Challenges and Solutions in Implementing NEP 2020 in Engineering Education
description: The implementation of educational best practices in the current scenario of demand for progressive, futuristic education with employable skills expected from formal education, especially engineering is examined here. The National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) introduced by the Ministry of Human Resource Development Government of India intended to align education with the changing employment landscape with demand for skill sets, and the conducive global ecosystem for emergence of startups and entrepreneurship, thus imparting the essence of lifelong learning. The NEP 2020 aims to employ more learning with increased practice through real-time problem skills with critical thinking, creative thinking capability and interdisciplinary approach to adapt to the ever-evolving technological development. The paper provides a broad overview on how an Institution has evolved innovative practices in curriculum that ticks most checkboxes of progressive engineering education and delves into a model for embodying the underlying policy ideas of NEP 2020 too, in the realm of undergraduate engineering programmes. The intertwining of the initiatives taken by the progressive introduction of the model in an engineering Institution incidentally serves to meet the aspirational objectives of NEP 2020. Further, the thrust areas at the progressive Institution over years are seen to blend synergistically with many thrust areas propounded in NEP 2020. 2025 selection and editorial matter, Kennedy Andrew Thomas, Joseph Chacko Chennattuserry and Joseph Varghese Kureethara; individual chapters, the contributors.
creator: Jose, Iven; Kumar, James Sathya; Sushanth, G.
source: Transformations and Changing Perspectives in Higher Education: India's Last Decade;pp.47-64
publisher: Taylor and Francis
date: 01-01-2025
rights: Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library
relation: ISBN: 978-104032085-3; 978-100354582-8;
language: English
type: Book chapter
coverage: Jose I., Engineering Program, Manipal Institute of Technology, (MIT)- Bengaluru Campus, India; Kumar J.S., Christ University, India; Sushanth G., MSRIT, Bengaluru, India