http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/

ahmedabad/others/1-lakh-students-

to-turn-entrepreneurs-at-

GTU/articleshow/42923262.cms

Earlier Work Implementation of Crowd-funding frameworks through five Crowdfunding

Workshops http://files.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14SEP/24092014_03.pdf

Guidelines for the final year B.E. Projects 2014 – Part 2 http://files.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14SEP/09092014_04.pdf

Guidelines for the final year B.E. Projects 2014 http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14Jul/07072014_01.pdf

REPORT: 2nd & 3rd August 2014 : 2-day Workshop for GTU Innovation Club Coordinators for making final year projects more innovative through a systematic use of design canvases

http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14SEP/03092014_01.pdf

Presentation compiled with the help of Kaushik Akiwatkar