B.tech final year project will be optional
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The final year project will be made optional for B.Tech students at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M). Students can take up electives of their choice instead of the final year project which was mandatory till now. Faculties of some the department felt that the projects should not be made mandatory unless the students took sufficient interest, reported the Hindu.
Addressing the issue, the IIT-M's senate made the decision of giving the option of either taking up the project or three or four courses from the electives. In a Hindu report, Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT-M, said that it will be hard for any students to do something significant in the project unless there is motivation. Students should have a lot of interest to do something major in four months, he added.
Mr. Ramamurthi told the Hindu that the decision was made based on the faculty assessment to let interested students take up projects and others do other courses. According to him, students can either take up theory papers or simulation-based work from any of the electives after consulting with their faculty advisors. He clarified that M.Tech and Dual Degree programmes students will have to do projects as part of their course.
Prof. Idichandy, former deputy director, IIT-M, expressed his views in the report saying that other engineering colleges in the State should take cue from the IIT-M by not making final year project mandatory as most of the students in city colleges walk into Ritchie Street to get their projects done.
On the other hand, Prof.C. Thangaraj, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University of Technology, Chennai which is the affiliating university for more than 170 engineering colleges in Chennai and northern districts, feels that final year projects cannot be discarded as students need to practice what they learn in theory. According to him, the faculty can be trained and provided with facilities and students should be made to do the projects in the college itself. (Read full article)
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