6.5.

1 Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) has

contributed significantly for institutionalizing the
quality assurance strategies and processes.
Best Practices envisaged by Internal Quality Assurance Cell IQAC

Example – 1: Faculty development:

IQAC has been continuously focusing on Enhancing faculty and staff

competence and received attention as it is directly linked to realize the
overall goals of the institution.

Process:

 The Institutional Training Needs Analysis (TNA) is conducted to identify

the areas where more efficiency in pedagogical methods, research and
domain knowledge of the members of faculty is required.
 The feedback of students on the teachers, which is collected twice in a
semester, helped to identify the areas where the teachers require
additional inputs in terms of training for better delivery. Also this
feedback helped to identify whether the teacher is lacking competence
either in teaching or in delivery.

The activities undertaken to foster faculty development in teaching-

learning are

 Recruit faculty and encourage them for continuing education for

qualification and skills upgradation.
 Motivate faculty to undertake research and consultancy for quality
outputs and internal revenue generation.
 Develop a culture of pedagogy that leads to demonstrable student
learning.
 Train all the faculty in current pedagogical approaches and
introduce State-Of-The-Art technologies in teaching and learning.
 Increase financial support and provide leave facilities for the faculty
to upgrade qualifications, attend seminars and conferences,
 undergo pedagogical training and interact with academic peers and
keep abreast with the emerging trends in Engineering and
Technology.
 Retaining the faculty by encouraging them through facilities and
incentives for outstanding performance.
The activities undertaken to foster faculty development in research and
consultancy are

 Recruit faculty with high potential for research.

 Increase funding support for faculty research and creative
endeavors.
 Seek avenues for collaborative research with industry, other
universities, State and Central Government agencies.
 Provide innovative modern facilities and laboratories for
multidisciplinary research for faculty and students.
 Promote increased faculty participation in research, consultancy and
sponsored projects.
 Create Department wise centres to market the services and
products to the industry, thereby generating internal revenue.
Outcomes:
Enhancement in
 Qualifications of the members of faculty
 Learning outcomes of the students
 Publication output
 External research funding
 Academic culture and work ethic
Example – 2: Research culture
The following activities are practiced to augment the culture of research
among the faculty and students of the institution
 Constitution of research mentoring committee with experts from IIT’s,
IISc, national laboratories
 Periodic interaction of faculty with pioneers in research from industry
and academia for knowledge acquisition and guidance
 Formation of domain specific research clusters
 Research talks and deliberations by the faculty in the departments
 Modernization and establishment of research labs to support faculty
and student research
 Incentives for significant research outcomes
 Academic leave and financial support for faculty research endeavors
 Deputation of faculty to institutions of eminence in India and abroad

to discuss and present research findings

 Best Practice-I

Faculty Development:

 Teaching-Learning:

 Training Needs Analysis by the departments

 Recruitment of potential Faculty with PhD Qualification

 Support for Continuing Education

 Structured Teaching Learning through uniform Lesson plan & Diary

 Quality of Publications

 Financial support and leaves for qualification upgradation;

 Faculty Encouraged to attend seminars/workshops/conferences

 Interactions with academic peers

 Incentives for teachers for demonstrating excellence in academics

 Research and Development:

 Research Mentors

 Periodic interactions of faculty with Industry and academia

 Research Clusters

 Research Talks by faculty members

 Budget allotted for the Establishment of Research centers

 Trend in Research incentives provided to Faculty

 Research Projects Sanctioned

 Faculty attending FDPs

Outcomes:

 Faculty with PhD Qualification

 PO table with learning outcomes from all departments

 Research publications & presentations

 External funding/Research projects sanctioned

Promote Academic Culture and Work ethics