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The following are the Members of the Working Group:
- Professor M. S. Ananth (Chairperson)
Director, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- Professor Anil Marathe
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Professor Ashok Thakur
Vice Chancellor, West Bengal Technical University
- Professor Gokhale
Director, National Institute of Technology Nagpur
- Professor S. N. Maheshwari
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- Professor N Satyamurthy
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- Professor Vijay Gupta
Director, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh.
- Dr. Ravindra
Vice President, Education, Infosys, Bangalore
- Dr. Satish Kaura
Chairman and MD, Samtel Color Ltd., New Delhi
- Dr. Y.S. Rajan
Principal Adviser, Confederation of Indian Industries
- Dr. Kiran Karnik
Chairman, NASSCOM
- Mr. Baba Kalyani
Chairman and MD, Bharat Forge, Mumbai
Terms of Reference:
- Identify constraints, problems and challenges relating to curriculum, teaching, infrastructure, administration and access.
- Recommend changes and reforms to address the problems and challenges relating to curriculum, teaching, infrastructure, administration and access.
- Recommend changes in the pedagogy of teaching and suggest ways to use technology in order to improve the same. Suggest ways of incorporating emerging fields of engineering education in teaching and curricula.
- Recommend methods of attracting and retaining talented faculty members; revisit the minimum qualifications for appointing teachers and principals. Suggest ways and criteria in order to have continuous training of faculty during the course of their term.
- Identify issues related to current evaluation system. Suggest effective methods of evaluating students.
- Suggest ways to increase industry-academia interaction, role and involvement of industries in undergraduate and postgraduate training and research.
- Revisit the concept of Distance Education Program and identify challenges relating to the same.
- Identify problems implicit in regulatory structures that constrain the quality and spread of engineering education and suggest reforms for the same.
- Examine issues of autonomy and accountability of institutions; suggest changes in the governance management and funding process.
- Examine any other issues that may be relevant in this context such as factors that define the willingness of students to persist in engineering related activities.
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