Innovative workflow for accreditation process to ensure quality engineering education in India

Engineering education has become a main attraction, contributing to the global industry revolution and in particular to Indian economy. The exponential growth in technical education has, however, not translated into any significant growth in the number of quality graduates acceptable to industry, due to insufficient availability of qualified faculty, teaching methodology, evaluation techniques and processes. Increasing autonomous institutions projecting their institution is another mask to underlying quality of education and evaluation procedures, which is supposed to be measured on the common scale and platform. The heterogeneity in curriculum, varied infrastructure and quality of faculty in-terms of competency and ability to make difference in learning process towards making students ready for industry and higher education and research, is posing yet another problem for the accreditation bodies. Today accreditation bodies lack in-terms of: equity in evaluation rigor, quick response, flexibility and ease of operation and access, prevention of academic fraud and participation of universities.