About the Workshop:

The workshop aims at introducing the Active Learning Techniques to be introduced in the class room teaching. The workshop is designed to introduce and encourage the practice of Project Based Learning and Active Learning methods in the classrooms. Through active exercises, the participant faculty will first brainstorm and introspect on their roles in the classroom. The participants will develop key details of their project implementation using elements of the example project implementations for their use in their classrooms.

About the Resource Person:

Dr. Krishnan currently works in Hardware Development with Fiat Chrysler America and is responsible for combustion methodologies, testing, simulation and hardware development related to their high volume V6 gasoline engine. He has eight years of undergraduate and graduate teaching experience in the areas of Heat Transfer. Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is passionate about engineering education and applied research in engineering- As an active member of the ABET accredition committee during his teaching stint, he created metrics for quantitative and qualitative assessment of student learning. He has experimented with and implemented several methods of teaching during his teaching career and has won awards related to teaching.