Institutional Values and Best Practices
PRACTICE 1: MENTOR-MENTEE SYSTEM
OBJECTIVES OF THE PRACTICE:
The Mentor-Mentee System aims to cultivate a trusted relationship, guiding mentees to achieve their goals by fostering effective relationships, providing objective guidance, and encouraging reflective thinking. During the formative period, mentors play a pivotal role in helping mentees apply acquired knowledge, skills, and attitudes in practical settings. By sharing experiences, mentors alleviate anxiety, acting as role models for personal and professional growth. Serving as a ‘Single Point of Contact’ for parents, mentors ensure open communication. This practice hinges on principles of trust, support, and mentorship, emphasizing the holistic development of mentees through both formal and informal interactions.
THE CONTEXT:
Mentor-Mentee System integrates students with faculty from their first year, establishing a supportive environment and fostering open communication. Designated weekly ‘Mentee Sessions’ in the timetable enhance regular interaction. Mentors face the challenge of tactfully encouraging mentees to take responsibility for their development. The system aids in identifying individual goals, fostering commitment through regular follow-ups, punctual meeting attendance, and upholding confidentiality. Understanding roles, responsibilities, and boundaries is crucial. This systematic approach ensures the gradual buildup of momentum and enthusiasm, creating a positive and constructive experience for mentees throughout their academic journey.
THE PRACTICE:
The mentors closely monitor their mentee all round performance and provide an ongoing support. They also provide awareness and guidance about competitive examinations and courses required for placements. As per the mentees interest, a mentor encourages the students for pursuing higher studies and encourages entrepreneurship/placement. Each and every detail regarding the student is noted down in their ‘Mentee book’ to maintain a hard copy for reference. Frequent counseling sessions help the student in expressing their opinions and problems with ease. Mentee books are updated with their results, achievements, certifications, attendance, scholarships and project details and the uniqueness regarding mentor- mentee system are given below-
Establish – During the first few meetings, both the mentor and mentee get to know each other, and build trust.
Elucidate – Mentoring program spreads awareness and understanding on various issues Academic and Institutional.
Expand – The mutual trust, which has developed between the two, can give the mentee the confidence to challenge the ideas of the mentor, just as the mentor will challenge the protégés ideas.
Engage – This phase embarks the start of a personal action plan of the protégé to attain his/her goal. The mentor here is like a facilitator of protégés goals.
Evolve – At this stage the mentor step back from the formal relationship to discuss together with the protégé how they wish to continue their relationship.
The above phases are not exclusive or time bound. The pace of progress of mentoring depends upon the strength of the relationship and the enthusiasm of the mentor and mentee. The relationship is not limited to the duration of stay with college and is lifelong in many cases. So, it is a powerful and emotional relationship. It enables the mentee to learn and grow in a safe and protected environment. But the quality of the relationship is crucial to a successful outcome. A good relationship recognizes the need for personal development. Also that, at the early stages the mentee will be relatively dependent and the mentor needs to be supportive, helpful, friendly and encouraging the mentee to learn and grow. The common problems being found by the mentees are forwarded to higher forms for remedial actions. The ratio for mentor mentee of students is 1:15.
EVIDENCE OF SUCCESS:
Mentoring has helped the students to tackle smoothly their challenges and difficulties in day to day life.
Mentoring has helped the mentor to know and relate with the students better develop judgment skills. Establishing measurable outcomes for mentor/student relationship is essential to determine the impact of mentoring on student and the degree to which it is contributing to the goals of the mentoring system. These are some evidence of success:
- Improvement in mentees discipline, interaction and communication
- Improvement in students’
- Establishment of a vibrant relationship between teachers and students, which has provided a congenial atmosphere in the class room as well as in the campus.
- Establishing a trusted relationship between teachers and
PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED AND RESOURCES REQUIRED:
The diversity in students’ background and upbringing i.e. lack in the art of effective articulation, introversion, indifferent attitude, etc. In some circumstances, an introvert student might not be able to express clearly. The scheduling of time for mentoring the students had been challenging because of students getting adjusted to the time schedule of mentoring. For informal interaction, mentor has to put in extra efforts for same. The entire mentoring approach is built on personal interactions with the student and parents.
To make the mentoring system effective, training is imparted to new faculty on counseling and handling the students. Inhibition of some parents on regular interaction, which is mandatory.
The objective of Mentor-Mentee practice is to establish a trusted relationship between the mentor (faculty in-charge) and mentee (student), so as to help the mentee attain his/her aims by:
- building and supporting effective relationship
- providing objective guidance and feedback and
- facilitating reflective thinking.
It is a formative process with an objective to support students to positively and productively align their knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired during course of their education. It is therefore a process where in a mentee is continually guided and supported to develop confidence, capabilities and compete in their profession. Mentors act as guide by sharing their experiences of challenges and assertions required to progress through personal and professional life to reduce anxiety or concerns and act as role models for students. The mentor acts as a ‘Single Point of Contact’ for parents on all matters. They fulfil their function through formal and informal interaction with their student mentees at various opportunities.
Mentor-Mentee System from 2014-2022
Mentor-Mentee System from July 2022-June 2023
PRACTICE 2: PDP (Personality Development Program)
Objectives of the Practice:
The objective of PDP is to provide in-campus online and offline personality Development Program. This programme provides a space for the students to know themselves (know thyself) better and shape their personality with positive traits and multiple intelligence. The central focus of this formation programme is intra-personal development. The students will undergo Intellectual and values-centered formation through which they will be able to: identify their own potentials and limitations; apply ethical and moral principles in personal and professional forefronts; and develop a positive outlook towards humanity.
The Context
The students are assigned to faculty members from their respective departments. This Program provides strong practical orientation to the students and helps them in building and improving their skills in communication, presentations, team building, leadership, time & stress management, group discussions, interview skills, knowledge of entrepreneur, knowledge of small enterprises.
To keep the students motivated and manage the newly admitted students from different backgrounds entering into engineering discipline is a big challenge. Thus it is very challenging to develop a sense of leveling of all students by the time they graduate.
The Practice
Personality development is defined as a process of developing and enhancing one’s personality. Personality development helps an individual to gain confidence and high self esteem. Personality development also is said to have a positive impact on one’s communication skills and the way he sees the world. Individuals tend to develop a positive attitude as a result of personality development.
Communication Skills and Personality Development Effective Communication skills play a crucial role in honing one’s personality. Communication helps individuals to express themselves in the most convincing way. Your thoughts, feelings and knowledge should be passed on in the most desirable manner and effective communication skills help you in the same. A person should speak really well to make a mark of his/her own. Remember, no one would take you seriously if you do not master the art of expressing yourself clearly and in the most convincing manner. People with great communication skills tend to have a better and impressive personality than those who have problems in communicating as interacting with
others is not a challenge for them. Individuals with effective communication skills can easily converse with other people around be it their fellow workers, peers, family and so on. Effective communication skills strengthen the bond among individuals. Take care of your body language. Correct body language exudes confidence which further hones an individual’s personality. Do not fiddle with things around while speaking.
Evidence of Success
The program has always met with astounding response from participants. The students found most of the topics were relevant, the number of students attending the personality development program willingly have increased over the years.
The major evidences of success are noticed as follows:
Personality development program indicates that the students who have undergone life skills training programs are really helpful in balancing their work and personal Tremendous boost has been noticed in professionalism and work ethics. The students have progressively gained confidence and feel better in managing the placement recruitment process.
- The success rate of students in getting placed has improved
- The overall development of soft skills, team skills, leadership skills, attitude and aptitude skills are the lifelong assets for
Problems Encountered and Resources Required
Problems encountered: A lot of background work had to be done before, during and after organizing program activities. These included identifying appropriate topics, identifying best of faculty members and skill needed to be imparted. To keep the students motivated and to engage in such activities had been a big challenge, as some students were from different cultural backgrounds therefore they took some time to understand the psychology of the students.
Resources required: Being a technical institution, the entire faculties are from technical background and they resist delivering the Personality Development classes due to non-technical sessions. Secondly, sometime the faculty required to take the students outside the college for some team building activities, which has been proven an expensive activity and institute need to hire or arrange some outside places for these activities.
PRACTICE: PERSONALITY ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (PEP)
The objective of PEP is to provide in-campus online and offline personality enhancement program with a motive to holistically train the budding engineers and professionals through unique activity based experiential training program, awareness of different competitive / entrance exams, and to promote industrial tie-ups to bridge the industry-academia gap.
The program is developed to provide best of technological grooming of students and inculcate soft skills, aptitude training, logical reasoning, technical workshop, entrepreneurship initiatives, GATE workshops, industrial visits & interactions and social responsibility aspects so that students can improve their employability and life skills.
PRACTICE/DISTINCTIVENESS: STUDENT CENTRIC RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT
The distinctiveness of BBSBEC primarily consists in creating student centric research environment. The college encourages, handhold and provide requisite facilities and environment to the students towards research and innovation practices.
To develop scholarly traits, institute encourages the research induction at UG, PG and post PG level. For incubating research environment, a well equipped research centre has been established and operative in the college. The Research Centre functions in a cooperative manner with academic departments to identify and initiate foundational multi-disciplinary research and applied research projects, create and combine patentable Intellectual Property (IP) components, design and develop prototypes. The faculty of the college not only provides guidance to the students but also work in collaborative manner with them to provide platform to the budding researchers. The outcome of the same has come up in the form of collaborative patents, research publications, making and representing models at IITs and NITs.
Placements
Placement Data from 2011 – 2022
Placement Data of July 2022 – June 2023
Workshops
Workshop News for the Year July 2022-June 2023
Industrial tie-ups (MOU’s)