Session with experts for QEEE students: IIT-M

Under the Quality Enhancement in Engineering Education (QEEE) Bridge programme, an initiative of the Union HRD Ministry, students will have interactive sessions with industry experts drawn from sectors, including aerospace, a senior IIT Madras professor and Chairman of QEEE said here today.
"In the Bridge programme, students can look out for interactive sessions with industry experts from across sectors such as aerospace, IT, electronics, telecom, auto, chemical, utilities and consumer durables," Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala told reporters.
The QEEE programme seeks to take the best learning resources direct to students, enhance the teaching skills of teachers besides facilitating policy changes, he noted.

The lectures by IIT professors are streamed to colleges through broadband internet and the DTH. A pilot programme has already been done. The QEEE programme is being taken up in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry.
Students are drawn from colleges across the country and presently 140 colleges have signed up for the programme, which has five learning modules -- live classes, tutorial, virtual labs, bridge programme and massive open online courses.
In Tamil Nadu, out of the 13 colleges enrolled under the programme nearly 50 per cent was from government sector, Jhunjhunwala said in reply to a question.

The Bridge programme begins next week and will be made available in e-book format as well.
"The colleges need not pay anything now, ultimately they might have to pay something, we are taking nothing now," he added.