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History

IUCEE was
founded

2007

Consortium of
member institutions

2010

Virtual Academy

2011

ICTIEE Conference

2014

Collaborative
Journal

2014

IIEECP Teachers
Training Certificate

2015

Leadership Summit

2017

Academic Clusters

2018

EER Certificate

2019

Student Leadership
Certificate

2019

IUCEE Annual
Student Forum

2020

IUCEE Individual
Membership

2022

NEP 2020
MiniCourses

2022

Teaching and
Learning Centers

2023

Individual Honorary
Members

2024

Change name of
IIEECP to IIECP

2024

JEET receives
Q2 Ranking

2025

Indo Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) is operated through two formal organizations

IUCEE FOUNDATION is a Section 8 Company in India:

INDO UNIVERSAL COLLABORATION FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION INC is a 501c3 Company in US:

Advisory Board (IUCEE INC)

Staff

Mr Keith R Fernandes is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru, India. Mr Keith holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Visveswaraya Technological University, Bealagavi, Karnataka and a Master’s Degree in Microelectronics from the University of Western Australia, Australia. He has completed the IIEECP Certification program and is involved in Engineering Education Research. He has undergone Facilitator Certification in Human Resource Development. He has 3 Journal publications, 5 International Conference Publications, and 4 National Conference Publications He has been reviewer for several national and international conferences. He has delivered over 20 sessions and Webinars on topics such as Online Teaching, Canvas and Google Classroom LMS, Assessment using Bloom’s Taxonomy, VLSI Design, MOOC’s and Google Apps for Education. He has participated in over 25 conferences and workshops. He has guided 11 UG Projects and 2 PG Projects. He has designed and delivered along with a team of faculty a six-week immersive course on “Online Teaching” under the banner of IUCEE for over 350 faculty participants across India. He has designed and delivered 6-day student workshop on ‘Digital System Design and Verification using Verilog’. He has completed several online courses offered by edX, Coursera, Udemy, NPTEL and Future Learn. He is an active member of Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) and is presently serves as the Chair of Student Activities, IEEE Mangalore Subsection. He is member of IEEE Young Professionals, Circuits and System Society, Consumer Electronics Technology Society, Solid State Circuit Society, Education Society, Robotics and Automation Society, Vehicular Technology Society and Technology and Engineering Management Society. At present he heads the Grievance Redressal committee at SJEC and is the NBA and Autonomy Coordinator for Dept. of ECE at SJEC. During the time of COVID – 19 crises, he has conducted 10 hands on training workshops for primary, secondary and pre university teachers to guide them towards online teaching environment. His research area’s include Analog IC Design, Digital IC Design & Verification.

Global Experts

IUCEE is guided by a team of Indian and International Experts from academia and industry. They are passionate about the mission of IUCEE and devote a lot of time and energy offering courses and workshops, facilitating collaborations, organizing and speaking at events, mentoring faculty, students and leadership of colleges.

prathibanag2017@gmail.com
Prathiba Nagabhushan is an educational psychologist who has a PhD from the Australian National University, Canberra, Master of English from Madras University and Master of Education from Bangalore University. She is currently teaching Psychology to senior secondary students and Methods of Teaching English and Humanities to Master of Teaching students at the Australian Catholic University, Canberra. With over 25 years of teaching experience at different levels of educational system in India, Mexico and Australia, she has also taught in a variety of educational settings, with diverse students and across a wide range of cultural contexts.
A Gold-Medallist from Madras and Bangalore Universities, Prathiba has won the National Award for ‘Innovations in Teaching’ from the NCERT, New Delhi and recently received an International Award for the Best Research Paper at the International Conference on Cognitive & Behavioural Psychology, Singapore. She is a member of Global Science & Technology Forum, Singapore. Prathiba was the Cultural Ambassador of India to Mexico, sponsored by the Rotary International, Evanston, Illinois, USA. She is the recipient of the prestigious “Achievement Award - 2019 for the Outstanding Services to the ACT Community” by Mr Andrew Barr, the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory.
Prathiba’s publications include research articles on student motivation and engagement in learning, global trends in education and pre-service teachers’ emotional well-being. Her current research interests include self-efficacy in students, ICT in education and educational practices and research in engineering education. Her book “Engaging Adolescent Students in Contemporary Classrooms: Emerging Research and Opportunities“ is a compendium of her valuable research on adolescents’ motivation towards and engagement in their learning.
Prathiba lives with her husband Nagabhushan, a mechanical engineer, working for the Federal Government of Australia, in Canberra. They have a daughter, Samyuktha, who also lives in Canberra with her husband and children.

Dr. Mohan Rao (Ph.D. Auburn, 1988) is currently a professor and department chair of Mechanical Engineering at Tennessee Tech, Cookeville, TN. Previously, he was a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Tech. He is a Fellow of two major professional societies in the field—ASME and SAE. He has conducted both basic and applied research in different areas of acoustics and vibration ranging from analytical modeling of damping of materials, joints, and composite structures to experimental work involving small power tools to large scale machines (e.g. excavators, diesel engines). His research has been sponsored by government agencies and industries that include NASA, NSF, ARL, State of Florida, Ford, GM, Daimler-Chrysler, Caterpillar, TRW, Johnson Controls, John Deere, NIOSH, Arctic Cat, Polaris, Xerox, and Volvo-Korea. He has over 100 publications in technical journals and conference proceedings. Also, he has advised over 50 graduate students. Dr. Rao has received the US Fulbright award, National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award and was honored by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center for his work on the damping of the Hubble Space Telescope truss system. In addition, he was recognized as a United Nations Development Program expert in Noise & Vibration Control. He serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Vehicle Noise and Vibration. He was awarded the 2011 INCE Outstanding Educator Award from the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, USA for his decades of outstanding contribution to noise control education. He is very passionate about Engineering Education. He has conducted several workshops and writing sessions to promote teaching, learning, and course and curriculum improvement. These workshops include topics on outcome- based engineering education, creativity, Bloom’s taxonomy and incorporation and assessment of lifelong learning and other professional skills in engineering courses. He was the lead ABET coordinator for the assessment and initial accreditation of all of the five engineering programs in the college of engineering at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi in 2011.

Dr. Subramaniam D. Rajan is a Professor of civil, aerospace and mechanical engineering at Arizona State University having joined the university as an Assistant Professor in 1983. Having grown up in Jamshedpur, he went to the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and graduated with a B.Tech (Hons) in civil engineering. He then moved to the US and obtained both an MS degree and a PhD degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
He had held several administrative positions including Graduate Program Chair and Director of the Computational and Experimental Laboratory in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. He has over thirty years of experience in fundamental research in computational and experimental mechanics involving basic tools such as finite element analysis, advanced experimental techniques, high-performance software development, materials development and processing, and design optimization. He has worked as a PI and co-PI in sponsored research from government agencies such as the National Science Foundation, NASA, Federal Aviation Administration and the US Army. Over the last two decades he has been working to find effective solutions to ballistic and blast problems working with FAA/NASA (fabric-based engine containment system, testing and modeling of composites) and DoD (ARO – blast mitigation, TSWG – ultra-concealable armor, SOCOM – low areal density body armor) both as a faculty member at ASU and as a R&D consultant with management responsibilities. He has mentored over 50 doctoral dissertation and master’s thesis students, and published over 200 journal and conference papers.
On the engineering education arena, Dr. Rajan has served as the chair of the curriculum committee of the Schools of Engineering, chair of the civil engineering curriculum committee, and led the efforts at the Schools of Engineering at ASU to successfully transition and maintain ABET accreditation. He has participated as the lead person from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in several research projects dealing with teaching innovations. The most significant one was “The Foundation Coalition” that was funded in 1993 as the fifth coalition in the National Science Foundation's Engineering Education Coalitions Program. The member institutions - Arizona State University, Maricopa Community College District, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University - Kingsville, Texas Woman's University, and the University of Alabama - developed improved curricula and learning environment models that are based on four primary thrusts: integration of subject matter within the curriculum, cooperative and active learning, technology - enabled learning, and continuous improvement through assessment and evaluation. In addition to this large effort, has worked on several smaller projects sponsored by Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET) at ASU. More recently he has mentored high school students participating in local science fairs and coordinated with CUSD hosting a 3-day workshop for Jr. High students at ASU.

Dr. John Tharakan is a Professor at Howard University in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences, where he also directs the Graduate Studies program in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Before joining the faculty at Howard, he worked as a research scientist at the American Red Cross. His research interests and experience are in environmental engineering and biotechnology, appropriate technology development and education, and sustainable development. His bioenvironmental engineering research has focused on the use of biological technologies for the remediation of contaminated environmental media. As a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar to India in 2006-07, he organized and conducted a Symposium on Biological Methods of Waste Treatment in South India, the proceedings of which were published as an edited book. His appropriate technology research has had specific focus on technologies for water treatment and conservation, renewable energy production using solar and biomass resources, and waste management and resource recovery. Professor Tharakan’s scholarly work has also focused on the ethics and philosophy of technology, with particular emphasis on the role of the research university in sustainable development. As Faculty Adviser to Howard University’s Engineers Without Borders student chapter, he has worked on appropriate water, sanitation and energy technology implementation in developing communities in Senegal and Kenya (http://www.howard.edu/Kenya). He has also served as Chair or Co-Chair of an on-going series of biennial International Conferences on Appropriate Technology (2004 – 2018) that have been held across Africa bringing together academics, researchers, practitioners and community groups to facilitate knowledge and technology transfer for social justice (http://www.appropriatetech.net), and he has served as the editor for the published proceedings of these conferences. From 2015 – 2016, he served as Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar, resident at the Cochin University of Science and Technology, where his research focused on the social impact assessment of innovative and appropriate technologies in the areas of water, energy and the environment. Prof. Tharakan has been an activist engineering educator, incorporating project based learning, open-ended design, service learning and ethics in engineering into his core pedagogical approach to educating the engineers of tomorrow. Dr. Tharakan received his undergraduate education from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, graduating with a BTech in Chemical Engineering in 1982. He continued his graduate education at the University of California, San Diego, where he completed his MS in Fluid Mechanics in 1983, and defended his doctoral dissertation in July 1986 to receive his PhD (1986, Engineering Science, Biochemical Engineering) degree. His research has been published in the Journal of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, the Journal of the Life Sciences, the Journal of Chromatography, the Journal of Immunological Methods, the Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering, the Journal of Engineering Education, the International Journal of Service Learning in Engineering, Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics, the African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, and the Journal of Engineering Education Transformation, in addition to his numerous peer reviewed conference proceedings, review articles and research letters and notes.

Associate Professor, Computer Science and Administrative Sciences; Director, Project Management
Dr. Vijay Kanabar is Director and founding professor of Project Management programs of Project Management (PM) programs at Boston University [MET]. Over the past 25 years as a full-time faculty member Dr. Kanabar been very active teaching in the computer science and business departments. He has successfully introduced at least fifteen new courses for both online and on-campus, and ten graduate new degrees and certificates. Dr. Kanabar has participated in several dozen committees within the college and chaired in several of them ranging from hiring new full-time faculty to curriculum assessment. He has served on the President’s Technology & Learning Innovation (CETLI) committee which architected a new digital learning strategy and remote teaching strategy for the university.
Dr. Kanabar has thirty-five plus years of teaching and research experience both in the USA and Canada. He has received the college wide Merit Award for excellence in teaching and research and was successfully tenured at U of Winnipeg. He has five books and more than seventy-five papers and has received several research grants. Active in curriculum research, in 2015 Dr. Kanabar was awarded the distinguished Linn Stuckenbruck Teaching Excellence Award from Project Management Institute (PMI) for his contributions to PM curriculum & teaching. Dr. Kanabar is an active consultant for several Fortune 100 firms. He has been a certified PMP for 25 years. He can be reached at kanabar@bu.edu
Dr. Kanabar has unique expertise spanning both business practices and computer science. A Project Management Professional (PMP®) and Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®), he has advised numerous organizations on training and technology needs, including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Staples, United Way, and Fidelity Investments. Kanabar is an internationally published scholar and is recognized by local and national media as an authority on IT project management, electronic commerce, and information security. In 2017, Kanabar received the Project Management Institute’s Teaching Excellence Award.

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, OK
Dr. Ranji Vaidyanathan is Varnadow chaired professor of materials science and engineering in the school of materials science and engineering at Oklahoma State University, with several years of entrepreneurial and product development in the composites and additive manufacturing areas. He is focused on assisting student entrepreneurship and venture creation. Previously, he was at Advanced Ceramics Research (ACR) in Tucson, AZ, where he managed over 50 small business innovative research (SBIR/STTR) projects. At ACR, he won an R&D 100 Award for the development of a water-soluble tooling material for fabricating polymer composite materials marketed as Aquacore™ and Aquapour™ that has sold for more than $17 million dollars in the last 7 years. While working at ACR, he developed 4 different products from the concept stage to the commercial stage, including water-soluble tooling materials that are commercially sold to Airbus, Eurocopter, Boeing and Lockheed. At Oklahoma State University, he works with several Oklahoma small businesses and student start-ups. Currently, he is working with his 8th student start-up company, assisting them with technical as well as strategic issues in taking their products to the market. A previous student start-up MITO Material Solutions won 2nd place at the prestigious Rice Business Plan competition and has successfully scaled up their product to take it to the market, winning more than $1.1 million from a National Science Foundation commercialization grant and additional investment worth $0.5 million.
Ranji has a B. Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, MS in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University and a Ph. D in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University.
He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio (Ceramic Engineering) in the United States.
Member of the GIAF (Global Industrial Advisory Forum) since 2016 and member of the GAAF (Global Academic Advisory Forum) since 2020 as part of IUCEE.

International Partners

A fundamental strength of IUCEE is its network of engineering educators from around the world who are passionate about the quality of engineering education, and its ties with global organizations such as—International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP), Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)

Mentor

Mr. Desh Deshpande oof Sycamore Networks, is the chief mentor of IUCEE. In the early years of IUCEE in 2008, he donated a significant amount of money and arranged for donations from Mr. Narayana Murthy of Infosys. These funds along with support from Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan of Infosys, enabled IUCEE to launch its faculty development program which has broadened into various transformational programs.

IUCEE is grateful to Arjun Malhotra (Indian entrepreneur, industrialist and philanthropist, who co-founded HCL Group) for his support as well in the early stages.

IUCEE is supported by a network of global companies which deliver tools for enhancing engineering education, they include, Dassault Systems, National Instruments, MathWorks, Quanser, Comsol and Emona Instruments.