Our Vision Mission

Vision

To promote experiential, high-quality learning environments for disseminating women’s knowledge in agricultural engineering for the welfare of society.

Mision

DM1: Provide experiential knowledge by student centric teaching-learning process to contribute farming community.

DM2: To help students to become self-reliant, entrepreneurial-trainers through an innovative educational approach.

DM3: To innovate, share and disseminate knowledge of agricultural engineering applications to the students, farmers and stakeholders of the society.

1.Mind Map:

A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information. A mind map is hierarchical and shows relationships among pieces of the whole. It is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added. Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept, and other ideas branch out from those.

2.Flipped Classroom

• A flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_learning), which aims to increase student engagement and learning by having students complete readings at their home and work on live problem-solving during class time.
• It moves activities, including those that may have traditionally been considered homework, into the classroom. In a flipped classroom, students watch online lectures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_lecture), collaborate in online discussions, or carryout research at home while engaging in concepts in the classroom with the guidance of a mentor.

Objectives:

1. To promote flexible learning among students.
2. To facilitate increased engagement between students and faculty.
3. To provide prompt and timely feedback to students based on their out of class assessment performance.

Outcomes:

1. Resonate well with those who are high performers and those who tend to underperform.
2. Enhance Faculty interaction with students by scheduled class meetings for dialogue.

3.Activity based learning:

Activity method is a technique adopted by a teacher to emphasize his or her method of teaching through activity in which the students participate rigorously and bring about efficient learning experiences. Learning by doing is the main focus in this method. Activity based learning is imperative in successful learning since it is well proved that the more the senses are stimulated, the more a person learns and longer he/she retains. Activity based learning includes Role plays, Skits, Debates, Group Discussion, Participation in Seminars/ Workshops.

Objectives:

1. To enhance creative aspect of experience.
2. To build the student’s self-confidence and to develop understanding through work in their group.

Outcomes:

1. Happy relationship among students, teachers and students will be developed.

4.Learning by Doing:

Our Institution has one dedicated lab for implementing “Learning by Doing” methodology. The lab is located at first floor of ISTS. In these labs, students are provided with hands on training on various technologies for better learning experience. Labs and classes are held together to implement “Learning by Doing”. Also, curriculum is equipped with industry oriented Mini project, Major project and Internships to implement “Learning by Doing” pedagogy method.

Objectives:

1. To present real-life problems to the students and then guide the students to solve the problem by providing them with a hands-on activity to learn the solution.
2. To curate, develop, use, and share appropriate educational resources.
3. To discern the possibilities and limitations of technology to support teaching and learning.

Outcomes:

1. Making more engaging and motivating activities for students.
2. Pulsing the real state of the knowledge students have acquired.
3. Expediting students to interact with their environment in order to adapt and learn.

5.National Digital Library:

ISTS is registered as a NDLI Club under the National Digital Library of India. So, students can access the contents available on National Digital Library website anytime.

Objectives:

1. To make quality digital educational resources available to all citizens of the country to empower, inspire an encourage learning.
2. To search for content using various parameters like subject matter, source, content type and more.
3. To search for content using various parameters like subject matter, source, content type and more.
4. To enable single window platform that collects and collates metadata from premier learning institutions in India and abroad as well as other relavant sources.

Outcomes:

1. Integrating contents from different Indian Institutional Repositories.
2. Availing Educational materials for users ranging from primary to post-graduate levels.
3. Information can be personalized based on the education level, choice of language, difficulty level, media of content and such other factors.

6.Content Delivery by Official College Website:

Study materials related to are made available online in our official web site. Refer https://www.ists.ac.in/index.php/agriculture-engineering

Objectives:

1. To enable students to download all course related materials from the college
2. To assist flipped class learning.
3. To ensure that students receive the same levels of support that they would receive on campus. To promote learning remotely.

Outcomes:

1. Making students to connect with course content in a consistent format.
2. Navigation of the course content will be simplified to keep students stay focused.

7. Reproducibility of Ph.D. work.

The Reproducibility and Reusability define the ability of any researcher to refer the previous results achieved by the original investigator. Dept. of AGRI focuses on reproducibility and reusability of the work performed by the Doctorates of the Department. Doctorates present their Ph.D. research works to the students and faculties. This in the future helps the students as well as faculties to decide their research areas for further studies. They can carry out further extension of the work if they feel interested in the topic. Data reproducibility is significant to create more opportunities for new insights in research. It helps a researcher to achieve a better outcome of any research which was initiated by the previous researcher.

Objectives:

1. To confirm that the original results of past research works are indeed correct.
2. To give step by step process for reproducing the research.
3. To enable students to follow the process themselves and come to their own conclusions.

Outcomes:

1. Data reproducibility is achieved.
2. Various experiments can be identified to arrive at the same conclusion.

8. Strategic Lesson Plan:

Course content’s delivery method is properly planned prior to the commencement of course. This information on instruction delivery is maintained in course file. Instruction delivery is done through Blackboard, PPTs, videos, website references, interactive activities and also through social media.

Objectives:

1. To plan a specific outline of teaching goals, learning objectives, and means to accomplish them.
2. To create a realistic timeline.
3. To plan for a lesson closure.

Outcomes:

1. A meaningful learning experience with students is achieved.
2. Analysis can be made on what worked well and why, and what we could have done differently.

9. Life Skills at ISTS

At ISTS, we are imparting skills (life & professional skills) to the students through Experiential Learning/ Activity Based Learning methodologies. Life Skills are those skills which enable an individual to be more competent in dealing with the day to day challenges in a positive way. Essentially, these skills must be acquired by observing, doing, feeling and thinking for effective learning, retention and future application. Professional skills are the core specialization skills and refers to Technical Skills/ Management Skills/ Pharmaceutical Skills, etc. Along with good technical understanding and subject knowledge, employers often outline a set of skills that they want from an employee. The skills like Working in Teams, Problem Solving, Self-Management, Organization Behavior, Literacy and Numeracy relevant to the post, ICT Knowledge, Good Interpersonal and Communication Skills, Ability to Use Own Initiative and as well to follow instructions and Leadership Skills are necessary. UNICEF defines Life Skills as Behavior Change or Behavior Development Approach designed to address the balance of three areas – Knowledge, Attitude & Skills and they lead to Outcome Based Education System which is very much different from Traditional Education System. Life Skills are essentially those abilities that help to promote physical, mental and emotional well-being and competence to face realities of life. WHO also defines Life Skills as ‘abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life’. Life Skills bring greater acceptance, better relationships and a healthy, positive life and enables individuals to translate knowledge (what one knows), attitudes and values (what one believes and feels) into actual skills/ abilities/ actions (what to do and how to do it?)

Objectives:

1. To promote confidence and well-being in young people and adults.
2. To make students more assertive, communicate effectively with others by developing good listening skills and learn to handle stress and deal with disappointments and setback to explore student’s beliefs and attitudes through group discussions and confidence building techniques such as positive visualization. To play to their strengths by engaging in creative activities and following a healthy lifestyle.

Outcomes:

1. Every student is equipped with appropriate knowledge on risk taking behaviors and develop skills such as communication, assertiveness, self-awareness, decision-making, problem solving, critical and creative thinking.
2. Students can be able to apply known knowledge in new contexts.

S.No.	Name of the Faculty	Innovative method	Link
1	Dr. Basavaraj Patil	YouTube	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkmqAlF8-eA
2	Dr. Ch. Vijaya Kumar	YouTube	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iurk3mxZ0io&t=49s

S.No.	Name of the Faculty	Course	Innovative method
1	Dr. Basavaraj Patil	Farm Machinery II	YouTube
2	Dr. Ch. Vijaya Kumar	Thermodynamics	YouTube
3	Mr. B V V Balaram Bhagath	Post Harvest Engineering for Horticulture	Projector
4	Mr. B O Madhu	Dairy & Food Engineering	Projector
5	Dr.Ravindra Yaligar	Micro Irrigation Engineering	Projector
6	Dr.Basavaraj Patil	Farm Machinery And Equipments-II	Projector
7	Mr. Ramu Tejavath	Mechanical Measurements & Instrumentation	Projector
8	Mr.B.O.Madhu	Green House Technologies	Projector
9	Mr.Noor Sharmila Begum	Watershed Management	Projector
10	Mr. H.J. V. Prasad	Theory of Structures	Projector
11	Mr. Ravikumar K	Heat and Mass Transfer	Projector
12	Dr.Ch.Vijayakumar	Theory of Machines	Projector