AICTE Releases New Curriculum for Engineering Courses
- Union HRD Minister, Mr. Prakash Javadekar released the Model Curriculum for Engineering and Management courses on January 24, 2018.
- From the upcoming academic year, engineering students will have to obtain 160 credits (earlier 220) for theory papers.
On January 24, 2018,Union HRD Minister, Mr. Prakash Javadekar released theModel CurriculumforUGandPGinEngineering & TechnologyandManagement(both MBA and PGDM).AICTEorganised a one-day conference on ‘Quality Initiatives in Technical Education’. During the conference, the new curriculum was released.
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Addressing the gathering at the conference, Mr. Javadekar expressed that the higher education scenario in India, particularlytechnical education,witnessed an exponential growth over the years. The progress in technical education is only possible by delivering the quality of education. For this purpose, AICTE has come up with arevised curriculum for engineering courses, he added.
Giving some details about theupdated curriculum, Mr. Javadekar explained that the inclusion of compulsoryinternship, both social and industry, will help the engineering graduates connect with the need for society and industry at large.
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New Changes in Engineering Curriculum: -
- From the upcoming academic year, engineering students will have to obtain 160 credits (earlier 220) for theory papers.
- Out of 160 credits, 14 credits will be applicable to thesummer internship.
- For the first time, a concept on ‘Virtual Laboratories’ has been introduced in the new curriculum
- Three-week mandatoryinduction programmefor first-year students will be conducted from the upcoming academic session.
- A maximum range of 150 to 160 credits is mandatory to getUG engineering degree.
- If the student completes an additional 20 credits, he/ she will be eligible for an additional minor engineering or UG engineering degree with Honours.
- The students could acquire these 20 credits throughMOOCs(Massive Online and Open Courses).
- Postgraduate courses in engineering will have 68 credits.
Along with themodel curriculum for engineeringand management, AICTE also launched model curriculum of 18PG specialisations.