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Concluding Day of AICTE-ISTE National Refresher Programme organized by Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

31-Mar-2021
Concluding Day of AICTE-ISTE National Refresher Programme organized by Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Day Six - 31st March'2021:
The first session of the Day Six (31st March, 2021) was engaged by Dr. Rameela shekhar. She has done her early education in Mangalore and then went on to pursue her studies at NIMHANS, Bangalore. She has served as a Professor, HOD and Dean P G Dept of Roshni Nilaya for 34 years. Currently, She is the Director and practicing Mental Health Professional at Manashanthi, Mangalore. She has conducted more than 1000 programs for students, parents, and teachers, and members of various Government and Corporate sectors on family life, family relationships, child mental health, healthy personality, stress management, mental health first aid, prevention of Sexual harassment in different parts of Karnataka and South India. She facilitated a session on Mindfulness session. During her presentation, she highlighted on importance of mental health, Logic of mind, some things we already know and we don’t know that we know, Mindfulness is finding your own way, it’s a gate way into your life and it is very simple but its not easy.
Last session was engaged by Dr. Rathishchandra R Gatti. He is currently a Researcher in the field of Self-powered systems, Energy harvesting and Wave energy and also working as a Professor at Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management. The topic of the resource person was Lab-Collaborative learning tools. During his presentation, he highlighted on Collaborative learning, the importance of it and different collaborative learning tools that helps students to involve, explore and learn.
Dr. D S Suresh, Chairman, ISTE-Karnataka in his address, stressed that Collaborative learning and Cooperative learning is required for the implementation of NEP and Congratulated the team for proposing such a wonderful topic with respect to the New Education Policy. He said - This will definitely change the entire atmosphere of learning and highlighted one of the innovative topic "Gamifications" and suggested to work on more open sources tools that can be used effectively for faculty and students too. To make students creative, it's very important to have this collaborative and cooperative learning, and suggest to have a policy on this topic that can help to have an MoU different university.
Dr. S. Manjappa, Director-Research and Advisory Committee member of the event, conveyed his wholehearted thanks to all for having proposed such a wonderful topic and sanctioning the grants too. Appreciated the team effort for conducting such a good and well-organized program. and also conveyed his thanks to all the resources persons for accepting the invitation and delivering such a valuable content.

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