Bengaluru, Apr 28: GITAM School of Core Engineering (GSCE), Bengaluru, conducted a high-impact Faculty Transformation Workshop under the guidance of Prof. Basavaraj Katageri, Pro Vice Chancellor GITAM University Bengaluru and Dr. Kishor Buddha, Director, GSCE. This workshop was a key milestone under Mission Vishwakarma 2029, a strategic initiative aimed at positioning GSCE as a premier destination for core engineering education.
Convened by Dr. Kishor Buddha, Director, GITAM School of Core Engineering, Bengaluru, the three-hour session brought together 31 faculty members in a structured and outcome-driven format centered around a single defining question: “How do we build GSCE into a destination engineering school where companies come to us?”
Faculty were organised into three cross-functional teams, Team Vishwa, Team Karma, and Team Shakti, and engaged in three focused thematic sessions covering Admissions, Teaching and Learning, and Placements. Each session followed a rigorous four-stage framework consisting of problem framing with institutional data, collaborative ideation, team presentations, and strategic synthesis by the Director featuring ten globally benchmarked and locally actionable interventions. Teams then prioritised the most impactful strategies through collective voting.
Key Strategic Convergences:
- Admissions: Strong emphasis on hyperlocal brand building in Karnataka, faculty-led outreach, vernacular digital campaigns in Kannada and Telugu, and leveraging alumni credibility anchored by GSCE’s placement outcomes as a primary value proposition.
- Teaching and Learning: Clear push toward project-based and flipped pedagogies, integration of AI tools, and real-time outcome tracking ensuring industry relevance becomes intrinsic to everyday teaching.
- Placements: A unanimous shift toward early intervention by embedding placement readiness from Year 1 through aptitude diagnostics, skill-based cohorting, alumni mentorship, and structured internship pipelines.
The workshop resulted in 27 actionable strategies, distilled into 18 institutional commitments, all of which will directly feed into the upcoming GSCE Policy Document. The Director committed to releasing the document within two weeks with clearly defined ownership, timelines, and structured 30-day and 90-day review mechanisms.
What distinguished this initiative was not just the depth of ideas, but the collective ownership demonstrated by faculty, reflected in full participation and sustained engagement throughout. A critical strategic shift emerged. Placement outcomes and graduate quality will now drive decisions across admissions, curriculum, and pedagogy rather than follow from them.
Closing the session, Dr. Kishor Buddha, Director, GITAM School of Core Engineering, Bengaluru, stated: “These are our strategies. Thirty one of us built them. Now we own their execution.”
Each participant was presented with a Mission Vishwakarma T-shirt, symbolising shared commitment and accountability.
Mission Vishwakarma 2029 now stands on a faculty-driven foundation. Execution begins.
