Criterion 9 Student Support System 50: 9.1 Mentoring System To Help at Individual Level
Criterion 9 Student Support System 50: 9.1 Mentoring System To Help at Individual Level
Mentoring System
The Institute has a Mentoring system under which each class is divided into batched of about 20
students and a teacher is deputed as the Mentor for each batch.
To understand the problems of students, the concerned mentor remains in regular contact with the
students and also conducts regular meetings. During these meetings they discuss various issues with
the students of their batches and provide necessary counselling.
Mentors records the details such as student’s address, their his parents details, contact numbers,
economic background, academic, co-curricular extra-curricular achievements, social activities and
the details of parent teacher meeting etc.
During the Class meeting Performance in internal and final examinations, attendance in class,
special achievements by the student etc, are discussed.
In addition to this, each mentor takes regular feedback from the students and Class Representatives
about the difficulties and problems of students then discuss with the Head of the Department
periodically.
Mentors verify the statement of marks and attendance of the students after the first and second
internal assessments.
The statement of marks and attendance of the students after every internals will be sent to the
parents. Mentor also interacts with parents/guardians of the students as and when necessary.
Normally the Batch mentor has the fair idea of the performance, skill and attitude of a student and
informs the Head if any student is not attending the classes/practical/tests etc.
An independent login is provided to every student in DHI for sharing the pertinent information like
attendance, academic performance, feedback etc.,
Responsibilities of each Batch Mentor as a counsellor includes:
Identifying strengths and weaknesses of the student, work for their strengths and help them to face
challenges.
Providing guidance in selecting the job/higher education.
Motivating the students to take GATE examination and go for higher studies.
On completion of the course, recording the future plans and communicate to the placement cell.
Motivating the students to take part in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.
Organize small educational tours, class level cultural activities, sports, literary and academic
programmes to break the monotony of the class.
Recognize the students with learning difficulties and chalk out programmes to assist them.
Interact with students regularly and examine their academic progress to boost interpersonal skills.
Table 9.1.1. The number of faculty mentors for the last three academic years
Students who perform badly in Internal Assessments are able to improve due to the assignments
given, question paper solving and effective guidance.
9.2 Feedback Analysis and Reward /corrective measures taken, if any (10)
Student’s feedback system plays a major role in assessing the quality of the faculty and thereby improving their
Teaching and Learning Methodologies. It is a Material evidence to summarize the effectiveness of learning and
teaching process.
Methodology followed for feedback analysis and its effectiveness methodology of feedback analysis
Feedback mechanism is well organised system, defined specific to the college and is uniform for all the
departments.
Items Description
Feedback collection process Yes, for all courses
Process Offline forms and Online forms
feedback analysis process Through Questionnaires
All the courses mentioned in the feedback form are analyzed as follows:
Table 9.2.2: Feedback assessment Process
Steps Description
Collection of feedback forms for all the courses from the students based on
Step-1 parameters specified in questionnaire.
Estimation of Average for all the Parameters and calculation of
Step-2 cumulative, which is called as the Faculty Performance Index (FPI).
After the recommendations FPI will be finalized. The minimum required
Step-3 value is 60%.
If the FPI exceeds 60%, it will be considered as good. If it is less, the
Step-4 faculty performance is considered as “needs to be Improved”.
If faculty receives needs to be informed performance, they are counselled
Step-5 and allowed to improve their performance.
The HOD advices the concerned staff to improve his/her way of teaching.
The HOD plays the role of staff counselor and strives to enhance the quality of teaching.
The HOD informs to provide better teaching learning methodologies and implement more interactive
sessions.
The faculty is deputed for training in their subject domain like Faculty development program (FDP), Short
Term Training Program (STTP) and other professional courses.
Items Description
Every department analyses the feedback and report is forwarded to the Principal for initiate appropriate
actions. The standard format for collecting feedback on facilities is presented.
Sl.
Question/ Statements Marks
No
3 Library facilities
7 Hostel facility
15 Transportation facility
Rating Scale
The feedback data is analysed and the consolidated report is submitted to the respective HOD’s for further
corrective measures. If the feedback goes below 75%, detailed analysis would be made by the HOD and
analyse the route cause for the low feedback. HOD submits explanation report to the Principal to make
necessary recommendations.
Corrective Measures/ Actions taken
Table 9.3.3. Corrective Measures
Percentage Feedback
Sl
Actions taken
No Good - 3 Satisfactory-2 Not Satisfactory-1
Feedback
Question
Positive classroom
1 environment
Laboratories/workshops
2 well equipped and
spacious
Library facilities
3
Indoor/ outdoor
recreational/ sports
6 resources
Hostel facility
7
Availability of drinking
13 water
Canteen-
quality/Diversity/price of
14
food items
Transportation facility
15
9.4. Self-Learning (5)
(The institution needs to specify the facilities, materials and scope for self-learning/ learning beyond syllabus,
Webinars, podcast, and MOOCs etc. and evaluate their effectiveness)
Self-Learning
Scope of Self-Learning
Library
Digital Library
e-Learning resources
VTU Edusat Program
VTU Consortium
E-learning:, e-Sikshana by VTU
Table 9.4.1. Self-Learning facilities
S/ Self-Learning Process Description
N
BGSIT Library System consists of a Central Library which
supports the teaching, research and extension programmes of
the Institute. All students, faculty members and employees of
the Institute are entitled to make use of the Library facilities on
1 Library taking library membership. The Library has a huge collection
books 30567 Volumes, 5504 Titles, 60 Printed jpunrals and
huge collection of e-books on engineering, science, humanities
& as well as various e-journals, magazines & newspapers are
also subscribed.
2 The Library is having 25 computers with internet facility.
Digital Library DVD/CDs are provided in the library and are made accessible
to students and Faculty members. Around 1293 digital
materials on CDs & DVDs are available in the Digital Library.
The Student can view the same and as well as students can
borrow for an overnight. The Institutional repository of BGSIT
i.e., Dspace@BGSIT (http://192.168.1.144:8080/jspui/) can be
accessible in the institute premises. In this repository faculties
and students can found the intellectual output of the college i.e.,
articles published by the faculties in peer reviewed journal,
papers presented at conferences, E-Books, previous question
papers of the course and Syllabus etc. Faculties and Students
have access to the following e-database content:
Elsevier Science
Springer Nature e-Journals
Taylor & Francis
Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
Emerald
Taylor & Francis e-Journals
McGraw Hill Education
New Age International
Packt
Knimbus
NetAnalytiks
National Digital Library of India
NPTEL, e-journals from Elsevier Science, Springer Nature,
3 e-Learning resources
McGraw Hill, etc.
The BGSIT e-Learning Centre was established in August
2005 in B G Nagara with the main aim of facilitating
distance education and training to the students and faculty of
4 VTU Edusat Program
BGSIT through satellite and web. Currently, BGSIT e-
Learning Centre has migrated from satellite based EDUSAT
programme to web based e sikshana programme.
We have taken e-resources Consortium membership and
subscription of e-journals and E-books packages.E-Journals:we
are access nearly 6400 E-Journals, Conference Papers, Reports
and other from the different databases (Elsevier, Springer
5 VTU Consortium
Nature, Taylor & Francis, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE),
Emerald, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis (Engg), McGraw Hill
Education, New Age International, Packt.) Through VTU
Library Consortium.
6 Professional A professional association is one of the most important
bodies/Other
activities in a student career.
association activities
All career options related to professional association,
offers valuable information and resources for their
career enhancement.
College is a registered member of following
professional bodies: ISTE, CSI, Institution of Engineers
India (IEI) & IEEE.
7 Industrial visit Industrial visit is a part of college curriculum during
which students visit companies and get insight
regarding the internal working environment of a
company.
It helps students to gain first-hand information
regarding functioning of the industry.
Provides an opportunity to plan, organize and engage in
active learning experiences both inside and outside class
room.
Provides an awareness and importance of industry in
the real working world.
Assist them for future placement.
Helps to enhance their interpersonal and
communication skills, it also enriches the knowledge
about industrial practices.
8 Seminars & A seminar is a group meeting led by an expert that
Workshops
focuses on specific topic or discipline such as emerging
technologies and job opportunities.
Attending seminar will have numerous benefits to a
student for improving communication skills and gaining
domain knowledge.
Seminars are conducted frequently at the department
level and the seminars offer students to interact with
industry experts, research persons, entrepreneurs and
small business partners.
Workshops allow a student to further develop
marketable business skills in a focused interactive
environment.
9 Assignments It enables students to go through the topics in a more
elaborate manner in order to explore the academic topic,
which lead to an overall better learning experience.
Assignments help the students to understand the subject
in a more detailed pattern.
Faculty give assignments on regular basis and they are
graded.
The usage of library resources are given in section 10.4
The above facilities help students to present technical papers in conferences, publish papers in journals,
take-up projects and participate in competitions/exhibitions and complete online certification courses.
The overall aim of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of self-directed learning on the
professional development of students.
Students are motivated to improve their initiation in reaching their goals.
Students are able to scan through the reading material available to them.
Many of the needs of students are best met by learning process. The students are encouraged to learn
by themselves for their present and future needs.
Students are able to do better in competitive examinations and get placed in suitable companies.
Table 9.5.1 Career Guidance related Programs conducted during 2017-18 to 2019-20
2017-2018
2018-2019
Anantaraman Chandramouli
10-01-2019 GATE/GRE Awareness Seminar for all 6thsemester
(Zestech Global Pvt Ltd)
2019-2020
Vivek Veeriah
17-07-2019 Workshop in career optionswith global perspective
( Edvista )
Anantaraman Chandramouli
22-08-2019 Workshop in entrepreneur awarenessprogram
(Zestech Global Pvt Ltd)
DIRECTOR TPO
SUDENT COORDINATOR
PRINCIPAL STUDENTS
Training Activities: The training and placement cell of the institute organize training
activities for the students on soft skills, aptitude, technical and placement. The structure of
training and placement and its content is as follows.
HR Training (1stto 6thSem): The department of training and placement imparts training
programs, which are integrated in the time table and is mandatory for all the students.
Technical Trainings: These trainings are imparted during the vacations for 3rdand 5th Sem and
culminates with a project.
Placement Training: Placement focused training is imparted during the vacation period
between 6th and 7th Sem. Regular mock tests are conducted to evaluate the students.
The structure and content of training program conducted for semester levels are provided in the
following Table B.9.5.2
Table B.9.5.3: Structure and contents of training program for different semester levels
Sl. Training
No. Year Program Contents
Soft skills Verbal
Parts of Speech
,Tenses
Subject Verb
Agreement
Resume Building
Error Spotting
Extempore
Reading
Speaking
Comprehension
Power Presentations
Essay/Paragraph
Picture Perfect
writing
1st year Group Discussions
Soft skills E-mail writing
(I & II Semester) Personal Grooming
1 Verbal &Etiquettes
Personal Interviews
Logical Reasoning
Self Inventory
and verbal Ability
Mgmt
,Vocabulary
Analogies
The summary of various training activities conducted by the training and placement department is
provided in the following Table .9.5.4
2019-20
CLC is a Technical Training
Programme conducted for the pre
8 ZESTECH
final year students of BGSIT, BG
CLC - Code 180 Global Pvt. Ltd,
Nagara. The programme mainly
Like Bengaluru
focussed on improving the
Corporates
students' skills in Coding in
languages like C, JAVA.
Pragnyan’ 18 ODD Semester is a
long term training program to
develop the students’ skills set in
Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal
Pragnyan Aptitude and Soft Skills. This is
ZESTECH mainly focussed on 1st, 3rd and
9 ODD
Global Pvt. Ltd, 5th Semester B.E. students as
&EVEN 971
Bengaluru well as 1st and 3rd MBA students
Semesters
of
BGSIT, BG Nagara.
Placement activities: The Placement cell organizes lots of on campus drive, off campus drive, pool
campus drive, referral drive, walk- in for our students. The cell interacts with companies to understand
their requirement and selection process. After a detail discussion the company confirms the date for
campus visit along with JD and selection process. There are many companies which visit every year and
recruit from BGSIT through different modes.The list of companies visiting the Institute for campus
recruitment annually is shown in the following TableB.9.5.2
Table.9.5.5: Partial list of Companies visiting the Institute for Campus Drive
Sl No Company Name
1 TCS
2 Mindtree
3 Mphasis
4 Infosys
5 Wipro
6 L&T Infotech
7 NTT Data
8 SCII
9 Cognizant
10 Capgemini
12 Syscon
13 IBM
14 Tech Mahindra
15 Amazon
16 Codilar Technologies
17 Qspiders
18 Empowersys
19 Quinnox
20 Quest Informatics
21 Ethnus
23 Eleation
24 Subex
25 VIT Infotech
27 Tayana Software
The number of students placed, companies visited for conducting campus recruitment drive
during last three assessment years is shown in the following Table B.9.5.2d.
Table. 9.5.6 Summary of Placement details during previous assessment years
No. of
students
No. of
Total no. of admitted to No. of students as
Sl. Academic students
students higher entrepreneur
No year placed
studies
Technical talks/ Paper presentation/ Project exhibition/ Visits to various public and
private sector/ Industrial Project tour
All the engineering departments regularly conduct the co-curricular activities. The college
encourages the students to take part in these activities. The number of co-curricular activities
conducted by the engineering departments is shown in the following table
The Institution organization various extracurricular activities. Apart from the regular
activities, the college has unites like National Service Scheme initiates various activities. The
cultural events and sports events are organized on annual basis.
The National Service Scheme Unit of B.G.S Institute of Technology, B.G. Nagar, and
Mandya organised a Blood Donation Camp at College Campus. 100 NSS Volunteers and
Faculty Members freely donated Blood in the camp. The camp was organised in collaboration
with Rashtrotthana Blood Bank, Kempegowdanagar, Bengaluru and Blood Bank Unit, AIMS,
B.G. Nagar.
Adichunchanagiri University – BGS Institute of Technology, BG Nagara, has Conducted
Plantation Program on behalf of “Swachhta Hi Sewa Campaign” on the first day. Plantation
Program was organized by NSS Unit at BGSIT Girls Hostel.
College fest
With all the pride BGS Institute of Technology portraits its vision and mission in every step it
takes, but never at the cost of its student’s interest. Redefining the meaning of freedom and
fun. The students of BGSIT recreate dazzling moments of their life every year organizing and
celebrating the cultural fest Prajwalana.
Itprovidesaplatformforthestudentstoexhibitthehidden&innovativetalentsinvariousartfields
such as dance, singing, fashion show etc…
Sl. No Events
01 Rangoli
02 Sudoku
03 Mehendi
04 Essay Writing
05 Debate
06 Pot painting
07 Sketching
08 Cooking without fire
09 Painting
10 Dumb charades
11 Solo and Group singing
12 Solo and Group dance
13 Treasure hunt
The number of events conducted and the number of participants in the Prajwalana cultural
festival of the institution is shown below
Institution supports sports activities and as provided the various sports facilities to meet the
students’ needs for both indoor and outdoor games. The sports facilities to meet the national
standard. There is well equipped gym encouraging students maintain physical fitness.
Students are encouraged to participate in various zonal and inter zonal tournaments. The
students participate in inter collegiate and university tournament. Sports day is celebrated
with various sports.