Joint Faculty Development Progrmme of Punjab Technical University (PTU) & Lovely Professional University (LPU) was inaugurated today at LPU by the Vice- Chancellors Dr. Rajneesh Arora & Dr.Vijay Gupta of PTU and LPU respectively. In the first training session from the series of 30 different session started today, by Dr. Rajat Moona from IIT, Kanpur in the area of Basic Programming, CSE/IT.
Eager to get training through the hands of renowned IIT Professionals, the 31 faculty from various institutes of PTU, including Chitkara Institute, Rajpura, APJIM (Jalandhar), RIEIT, (Railmajra,) KIMT for women & PCTE (Ludhiana), CMTR, (Kharar), UCET,( Barnala) , ITFT,( Chandigarh) and LPU attended the session. In addition to this few of the guest invited by the university included faculty members from Global Institute, Lucknow; Falcon Infosys, Moradabad; etc The training session began at 9 AM to last up to 5 PM. On this occasion, Mr. HS Bains (Registrar, PTU) & Dr. Nachhatar Singh( Adviser To VC, PTU) were also present.
PTU & LPU had jointly devised for the training of their faculty on analytical, critical, innovative and latest approaches for one month in the form of workshops (3-5 days per subject ) on more than 30 different subjects. It was being considered by both the universities that the faculty is not exposed to the modern pedagogy in basic courses and the super structure of advanced courses can not be built without it. It is worth noticing that this ‘New –Approach’ is in perfect line with the recommendation of the Technical Education Work-Group of the National Knowledge Commission and is being followed and agreed by both the Universities ,as well .
Feeling elated, the Vice- Chancellor of PTU , Dr. Rajneesh Arora said : “ We were thinking to do something special for our faculty to get abreast with latest technical know-how and allied updating things when we got the formulation of a joint faculty development programme. It attracted and enthralled us and the result is before you all. The launching of the programme is under great enthusiasm. Infact, this is the most important thing happening in Technical Education & PTU will continue upgrading the skills of its faculty.”
On this occasion, the Vice-Chancellor of LPU , Dr. Vijay Gupta said : “ It is very essential for the in service faculty to keep updating through regular training by the experts in the required fields of training. It is for the mutual benefit of both the teacher and the taught. new concept of Faculty Development Programme. Mostly, the FDPs are restricted to updating teacher’s knowledge in advanced area. But, the present scenario requires such well organized training sessions. The faculty should grasp its utility to the full.”
He further added that the “Gurus” in the field of education from various IITs of the country & who have established themselves as a name in their specific fields, have been specially engaged for this. As such, Dr. Rajat Moona from IIT Kanpur has started the first training session. He imparted the best and exclusive know-how to the learning teachers of the different universities up to their satisfaction and admiration. In the following to this various other renowned Professors from India’s top technology institutions, IIT ,Delhi ; IIT, Gandhi Nagar ; Jadavpur University etc, will train the faculty. To name a few of them are Prof. Qureshi, Prof. BN Banerjee , Prof. RN Biswas, Prof. Sanjeev Sanghi , Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi , Prof. Raghubir Sharan, Prof. Pradip Sircar, Prof. Ajay Jain , Prof. RK Ghosh and Prof. AK Mallik are some other illustrative names who would be participating in this unique attempt.
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