Promoting undergraduate engineering students‟ interest in project

Abstract

projects are the basic curriculum need for the undergraduate level students. This covers 250 marks as minor and major projects during final year semesters. More than marks, students are expected to acquire skills necessary for their employment and future career. The outcome should provide the problem solving, solutioning and testing skills among the prospective engineers. How much of these skills are ingrained during the project among the students, are the point to ponder? It has been observed that the final year student’s attention towards projects are casual because they are too much worried about their future career. Therefore, the execution of the minor and major projects should be shifted back to pre-final year semesters. The most important thing is that the project execution methodology should be based on pull method (based on student’s own idea), which will create passion among students to complete the project enthusiastically. This paper is aimed at designing the target project processes which will produce the desired outcome to the students. In addition to that students may acquire skills helpful in lifelong learning. They may register for higher studies in large numbers which may be a positive change.