Innovative Engineering

Industry Relevant Curriculum – Over time engineering education became highly theoretical and lost its practical relevance. The courses taught in colleges are “outdated” and became irrelevant in industry. To address this problem, SREC new curriculum places great emphasis in developing industry ready engineers. To this end, SREC created Industry-Institute Partnership Cell to foster strong ties with the industry. SREC design projects guided and assessed by industry mentors and evaluators, and students exposed to the current industry trends through constant interaction with the local industry. Through constant exposure to industry, the students have the business acumen to work and make a difference in their chosen industry

Interdisciplinary Learning –The global engineering is based on teams from different disciplines working together. For success, these interdisciplinary teams must understand different cultures associated with the disciplines and learn to see connections between different disciplines as well as course concepts. SREC ecosystem is designed to promote these constant collisions between ideas, thoughts, disciplines, and people by creating a large common core curriculum as well as extra-curricular opportunities that lead to rich learning experience. The common core requires students of different disciplines to take classes together and lasting professional network. In view of the importance of developing the interdisciplinary learning, the institute has established a Cognitive Science Center. An open elective course, ‘Cognitive Engineering’, is presently offered. An interdisciplinary group of faculty have successfully completed a Major Research Project funded by DST (2012-2015) under Cognitive Science Research Initiative titled ‘Understanding Design Fixation in Indian Engineering Students’.

Information Technology – Information technology is revolutionizing our way of life from cellphone to Internet of things. SREC programmes are trained to leverage the ever-changing computer tools to create new products and services in their own areas of specialization.The new curriculum for all engineering majors provides a set of rigorous computer competency courses ranging from regular computer programming to new skills of app development, Internet of Things, and mechatronic systems. They learn to apply the computational tools in their discipline-specific projects and courses.