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Engineering Exploration

About Center for Engineering Exploration

The Center for Engineering Exploration was established under guidance of Netra Accelerator Foundation, Bangalore.

MIT is the pioneer of this unique concept in Marathwada Region. The course is based on “Project-based learning” environment and the course introduced with a vision of inculcating the habit of exploring new ideas in students and extracting the technical skills from students. Our major focus of engineering exploration is to explore the insight skills of student. Our focus is on applying research to teaching practices and practice research-based innovations in the studios (classrooms). Here student get a chance to work with tools and equipment to understand what, how and why aspects of Engineering, Technology and Mathematics. Also, student get a chance to work on real-time social/industrial problems. The unique facility of Innovation Lab is available for all first-year students to achieve the objectives.

This program builds a strong foundation in mechanisms, design, physical science and it also helps a lot in students to improve their programming skills in computer engineering. Students getting a chance to work on various platforms. The program emphasizes on implementation, observing the performance and usability of the systems.

The center offers a multidisciplinary, design thinking driven course to first year students. The course follows Project Based Learning pedagogy.

Objectives of the Program:

To help students understand the role of engineers as problem solvers.
To enable students to design and build simple systems using the engineering design process.
To introduce ethical and sustainable perspectives in engineering solutions.
To familiarize students with engineering project management skills.

Skills and Qualities Nurtured at Engineering Exploration:

Organizational and management abilities
Critical thinking and analytical reasoning
Communication and interpersonal skills
Confidence and self-reliance
Teamwork and delegation
Research aptitude
Leadership and problem-solving capabilities

About the Engineering Exploration course

The Engineering Exploration course is being implemented by MIT Group of Institutes to encourage students to connect to societal problems and offer innovative solutions by building products.

The course offers students the opportunity to experience an entrepreneurial approach at first year level. By the time they complete undergraduate program students will have the opportunity to convert these prototype products into commercial products and become successful entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurial approach thus embedded in students’ personality will also help them in their professional job career. Student groups work on identified needs and develop solutions using engineering design process. The course utilizes a mixed mode of delivery, where discussion with instructors and hands-on activities are combined to provide a better understanding of concepts.

Activities happening in Engineering Explorations

The central horizontal path from need statement to project statement is the main flow of the course. The modules such as introduction to engineering, engineering design, project management, mechanism offer the students necessary information to achieve the objective of the course.
To begin with students are introduced to the role of an engineer as a problem solver.
To experience this, they carry out hands on activity such as making a sphere with a paper and clips, or a structure with given resources.
To explain the concept of need statements and to be able to differentiate between need and problem statement, students first build a catapult with limited resources.
Now, they are ready to discuss the concept of need, the constraints, objectives etc.
At this juncture the engineering design course is introduced.
It covers engineering Design Process, Multidisciplinary facet of design, Pair wise comparison chart, Introduction to mechatronics system, generation of multiple solution, Pugh Chart.
At this level students select a need statement for their final project.
With role play as designer and customer they identify objectives of dummy project. Now, they can create a problem statement.
They are introduced with the Concept of mechanisms that cover
Basic Components of a Mechanism,
Degrees of Freedom or Mobility of a Mechanism,
4 Bar Chain,
Crank Rocker Mechanism,
Slider Crank Mechanism.
Project Management is also covered to give importance of teamwork in project management, Plan project using relevant project management tools like checklist, timeline and Gantt chart, apply documentation skills to prepare, store and share project report.

The course has feature of continuous in semester evaluation. At the end of each module and activity students are evaluated and assigned grades. As per university, the course is for 1 credit. We have categorically included Ethics and Sustainability part along with engineering modules to inculcate professional ethics and know responsibility towards environment.

Faculty Coordinator

Dr. Mazher khan
Prof. Bhushan Kulkarni
Prof. Pratik Khandelwal
Prof. Krushna Antarkar
Prof. Shrinath Kulkarni
Prof. Chaitali Lakde
Prof. Deepali Thorat
Prof. Smita Wakale
Prof. Manjusha Gawali

Email: Cee.mitt@mit.asia
Mon – Sat 10:15A.M. – 5:15P.M.

Jidnyasa- Project Exhibition

Jidnyasa is an annual project exhibition at MIT center for engineering exploration.

View Details: Center for Engineering Exploration Glimpses

Eminent Visitors

Dr. Ritesh Mishra
(CEO, Mahyco)
Dr. Nitin Labhsetwar
(Chief Scientist, NEERI, Nagpur),
Mr. Anniruddha Kulkarni
(Manager, R&D, BPCL, Greater Noida)
Mr. Milind Kank
Mr. Chittaranjan Kajwadkar
(CEERI Pilani Team)
Ms. Sampada Pachauri
(Dr. BATU, Lonare affiliation team)