The Course List

The Course List

As a first step, I have tried to analyze the list created by Ashok Saraf. Categorized these courses into 4 types of courses based on our Entrepreneurship Education Framework. The 4 course categories are following:

1. Technology Top Up (TT) courses are short 4 to 6 hours of educational content, which can supplement an existing technology course offering in an engineering college. 

2. Business Management (BM) courses include various subjects that are part of traditional MBA programs. For example: Accounting, marketing, HR etc.

3. Entrepreneurship Practice (EP) courses teach students the modern Entrepreneurship development practices that have evolved in the last decade, for example: Lean Start up, Design Thinking etc.

4. Disruptive Scenarios (DS) courses will deal with major economic changes happening in the world which are going to change fortunes of large number of businesses, for example: Healthcare, Agriculture, Collaboration etc.

The detailed course list is stored into a shared spreadsheet on Microsoft OneDrive (http://1drv.ms/1IC6yuf). Please use this spreadsheet to add more courses or other details to the spreadsheet. We can now start recruitment of the authors who can compile the course content.

We should plan to develop at least few of these course by end of the year. We can offer these courses or for the minimum announce availability of these courses during ICTIEE conference which will be organized in COEP in January 2016. 

This was the beginning of an idea

This was the beginning of an idea for Technology Top Up courses to augment the curriculum based  education one is forced to give in the colleges ......

As a part of our EDCell activities , we have planned to offer practical oriented courses as Top Up Courses for students, faculties as well as CEP praticipants from industry, to supplement the courses in regular curruculum .

These will be short courses and hence can not become as elective , but would be extremely focused and useful for all . We should prepare a data base of industry and domain experts who can offer such courses and use CEP process , with EdCell as contact point as these courses would be most useful for those who want to practice the profession on their own . These would of course be also useful for jobs as the coverage would be such that industry would like to see that on resume even if it is through short courses ,

I have identified some topics and faculty and as we have already started work on some ..

1. VLSI - Physical design -- Mr. Pramod Sabnis , 

2. Digtal Marketing --  faculty from mentors of Lean start up 

3. Design thinking -- web based course form Stanford,

4. Lean Start up -- business model and business plan

5. Practical ERP

6. Practical Finance

7. Practical Accounts

8. Self Management

9. IP Protection 

10. Industrial Design 

11.User Experience design

12. Practical Mobile app development

13. BOP business development

14.social entreprenuership as career option

15 Practical embedded design

16.SMT and electronics production

17. Art of  Research and Development

18. Healthcare products 

19. Practical BIG Data analytics

20. Practical web site design

21. Food processing sector product design

22. Drug and Pharma industry related products 

23. Agriculture practices and engineering  design 

24. BIS - national standards and test certification practices

25. Automotive electronics

26. 3D printing based manufacturing practices

27. wireless planning and licensing 

28. Hi Fi Audio products design and development

29. Speaker design and testing

30. EMI EMC testing

31. CE certification

32. Product safety related regulations and practices

33. Solid state lamps design standards, testing and development practices

34. Defense electronics related practical product design aspects

35. Electromagnetic noise considerations and design practices

36. PCB layout design 

37. Thermal product design for electronic products

38. Solar power systems design , standards and testing for certification

39. Practical Logistics and electronic component sourcing 

40. Automatic PCB testers programming 

41. PCB Test jig ( fisture of bed of nails)  design and development practices

42. Environmental testing of electronic products

43. Pracical Analog circuit design and testing 

44. Indivisual short courses for each protocol such as CAN, LIN, Ethernet, TCP.IP, USB, Firewire, wifi, RFID, NFC, RS485, MODBUS, BITBUS, Profinus etc

45. Practical Digital camera development 

46. Set Top Box design and development

47. Practical mobile phone development

48. LCD display technology,  design and development

49. Telecom billing and operations

50. GPS technology and algorithms for improved accuracies

51. Stereophogrammetry algorithms and applications

52. A to Z series for revision of fundamentals in various subjects such as image processing, signal processing, Analog circuits, microwave, telecom, materials etc.

Technology Top Up Courses for Entrepreneurs

Technologies taught in the engineering college classrooms are limited to the syllabus set up by the University programs. Normally finalization of syllabus of each technology course has to follow the process of review at multiple levels of authority in the university, which takes minimum couple of years period between the initial proposal and final incorporation into syllabus. Therefore, after the technologies are successfully invented before they are actually taught to the students there is a lag of minimum 2 to 3 years.

In the present world of extremely fast development of technologies, the technology which is more than 3 years old is already obsolete. Knowledge of such 3 year old technology can at best be of some use to our graduating students for the purpose of repair and maintenance of old products, but not of any use to design and build products of future.

When we train students in our engineering colleges to get ready to become entrepreneurs, teaching them 3 year old technologies is not adequate. Can the syllabus be designed and updated so fast that it will be most up-to-date all the time. Such rapid syllabus change with our existing management set ups of educational institutions is not feasible.

How can we bridge this gap? Technology Top Up courses offers a solution to this problem.

TT courses are short course modules of about 4 to 6 hours of educational content, which can perfectly blend and follow a regular 40 hour semester course of engineering college. These courses are developed and continuously updated by world’s leading technology experts in the industry. The engineering colleges can either reserve 10% to 15% of marks for this subject to TT course or just make this TT course optional elective to only those students interested in entrepreneurship.

Annexure 1 lists the TT courses identified at this stage and this list is continuously evolving based on inputs received from the industry experts.

The Technology Top Up courses are being coordinated and delivered from College of Engineering, Pune. 

For details, please contact

Ashok Ranade, BTech (IITB73),MBA                        Ashok Saraf, BTech (IITB73), MS

Adjunct Professor, Production Engg Dept                   Adjunct Professor, Electronics and                                                                                                           Communications Dept             

College of Engineering, Pune                                      College of Engineering, Pune

Email: erp@coep.ac.in                                                   Email: saraf.ashok@gmail.com