Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Program Advisory Committee (PAC)

Program Advisory Committee

Objective:

  • To create quality culture and adapt best practices in academics to keep the pace with changing educational environment and expectation and supporting the departments to achieve the vision by remaining up to date with the latest requirements of the industry and incorporating necessary components in the curriculum to the furthest extent.
  • The PAC consists of the HoD, Senior faculty members, The Dean (Academics), and the NBA coordinator Department’s faculty members, Student Representatives, Alumni Members, Industry Experts to periodically monitor departmental activities and evaluate parameters related to teaching learning process and offer suggestions for the continuous improvement.

Functions of Program Advisory Committee (PAC)

  • The PAC gives guidelines to the department related to the following areas:  
    • Formation/Revision of Vision and Mission of the department  
    • Formation of Program Educational Objectives.
    • Redefine existing PEO’s, aligning of PEO’s to the mission statements and defining program specific outcomes. 
    • Formulation of workable solutions for improvement in the following areas 
      • Quality of Teaching Learning Process 
      • Industry Institution Interaction.  
      • Increase the employability of students.  
      • Inclusion of topics beyond the syllabus to meet the PEO and PO and bridge the existing gap through encouraging students to do additional experiments in labs and through expert talks in areas beyond the scope of the syllabus.
  • Suggest improvement in academic plans and recommend standard practices/systems for attainment of PEOs.
  • Encourage for industry-institute interactions to bridge up curriculum/industry gap and suggest quality improvement initiatives to enhance employability.
  • To propose necessary action plans for Student projects, Value added training courses, internships, skill development of students, required for entrepreneurship development and quality improvement to meet PEOs.Monitoring the attainments of Program Outcomes (POs), Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs) and Program Educational Objectives (PEOs). 
  • Evaluating program effectiveness and proposing necessary changes.
  • Measuring the extent of adherence to planned activities and calendar of events.
  • Suggesting ways and means to reduce the curriculum gaps in achieving PO’s and PSO’s.
  • Preparing periodic reports on program activities, progress, status or other special reports for management.
  • Faculty motivation: Attend / organize workshop / seminar / FDP, paper publication, development of models / lab.
  • Student motivation: Attend/participate in technical competitions, paper presentation, mini projects/models, social / cultural events, skill development programs.
  • Interacting with students facilitating the attainment of POs, PSOs and PEOs.
  • Interact with stakeholders and PAC to facilitate the attainment of POs, PSOs, and PEOs

 

PAC Composition